• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Yep, lifting your arms can stretch the scars out and/or distort the nipple (if you’ve had nipple grafts) due to the skin being pulled at as it heals, that’s how my surgeon explained it to me anyway. The amount of time to not lift your arms depends on the type of surgery I think? For me (double incision) it was 6 weeks of T-rex arms.