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If You've Changed Your Clothes Again and Again Before the Mirror
If You've Changed Your Clothes Again and Again Before the Mirror
There are people for whom the standard for choosing clothes has become not "the clothes I want to wear" but "the clothes that show my chest less." The person in today's story was like that. The shape of the chest that protruded when he wore a T-shirt was his biggest worry.
"After I did it, that worry vanished completely"
When I asked about his pre-surgery worry, this patient said what bothered him most was the protruding shape being noticeable to others. And after surgery he wrote:
"After I did it, that worry vanished completely."
Of course this is his experience. The sense of the result and the recovery course differ for each person. Still, what an experience of a worry that followed you for years lifting is like—this short sentence shows it well enough, I think.
The words: it was more comfortable because the nursing staff were male
When I asked about his first impression of the clinic, this patient used the word cozy. And he said that because the nursing staff were all male, his mind was, if anything, more at ease.
What a patient must clear first in a gynecomastia consultation is not the surgery but the embarrassment. Among fellow men, that threshold lowers a little. Only when the air inside the exam room is comfortable can a worry be brought out accurately.
Time that ended shorter than expected
When I asked about his memory during surgery, this patient's answer was simple. That it ended quickly compared to what he'd worried about.
Gynecomastia surgery is done under local anesthesia with an injection around the areola. So the last words the patient hears are about, "This will sting, please bear with just this part." The actual operating time is about thirty minutes, but through years of accumulated surgical know-how I've shortened the time considerably. Because I believe a shorter operation is safer for the patient, I regard this part as especially important. Of course the specific anesthesia and surgical plan are guided according to your state at the time of examination.
Now, choosing the clothes he wants to wear
For what he wanted to do after surgery, this patient named walking around in nice clothes. Not clothes to hide, but clothes he wants to wear. The standard before the closet changing is exactly the picture of daily life this surgery changes.
Summer clothes are thin, so a protruding chest greatly narrows the range of what you can wear. So I recommend that after recovery has passed, they buy a body-fitting shirt and try it on. My hope is that by trying on a tight shirt they'd never worn before, they'll feel for themselves that they've now become free from the fear that gynecomastia had been.
To others with the same worry, he left words to the effect that the time spent putting it off is a waste. This is his thought, and whether to have surgery is best decided after confirming your own condition through an examination.
"The system seems well built"
The last line he left was this:
"The system seems well built. I love it!"
If the process from consultation to surgery to recovery management felt comfortable, then the things we prepared did their part. In particular, we try to manage things more closely from right after surgery than before, and afterward we watch the course together for a long time. I believe giving the belief that whenever there's a problem, consulting resolves it, is as important as the surgery.
If you're someone changing your clothes again and again before the mirror, I hope you won't drag it out alone for long but will come once and bring out that worry with ease. From the moment you talk, the sorting-out begins.