Ready for BR Surgery Tomorrow!

I am happy to join this wonderful support network. I have read so many of your stories and in doing so it has helped me decide that it is time to get a breast reduction. I am 40 years old and am a DD/DDD size. I am 5'5" and weight 140lbs. I developed quickly when I was younger and my breasts just continued to get bigger and heavier, even before having children. I have been thinking of getting a reduction for a number of years. I cannot wait to be able to fit shirts proper, wear a bikini top, buy a bra off the shelf that is cheap and exercise without having so much weight bouncing around! I often get rib pain, so that can go away too...

It all happened rather quickly. I ended up getting a booking with my doctor much earlier than I thought. My surgery is tomorrow! I am having my surgery in Bangkok at a world renowned hospital, my surgeon is Dr. Poomee. I met with him today and I feel much better after going over everything in great detail with him. He is very sweet natured and has a funny sense of humor too. He will be doing an anchor incision so a nice lift will be achieved. Yay, a lift!! He gave me an antibiotic pill to take tonight after dinner and told me to fast from midnight. I can't believe it is finally happening!

Any last minute advice would be much appreciated! Thanks to all of you who have shared your stories. I'll post soon to keep you all updated!

I was booked in for 7:00am surgery so had to be there at 6:00. It was hard to sleep the night before and I was quite anxious when I woke. I had to use my ol' labor breathing techniques to help settle my nerves as much as I could. Before I knew it, I was on the OR table getting my injection. Out......

I woke up to the sound of beeping, nurses talking softly and an old man next to me complaining about his back pain! I knew I was alright and in the recovery room because I was giggling to myself at the things the ol man was saying to the nurses. If only he knew what had just happened to my boobs! My legs were shaking a lot and I felt very cold. The nurses put two long plastic tubes under my blanket that were blowing warm air on me. I still continued to shake and that was all that seemed bothersome to me. Anyways, I drifted in and out for the next couple of hours or so, and actually felt ok. I looked down at my breasts and thought they were sitting quite nicely on my chest and wow, there was no breast falling off the sides. Perfect.

They brought me into my room 2 hours after surgery and I was able to kind of transfer into my bed. They showed me the two drain tubes that we're collecting a pretty good amount of blood and fluid. I thought I was bleeding terribly, but they reassured me that it was only fluid that was draining from the surgery. Thank goodness. And wow, I am glad to have those tubes in to help get that stuff out.

They gave me some pain meds and I tried to sleep, but woke up a lot feeling anxious throughout the night. My heart felt like it was racing and I couldn't get it to relax. They said it was a side effect from the anesthetic. Yuck.

My pain was very minimal, mainly just felt tight. But they also gave me Tramal 50mg for pain. It must have been working.

So before surgery I was a size 34DD/DDD, hoping I will end up being a C-cup. Also the doctor told me I wouldn't get to take a peak until 5 days post-op. I am anxious to see them, all I can see is the middle part of my boobs and they look good so far! He said the healing is best to leave them covered especially if bleeding is not present and the gauze is clean.

Surgery day is over and I am happy to be on the other side to begin the healing journey. I'll post pictures soon. Thanks to all of you for your stories and support!

I didn't sleep the greatest last night, between nurses coming in and feeling like I was so anxious, sleep was minimal. Did anyone else feel like this after surgery? I will be sleeping, then all of a sudden jump out of my skin to the sound of anything! It's driving me nuts.

I am booked to stay 2 nights because I am on my own out here. As for pain, today I feel a lot of tingling and tightness, but it is very manageable and I am not uncomfortable at all. It really feels great to know the surgery is over!!

Dr. Poomee's wife came in to see me first thing this morning, she is such an angel. She hung around chatting with me for about 20 minutes. She is an RN as well, so she took a look at everything, and just added some more gauze padding to me. The way I look at it is that I will feel smaller when they take off all the padding, so they can keep stuffing me I guess!

I got up only twice today to go to the bathroom, otherwise stayed in bed all day. I did feel a bit weak and very tired. Rest rest rest!

Good luck to all of you going through the same thing!