Need postop belly button advice.

Ok, so I went in for my four month postop check. I love my breasts, no concerns whatsoever with them. My abdomen looks great except for the belly button. My tummy is flatter than it has even been, even back when I was 110lbs in high school (I'm 120ish now). Dr. said he will do a quick revision on my belly button in the office with some lidocaine. My bb is still a partial outtie with a weird snail look. I had a great bb before surgery, it was a small deep inny. So anyway, we are supposed to fix the bb in the office, and its supposed to be a quick thing, in and out. He said something about my bb being a "longer stalk" than others. Whatever. Anyway, my complaint is my flanks. I had lipo on my flanks along with my tummy tuck. I still have a muffin top! I pointed this out to the doc at my 4 month postop this week. At first he said, "I think that is just skin." When I showed him I could grab a handful of this "skin", then he said, "well, I think that is just your body...there is nothing we can really do about that." Ok, so what the heck does that mean? I'm a little irritated, because he said I wouldn't have a muffin top anymore, and I certainly do. Don't get me wrong, my abs are beautiful, but once you look behind, I still have this bulge despite having the lipo. I'm very active, run four miles four days a week, plus weights and crunches. Frustrated that after $15k, I am told my muffin top is just my "body type." Whatever that means. I also got a phone call today from his office telling me THEY need to reschedule my revision of my bb due to a "schedule change". The time they offered me did not work (I have four kids, schedules are tight), so now they are booking six weeks out for office revisions. So much for aftercare at this point. To be honest, I was quite impressed with my PS initially, now not so much. I feel like now that he has my money, I'm getting blown off.

I'm not real happy with my belly button. It has been slightly protruding since a week or so after surgery. Now, I had a deep inny belly button all my life, even after having babies. I realy liked my belly button preop. I even mentioned this to my PS preop, and I asked him then about needing a marble in my belly button or other things I've heard. He basically scoffed during that conversation saying his belly buttons are great and don't need them. Well, today I went in for my five week postop check, and I mentioned how it is looking more and more like an outie. It varies from flat to slightly out, but never a deep inny like it was preop. He said, "wear a marble in your belly button at night." Really?! Really?! We had this conversation preop, and he totally thought it was all needless worries then, now he was all laissez faire about it. I have been wearing a cotton ball taped to it since a week postop, but that only seems to hold it in while the cotton ball is in place. After I take it out, within ten minutes, it's sticking out again. I'm bummed. Has anyone else had this problem? Did the marble trick work? Any other thoughts? Don't get me wrong. I'm still VERY GLAD I had this surgery. I'll take an outty belly button any day over a fat roll, just hoping I can get this take care of.

Well, I weighed myself finally today, and I'm at 119 completely naked. I'm thinking that is a result from surgery rather than exercise, etc. I was just telling my hubby the other day that one would think I'd lose some wt from removing a roll of skin and sucking out FAT. He reminded me that it's about my shape and not the weight. I tried on some old clothes last night. I got into things I haven't worn in years--no belly roll!!!!!