Hi gals! 

I’m two days out of surgery having had a total duct excision from one of my breasts. 

I’ve seen a few threads on this but I have a question that doesn’t appear to have come up yet. 

So here goes. 

How should my nipple look? Strange question but like what should the colour be two days into recovery? I don’t have any sensation to it which I would expect at this point but I just want to make sure I’m on the right track in terms of blood flow to it. When I came out of surgery it was brown in colour. It has started to go pink in most of it but there is still a section that is brownish. Is this normal? 

Btw I’m 27 and never had children, had the surgery due to recurrent infections and development of a fistula so this surgery was my only option to completely fix the issue. Not ideal as I want to have children and I wanted to breast feed which obviously will be difficult with saving only one functional breast  

Any advice or stories of others recovery would be greatly appreciated as I don’t know anyone who has been through anything similar! 

TIA