This is just a question that has been bugging me- if you gain weight after top surgery will you develop man boobs, similar to cis males?
Just wondering whether or not chests will stay the same flatness despite weight loss / gain.
It would depend on how the top surgery was preformed. If all the fat tissue were removed, it wouldn't be possible for you to develop moobs. If sufficient fat was left project a more muscular chest, it might be possible for weigh gain to produce a more noticeable upper chest. It would be a good question to ask your surgeon.
Depends on procedure and what all they take. Basically to avoid moobs you'd need them to take as much breast tissue as possible. It can't regrow once it's removed from the body.
You'd also need to consider fat. They usually leave a little bit of fat behind because being too flat looks unnatural. But if you still have ovaries and weren't taking testosterone, there is a chance you could gain fat in the chest.
I've seen what a female mastectomy looks like (from cancer) and with that they scrape out everything. The chest looks flat or even concave. And when people gain weight with those they don't really gain in that area because everything has been pulled out above the ribs. Fat tissue needs fat cells to deposit anything in and I'm told that the body gains most of its fat cells at a certain age and doesn't tend to manufacture many more - unless a person becomes morbidly obese perhaps. I'm not sure about that.
In FTM surgery they will leave a little tissue behind to ensure your chest looks normal and faintly convex as opposed to the concave or super flat mastectomies (unless you ask otherwise I guess). I also heard that some clinics encourage FTM to work out their pectorals to gain muscle in the area before surgery so it's easier to shape the area.
But to answer the question if they've left some fat tissue behind it can always expand if you gain weight and create "moobs" I suppose. There is space below almost all regions of your body's skin for a certain amount of fat to be stored and create insulation.
Quote from: T.K.G.W. on March 13, 2016, 10:20:32 AM
I've seen what a female mastectomy looks like (from cancer) and with that they scrape out everything. The chest looks flat or even concave. And when people gain weight with those they don't really gain in that area because everything has been pulled out above the ribs. Fat tissue needs fat cells to deposit anything in and I'm told that the body gains most of its fat cells at a certain age and doesn't tend to manufacture many more - unless a person becomes morbidly obese perhaps. I'm not sure about that.
In FTM surgery they will leave a little tissue behind to ensure your chest looks normal and faintly convex as opposed to the concave or super flat mastectomies (unless you ask otherwise I guess). I also heard that some clinics encourage FTM to work out their pectorals to gain muscle in the area before surgery so it's easier to shape the area.
But to answer the question if they've left some fat tissue behind it can always expand if you gain weight and create "moobs" I suppose. There is space below almost all regions of your body's skin for a certain amount of fat to be stored and create insulation.
The body will always generate fat cells if you eat excessively and don't burn off those calories. I suppose the reason why fat cells may not be produced in that particular area anymore is because the body doesn't recognize it as "female", so the body chooses to distribute the fat elsewhere, which is related to how the fat cells and so on react to your hormones. This is also why overweight men gain moobs, since they have excess levels of estrogen which is ironically produced by the fat, so it will begin to distribute fat on the chest area because that is where fat is deposited when you have high levels of estrogen.
Afaik, the body can destroy its own fat cells but only if they are empty for a very long time.
I was overweight when I had top surgery. I'm 7 months post op and now on a paleo diet. I've only been on it for two weeks and can already see the fat going bye bye. I wouldn't bother looking at cancer mastectomy because they don't reshape the chest. Remember, ftm top surgery is mastectomy with chest reconstruction and nipple graphs.
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