 After surgery, you'll be enfolding in an elastic bandage or a surgical bra over gauze dressings. In each breast may be sited a small tube to draw off blood and fluids for the first day or two.
You may experience some pain for the first couple of days, especially when you move around or cough, and some discomfort for a week or more. Your surgeon will prescribe medicine to reduce the pain. You may stay in the hospital all night, but outpatient surgeries also are universal. Make a choice for someone to drive you home from the hospital. The bandages will be removed a day or two after surgery, though you'll continue wearing the surgical bra constantly for several weeks, until the swelling and bruising subside. Your sutures will be removed in one to three weeks. In case your breast skin is very dry after the surgery, you can apply a moisturizer several times a day, but be certain to remain the suture area dry. Your first menstruation after surgery may provoke your breasts to swell and hurt. You may also experience accidental, shooting pains for a few months. Some loss of feeling in your nipples and breast skin, caused by the after surgery swelling can be occasionally happen. It usually subsides over the next six weeks or so. In some patients, however, it may last a year or more and rarely may it be permanent.
You may be able to return to work in about two to three weeks if your job doesn't require strenuous activity, you should confine your exercises to stretching, bending, and swimming until your energy intensity returns. This time will come in handy a good athletic bra for support. It may take up to a month for the pain and sensitivity to disappear. And it may take even longer — six months or more — for your final breast shape to become apparent. You should evade lifting or pushing anything heavy for three or four weeks.
You may get instruction to avoid sex for a week or more, as sexual stimulation can cause your incisions to swell, and to avoid anything except mild contact with your breasts for about six weeks.
An insignificant amount of fluid draining from your surgical wound, or some crusting, is normal. If you have any strange symptoms, such as bleeding or severe pain, don't hesitate to call your doctor.
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