Almost 6 weeks Post Op and Miserable - Chicago, IL

I am 16 days post op from a mommy makeover and the recovery is way different than I expected! I am having severe regrets about getting this done. I am having a lot of weird sensations from the breast augmentation and the tummy and it's making me anxious. I have had burning sensations over my whole body, shakiness like muscle tremors, and high heart rate and high blood pressure. I was told that I am having some anxiety attacks, yet I have never experienced anxiety before. I went to the ER twice so far, once for shortness of breath and coughing up blood ( everything checked out fine), the second time I took Dulcolax for constipation and it caused sweating, dizziness, muscle weakness ( very scary). Now I'm faced with some whopping medical bills because my insurance won't cover the ER trips since it was related to cosmetic surgery are you kidding me! When will this nightmare end, I just want to feel normal again. I'm trying to take it 1 day at a time but, this is nuts. I was perfectly healthy feeling before all this. I seriously think the fake implants and all the weird sensations with those don't help either, I want them out! Anyone else experiencing these problems?

Ok so today marks the 22 day point since having my mommy makeover. I am doing better, I still have these weird sensations in my body, really not sure why, hopefully nerve related that will resolve with time. I think my body had some crazy stress reaction to the medications and the surgery. My blood pressure has come down, heart rate is still a little elevated (hmmm)? I am taking one day at a time. I definitely had different expectations at this point.

Ok ladies so I am officially 4 weeks post op from mommy makeover wanted to give you all an update. Although I feel a little better I am still not 100%. I still can't stand up completely straight, I'm not driving (car rides are still weird feeling) and I'm not doing much of anything except walking around my house. I have been out on 2 walks outside ( albeit short ones). The other day I tried to go out to breakfast with my family, we ended up standing up for 35 minutes waiting for a table. By the time I sat down ( at crackle barrel in their hard wood chairs) I was completely miserable. My stomach swelled up like a water balloon and stayed that way for most of the day. I am getting so sick of being in the house! My biggest problem right now is insomnia. Every time I doze off I get these weird muscle jerks that wake me up and then I can't go back to sleep. I've tried everything from lavender spray, hot showers, reading before bed, deep breathing, and sleep music, nothing helps. I hate taking medications cause my body is so sensitive to them, but man I need sleep. I know I'm still in the healing process, so hopefully real soon this will be a thing of past. I go tomorrow for my 1 month post op, I hope my PS says everything looks good at his end. I still have my steri strips on and there's a suture that needs to be removed ( which I think at 4 weeks is a bit long to have those), so still haven't seen my incision, I admit I'm A little nervous to see it and take the tape off. The steri strips have been like a crutch. I do have some weird lumps on the right abdomen which seem like they've been there since surgery and my abdomen is tender to the touch, so hope it's something that will resolve, definitely going to ask him tomorrow about this. Also, I have a love hate relationship with my compression garment, I hope he says I don't need it anymore, but at the same time it does offer support to the abdomen. Don't know if others have experienced this but my skin is very dry and peeling like a snake ( maybe it's this darn garment). My right breast is still higher and harder than the left ( better improve or I'll be mad, I am not keen on going back under the knife anytime soon in fact never please) and my back on the right side is tight and spasming, hope that goes away soon ( think it might be due to the implant pulling on things). Also, I still feel hard lumps where the lipo incisions were and the lipo areas are still sore ahhhhh. Good news is I had a 24 hour blood pressure and the readings were great, pulse though was still elevated so maybe it's still responding to the healing process. I also had an echocardiogram to rule out a mitral valve prolapse as instructed by the anesthesiologist ( and so far the preliminary report was good, no prolapse. I have to go back later when I'm more healed for a full work up, since it was a limited study due to fresh healing. I'm not sure I have a lot of confidence in that anesthesiologist. I still experience these weird sensations intermittently of like a wave of fluid or muscle weakness that comes over me and I still get body burning. It's so weird cause I would expect the burning right at the sites of lipo, tummy tuck or implants but not in the arms or legs and occasionally face, wonder if it's nerve regeneration that is radiating weird sensations elsewhere. I think that's what's making this recovery so weird, is those sensations. I would feel so much better if I knew for sure that these sensations were potentially an expected outcome from these types of procedures or if it really was anxiety (although I don't want anxiety and I never had it prior to this surgery). At least a definite answer would be nice cause I worry that it's something neurological or something else, although as I stated before that prior to surgery I was healthy and didn't have these issues. Well I am hoping these days fly by and before I know it I'll be at 6 months than a year etc. and hopefully I'll be writing saying all has resolved just took time. I would appreciate any feedback from any of you who may have experienced any similar symptoms! It's reassuring to hear others stories. I'll update again later. Til then may god make this recovery path easier and easier!