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| What Can You Expect | Surgeons use various methods, but the most widespread one involves an anchor-shaped incision that goes around the areola, down the breast in the direction of the crease between the breast and abdomen, and then horizontally in the crease under the breast. The doctor takes away excess breast tissue, fat and skin to diminish the size of your breast. If quantity of tissue to be removed is comparatively small, your surgeon may not need to make the horizontal incision.
For the most part of cases, the nipple and areola stay attached to the breast. If the breasts are very large and fatigued, though, the surgeon may have to take away the nipple and areola and reattach them at a higher place as a skin graft. In this case, detaching the nipple and areola from their blood vessels and nerves causes them to enduringly lose sensation and can lead to the inability to breast-feed.
During the Surgery
Before surgery, your doctor measures and puts marks on your breasts. Breast reduction surgery frequently is performed under general anesthesia that you breathe in as a gas or get through an intravenous (IV) line. It influences your entire body, inducing a temporary state of unconsciousness.
Breast reduction surgery normally lasts two to three hours. After the surgery, you wake up in a recovery room, where your health care group monitors you for any complications.
After the Surgery
After surgery, your breasts are covered with a haze dressing or elastic bands. A drainage tube may be located under each arm for one day to several weeks. Medication for pain and nausea as well as antibiotics to reduce your chance of infection will be accessible for you. You may stay in the hospital overnight, but outpatient surgeries also are common. Arrange someone to drive you home from the hospital.
During the first recovery period, your breasts likely will feel very sensitive. They may also be inflated and bruised. Scarring is constant, but it won't be observable when you are clothed.
You may be able to go back to work in two to three weeks if your job doesn't require exhausting activity. It may take up to a month for the pain and sensitivity to fade away. And it may take even longer – six months or more – for your final breast shape to become evident.
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