Tummy Tuck, Lipo Flanks/mons Pubis/inner & Outer Thighs -Newport Beach, CA

Thank you!!! I just saw your photos and you look AMAZING!!!!

Thank you so much!!! I viewed your review and WOW you are looking awesome!

Thank you! Thank you! If I have courage enough at some point I'll upload photos

Thanks for the carbon tip! The $55 a day does not include supplies so I really have to think about it before I decide. By the way, I saw your photos and your results are awesome!!!

Thanks Dot. I work in health care but not a nurse. The supplies are expensive. There's a product called carboflex that we use for wounds with odours. Just be careful to follow instructions to a T and keep up with ur vitamins and eating nutritiously. Keep hydrated and rest so ur body can work on repairing itself. I really hope your healing will go quickly. I seen one post on here where her incision got infected and had to open the whole thing up- end to end. I think she had 2 vacs. It was nasty. You are in much better position than she. Take it easy girl.

Yeah that does sound like a better option than not having insurance at all. I called around to get a better idea about the ALL expenses for he wound vac and was told $125 a day to include supplies plus another $150-200 per wound clinic visit at 3 times per week is so much more than I imagined.

I only go to wound clinic once a month, and the nurses there can train you to out the VAC on your self with help from your hubby or whoever is able to. I have nurses come to my house to change them for me, but my husband know s how too. Yeah that sounds about right as far as price, I get the invoices from CKI and it is pricey. Luckily I have great insurance. But meanwhile keep an eye on the smell of your wound, and the skin around it. If it turns pink or red around the area and the wound smells foul see hospital. I had great care and wound cleaning from my surgeon, but the minute I tried to go a whole week without seeing him my wound became infected and it moved super fast. In am it smelled little different, by that night it was horrible stench and I went to ER. They told me I was lucky to have come in so quickly because the infection did not hit my blood stream yet. But because of the infection I was left with a way bigger wound/hole! So keep it clean and make sure you take it easy to keep your swelling under control, and don't wear too much compression since you want lots of blood flow to make its way to your wound so it can heal faster.

Is there still an odor even with the wound vac?

And thank you for all this very good info you are giving me! Most of all thank you for taking the time

No there is no odor with the wound vac. The plastic seal smells a little like plastic but thats all. If you leave it turned off for a while sometimes it will smell because the fluid will leak and have no where to go. So I suggest just taking the whole thing off if your planning to turn it off for a while. I do that when I have somthing going on like family function. And no worries im here to help you. :)