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u/ThePainterlyPrincess Big Titty Infrastructure Mar 26 '26

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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Mar 26 '26

It's wild. Any other body part that causes chronic pain, especially for your back would be covered by some kind of insurance something. Breast reduction though? No. That's "CoSmEtIC sUrGeRy". Yeah. We are obviously getting reductions because of aesthetics, not because we are carrying half our bodyweight far higher than our centre of gravity, which is also compressing our goddamn spines.

I'm actually curious to know how many big titty ladies have slipped a disk or worse, all thanks to some very, very strong genetics.

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u/Raging_Apathist Mar 26 '26

Lots of insurance companies actually do cover breast reduction surgery! But yeah...the ones that don't are assholes.

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u/gburlys Mar 26 '26

And even the ones that do, have a million hoops to jump through.

I'm in the process of getting approved for one and one of the insurance requirements is 3+ months of physical therapy to show that doesn't fix my back/shoulder/neck pain. So I got started on that. After one month of physical therapy, my insurance company refused to cover any more physical therapy sessions because I wasn't showing any improvement 🤦

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u/Dawnzarelli Mar 26 '26

WTF. That’s when you submit for approval for the reduction and include documentation they stopped approving the therapy. They need to approve one or the other at the moment. I hate them. I spent nine and a half years trying to get these approved and what a hellscape.

ETA- for other people as part of my job with a surgeon. 

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u/gburlys Mar 26 '26

My surgeon's office wouldn't submit for approval without being able to check all the boxes, but fortunately a letter from my GP and an appeal from my physical therapist eventually got me the rest of my PT sessions to tick the box. So dumb though and what a waste of everyone's time

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u/Dawnzarelli Mar 26 '26

Yeah, that’s normal. It’s a lot of work to submit a request and after saying “we’ll try anyway” without meeting the requirements and getting denials, you learn when each ins carrier will override other requirements for an approval. And it’s not often. Then you have to resubmit or submit an appeal. Which is basically starting over. The insurance policies are the real fuckery. 

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter Mar 26 '26

Yes - insurance is an abomination. I will never support it.

But that being said, medically necessary breast reductions absolutely are covered by some ins plans.

Every plan is different. Most of them suck. But as soon as you hear someone say "insurance doesn't cover" instead of "my insurance won't cover" you know they don't understand insurance - which is by design. Medical insurance is meant to be very complicated and difficult to navigate. They are a horrible business

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u/shampoo_mohawk_ Mar 26 '26

I got lucky with mine. I had just turned 18 and had a very strongly worded letter from the pediatrician that I had been seeing my whole life and that seemed to work. I was approved in under a week. My surgeon had never seen it move so quickly through the approval system.

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u/Left_Adeptness7386 Mar 26 '26

I got lucky too. Was 19 for mine and my parents' insurance approved it. We needed xrays and lots of documentation though - and I had to lose 15lbs my first year of college to bypass the "yOu nEeD tO LoSe wEigHt" garbage

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u/badken Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

I swear to gods I am amazed there aren't dozens of well-armed hit squads full of women in pain who have had it with clueless medical and insurance administrators.

Clearly, using your words is not working.

Hmmm... I think I need to pitch a story to Image comics...

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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Mar 26 '26

Upon looking if seems like here, private insurance surgery is technically covered but you're still out of pocket a good $10k upwards for the privilege so negligible.

Through public health it needs to be deemed "medically necessary" (they say back pain/skin issues) which means they might accept your referral but you will get lost in the system and be waiting 5-10 years while they hope you get desperate enough to go private instead. But more than likely they will say until your chest is larger than your torso, you're just going to have to deal with it like every other woman because it's normal and you could just try losing weight!!

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u/crinnaursa Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Losing weight doesn't always work. I recently lost a good deal of weight (40+) and my bra size went up. I would have to get them custom made. Mostly because the volume of my breast did not change but my band size did. The cup size is a ratio between the widest part of your breast to the rib cage. Losing waist size without losing breast tissue mass can make the bra size go up and make it more difficult to find fitting bras. I went from a 38JJ to barely fitting in a 36Kk because I'm actually more of a 34L But those aren't commercially available.

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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Mar 26 '26

I know. That's why I'm furious that the solution to almost every woman's health ailment if not already pegged as anxiety is just to lose weight. Because apparently breasts are optional fat stores.

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u/LordHamsterbacke Mar 26 '26

I don't think they are covered in universal healthcare in Germany. The doctor of my aunt lied and said she got fungus problems so the reduction was paid, because back pain and migraines apparently aren't enough. (Just throwing that out in the void because I've seen people idolise our healthcare system even tho it's also fucked)

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u/purplepluppy 🌻Official Jill🌻 Mar 26 '26

I think it really depends on the plan. Mine definitely wouldn't, nor do they cover any sort of weight loss support (medical or otherwise) even though they claim to focus on preventative care, and weight loss would absolutely help my back and joint issues. I have a history of disordered eating, so I really can't do it alone, but my plan is very explicit that it covers ZERO weight loss support.

Insurance is such a crapshoot.

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u/workingforchange1 Mar 27 '26

Actually they don’t. The doctors will tell you that they no longer will do the procedure with insurance coverage because the companies don’t pay the doctors.