Breast Augmentation Recovery

Breast augmentation recovery is a concern to many women, naturally. Many new patients wonder how long breast enlargement recovery will keep them out of work. Or, just how soon they will feel pain-free. The process has gotten so much smother over the past decade, many women are pleasantly surprised to discover that this surgery goes quite smooth. As many doctors also have a good appreciation of the breast implant recovery process, they can guide you well. Follow their instructions and you should be fine.

Breast augmentation recovery isn’t all that bad really. Many women are pleased to discover that after the first few days (which are the roughest typically), recovery from breast augmentation and enlargement is predictably good, if you follow doctors orders. Keep the following in mind.

Your doctor might instruct you to use cold compresses or ice packs on your new breasts for the first 48 hours post surgery. Some doctors may instruct you to do so even longer. For a second breast surgery, I was told to keep ice for at least 48 hours and switch to a different warm compresses after that while the majority of the  bruising and swelling went away.

Typical general instructions for the breast augmentation recovery period include limiting movement considerably and getting plenty of bed rest. Any activity that may involves lifting, bending, flexing or straining needs to be avoided, as it may increase the pain and some soreness and potentially delay healing.

Patients can typically usually return to their work after one week to 10 days, provided that their jobs don’t require very heavy lifting or other very strenuous activities. In general, the patients who receive subglandular type breast implant placement requires far less breast augmentation recovery time period  than patients who rather receive submuscular breast implant placement procedures..

Using Ice on Breast Implants

You could buy ice compresses and these ice packs at any drugstore or pharmacy. Buy 2 or three so that you can rotate them in and out of the freezer to keep them extra cold. A good large bag of frozen vegetables, peas or berries could also be used. You could also make a perfect homemade ice pack by then mixing one part rubbing alcohol with several or three parts water. Place this mixture in a plastic bag, seal it and then place that bag into a different bag and seal it and put the whole set-up in the freezer for a few hours. The cold water may freeze, but the alcohol may definitely not, leaving you with a slushy ice pack.  Add more water for a more solid, icier pack if you find it very slushy, and less water for a more slushier concoction. These homemade ice packs are very inexpensive and are quite moldable to fit around your new breasts.

Drains and their Effectiveness

Your doctor might have placed one or many significant drains in a place your incision. A good drain is a new plastic tube with one good end inside the new incision and the then other leading to a new plastic bulb that looks quite a bit like a see-through grenade. Drains may give fluids a additional way to exit from the healing surgical site while you are healing and recovering from breast augmentation and to prevent a build-up of this pressure that could compromise the healing.  You are much more likely to have a drain in your incision if there is excessive bleeding going on during the surgery or if you are having some other procedures. Again, the key is to follow your doctor’s prescription to the letter, and you should have no real problems.

These surgical drains could be still left in place for a few days after surgery, depending on how much of this fluid they are collecting. You also may be given instructions and details on how to care for them and also empty the bulbs. The bulbs may detach and you then empty them and also then squeeze them a little before you reseal them to the tubes. This squeezing forms a bit of suction that helps with this drainage. You may also be additionally asked to help measure how much of this liquid the full bulbs may contain each and every time you empty them. The fluid may look a bit pinkish or brownish. This is quite normal.

It’s important also, as a side note to be positive in your breast augmentation recovery. Just thinking that you are going to do a better job of recovering is likely to help you speed through the recovery process. Don’t be too concerned, but do follow your doctor’s advice to the letter. This always makes the most sense.

Drains are typically removed at your first follow-up appointment, as you are recovering from breast augmentation surgery. The doctor removes the simple drain simply by then pulling the old tube out. Some patients have described this experience as totally pain-free and also nothing to worry about, or simply an odd feeling, or as a quick, brief pain. There may be some irritation around the edges of the new incision by the drain. Again, follow the doctor’s orders on this and you will have a complication free procedure.

Importance of Keeping Breast Implants Dry in Recovery

Keep your suture line completely dry. Your doctor could have placed small strips on top of your incision line and then sutures or you might have had internal sutures with old tissue glue to completely bind the new incision edges.  Either way, your doctor may help give you specific care instructions and guidelines for your incisions in detailed writing at your first preoperative appointment or possibly before you are then sent home after your new surgery. It is always best to read and make sure you completely understand this detailed information before instead of having to learn the instructions at the last minute.

Do not get creams or lotions, or topical arnica {which works wonders} into the new incision. These products may cause inflammation. Take your hourly temperature regularly during plastic surgery recovery. An elevated temperature might mean you have an infection that would need to be treated. Take your daily antibiotics on time. Take all the proper antibiotics that your doctor prescribes for all days that the prescription calls for. To stop short on the antibiotic prescription may lead to a resistant type infection. Don't forget that many antibiotics could interfere you’re your birth control pills, so in the possible event that you do have relations, use an additional form of protection also.

If you chose a sub glandular placement. Also known as over’s, breast implant augmentation recovery is usually quite shorter and much less painful than if you then choose a partial or full sub muscular placement, also called “under”.  But, this is a rule of general thumb and partially depends on these several factors, including your personal threshold of pain. You may get to feel discomfort, but you will be able to help control it with the specific pain medication your doctor prescribes.

If you follow these general rules, and obviously take it easy during your break, you will have good breast augmentation recovery. And also keep that in mind: Be positive. Its shown to help people recover better than if they are worried about their health status.  The good news about all of this is that they are getting better and better all the time with breast implant surgery and so the recovery is getting better too.

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