Whether it’s your first breast augmentation or you’re aiming to increase your current implant size, planning for recovery from an XL breast implant augmentation necessitates special considerations. In addition to requiring a surgeon specializing in XL breast implant augmentation, such as the team at Prime Plastic Surgery and Med Spa, these five tips can help ensure that your recovery goes smoothly.
1. Closely Follow Your Post-Op Instructions
As with any surgical procedure, you will receive individual post-op instructions from your surgeon after your procedure. This will go over everything that is expected of you during your recovery, including how to care for your incisions and your medications, to when you should come in for follow-up. Following these instructions can help ensure you achieve the best extra large breast augmentation results.
2. Bed Rest Is Essential
Larger breast implants put increased stress on the body and, in many cases, you will be asked to spend the first few days of recovery on bed rest. This helps allow your body to adjust to the new implants and begin the healing process. While most time during these days should be spent in bed, it is still important to get up and walk, even for just a few steps, each day to avoid blood clots.
3. Plan for a Longer Recovery
Larger implants often means longer recovery times. When scheduling your XL breast augmentation, you will want to ensure you have at least two to three weeks available for recovery. Because of this extended recovery period, you will want to ensure time off from work beforehand, as well as enlist the help of friends or family when it comes to your recovery period.
4. Incision Care and Showering
Proper incision care is essential when it comes to your XL breast augmentation recovery. Steri strips will cover your incision and should remain in place for at least 4-6 weeks post procedure. This means that you will need to keep your incision clean and dry during this time. Your surgeon will remove them at your 4-6 week follow-up appointment. During this time, you will want to avoid a shower and getting the area too wet. Sponge bath cleaning is recommended until you get the “green light” from your surgeon.
5. Extended Time Wearing a Surgical Bra
Wearing a surgical bra after breast augmentation is common practice, but can be even more important when you are having XL implants. Wearing a surgical bra for up to four weeks or more is common and helps provide support to the larger implants while your body continues to heal. Talk with your surgeon about their specific recommendations. Wearing this surgical bra during recovery helps to promote quality implant results and the body contouring you hope to achieve.
If you are planning an XL breast augmentation and have questions about the procedure or your recovery, the Prime team is here to help you better understand everything and guide you through your procedure and recovery. To learn more, call 619-446-8851 for our La Mesa location and 858-455-0290 for our La Jolla location and take the first step to a new you.
