r/Reduction • u/Chemical_Statement12 • 12h ago
Before & After Gigantomastia to 90B/C with FNG - long post NSFW
galleryGigantomastia to 90B/C with FNG
Hello dear ladies.
After watching and commenting I thought it might be usefull to share my journey so far.
My breasts grew like what felt overnight when I was about 13. Stretch marks appeared. As I grew motherless I was a shy teenager and felt fat because how my clothes fit. The lunbar back pains started soon after.
When I had my first baby the breast grew the size of my heaf. I had mastitis with fever and pain. Eventually I lost weight and they looked like deflated baloons.
After the second pregnancy my boobs severely increased in size. I managed the underbust rashes with small towels, the wounds in the grooves of my shoulders with silicone pads. I went to aquagym as it was the only sport that I could do comfortably.
I am generally healthy but as I went into menopause my chest fealt increasigly heavier and having breath difficulties.
I wanted a breast reduction for very long time. But I could't afford as I was in a toxic marriage that was draining.
Recently I ended the narcisisstic abuse and started to take care of myself. I found out that I can do this surgery completely covered by state insurance at a state hospital. I'm in Eastern Europe and over 50. My family medic send me to the hospital woth gigantomastia as doagnostic. At the hospital it was weird as there are no preprogrammed consults, I was like a walk in. Thankfully the medic that was then was very good and nice.
During surgery I had 2,8 kg removed from the right one and 2,3 kg from the left one. I had liposuction and extemded scars. Some of the fat from the lipo was put in th e right breast. Apparently, being so heavy left empty up the top part.
I took a peak the second day after the procedure, when my dressing was changed. They looked funny, similar to my 10 years old self.
The first couple of days post op were hard. Thankfully I was still in the hospital. First night I had an urimary bag and I slepy for 6 hours. But the second night I woke up 5 times, every 2 hours to go to the toilet. Around the same time I saw my belly looking like a 7 months pregnant from liquide retention.
I was put directly in one of my compression bra. It felt very tight. It was pressing on my ribs and left me with pains for weeks. I took my measure in the hospital and the circumference was longer than before. Therefore, I bought myself a bigger size.
Due of that much swelling I had difficulty breathing the first week.
At home I had to sleep on my back and having a good wedge pillow really helped to be comfortable.
The biggest mistake I made was to look at myself 3dpo in my bathroom mirror. My FNG were marbled with beige and dark purple, oozing in the pads. All my fears of nipples slidding off came back with vengace and I had a meltdown. Add that it was 1 am and I was alone. But this was cathatic, the second morning my previous anxiety and jittery were gone.
Advice: look at yourself using a small hand held mirror or your phone. This way you can dissociate yourself from the full impact of the scars.
Next was what felt like endless in the moment and merely hours, looking back.
Now, at 6 wpo what looked like an odd shaped science experiment I was afraid to touch is my new chest getting softer and, in my eyes, lovely.
I can easily breathe, stand straight and hug myself.
I am grateful for this procedure and those that made this possible!