Gynecomastia Surgery: Do You Tell Others?
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Read the comments on bulletin boards at gynecomastia.org and you’ll find that teens, younger and older men are often puzzled what to tell others about an upcoming male breast reduction surgery.
First: the law of the land governs your right to total medical privacy. That law, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accounting Act) requires everybody to respect your medical privacy rights.
Sure, you have to explain an absence but “medical treatments” covers it.
Telling your parents?
Teens can point to the rash of teen suicides sprung in whole or in part by school bullies who cause yet other teens to live in utter misery due to an inherited body part that makes him look different.
So go ahead and tell your folks how having “man boobs” affects your life and how others bully or put you down.
In many cases, when a teen suffers, the parents suffer right along. (Read a heartfelt letter from a concerned mom with a 15-year-old who had gynecomastia.)
As for many Dads: They can be difficult at first because they worry about the family purse strings. Because they can see nothing is wrong with you, they may say no to surgery at first. But if you let your hair down with dad, and explain the meanness in your life, they often relent.
Many wonder how – or if — to break the news to their girlfriends.
Well, if you haven’t learned yet, let me clue you in: women love intimate conversation and knowing your innermost fears because they then feel closer to you. If you are humiliated, spell it all out for her, along with your plans for male breast reduction surgery.
She probably can already see you have some bulging on your chest and likes you nonetheless. And if she’s worth her salt, she’ll be the first to understand, support and see you through recovery.
Besides, it’s very difficult to hide your surgery recovery from an intimate.
And don’t think your case is the only one. If you read the bulletin boards and forums at gynecomastia.org, you’ll find kindred souls who are going through the exact same thing.
Skip ahead on those boards and you’ll find others who had the surgery; read how their lives, along with their self-confidence – have vastly improved.
Many describe gynecomastia surgery as having a huge weight lifted from their shoulders!
(Look at somebefore and after gynecomastia surgery pictures.)