 all right everybody welcome back to another gynecomastia recovery vlog this is the 12 month recovery update and I'm sorry it's taken this long but I always wanted to bring you guys a final final update self telling you you know everything had healed properly it was all over I was done and I was moving on but fuck man I had the surgery back in November last year November 29th today's date is November the 16th okay so it's almost been 12 months in 13 days it would have been 12 months since I had my surgery and I mean here it is this is the results but as you can see there's still some discoloration there around the nipple and if I pinch it I can still feel a little bit of scar tissue it's not completely soft but what I will say on my left side is that this is completely soft it's completely soft it's completely healed although there is still some discoloration around there don't ask me what's going on don't ask me why it's still there but all I do know and what I can tell you is that day by day month by month it is slowly but surely gotten better this scar tissue that I can grab was much bigger and slowly but surely I have been massaging it you're probably like a few times a month I'll grab it I'll I'll press it and sort of try and break it up a little bit with my fingers you know here we are it's nearly 12 months I have been to the gym today one thing one thing I'm disappointed at is the fact that I stopped going to the gym probably about six months ago two months ago I started up again I've just taken another two weeks off today was my first workout back and so I thought you know today's the day I'm gonna update you guys because it's gonna be a 12-month update but you know truth be told I'm not completely healed so but what I can say is that I mean when I had gyno okay I knew I knew I had this shape in my chest I knew I did and I knew the nipple would be you know slightly facing down and if I do decide to continue building out my chest to make it bigger that's only gonna you know improve the look of it so I you're looking at my chest after a very very sporadic six months of training and pretty much not training for six months so I've still managed to maintain a little bit of size the shape is still there and we can only go forward from here so today I'm here to just give you an update of what's been happening since the last one I made I think I made the last one after about five months of recovery like I said thankfully this side is completely soft and healed but man I'll tell you what guys if you have the similar problems to what I had originally which was hematomas I would say get them sorted out as soon as possible this this fucking discoloration of the skin should have been gone months ago it really should have but it seems as though it has it has a it's sort of associated with what I could feel underneath whether whether what was underneath was scar tissue or whether it was actually blood still from the hematomas as they subsided the discoloration subsided and this is where we're at now so like I said you know this one is slightly more discolored because of the fact that there is still a mass behind there that I can grab although it has got a lot smaller and it's softened out a lot this side you know it's I mean look there is it's nothing it's flat I mean I can't complain with the result all I complained about is is is the advice that I received from my surgeon within those first you know 14 to 21 days because what he should have told me was to get it cut open get the blood out shut it back up again and and the recovery would have been so much faster would have saved me so much hassle and fuck man it was right go and look at the videos man it was a fucking terrible recovery terrible so all I can hope is that you guys took the advice from me that I said in my videos and your recovery has been you know a lot better than mine because reality is that even to this day I still get messages on a daily basis I get comments on a daily basis you know there's millions of guys out there suffering from this and that's why I started this series was to help people it was to help people it was to vlog my journey it was to bring viewers to my channel I never would have guessed that my recovery would have gone as bad as it did but it did and look I'll tell you another thing don't try and get the stitches out yourself like my stitches were in for 21 days guys because of the fact that the cuts weren't healed and I wasn't prepared to fucking take those stitches out before they were healed but what that meant is that because the cuts sort of opened up and the and it had to reheal and stuff the stitches freaking healed within the scab so when I tried to take the stitches out it it was a terrible experience and not only that but I'd actually left two stitches inside so they are a what do you call it they're in an abnormal abnormality that the body rejects them it's a piece of string sitting underneath the skin it's not gonna like it and so it took me another two or three weeks to even realize that there was something in there thank God I did thank God I squeezed the shit out of it and I saw something come out I was like what the fuck that's a stitch and I took it out and a hole was created so I went around for like two months with a freaking bandage over this hole because every time I'd fucking exercise every time it got hot blood would start seeping out of it it was terrible it was absolutely terrible and I was here in Alice Springs I felt by myself I felt lonely and you know I wouldn't wish that on anyone so here we are 12 months later I mean I can't complain with the result I can't because I have a flat chest I have a flat chest now when I wear a t-shirt it hangs off of the the smooth sort of shape of my chest rather than sitting on these these nipples that stick out so overall I'm happy I feel like it's my duty to bring you this video but it hasn't been it it hasn't been something I've wanted to do because I've been so disappointed in and in this extended recovery period it's been so long so fucking long and we're still not there so guys all I can say is go back and watch my videos if you are about to have your surgery you know listen to your doctor keep