Education, not medical advice
The content on this site is general patient education about enlargement of the male breast and its surgical treatment. It is not medical advice, it is not a diagnosis, and it does not create a doctor-patient relationship. It cannot account for your history, your medicines or your examination findings, and it must not be used to decide on a treatment by itself.
No outcome is guaranteed
No operation can be guaranteed. Results vary between patients, and the same operation performed well produces different outcomes in different bodies. Statements on this site about what an operation can achieve describe what is generally possible, not what will happen to you.
Individual variation
Healing, scarring, swelling, numbness and the final contour all vary. Final results are judged at six to twelve months. A description of a typical recovery is not a prediction of yours.
When to seek care
If you have a lump in the chest that is not typical of gynecomastia, a discharge from the nipple, a change in the skin of the chest, or enlargement that has appeared recently or on one side only, see a clinician about that first. Nothing on this site is a substitute for having a symptom examined.
In an emergency
This website is not monitored. If you have a medical emergency, contact your local emergency number or go to the nearest emergency department. If you are a patient of this hospital and have an urgent problem after surgery, use the emergency and aftercare contacts you were given at discharge.