To think it's pretty selfish to be going for n NHS breast reduction right now?

[123HereComesTheSun]

Is this really essential surgery for a perfectly healthy person?

@Veuvestar

I don’t think the breast reduction dept are overwhelmed right now

And this is a very good point. What should the people who work in these departments be doing instead? Standing around? If they didn’t have capacity for the surgery, it wouldn’t have been scheduled. If they didn’t deem the surgery to be necessary, it wouldn’t have been scheduled. And if they have capacity and have deemed it necessary, better to do it now than to add it to the waiting lists that are already horrific and are only going to get worse.

@cataclysmiclife

The NHS wouldn't provide a procedure that wasn't required.

Also it's non of your business.

This

Wind your neck in

Just you worry about your own tits

Breast reduction surgery is not routine and many women, with serious problems, have been turned down and had to go private.

For the NHS to authorise surgery, the woman must be very ill and really need the surgery.

No one undergoes this surgery lightly. Huge scarring, painful recovery.
YAVVVVVVVU and judgy and mean. And jealous? I don't know I can't work it out. Maybe jealous, yes.

Yes, OP, because there’s nothing like ignoring the pain of women, is there?

We do it all the time, as a society, after all.

Not really any of your business but it will be essential if on NHS.

I’ve had giant boobs causing back pain for over ten years, also self confidence, rashes, awful sweating in summer and went to NHS for a potential reduction but due to the number of hoops they wanted me to jump through I’ve paid to have it done abroad instead later this year, same with my weight loss surgery. So NHS don’t just offer it out to anyone who requests it.

You're absolutely right, wanting to stop excruciating back problems and finding it tough to sleep is sooooo selfish.

While we're at it, let's also stop pain relief for arthritis?

I'm surprised they've managed it, but selfish absolutely not.
As someone with a huge chest who would give my right arm for a reduction, I say good on anyone who manages to get it done. It's very debilitating and far from cosmetic.

I was under the impression the NHS simply don’t provide breast reductions. Mine are whoppers and I don’t get all the people who say they cause pain. Keep them well supported. They have not impeded me in any way, including running.

Assuming you're not talking about yourself, it's got absolutely nothing to do with you whether someone having a breast reduction is essential.

I’m sure they’ve waited a long time as it is.

Yabu. Reductions are life changing for women.

Mine are whoppers and I don’t get all the people who say they cause pain

MN in a ‘all people are different’ shocker . They don’t cause you pain.

Have you ever actually experienced the hoops that they’ll make you jump through to get a breast reduction on the NHS?! I’m going to go with no. Otherwise you’d realise that this isn’t someone just showing up and saying “I want these things made smaller!” Whilst gesticulating wildly at their chest. They make you lose weight, then more weight, then do physio, then probably lose even more weight all whilst having various investigations to see if the cause of your back pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, headaches, eye strain etc etc etc could possibly be pinned on absolutely anything else. And then eventually when they might finally agree to a life changing surgery for someone with a debilitating condition through no fault of their own, someone like you pops up to tell them it’s not essential.

You’re a dick. HTH

There can be so many perfectly valid medical reasons for this.

People should not judge.

Well that's gone well for you hasn't it Op?
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If you don't approve of breast reductions during covid, don't get a breast reduction.

@Misterectomy

I was under the impression the NHS simply don’t provide breast reductions. Mine are whoppers and I don’t get all the people who say they cause pain. Keep them well supported. They have not impeded me in any way, including running.

oh well, yes, clearly your experience is EXACLY THE SAME as everyone else's.

There's obviously no possible way that other women could have even larger breasts, or that their large breasts could cause them pain. so much that they ideally require surgery.

Maybe you should advise the NHS about your surgery free solution??

If ONLY the NHS had thought to ask, "Did you try an better bra?" . Look at them jumping to the easiest solution ... " big bazookas? I tell you what we'll get you in hospital, sedate you, cut you open, sucker out the excess fat and tissue, sew you back up, dose you up with anti-biotics and pain killers, send you to recovery, and send you on your way!!"

What a bunch of amateurs... smh.

@Misterectomy

I was under the impression the NHS simply don’t provide breast reductions. Mine are whoppers and I don’t get all the people who say they cause pain. Keep them well supported. They have not impeded me in any way, including running.

Huh, that's weird- it's almost as if people aren't all the same as you. 🤔

@123HereComesTheSun

Is this really essential surgery for a perfectly healthy person?

It's none of you business, nor ours.

AIBU has more than its usual number of bitter, goady threads today. I'm waiting for a thread about the selfishness/unfairness of people who consume more oxygen than the rest of us.

Nice little grenade to drop and run from there OP.

For others: it saves the NHS money in the long run from painkiller prescriptions, physio, potential time off work sick with pain, appointments. It makes economic sense as well as being the humane civil thing to do.

@123HereComesTheSun

Is this really essential surgery for a perfectly healthy person?

This doesn't seem genuine.

@Veuvestar

I don’t think the breast reduction dept are overwhelmed right now

Well to be fair, it isn't quite that simple. In most hospitals theatre staff and anaesthetists are amongst the first staff to be redeployed to run extra ICU beds as they have a lot of the required skills. All anaesthetists have ICU experience even if they don't currently work in that area, and theatre staff have many transferable skills. It's very common to use theatres and recovery wards as overflow ICU beds, and ward beds that are normally occupied by planned surgery patients get used for admitting emergency patients when normal capacity is full. Stopping planned surgery to create extra bed capacity is one of the commonest ways that Trusts cope with additional pressure. So it isn't really about the surgeons at all. But it is definitely the case that if there is limited capacity to operate, all the patients being operated on will have been chosen because of their clinical need. It happens in every winter in plenty of hospitals - not just in pandemics. It is fairly safe to assume that this surgery is considered important by the treating team and the Trust, not just the patient.