those drains in for as long as as long as possible wait like you'll have these little in fact some doctors don't put drains in so you know I'm not saying that you have to have them depending on your surgery type depending on the way that your surgeon does it I guess you know some some surgeons don't believe that it's necessary although with what happened to me I mean I'd have to say it is because you are gonna be bleeding under there they're cutting out a piece of your flesh underneath the skin they're literally cutting out something from your body some people's bodies I mentioned this in the last video some people's bodies are just not gonna agree with it they're not why would your body want something to be cut out of it and not fucking kick up a fuss about it you know I mean that's how I sort of see it and so I guess you know today is all about showing you guys exactly what it's like which is exactly what I'll do so from the side this is what it looks like there is no there's not well there is fat under there but that's just body fat that's not gyno so you know if I if I pull it up you can still see the line that's the line if I was to lose some body fat this would go away and it would really sort of the line would really come up underneath the peck there but at the moment I'm you know 15% body fat something like that so it's it's not but if I tense it I mean you can see it these lines that come up like that they were faded out due to the gyno before on this side you know it's pretty much the same before you know after five months when I was when I made my last video there was still a significant amount of of blood and and scar tissue underneath there that I could grab now it's it's it's gone away mostly but like I said I can I can still grab a little bit like that and eventually it'll just soften out so all I can grab is skin which is great but once again you know if I was to lose a bit of body fat that line would come up a lot crisper underneath the armpit there and yeah that's it so you know I just turned the camera on today I didn't know exactly what I was gonna say but you know I hope anyone out there that is thinking about doing it I hope you've got something for my videos I hope that this video gives you hope that whatever you go through however long your recovery period is it will work out in the end and it will be worth it because you know I it's it's yeah actually come to think of it guys I'm just having an epiphany right now I have not worried about my nipple showing in my tops since I got the surgery I don't worry about it anymore guys I don't I literally do not I've never the fuck I don't I don't twist my nipples before I do anything I don't try and put black clothing on anymore I don't fucking I don't think about it and that's man come to think about it that that's great you know that's that's why I got the surgery so I would not have to worry about it anymore I went through 15 years of thinking about it every single day and I don't think about it anymore so I guess regardless of how the recovery's gone it was definitely worth it guys and I guess I just had to remind myself of that just then so yeah here we are this is what I'm looking like right now like I said I had six months off training very sporadic very you know my priorities changed I had a child she was born in February and yeah but I'm happy to say I am back in the gym so I can only get bigger and better from here and that's exactly what I'm gonna try and do so guys this may be the final video of the series this is gonna be called my gynecomastia surgery 12 months after or no this is gonna be called what was it called what what was the original videos called I think it was gynecomastia recovery my my gyno surgery recovery I can't even remember what it's called I'm gonna have to go look at the playlist but guys I'm just here to to let you guys know how it is and you like that I do because I couldn't do that before there was no line here this was way out like this and this was way out like this and I would never have been able to do that so peace out everybody have a great day it's not about vanity this is about this is about getting through an issue that I'd had since 12 years old I'd went through so much fucking shit but I tell you what once you leave high school it stopped no one gives a fuck at high school it's a bit different and what I will say is that no doctor is gonna look at you if you're at high school because the reality is is that it can go away by itself and I would recommend you to give it that chance and I would also recommend you to get in good shape try and build your chest through some press-ups or get in the gym start doing some bench press and cable flies try and build that chest really see what you're working with get lean enough so that you can have somewhat of a line underneath here and then then you'll see what you're working with and then you'll finally really see if you've got gynecomastia or not I had people try and tell me that I didn't have it to those people I say fuck you because you got no idea what you're talking about and I've actually made a video previously saying did I really have gyno and I showed you guys some of the last pictures I ever took of me with gyno and they're actually the pictures that I sent through my surgeon before I got the surgery done because I only went there I met the surgeon on the day I didn't actually go for a consultation it's it's due to the fact that I live very remote I live in a place called Alice Springs and you know there's no surgeons here in town so it took me a trip a week-long trip and I still came back too early and you know you live and learn guys but we're here we're here now and I can only go forward from here so hopefully this is gonna be the second-class video the next one will be whenever all this discoloration is completely gone but I tell you why it looks a hell of a lot better than it did and like I said before man I just had an epiphany that I haven't worried about it in months and that's great it's a fantastic feeling so it was all worth it I wish you guys luck I hope you've enjoyed the video if you have hit the like button if you want to subscribe even better I'll see you in the next one