Ladies my sympathies are with you both.
I had a reduction last tuesday, I was a wearing a 36 g bra although if i'm honest it didn't really fit at all and I could probably have done with a j cup and I now have a 36 d on which fits perfectly (these are uk sizes, I think they differ big time from us)
my reasons, I was a 36 dd pre-kids and my eldest was in special care when she was born. I had to express milk and was loaned an industrial strength 'cow pump' from the hospital and I swear this had the long term impact on my boobs which have never been the same again.
Being in the uk I am lucky, I managed to get my reduction done on the nhs so it didn't cost me a penny - but the b***** politicians - their reasoning for allowing the surgery, not because I was in constant pain and struggled to sit for more than half an hour at a time at the piano, not because I couldn't do sport because after an hour of karate my shoulders were bleeding where the bra straps were, not because I had stopped all exercise because it hurt so much so would suffer an old age of obesity because of it no, they agreed it because my right one was bigger than my left!
To the lady who mentioned about the asthma, it probably doesn't cause the asthma itself but I can confirm that it restricts your breathing when trying to do anything, I physically couldn't walk up hills because of the pressure on my lungs and had to carry them - how stupid did that look?
Losing weight, never worked (and believe me I have tried) as it would never come off them. Don't you get mad when all these skinny women go on a diet and the first thing that happens is they complain of having no boobs and not a mm has come off their stomach.
The surgery went wonderfully, the pain of the incisions has been less than the pain of 'existing' and wearing a bra before hand. The worst bit was how sore my mouth felt afterwards where they had shoved the breathing tube, my mouth took 2 days to feel normal and its fine now.
It is healing really well, I haven't seen the scarring yet as I have to go and have the dressings taken off on wednesday, then I can have a proper shower again, can't wait. Although the scars will take ages to settle there will be a small one around the nipple then an anchor shape so a line going from the nipple in a straight line downwards then another under the fold of the breast. But this does mean that if you look down you can't see any of them, and it is very easily hidden.
Because of the size of mine I had to have a nipple graft, so they had to chop off the nipple and reattach it, this is a bit like taking a cutting from a plant, it might work, it might not. Either way I have no intention of ever having more kids and if I did I wouldn't be able to breast feed again. However a normal reduction they move the stem so you are less likely to lose the nipple.
But best of all, I feel fantastic I went shopping and I can buy things in shops without worrying about feeling stupid when I try it on (although I think it will take a while before I actually do this rather than just buying and hoping, old habits die hard)
i think this will seriously change my life, and even less than a week in I don't hesitate to recommend it. My surgeon was wonderful and I thank god for the nhs because at £4500 for the op (around $6-7000) I could not afford it until it would be too late to appreciate it. I just wish the politicians in this country would treat this as a medical condition, rather than a cosmetic enhancement, the problem is there are people out there who do not have extreme cases, and really don't medically need them at all who will try and get them for free so ruining it for others in my previous condition. I am convinced that by letting me have this now, they have saved themselves more than the cost of the operation for the future because I should be able to prevent many of the problems I would have got from a sedentary 'fat' lifestyle because of lack of exercise.
