Overly disproportionate and large breasts can lead to emotional and health problems. It can cause not only self-image issues but can also be a source of physical discomfort and pain like back pain, neck pain, and so on. The weight of surplus breast tissue and fats can hamper your ability to conduct an active life. The emotional disconcert and self-consciousness generally accompanied by large disproportionate breasts is an equally important problem as the bodily discomfort and pain.

The following symptoms may be an indication that you should go for breast reduction:

• Your breasts are out of proportion with your body.
• You experience physical discomforts like the neck, back, and shoulder pain due to heavy breasts.
• You have a poor posture owing to the large size of your breasts.
• Your breasts are significantly heavy and droopy along with nipples and areolas pointing in the downward direction.
• You have trouble while sleeping because of breast discomfort caused when you lie down.
• Inability to take part in athletic activities due to large breast size.
• You have self-image and self-consciousness issues because of your breasts.
• If you have grooves or indentations in shoulders as a result of tight bra straps, consider breast reduction.
• You have rashes or skin infections under the breast crease.
• If your breasts are not of the same size, that is, one is notably bigger than the other; you can opt for breast reduction.

Apart from these symptoms, you should be healthy and a non-smoker if you are considering a breast reduction. You must have realistic expectations from this procedure.

The patient needs to be well prepared for breast reduction surgery to avoid the complications that occur with the surgery. The pre-medical examination needs to be performed for evaluation and later the prescribed medications need to be regularly taken before the surgery. The habits like smoking, taking tablets like aspirin, herbal supplements, and other drugs need to be immediately stopped as they affect the surgery in a various number of ways like increased bleeding, etc. The baseline mammogram needs to be performed before and after the surgery to get a clear picture of the condition of breasts.

These pre-surgical procedures need to be carefully performed as suggested by the doctors to avoid any complications or risks associated with the surgery. Later after the surgery is performed, the postoperative care must be taken by the patients.