Been Thinking About Doing This for over Ten Years! - Boston, MA

This will be my last update because I need to stop thinking about my breasts and get on with life. It has been a year since my BR and 9 weeks since my lipo which was done to try and get them smaller and more symmetrical. I will say that the lipo for me, was/is much worse to recover from as far as pain and bruising. I still have some swelling at my sides and it still hurts for some reason when I get up in the morning but then eventually goes away after an hour or so. I think overall my breast look so much better than before I had anything done. Because the lipo to revise the BR was so painful, I am still upset about not getting what I wanted from the BR. At this point, I am so tired of dealing with this, I just want to get used to them as they are and get on with life.
I will leave my review up for a few months more in case anyone has questions and so that my review might be helpful for anyone considering a reduction.

I had the lipo three weeks ago but the photos are at 2 weeks post op. I am finally not feeling pain all the time. My underarm/side of breast areas are still very hard to the touch and are very irregular looking. I am sure there is still edema there and the right side still has bruising now at 3 weeks out.
Tomorrow I have a follow up appointment with Dr. Halperin. I was not expecting to see her because it was her husband, Michael Davidson, that was shot and killed at Brigham and Women's hospital back on January 20th. I had my lipo done on the 16th and then four days later this poor woman's whole life turned upside down. She has three small children and is pregnant with her 4th and her husband was just murdered. I am happy to be able to have her see me for this post op visit but I really wasn't expecting it.
Anyway, so far I am not seeing any change in my breast size, which was the main reason to have the lipo done. It seems that she only addressed the sides of the breast and did not actually go into them with the lipo cannula. I never had any discomfort in the actual breast to make me sure that she did. I will have to find out the details of the surgery tomorrow. I don't want to complain at all because, considering her situation, my not being completely satisfied with the size of my breasts seems so trivial to say the least.

On Friday morning, I had the lipo to reduce my breast size some more. I also had under my arms done and the area that would be considered the bra bulge area of the back.
I am very sore, swollen and bruised. It is going to take a while before I see what the final results are.
When I went for my pre-op appointment, the PS was okay with me just having a twilight sleep for anesthesia instead of general but when I got there the anesthesiologist was not comfortable with that because I would be on my stomach for a while and there would be no access to give me oxygen if needed. He convinced me to go with the general but I really didn't seem to have a choice at that point. He did it really light so it was not that bad coming out of it like when I had the actual reduction surgery.
Now I just have to wait and heal up to see if this lipo did the trick as far as reducing my size a bit more. Even if isn't enough, I am done with this whole thing and just want to get on with my life.