Truman Customer Story Column
"Wearing a Knit Sweater in Winter"
Talk about gynecomastia often comes up only as talk about summer. But there are clothes you cannot wear in winter, too.
In the box for what they wanted to do after surgery, the person I am introducing today wrote down that very item: "Walking with my chest out. Wearing thin clothes. Wearing a knit sweater in winter)"
It Does Not Depend on the SeasonA knit sweater is thick, but it clings to the body. If you avoid thin clothes because they show through and avoid knits because they cling, in the end the clothes you can choose year-round shrink to just a few.
I often hear in the consultation room that it is not a problem only in summer. It often starts with clothes and extends to the angle of photos, where to sit, and even travel plans. Yet the time people actually come to the clinic is concentrated in summer.
Someone Who Asked About Cost FirstAs their biggest worry before surgery, they wrote the issue of cost.
Gynecomastia surgery is covered by national health insurance. After confirming your condition through an examination, we determine whether it meets the criteria, and if it does, it proceeds under national health insurance. Cost is in fact often among the reasons people have put it off for a long time, so we sort out this part first at the consultation.
From the Director to the ManagerAs their impression when they first came to the clinic, they wrote this: "I got the sense that everyone, from the director to the manager, was kind."
A patient does not meet just one person at the clinic. At reception, consultation, examination, pre-surgery guidance, and progress checks, you meet a different person at each step. If the explanations at those steps contradict one another, the patient no longer knows what to believe.
The Stretch with No MemoryWhen asked about a memorable moment during surgery, this person wrote this: "Having no memory of the time during the surgery"
Our gynecomastia surgery is performed under sedation. Because it begins after you fall asleep, almost no one remembers the surgery, and the surgery itself is over in about thirty minutes. 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, and the next day, after we check at the clinic for any bleeding, we remove that compression.
The words this person left for others with the same concern were just a few: do it, no matter what.
This is the reflection of someone who has finished surgery. Gynecomastia varies in degree and form from person to person, and there are cases where surgery is needed and cases where it is better to watch how it develops. You can make your judgment after confirming your condition through an examination.
