Is a breast reduction painful?

Is a breast reduction painful?

Steve Fallek (Plastic Surgeon & Medical Director, Face Focus Medical Spa, New York City) gives expert video advice on: How is a breast reduction procedure performed?; Who can get a breast reduction?; Is a breast reduction painful? and more...

The great thing about a breast reduction is that when patients wake up from surgery most of the pain is gone. By that I mean by neck pain, back pain and shoulder pain. Those are usually the complaints that patients have, and when they wake up and the breast tissue is removed, they feel much better. There's going to be some incisional pain after breast reduction, where the scars are, but in general those patients are much happier after surgery.