 you know it was it was affecting my life on a daily basis in a negative way and if something's doing that uh you know it's best to to get it sorted if you can get it sorted and thankfully we can as men with cases of gynecomastia we can get the surgery to remove it and remove it they did so guys quick video i've just got back from a run it's been about half an hour and i'm still sweating but we're not here to talk about that what we are here to talk about is gynecomastia bitch tits whatever it is you refer it to or whatever it is other people refer to your case as um i i heard it all in my case i did i heard it all and that goes back to you know the fact that i did indeed suffer from gyno there have been a few people over the years that have seen my case seen the way that i talked about it prior to getting surgery and after and said you know what what on earth were you worrying about jack you didn't even have gyno people have said that whole heartedly and whole heartedly believed that and i think the reason why they say that is because they never they never saw it in its worst form because i never really wanted to present it in its worst form um you know possibly straight out of the shower nice and hot you know in some cases being more overweight can make a case look worse in my case when i got leaner it made it look worse and so i got myself into a fairly lean state prior to going into get surgery and you know even even me even i was at times doubting myself whether i should get the surgery done whether it was bad enough to to warrant the surgery and at the end of the day i just had to keep reminding myself that you know it was it was affecting my life on a daily basis in a negative way and if something's doing that uh you know it's best to to get it sorted if you can get it sorted and thankfully we can as men with cases of gynecomastia we can get the surgery to remove it and remove it they did so for anyone out there who's wondering what gyno actually looks like what it is it's a mammary gland it is what makes up the female's breast except well in some cases yeah there are guys who've been really really unlucky and have huge cases of it and they do look like women's breasts in my case it was about the size of a golf ball about the size of a golf ball and that was enough that was enough to affect my life in such a negative way from the age of 12 all the way up until the age of 27 when i finally got the surgery today's video is to show you exactly what it looked like so i woke up well woke up from my days about an hour and a half the surgery took it seemed like about 10 minutes for me because they did give me a xanax pill which i am appreciative of have i had one since no but they do work and so i woke up i sat up and they they they you know taped down my chest and they also put the glands that were cut out from my body from my chest in a beaker of fluid in a beaker they put my breasts in a beaker so i was actually showing that container prior to leaving the surgeon's office i was showing the beaker and i was so you know i guess jeez what do you want to call it grateful to have them out of my body shocked at what they actually looked like um that i pulled my phone out in you know the the the zany dup state i was in and um and i took a photo i took three photos in fact i i picked up the beaker took one turned it around a bit took another and turned it around the other way and took another so what i've actually done is is have a look through a uh old hard drive of mine and i've actually found these photos that i thought were gone forever so i've got the three photos i'm going to show you them right now and this is exactly what my case of gyno looks like and i assume what everyone else's case is going to look like just in a different size so first and foremost let's bring up let's bring up this one so there we have it you know it's it's actually they actually come to think of it i haven't looked at this photo for a while the beak is not that big but the size of gyno is about a golf ball if you if you look at my thumb my thumb is probably about half the size of the gland at least this part of my thumb so if you thought double that what's that that's about a golf ball about a golf ball so that's picture one now let's rotate the container a wee bit whoa Jeepers creepers look at that thing that was in my chest my friends two of them and uh yeah what else can i say did i have gyno i indeed did now let's rotate it again and there you have it so clearly this is where you know they've either cut or burnt out uh the the gland and the gland is is surrounded by fat now i'm not going to say that my surgeon was the best but it was effective he'd done over 1500 gynecomastia surgeries i had some pretty serious complications following my surgery which i've made a vlog series about i never would have thought it would go i never would have thought the the recovery would last that long i never would have thought it would have gone that bad but i also never would have thought that those videos would have gone so well and they've they've brought you know a fair few new viewers to the channel so at the end of the day it is what it is and it was worth it in more ways than one but i mean if we yeah basically i mean that's it and the photos were taken as i can see by the title of the picture here 29th of november 2017 and today's day is the 25th of november 2021 so in four days time it will mark four years since my surgery and i feel like that might call for a video an update video four years after the surgery in fact yeah i might just do that so anyways guys um it is extremely hot i'm still sweating went for a 10k rum this morning felt fantastic um and i'll tell you what feels bloody fantastic to be able to take my top off and and and not worry about this anymore but also wear clothes other than the color black and and also not not worry about it anymore and i'll finish with this you know there's a question that i get asked many many times do you regret it and with the recovery going the way it did in the worst times i had to sort of i had to ask myself that i'm like did you do the right thing jake it was it worth it was it as bad enough of a case to warrant the surgery and at the end of the day living my life now free from that free from that anxiety free from that restriction you know the recovery could have been 10 times worse at the end of the day it was worth it because of those reasons there's no i don't think about it i do not think about it anymore you know do i still have a bit of body dysmorphia yes because i've been into bodybuilding and i struggled with this for so long um you know that my chest my nipples were the focus of my attention for so many years but even with a fair amount of body dysmorphia i still don't worry about it anywhere near like i did when i was suffering from this and this is a small case i must admit like i said at the start this is a pretty mild case but you know was it worth it absolutely and that's what i looked like okay so thanks for listening guys yeah and peace out