Possibly dumb question about veins/vessels after skin sparing MX

MizMimi

When I look in the mirror I see a whole freeway of veins/vessels in my breasts, just under the skin. I'm very fair skinned and as I was looking at my soon to be changed forever breasts, I wondered if all those veins will be gone after they remove all my interior breast tissue?

Will I have skin that has no visible veins?

Sorry for the dumb question...

DiabeticCancerChick

Yes, my skin was essentially scraped clean and transplanted over entirely new tissue (pectoral muscle instead of breast tissue). It is, as my plastic surgeon declared, major trauma for the skin. About 4 or 5 weeks after surgery, however, I noticed that veins from the surrounding areas of my body had grown back under my breast skin, and really, aside from the surgical scars, the skin looks like its old self. Still mostly numb, though.

downdog

MizMimi, you will see most of those veins when you get the first opportunity to look once you wake up from surgery. Skin flaps require vascularization or else you get ischemia and necrosis. Your BS will separate your breast tissue from your subcutaneous fat just under the skin. The thickness of your skin flaps will depend on your BMI. Thin women generally have flaps 2-3mm thick and someone obese could have flaps 10mm. Most of your blood vessels flow into the muscles, so they will remain in your skin flaps. Those that are cut are cauterized. I am very pale and my skin flaps were less than 2mm. I had direct to implant recon and woke up with a front zip post-surgical bra, so saw my veins when I checked post-op.