That’s what scares me about a reduction. I definitely know which surgeon I wouldn’t use. He completely ignored the infection that scarred my sister so badly. Her GP had to take care of her. Not to be disgusting, but when I could smell it upon entering the house, and the surgeon said it wasn’t a problem? I forced her to her own doctor. It was horribly infected and left a terrible ropey scar under her breast. And two different sized breasts? Dramatically different. Yet, she’d recommend it. Shows how difficult large breasts can be.
I am so sorry for her and what she went through. I really don't understand how ignorant some doctors can be. After my first surgery, I woke up with a binder on. Standard. However, my doc never told me that I would wake up and look down and have NO breasts. I had breasts, but they were flattened. To be a very young lady and have breasts that hang down to my belly button and to wake up and see no sign of even lumps, was fucking terrifying. It's hard for me to remember what happened when, but I do know that when my breasts had settled, my nipples were way off the mark. It happens when the skin is so thin and over stretched, they call it bottoming out. Okay fine, but my nipples were laying on bone, not breast. He tried to talk his way out of it and said "but they are the correct measurement from the clavicle". That may be true, but it looks fucked up and he didn't want to admit it. So I had another surgery where he tried to tighten up the bottom skin. They bottomed out again. Finally, I do remember my mom yelling to just fucking take them off and move them. He did. Being a microvascular surgeon, I'm lucky I do have some feeling after having them removed twice.
Then there was the size issue. Before I went in, I was a FF/G or something like that. I wanted a full C cup. So a C/D I guess. I wanted cleavage. I had enormous boobs and wanted them gone, but I still wanted something that wouldn't make it seem so drastic. I go under the knife, things settle a few months later....I have about a B. B that looks like flat pancakes with fucked up collarbone nipples.
He was confronted and his response was "if you lose weight, they will look bigger".
1. Not his fucking decision
2. Seriously? Boobs are fat and losing weight usually happens in the boobs first.
3. His devious plan was to make my boobs small so I'd lose weight?
4. I hadn't even graduated HS yet and he was mapping out my genetic and lifestyle plan for the next few decades.
Oh, and the best fucked up response he gave was:
"You can always get implants."
There's likely other things too, but I am thankful I didn't have an infection. I am so glad she's okay.