How to Reduce Pain After a Breast Augmentation
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Board-Certified plastic surgeon Dr. K. Roxanne Grawe of ROXY Plastic Surgery in Columbus Ohio offers tips on how to minimize pain after a breast augmentation.
I recently answered a question on RealSelf on how to deal with pain after surgery. When it comes to dealing with pain after a breast augmentation, your recovery time will depend on your implant size. For example, patients who choose larger breast implants have a longer recovery than patients who choose smaller ones.
At ROXY Plastic Surgery we try to minimize recovery pain as much as possible by providing all of our patients with a detailed recovery checklist.
Here are a few tips that can help with pain after having breast implants:
1. Ice: Purchase a large bag of frozen peas from the grocery store and put them in smaller snack ziplock bags for easy use. The bags will mold to your breasts and you can slip them in your sports bra. They’ll defrost before they can freeze burn your skin (like ice can) and then you can exchange them out.
2. Keep inflammation down: Invest in a sports bra that provides good support to help with swelling which will decrease pain. I also give my patients anti-inflammatory medication to decrease swelling and pain.
3. Relax a little: Don’t try to do too much or you get exhausted and that makes it harder to mentally deal with the pain. This leads to you feeling MORE pain.
4. Muscle relaxers: If you are still in pain, talk to your doctor about using a muscle relaxer – sometimes it’s the muscle spasms that keep you up at night.
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6 Comments
I’m thinking about getting a breast augmentation. Thanks for the advice about how you can help the pain by relaxing and using ice. Another thing to consider is to make sure you sleep on your back to help relax your breasts.
You have provided amazing tips which helps to get recover soon and also i know when i go through breast augmentation process i keep myself away from kitchen and other works and i just relaxed for weeks and now i have a perfect body with perfect shape. I get my breast augmentation from beautifulbreastsoc . Thank you for providing such a useful information.
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I appreciate the tip about getting frozen peas for your breasts after the procedure. My sister is thinking of getting breast augmentation but she doesn’t handle pain well, and she’s worried that it will be bad. Maybe I should get some frozen peas for her to help reduce the discomfort after the surgery.
Thank you for the great advice, my wife is planning to get breast augments soon, so I’ve been looking for ways to help here recover afterwords. At the very least I will have to take your advice and help here relax a little. Although, in order to do that I will have to find a way to keep the kids entertained.
Glad you found the article helpful! We’re sure your wife will appreciate you taking the time to help her relax.