Post op day six.
No volume loss in breasts. They feel slightly softer as more swelling has gone down. Same above my waist, elsewhere there's still a lot of swelling and some more appeared on my flanks and tummy. Likely because those areas get on the move and irritated easily. I can't sit and lie down all day anyway so this isn't a surprise. Bruises are healing fast, redness has turned yellow so no new bleeding and they're already on the way out.
I took off the tight brown tape and replaced all that with breathable bandages, the small kind. Very interestingly the way my body is reacting to stiches is exactly like it was with carpal tunnel surgeries. I have a trait that my wounds heal extrmely fast, but they also gather pus easily. That rarely goes into an infection, but its peculiar. Also my body hates foreing objects like stitches. For my wrists they used the thick 14 day ones and I had to remove them on fifth day, on first go, tenth day was enough that there was ton of pus coming out and infection was brewing. The ones I removed on day five healed perfectly. My surgeon is aware of this orf course.
So, two stiches just came off, one in pieces. These are the thin ones which break on their own. Apparently body uses the same mechanism to dissolve them as what it does when there's a foreing object in a wound. So three spots had gathered a bit of pus, two stiches just fell right off. I got a bit scared but checked the wounds and they're all sealed and there's no signs of infection. No redness around them, no hot spots, no pain. I guess this is my usual reaction, super fast healing and immune system on overdrive. I cleaned everything and will keep close eye on the wounds. I predict the rest of the stiches to fall out one by one in a similar manner in coming days.
Breast situation today looks like this, it was a bit cold so areolas are shy. Note how the mild bruising is already almost invisible.
EDIT:
I had a talk with my surgeon, he's awesome. He will come over do my one month post op check on the same day I'm in Helsinki for another appointment. He said its his day off but sure he can come to check out my progress that day. So cool. He asked how ismy recovery going, I told him everything and got confirmed that stiches being rejected is totally normal at this stage, not to worry about swelling as there's a truckload of it for now and that deep nasty itch is a very good sign of healing. I so much like him, always good advice on everything, asking me twice within first week how I'm doing, agreeing to do a check up on his day off work... This guy really cares for his patients. I love his attitude, makes me get on a good mood so easily and I trust him.