Tummy Tuck: Stories

I am only 14 days post op. I had a full tummy tuck, breast lift, liposuction of upper tummy, flanks, hips, lower and side of breast and back (or sides of breast). Fat grafting to my lower tights. So far, I can see the difference on my waist line (smaller, more define). But not sure of all else, don't see result yet.

I am 5 weeks post op for a full tummy tuck, lipo, breast lift and hip fat transfer. I am still in the early stages of recuperating... I have a THOUSAND! questions, concerns and Dr. Cortes answers my questions and put my concerns at ease. Never seems upset or rushed! I still have a long way to go!

I am 5 weeks post op for a full tummy tuck, lipo, breast lift and hip fat transfer. I am still in the early stages of recuperating... I have a THOUSAND! questions, concerns and Dr. Cortes answers my questions and put my concerns at ease. Never seems upset or rushed! I still have a long way to go!

I am 6 weeks post op tomorrow Friday, Sept 1st. However, I am not a happy camper. I expected more and I don't think my expectations were too far out. I expected to have a flatter stomach. I expected my boobs to look similar to each other as they did before. I expected the breast to have similar scarring and heal in a similar way, this is not happening. My breasts are completely different from each other! My stomach is thick! and bulging. I am still dealing with the swell hell period of plastic surgery! I think I have a persistent seroma. I have to wear an extremely tight and therefore painful girdle 24 hours a day! So, at this point in my long and painful recovery I would say NO! I would not do it again and YES! I regret spending so much money on this. I look good in my clothes when I wear my girdle, but, guess what, if wearing a girdle was no problem, I would have looked just as great wearing before the surgery, and it would have been much cheaper! I am so extremely depress. My PS keeps telling me I have to be patient. I wish I could go to sleep and wake up in a year! I do a lot of research and lots of women with my problem require a revision! I don't have the money, nor do I want to go through this recovery HELL again! So... do I have to live with this, worst than before, body? That's sucks and that IS depressing! I wish I could stop worrying and thinking about the worst possible scenario, but, I can't. One good thing about the surgery... I have a waist and some nicer hips! and my belly button looks amazing!!! ;-) I hope when I update this again I feel COMPLETELY different than I do today. ;-(