"When You Have Some Breathing Room in Your Schedule"

Once the surgery is over, appointments follow to check the wound, see whether swelling or fluid is collecting, and inspect how the compression garment is being worn. What is missed during this period is hard to undo later. If you schedule surgery during a period of frequent business trips or a month packed with commitments, you end up skipping appointments, so it is better to take these three to four weeks into account when setting the date.

Recovery itself takes longer than that. The time for the wound to heal, for swelling to subside, and for the tissue to settle follow one after another, and reaching the end takes several months.

As their worry before surgery they wrote side effects, and after that they wrote this.

"Because I followed the recovery procedures well after surgery, I was able to recover well without any problems."

This is about this person's own course of recovery. How recovery goes differs with constitution and the condition of the tissue, and even if you follow the procedures, blood may collect or fluid may accumulate. The frequency is low, but I cannot say the possibility does not exist, and that is why there is a schedule of planned appointments.

When I asked what stayed with them during the surgery, they answered this.

"Having my hands and feet strapped. But I wasn't really scared or startled."

Because you cannot hold your own position under anesthesia, the arms and legs are secured on the operating table. It is a safety procedure, carried out by the anesthesiologist and the surgical team. After sedation begins, you stay asleep until the surgery is over.

They also left words that the doctor made them feel at ease; that took place not in the operating room but in the consultation room and the counseling room.

As something they wanted to do after surgery, they wrote wearing a clinging T-shirt. Thin, clinging clothes are the kind people with gynecomastia take out of their closet first. The time to take them out again is set for after compression garment wear has ended.

I believe scheduling it for a month with some breathing room helped their recovery.