Truman Customer Story Column
Gynecomastia does not pick an age
I paused for a moment while reading the last line of this review.
The patient had written that after his own surgery he recommended it to his father, of all people. A son goes through it first, then raises the subject with his father. Few reviews show as clearly that this concern does not belong to one generation alone. Before I get to that, let me go back to the time before his surgery.
The word he used was "pointless"
What held him back before surgery was a fear of sedation anesthesia, and of pain.
Here is how he summed it up afterwards. "I was afraid of the sedation and the pain, but it turned out to be pointless — it was nothing."
Hearing that a worry turned out to be pointless is one of the better verdicts we can receive. That said, how much pain a person feels and how recovery goes differ from one person to the next. This was his case; what yours will be like is something best gauged together while looking at your condition at an examination.
Not keeping people waiting
For his impression of the clinic, he singled out kindness and speed.
Visiting a clinic for gynecomastia is itself a big decision. So that the resolve does not cool off in a waiting room, we try to keep the guidance and the flow of the visit as concise as possible. If the sequence from consultation to surgery to recovery instructions felt smooth, that is enough.
Buying clothes that actually fit
For what he most wanted to do after surgery, he wrote this.
"Lose weight and then buy clothes that fit properly."
Men with gynecomastia get used to choosing clothes that hide the chest rather than clothes that fit the body. Breaking the habit of looking at silhouette before size, and choosing clothes to fit the body instead — that is his plan now. It was an answer that shows surgery is not an ending but a beginning.
The recommendation he made to his father
And then the last line. When I asked what he would like to say to men with the same concern, he wrote this.
"Definitely do it. I recommended it to my father too."
Of course this was his own experience, and whether to have surgery is something to decide after confirming your own condition through an examination. But the word worth noticing in that answer is "father." Gynecomastia does not appear only during adolescence; it can also develop later in life alongside changes in body composition or hormones. In my consultation room I meet men of many ages, from their twenties to the generation above. If it is a concern a son can experience first and then raise with his father, there is no reason to carry it alone for years.
Like that conversation across generations, TRUEMAN Incheon will remain a place where it is easy to bring the subject up.
- Dr. Kim Sang-kyu, TRUEMAN Incheon -
