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Right After Surgery, the First Moment Before the Mirror
Right After Surgery, the First Moment Before the Mirror
There is a moment, after surgery ends, of standing before the mirror for the first time.
The longer someone has deliberated, the more they imagine that moment in advance. How will I look? Will I really have changed? Today is the story of a man who wrote that he remembers that moment most vividly.
"I was scared of a blade touching my body, but"
What this patient worried about most before surgery was the surgery itself. In his review he wrote: "I was, after all, scared of a blade touching my body, but the doctor did it safely."
It's normal to be scared. I don't treat that fear lightly. Explaining the process fully before surgery, and keeping each safety procedure one by one—that, in the end, is the only way to answer fear.
If I describe the actual process in advance, it goes like this. The anesthesia is local, injected around the areola. The last words the patient hears in the operating room are, "This will sting, please bear with just this part." The surgery itself, shortened considerably through years of surgical know-how, takes about thirty minutes. Because a shorter operation is safer for the patient, I keep paying attention to reducing this time.
What he felt on the first visit
When I asked about his impression on his first visit, he answered that it felt kind, clean, and that his privacy was being considered.
Gynecomastia is a worry hard to bring up to others. So from the very flow and space of the consultation, we've prepared things so you needn't mind other people's eyes.
The most memorable moment
When I asked about the most memorable moment after surgery, this patient wrote: "When I looked in the mirror right after surgery and felt that my chest had gone flat."
It's the moment a scene imagined only for years is confirmed before your eyes. Because we know he passed through a long deliberation for that brief moment, that scene is special to us every time.
A single white T-shirt
What he most wanted to do after surgery was modest: to walk around in a white T-shirt. The thinner and brighter the clothing, the more the chest's contour shows, so it's also the very item those worried about gynecomastia first push to the back of the closet. Taking out that one shirt to wear again was, for him, the evidence of change.
I recommend to patients who have finished recovery that they buy a body-fitting shirt and try it on. Only by actually wearing a tight garment they had never worn before do they feel in their body that they are truly free from the fear that gynecomastia had been.
On the words "beyond expectations"
When I asked for a word to others with the same worry, this patient answered, in his own words, that it was beyond expectations and that he'd like to recommend the surgery. But this is his experience, and whether to have surgery is, in order, to be decided after confirming your own condition through an examination.
If you're curious about that first moment before the mirror, please first confirm the process accurately in the consultation room. I hope you won't just keep searching and worrying alone but will come and ask directly. Just having your questions sorted out lightens half the weight on your mind.