Breast Lift Recovery In the Months Ahead

Your body will go through many changes over the next few months during your breast lift recovery, and most of them will be very subtle. You will feel phantom pains, tingles and warm sensations, especially if you've gotten implants in addition to your breast lift. Remember, you have a foreign body in you now and your tissue is getting used to the sudden increase in volume. During your mastopexy recovery your collagen is networking to form scar tissue and to heal from this elective trauma.

After your initial postoperative appointments (usually within the first 3 weeks), you will be expected to attend subsequent postoperative appointments. Some surgeons suggest stopping in at the 1 month, 2 month, 3 month, 6 month mark. Some request 1 month, 4 month, and 6 month mark. Some suggest the 6 month or 1 year mark. And some never see you again. Ask beforehand about postoperative check up charges. Some surgeons charge their patients for a quick 10 minute check up, some do not.

Many women I have spoken to report that most of the numbness subsides around the incisions within a year. The scars are usually at their worst around 3 months into their plastic surgery recovery. Remember that they will, in most cases, fade and flatten. Just know beforehand and accept it and you won't have any unpleasant surprises.

Also there is the possibility that your scars may have stretched due to poor elasticity or increased pressure on the incision line; possibly the areolae are stretched, or there may be some asymmetry. In these cases and others, you may consider a revision surgery or redo. Read our next section for more information.