Tummy Tuck: Stories

Oh ok. My appointments are next month. I will be 5 months then so I am hoping they can evaluate me to determine what can be done at my 6 month mark. I am going to see a surgeon that I consulted with but just didn't select because he wasn't familiar with doing the TT with the hysterectomy, but I think he is an excellent PS. I will meet him first and get his opinion and then I will meet with my doctor. I don't think my original PS will charge me for any additional services on this procedure but if we have to go to the hospital, I am thinking I will have to pay those fees. But if I choose the other PS, I will have to pay for his service and surgery center costs (he has his own facility). I will have to see what they say so I know my options.What I think I want is some lipo and my scar lowered on the sides and just taken more to the side then up on my stomach. I don't know if I would need MR this soon so I am hoping this would be an easier surgery. Why did you have to get the MR so soon after your first one? Did the first doctor not do it tight enough?

Hi there. I am so sorry to hear about your issues. I too feel I am in need of a revision. I hate my scar. Its way higher than I had wanted and I am sooo depressed about it as well. I am emotional and cannot stop thinking about it and researching about it and talking about it. I have an appt with my PS next month and I will be 6 mos in September and she said she would do whatever she could but she kept acting like she had no choice to do it the way she did and I just cannot accept that. So glad you were able to get it fixed and feel better about your results now. It really make a difference!

Thanks for the good advice & for sharing your experience! I'm so sorry you had to go through this. I will be extra careful with researching my PS after reading this!

@Beauty, there were no red flags. I asked page fulls of questions at my consultation and researched the PS. On paper he should have been a great PS. I am not the only person this has happen to with him. Since I posted my SX many others have come forward and spoke up. If I prevent one person from being mutilated and deceived by that monster my SX and the outcome is worth it. If I had to give one piece of advice, it would be dont just choose a PS based on him having the right answers or great pics in his office of previous SX. Ask questions, research with testimony outside of the their websites. If you cant find anything on the surgeon good or bad pick another PS. A good PS will always have great reviews online.

Im so sorry for what happened to you! This is probably every patients worst nightmare! You did everything right & still ended up unhappy with the results. In hindsight did you see any red flags during your consult of pre-op? Just wondering for those of us who haven't had our surgeries yet...maybe things we should look out for.

Hi Chazzypink, thanks for the update. I can't imagine waking up to something not agreed upon before hand. Im so please to read that you had your 1st TT corrected by an amazing surgeon who is also realistic with you and that you are comfortable with. He has done an amazing job bringing the scar down so low. Happy healing and pleased to for you!

i just feel like ps's are brutes and they totally lie to get you as a client and then you come home and you are liek a victim who is left alone to deal with all of your sad thoughts and feeling so thrown off by the way you look. This has made me really want to fight for women to accept themselves for who they are and to put these guys out if business. Work out, eat sensibly and if you do not have a perfect body so what?! You have perfect children that God gave you and this is what happens - it is not unnatural or ugly in any way - only what we make it. It's like be careful what you get for. I do not feel like my PS thoroughly informed me at all. But it's done and over for us all and we must move forward. See a counselor if needed so you don't compound the mistakes and I would stop - don't get anymore surgery and live with your self for a while.

I will add to u ladies about tramatized bad results. I had a ftt with ab tightening a year plus ago, results left me looking about 4mths pregnant which was very obvious about 4mths after surgery. OMG after doing about six mths of extensive search and research for BSPS and about ten consults which all concluded that my issue was lack muscles. After sleepless nights, keen consideration, tears, frustration, depression i gave in a few mths ago and did a revision after been advised that a revision would improve my situation the job was worst than the first i am so confused i don't even want to talk about it no more, but just to let some of u ladies know that some of us did really get a raw deal and left us an emotional wreck.

Have you been able to fix your scar? and do you have a pic of your revision? I too have the same problem, high tt scar, and very unhappy and depressed. Dr's dont realize how much damage they do to a persons emotional life when they dont put importance to a small detail that is big to us the patient. Sorry and hope you get your problemed improved.

Look at it this way, since you have skin left over its a possibility it can be fixed, my situation my PS did a great job on making my skin as tight as he could but my scar is high on one side and he might not be able to fix it. Good luck.

Yeah you can't sue and even if you tried, most Plastic Surgeons make you sign a waver in your right to sue to protect there ass. I am going through something similar my scar is very high as well and my scar is all jacked. I am talking to my PS about revision and he gave me the whole bs story, I cannot fix it and its my fault. I came out looking the way I do. I feel the same in I hate hearing about TT's and some peeps don't realize that bad things can happen and do. I wish I found this site before, I would have reconsidered. Sure you get a flatter stomach but a messed up scar is far worse than excess skin and fat in my book. I was told I was going to look great and be able to wear a bikini, I am not able to and the line comes out of all of my pants. I am completely humiliated that I put that much trust into someone. He has offered to give me laser treatments in a sense to shut me up. I have to wait like 3 years to have mine fixed. I was going to say to you personally you can find a medical malpractice attorney in your area actually and see if someone will take your case for free and sue for medical malpractice. Pull the card that you are disfigured and have been through emotional turmoil because you were told something and now... Hopefully you have alot of before and after pics that can help the case alot. I wouldnt just sue for money back but, more...compensation.

there should be a crime against doing that, there is no reason he or she had to do that. just ridiculous. you have a nice figure and I would go to someone else and have it lowered and yes i believe it is possible :) I might have to get mine revised too. good luck :)

Hi, I know what you're feeling and I'm sorry. I kindda went through the same thing. I did a mini tuck after being told that the scar was about 6 inches long which is about 2 inches longer than my c-section scar, but would be much lower so I could hide it more easily. Of course afterwards, the scar was nearly hip to hip and I had no idea about drains and that I couldn't shower while I had the drains in (8 whole days). Needless to say I was shocked at both the scar/pain and then the post care that I hadn't expected. I refused a full tummy tuck all along because I didn't want that kind of scarring and now I managed to get into one without knowing so. My PS justified it by saying I had a lot of skin to work with.. all bull and if that were true, he should have told me during the consultation and pre-op, not let me wake up to it. And worse than the betrayal I felt, the mini tuck turned out HORRIBLE!. 4 months post op, my upper belly flops over the lumpy but flat bottom belly. The PS suggested that I do a full tuck and he'll discount it for me since I was unhappy but the scar's length would increase.. no way! Plus I don't trust him anymore. I found another surgeon and I just did a modified tuck. It's been 2 weeks post op and I have high hopes because so far so good. Go get some more opinions from other surgeons and if they start looking or smelling funny, go somewhere else. My 2nd experience was entirely different and much more positive than the first. And finally, I can tell you that you can get the scar lowered through another tuck or modified tuck and don't let any surgeon tell you that it's not do-able because I know for a fact that is it.