"The Porridge and Dessert I Ate Afterward Were Delicious"

Before surgery, we give fasting instructions. That is because surgery is performed under sedation. If food remains in the stomach, problems can arise during anesthesia, so we ask you not to eat or drink anything, including water, from a set time.

So for some people, the moment they first eat something after surgery stays in their memory of that day. It is also a moment when the hours of hunger and the tension are released together. We offer porridge first in the recovery room so as not to fill the stomach in a hurry.

As what they worried about most before surgery, they wrote this: "Hmm... I wasn't worried about the result of the surgery, but I had an aversion to the surgery itself."

It is a state of trusting the result but being bothered by the process. It is a combination I often meet in consultation, and I see it especially often in people who have long avoided clinics altogether. For these people, explaining the sequence helps more than explaining the result. I first tell them when they will fall asleep, how long it will take, and where they will be when they open their eyes.

The sentence they continued with in the same box was this: that it was over in the blink of an eye, so their worry was put to rest.

Our gynecomastia surgery is performed under sedation, and the surgery itself takes about thirty minutes. Because it begins after you fall asleep, almost no one remembers the surgical process, and the explanation of the result is given in the recovery room after the surgery is finished.

The first 12 to 48 hours after surgery are a period with a risk of bleeding, so you spend that time with additional compression over the compression garment. When you come to the clinic the next day, we check for bleeding and then remove that additional compression.

During this period you cannot do upper-body exercise. You can do light walking or lower-body squats. That is why the exercise this person wrote as what they wanted to do after surgery comes a little later in the schedule.

In the box asking what they would like from us, this person wrote: "Please keep being here. I love you!"

To others with the same concern, they left the words to have surgery right away. This is their experience, and whether to have surgery is something to judge after confirming your condition through an examination. What the clinic has to do goes as far as accurately telling you what you need for that judgment.