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I believe it costs in the neighborhood of $4000-5000, but the military paid for mine.
Is this part of the smaller profile they’re trying to maintain?
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Beats me, lieu. The military has surgeons. The surgeons need training and practice. The best way to practice and train is to perform surgery. Sometimes soldiers are injured. They may need reconstructive facial surgery, dental surgery, skin grafts, or other forms of “cosmetic surgery.”
A civilian doctor will charge your insurance company several thousand dollars for a breast reduction surgery. Does this reflect the real cost? It is what the HMO or medical group can get away with.
In a military hospital, it is a matter of scheduling, manpower, and whether there is a surgeon who needs this particular training. I waited over a year for my operation.
What it cost the military? I don’t know. The surgeon, in my case an O-6, surely makes considerably less than his civilian counterpart. The hospital operating room is already there, no one’s paying for it by the hour. The nurses and other staff are also military. What the anesthesia costs, I don’t know. I know that the military wants soldiers who are condition to fight, not debilitated by back pain.
Jealous? Join the military. They also give you cool clothes and really stylin’ eyeglasses.
I"m glad the surgery went well!
I’m a B and although I guess there are times I wonder what it would be like to be a little bigger, I’m 5’4" and 108 lbs, so I’d want to stay proportional.
I totally understand why women would want a reduction and I do not feel jealous in the least. Unwanted attention is no more fun than no attention.
“Pretty icky” doesn’t begin to describe it. Some weeks ago I caught a breast reduction on TLC, which used the same “anchor-shaped” incision that bluethree describes. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that it seemed like tissue was spread all over creation. I have no idea how that doctor ever knew how to piece all that together into a recognizable breast again.
In the operation I saw, the nipple was not removed, but the doctor did say that the nerve is too small to see, so you really don’t know if there’ll be a loss of sensitivity (because you cut the nerve without even realizing it) until after the operation.
Not that I’m trying to scare y’all who earnestly want the operation…I just think you should be fully informed, is all.
That procedure you saw (which I watched some of with horrified fascination) was pretty much the same one I had. It was very weird watching surgery I’d had…