Caring For Your Breasts After Surgery
Because of the incredible stress your breasts will be subjected to during breast augmentation surgery, you have to be extra careful with them as they heal because they will be painful, swollen and sore after surgery.
A surgical bra will probably be needed in the first few days, while the residual pain will likely be treated with prescription painkillers. You may have to wear a sports bra for better support until the swelling subsides.
Do not go to the gym or engage in strenuous physical activity immediately after your surgery because this may worsen the swelling. You can usually be back on your feet within a few days and return to full activity in a few weeks, so it’ll just be for a while.
While breastfeeding will normally not be hampered by breast augmentation surgery, you should ask the doctor about this before going through with the operation.
You may see scarring after the surgery, but these are normally hidden and very small. Your surgeon has been trained to make them as unnoticeable as possible.
Inframammary and periareolar incision scars are on the breast. Transaxillary or TUBA incisions can be placed in a natural fold in the skin under the armpit, virtually unnoticeable after surgery. There is a risk of infection, as with any surgery, but with proper precautions by the surgical team, complications are typically minimized or prevented.
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