"Standing Tall When the Wind Blows or When Playing in the Water"

Gynecomastia is not a condition that causes pain, so once you decide on surgery, all that is left is time to think. Many people spend that period searching the internet for a long time.

I do not discourage looking things up. But what you see there is about other people's conditions. What applies to you and what does not is sorted out at the examination. Making that distinction at the consultation is also a way to lighten the weight of the remaining month.

As their impression when they first came to the clinic, they wrote this: "It was clean, they consulted with me kindly every time I came, and I liked that they answered even unimportant questions one by one."

Questions that seem unimportant often actually determine daily life. Things like when you can start driving, what position to sleep in, and how many days later you can go back to work.

Our gynecomastia surgery is performed under sedation. The surgery begins after you fall asleep, and I go in after the anesthesia has taken effect. The surgery itself is over in about thirty minutes, and I explain the results in the recovery room after the surgery is finished.

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

What this person wrote after the surgery was that it went by without side effects. This is this person's course, and the things to check during recovery and the pace of recovery differ from person to person.

What we check at the clinic is whether there is bleeding, whether there is a seroma, where fluid collects, and whether the shape is settling evenly. Coming in on the scheduled dates is most of the checking.

For what they most wanted to do after surgery, they wrote this: "I want to try wearing clothes that fit closer to the body, and I think I'll be able to stand tall when the wind blows or when playing in the water."

When the wind blows, clothes cling to the body. That people with gynecomastia worry most about wind among all kinds of weather is something I too learned in the consultation room. Many people have settled on simply not going to the water at all.

In the last box, they wrote this: "Please keep being as kind as you are now"