Chest reduction & construction
To help you understand the chest reduction or construction journey, we’ve broken it down into eight steps. They cover how to access, prepare for and recover from surgery.
Considering surgery
Understanding the procedure
Referral for surgery
Meeting with the surgeon
Preparing for surgery
Day of surgery
Recovering from surgery
Life after surgery
Community Voices
I went through a lot of emotions after chest surgery: some euphoric, and some really hard due to all that my body was going through the temporary changes in my mobility. Talking to others and understanding that this wasn’t an uncommon experience really helped me.
—A, on his emotions after surgery
I knew that I didn’t want a completely flat chest, but it was hard at the time to know that was even an option. Once I knew a reduction was an option, that felt right. It wasn’t a really big change to my body — but that’s exactly what I wanted. A more subtle change on the outside, but a big and important change to me on the inside.