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The Man Who Came After Seeing an Acquaintance Change
The Man Who Came After Seeing an Acquaintance Change
The trigger that moves a surgery from mere thought into actual action differs from person to person. For this man, the trigger was a person.
He said he'd been thinking about gynecomastia surgery for a long time. Then an acquaintance had the surgery first, and after seeing that changed appearance with his own eyes, he decided to go ahead right away. More than a hundred explanations, the change in one person beside him gave greater certainty.
The talks we had in the consultation room
This patient wrote that in the consultation he heard detailed explanations of the insurance system, the surgical process, and even cases similar to his own.
Even having come after seeing an acquaintance's change, the decision must be made on the ground of one's own state. So we went through, one by one, what type his chest was in, how the process would proceed, and what course people in similar states had gone through. Certainty should come not from atmosphere but from information.
"Like comfortably falling asleep and waking up"
When I asked about his memory of the day of surgery, this patient wrote: "It felt like comfortably falling asleep and waking up, with no memory of the process. In the recovery room, after recovering, I felt joy at being told it went well."
A surgery held in his heart for so long passed, for him, in a short span of time. And the first words he heard in the recovery room were the news that it went well. Reading that moment's joy again in a review is a great reward for the one who performs the surgery.
To describe the process accurately: our surgery is done under local anesthesia. It begins with an injection of local anesthetic around the areola, and the last guidance the patient hears is, "This will sting, please bear with just this part." The actual operating time is about thirty minutes. Through years of surgical know-how I've shortened the time considerably, and I believe a shorter operation is safer for the patient.
What became of the pain
Before surgery, what this patient worried about was pain. After surgery, he summed it up this way: "It hurt for about two days, and after that I lived carefully but without great discomfort."
Two days. That's the time of pain this patient experienced. Of course this is his course, and the degree and duration of pain differ from person to person. Still, for those putting it off while vaguely imagining "it'll probably hurt for a long while," the timeline of someone who actually experienced it may serve as a reference.
Now, through exercise
For what he wanted to do after surgery, he said he wanted to do chest exercise to improve how his clothes fit. Exercise done not to hide the chest but to shape it. Even the same exercise takes on a completely different meaning.
But the order must be kept. During recovery, you must not do upper-body exercise. Light walking or lower-body exercise like squats can be done even in the meantime, so it's not that you must rest from exercise entirely. The upper body you can begin when I see the course and tell you it's fine.
It's okay even without an acquaintance who gave certainty beside you, like this patient had. I hope you won't search and worry alone for long, but will start by confirming your own state directly. Whether to have surgery you can judge after that—it's not too late.