Before After Breast Augmentation

Before Breast Augmentation

Prepare your life to be real simple for the two weeks following breast augmentation. Buy microwave dinners, soda in cans or boxed juice. Bring things you will need down from shelves so you won’t be killing yourself, I mean stretching, to get them later. Lay out all your shirts that don’t require being pulled over your head. You’ll want to wear them for at least two weeks. Put the remote, pain killers and something to drink by your bedside. Make sure you have plenty of bathroom tissue on hand, and that it is not on a high shelf.

Nails: Leave unpainted for monitoring purposes if you go under general anesthesia. The doctor needs to check your nails for blood and oxygen circulation problems associated with anesthesia. They need to make sure your nail stays a healthy color and doesn’t turn blue!

Clean: the house so you won’t have to contend with it when you’re feeling yuckie. Fill the car up with gas (you won’t be driving right away, but when you do, your arms won’t feel like pumping gas).

After Augmentation,

Turn off the phones! Sleeping is the best and most natural pain killer.

If you have children, arrange to have someone take care of them away from your house. If not, make sure someone can help you with them for at *least* the first 24-48 hours (you’ll need help during this time anyway).

Someone suggested drinking Boost after surgery. This is a great idea since many of us don’t like to eat when we feel bad, Boost has the nutrients you need.

Ice Bra — Debra took four of those little super cold packs that they sell for kids lunch boxes and froze them over or in something curved, like a tupperware mixing bowl. Put an athletic bra over your bra and stick two frozen packs in on each side. VOILA! You can sit at the computer and type instead of lying in bed holding ice packs on your boobs! Or you can use a bag of peas.

Stool Softener — Some people become constipated even days after breast augmentation.