Truman Customer Story Column
Deliberation Only Delays the Timing
What usually holds people back when deciding on surgery is not the operation but the days that follow.
Can I go to work, how do I wash, can I move around as usual. The person in today's story also wrote that whether daily life would be possible was their biggest worry.
After the surgery, this person wrote that daily life was possible as long as they did not overdo it.
Here is what that schedule actually looks like. The stretch between 12 and 48 hours after surgery carries a risk of bleeding, so you spend it with one additional layer of compression over the garment. When you come in the next day, we check for bleeding and remove that extra compression. From then on it becomes considerably easier.
During this period you must not do upper-body exercise. Light walking and lower-body squats are fine. The time you have to spend simply lying down is shorter than expected, which is why many say it feels less confining. Of course recovery speed and the restrictions needed change with the extent of surgery and individual condition, so we advise your own schedule while watching your progress.
This person wrote that there was less pain after surgery than expected. That is their case, and the degree of pain differs. Some say it was on their mind for several days.
But I often see that worry about pain is inflated well beyond the actual experience, because it is measured by imagining something not yet lived. So in consultation I do not say "it won't hurt"; I explain in order what discomfort may occur at which point and what to do then.
Asked what they wanted to do after surgery, this person said they want to look after their body and then try taking off their shirt. At the end of the review they also wrote a resolution to keep managing it well.
Gynecomastia surgery is treatment that clears glandular tissue. What body you build on top of that is now up to you. People who had let go of the effort because that one area never changed often keep at it after surgery, because the work now shows. Raise the intensity in stages in line with recovery.
To Those Facing the Same ConcernThe line this person left was short: that deliberation only delays the timing.
It is something people who postponed for years commonly say. But it is not a line that decides the direction for you. Confirm what your condition is and what will change and what will not with surgery, and decide after that. Hearing the answer and judging that it is not yet time is also a conclusion.
