26 Female, Breast Reduction Through Sutter Medical -Day 1 From Very Big-to- 36C. Palo Alto, CA

So its been 10 days since my surgery. I visited my doctor last Friday so he can see the progress of healing and etc. I had some leakage in my left breast but other then that I was fine. It could've been from the way I was sleeping maybe. I have yet to actuall y look at my breasts I wear the medical bra they gave me which has white cloth pads inside taped down to my breasts. I was told to wash around this area, so I basically am taking Cat Showers/Washes(Not sure if that is the correct term..lol). What I can say about this stage, you will itch. I find myself at night wanting to scratch the areas around my breasts. I think it is due to the fact that the stitches are starting to dissolve, you can kind of feel it dissolving on your skin, thats my guess. Iam more mobile, I drove to the bank for the first time last night. I am going to start walking on my treadmill tommorrow, Im not sure if I can do crunches but I have a padded mat so I might try that tonight. Reason why I want to work out is because Im starting to feel very sluggish. My sleeping habits have changed dramatically, this last week I started to come off my meds, but problem is my body is used to taking them during the day and resting, So by the time nightfalls I will be wide awake until like 4am. So not that Im off my meds my body is still doing the same routine. I cant keep listening to pandora late until the AM im literally getting headaches so Im going to try to fit exercise into my routine even though my doc said wait 4 weeks. I cant.

Well thats my post for now. Hopefully once I heal, which will be soon I will post before and after pics.

See yah

So today I had my surgery. It went good. I acted very non-nonchalant because I was afraid that I wouldn't make it. Breasts Reduction Surgery is not something that is very common in my family even though almost all the women in my mothers side of the family suffer from larger painful breasts. Since I was 26 with no children I think I was a little frown upon for why I decided to go through with my procedure.
This is something that Ive been researching and contemplating on for years. Im a Christian and was told when I was younger that we should not cut our bodies. Growing up I suffered from pain in the breasts, however this past year the pain took a whole norther toll. I would have back problems and pain aches just from standing up. Bad knots in the knock, as well as strong shocks in what sometimes would feel like it was coming from the inside of the bone of my back, even when laying down. When I was in high school I was a 36C. Soon as I graduated my breast started to grow dramatically to the point where I gave up buying new bras, afraid to learn the actual size that I was. Im not sure exactly what to link my breasts growth to. It couldve been anxiety,depression, excess eating, or just bad genes. However even with exercising I quickly learned that whatever I eat went straight to my breast first, so even though Iam exercising I still will be heavy breasted and will have the same neck and back pains, which made my exercising diffenently challenging and more painful then normal. This year I experience Gerd(Gastrointestinal Disease)Which caused me to have acid reflux that lead to heart murmurs and panic attacks. I was on so many medications I dont even know the names. I was determined to get my life, my health, and my body back. I wanted to work out not to get skinny, but to get my breathing back on track, to have the energy all my medications took away, to have a good night sleep and a good work day with ought having a permanent crick in my neck, and to get out of bed with ought my bones cracking..lol.. all this and I just turned 26? Somethings gotta change.

So what did I do?
I started watching inspirational videos of women who had breast reduction surgery. I stopped speaking to people about the surgery who only wanted to scare me out of it, because in all truths, every person I confided in about the surgery laughed. This time when googling surgery centers I was surprised to find out that Kaiser offered this surgery in the east bay CA. Im not a Kaiser patient so I decided to contact my OBGYN at Sutter since she was my main doctor. Thats when I found out that my hospital offered the same surgery, I called and got an appointment to meet with the doc that following week.

The staff was great, and since I was working directly through my hospital it was easy to get approved through my insurance. Most private firms will tell you that it may take up to 3-6 months just to get approved and have the surgery committed. Not in this case! I got approved within a week, all I did was take pictures at the office, and made a statement of why I needed the surgery. Also, I have Obama Care!! Only have to pay 10% due to my EPO plan.

I scheduled my surgery October 17, and came in on 11-14-14 Today, and got my breast reduction. The only problem that Iam dealing with is that I was not told the full amount of my procedure though I had made numerous calls. The one thing I did know is that most breasts reductions range from 6000-10000 depending on surgeon fees, so I was a little thrown off when the assistant told me that my procedure would cost $20000 which I would have to pay $2000. This is something Im definitely going to look into because I dont feel secure about that, I met with other private surgical centers who gave me an estimate of about $8400 with surgeon fees included. So I will follow up.

But as far as the staff and the surgery went, It was better than I could've hoped for. The hospital felt like a hotel. I had a very friendly operating team. One Anesthetist, one nurse, One Doctor. They explained everything with me regarding the surgery, any questions, I felt totally comfortable. The Anesthetic even gave me some medicine in my IV fluids to help with my Gerd (Acid Reflux)situation so I wouldnt have any problems. I remember talking about the ankle warmers they put on me that helps pump the blood flow in the legs. They were warm, and made me relax. Next thing I knew I was out. I woke up back in the room snoring. The nurse kept asking me what was my pain level 1-3 low 4-7 moderate 7-10 bad. Ill keep it real with you, since it is a new type of pain it was around 5-6 in the beginning, great thing is everytime the nurse asked you they put the medicine in the IV Fluid it the pain gets lower, lower, and lower. She kept asking me until I said the pain was a 3, which i good. The nurse brought my family in, I stayed in the room for an hour. Then It was time to go.
When leaving for home:
I got the same medicine in pill form that I had while in the hospital, I take it every 3 hours and it works well. I just need to make sure that I dont irritate the areas of breasts. That will be my main challenge, Im so used to having my arms sit on the side or touching the side of my breasts. Im not used to actually having room around my shoulders to do things withought my breast getting in the way so it will take some getting use to.