Frustrated. 11 weeks PO Breast Reduction

So, I’m 11 weeks PO from my breast reduction and I am absolutely thrilled with my results, I love my boobs HOWEVER, for the last 6 weeks, I’ve been stuck with what can only be described as a healthy looking superficial open wound down the middle of my right breast that just REFUSES to heal!

I’m having regular reviews with my surgeon Mr Singh to monitor the wounds improvement, which while he says it’s healing, I really don’t feel like it is. There’s been no significant improvement and I’m dying to just be stitched back together! My nurses don’t think it will heal on its own either.
I want a proper bath! I want to shop for bras, I want to join the gym! I always knew my recovery was going to be difficult and long but it shouldn’t be like this!

I have another review tomorrow and I’m really hoping he relents and says he’ll take my back to theatre soon.

They can’t just leave you like that babe it must be so blooming annoying! You’ve had this pretty much since I had mine done! You would have thought they’d rather stitch you up and healed than keep using their resources and time and risking infection etc! I’d demand that you get stitched!

High protein diets can help with healing xx

There’s nothing wrong with my diet and I don’t feel like making alterations to my diet will help skin grow over an open wound that’s an inch and a half wide. It’s why it was originally a baffling situation, I am a healthy 24 year old.

I feel better after having a good talk with my surgeon last week. Apparently fixing the problem isn’t as easy as just stitching me back together, it would involve a skin graft but I’ve been promised that new skin is growing and it’s just going to take time. His other patient that this happened to, hers took three months but it healed and was left with no scarring. I’m cool with scars on my left but not my right! Haha.
I’ve been told to take a small mirror to my dressings change tomorrow so I can have a good look for myself. It’s been very disheartening but I’ve been more positive in the last few days and been told I can wrap myself in cling film to take a real bath!

Hey chick I’ve got opening to check my pics this happened on w-day night I email my surgeon and he said it was ok it would heel up but to keep clean n dry and use antiseptic liquid but I went to tesco and got some stri strips and put them on the opening and this seems to be working xx

Mine isn’t just a small opening, it’s an inch and a half wide and about 5cm long! It’s not something I can take care of myself, I’m seeing my nurse twice a week for dressing changes. I don’t doubt that it’s slowly healing but it’s frustrating at 11 weeks PO. I’ve not had a proper soaking bath since the 23rd September!

Hey chick I so know where your coming from my 1st op with uplift I couldn’t have shower for 10weeks from a few set backs so y can’t they glue it xx

Because it’s too wide I think and because it’s already healing. Mr Singh said it would probably involve a skin graft. I’m going to take a small mirror with me tomorrow so I can see this apparent skin growing for myself. I hope I can see some difference. I’ve been lucky that with my weekly swabs, I’ve never had an infection, the wound is really healthy and has a good blood supply. It’s just healing slowly. I want to wear tiny bras!

Awww bless keep me posted huni xx

14 weeks PO this week and still no substantial signs of healing. The only plus is the open wound isn’t as deep as it was 8 weeks ago when the problem first began.
I don’t see Mr Singh until the 13th January as that’s when he’s next in Birmingham.
I’m becoming more and more upset and frustrated with my lack of healing. I just want it to heal or be fixed! I want a soak in the bath! I want to show off my results because I know they’re amazing! I want to go bra shopping!

Phew chick I had an hole to and then nurse just said keep it covered and bath or showers but that day I went to boots and got some faster healing Hydrocolloid dressing for treatment of weeping cuts and grazes reduces scarring and they waterproof I’ve had them on now for 5 days and been bathing n showering and they have keep dry and it’s healed up nicely

Hi chick I had an hole to and then nurse just said keep it covered and not to bath or shower but that day I went to boots and got some faster healing Hydrocolloid dressing for treatment of weeping cuts and grazes reduces scarring and they waterproof I’ve had them on now for 5 days and been bathing n showering and they have keep dry and it’s healed up nicely so it’s worth try at least u would to bath and feel better xx

Mine isn’t a hole.
It’s a superficial open wound, like 2 inches wide and 3/4 inches long. I have to go in twice a week for dressing changes to make sure it’s not getting worse, which it isn’t. The only advantage is the wound isn’t as deep as it was 8 weeks ago but new skin still isn’t growing over.

So glad yours has healed.
I did have a hole too and that’s stayed healed 🙂

Wow that sounds very much like mine that I had from the corset. It took Ages to heal and in the end it left me with a very raised keloid scar:( I’m going to see if I can have a scar revision of some sorts

Hi Yana you can smooth out the scarring your self was told to do this off my aunties breast cancer sugroen my scarring was so bad after my full uplift xx

How??? I’ve been using Dermatrix then Mederma (which seems to slowly burn through the scars, as the skin is peeling and made it itch and sensitive). It’s very raised..

Right was told scarring is on the inside as well as outside to so to do this u can start soon as the scarring has scab over and dropping off or anytime af that so for me I use E45 cream and with two fingers rub in the cream in small curler motions quite firmly along your scaring and 15-20 mins day n night will smooth the scaring right out and fade away as you can see in from my pics with my nipple lift my nurse said I’ve got hear that your 2weeks post op and that my scarring looks like 3 moths old it’s worth a go chick as the uplift scarring for me was really bad xx

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I’m getting my revision surgery in the next 7-10 days!

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