Posted by Tammy
on 9/29/2003, 6:57 pm
I did not realize that this site existed or I would have been here a long time ago. Like most of you I had terrible complications after my breast reduction and to this very day things are not good. To start with I was never informed of what I required after the surgery like a surgical bra, medical supplies like absorbant pads and tape and things like that. It took me almost 2 weeks to find the surgical bra I should have been in from day one. I was a 42ddd or larger before the surgery and I am now a 42 dd or ddd depending on the bra. I was told by my plastic surgeon that I had no choice in the size i wanted to be but that he would make sure I was esthetically correct. I now know that I should have had a say in the end size. I had skin graft tissue die on both breasts, I had fat necrosis, my incisions took almost 3 months to finally close, I had drainage well past the 2 month mark post op, and I was in constant pain. I was told that I would only need 2-3 weeks off after the surgery and then I could completely return to my every day activities. Boy was he wrong. I told him I was a full time bartender and he still felt that this was adequate time to be back to normal. I have absolutely no feeling in either breast and I am 9 months post op. I do have some feeling in both nipples but not as much as before the surgery. I had infection for at least a month or more after the surgery. I had had several operations like bone surgery, hysterectomy and other unpleasant surgeries but none of them prepared me for the kind of pain I experienced from the breast reduction. If I had the to do it all over again I would not even think about it. I would love to have my natural looking breasts back with feeling in them. You know they say not to play with mother nature and I did unfortunately. I have not allowed my husband or anyone else to see my breasts since the operation. I am a Canadian and my reduction was paid for by the provincial health insurance. I did not allow the surgeon however to take final photographs so he could be fully paid by the government. I don't feel he should have been paid a dime for what he did to me. Unfortunatley it is next to impossible to sue a doctor for malpractice up here in Canada. So that is out of the question. I will have to live with the excrutiating pains in my breasts daily and will have to make the best of a very bad decision on my part. I don't know if anyone else feels the same way I do but I would not recommend this surgery to my worst enemy. I had the surgery done to eliminate neck pain and strain, to help my shoulders, to improve my posture, to help my back and aleviate the tension headaches I suffered from . Not one of these symptoms is gone or got better. Instead I am left with horribbly disfigured breasts that are numb and painful for the rest of my life on top o
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