The best thing to do to help you through your breast augmentation recovery is to follow your post-operation instructions. Things will be difficult as it is, but they will be nightmarish if you get an infection or experience some other complications, and generally the most serious complications occur during this delicate post-augmentation recovery period. Your plastic surgeon should tell you all you need to know to avoid complications, and he may even give you some tips to help you through your rough time, but nothing beats advice from those brave women who have gone through breast augmentation recovery. What follows is a list – compiled from suggestions from women who have been there – of things to buy before breast augmentation surgery to make your recovery easier.

1) Liquid meal replacements (you won’t want to cook or chew, at first)

2) Non-herbal laxative

3) Heating pad (for your back not your breast)

4) Yogurt (the antibiotics you get may kill the good bacteria in your mouth and stomach and you may end up with a yeast infection)

5) Crackers or wafers (for taking your meds)

6) Frozen food in bags (ice packs will not shape themselves around your breasts and you won’t have the ability to break up ice cubes that you buy in the store)

7) Ice chest (you will want ice packs for your breasts and you won’t want to have to keep getting up and getting them out of the freezer, also fill it with water, soda, cold foods, etc.)

8) Arnica Montana and Bromelian (helps with nausea and swelling; check with your surgeon to make sure it’s OK for you to take them)

9) Extra pillows including one body pillow and one U-shaped pillow

10) Chapstick

11) TV tray (you’ll want to keep everything as near to you as possible and on a level where you won’t have to bend or stretch to access it)

12) Disposable face cleaning pads

13) Antibacterial soap and wetknaps

14) Bell or Whistle (for alerting your significant other or caretaker as to when you need help)

15) Long straws

16) Microwaveable or ready to eat food

17) Long pajama shirts with buttons on the front and sweat pants or draw string pants that come off easily

18) Tylenol and Tylenol PM (for when you stop taking prescription pain meds)

19) Back scratcher

20) Pill holder to keep track of your meds (there will be a lot)

21) Digital thermometer (you must check yourself regularly for high fever, which is a sign of an infection)

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