Happy Lady

Great Doc...wouldnt Go to Any Other...and I Consulted a Bunch!

Hi,
I'm doing great, things look great...my scar looks real good so far (I've been using ScarAway silicon sheets - wow, worth purchasing and using after the incission is fully healed). I will take some pictures and add more review, but it may take me a few weeks...we just moved and I cant find anything :(.

Thanks for asking, and I will post some pictures as soon as I unpack my brain...LOL.

I have to say I have NEVER paid for a consult...and thats because I refuse to...my line of thinking is if the Doctor is good, and knows he is good he wouldnt be worring about losing 20 minutes of his time without earning a cent. A good Doctor should be confident that after meeting him that a potential patient WILL come back to him.

All my consults have been with TOP surgeons, a few I initially contacted via phone or email wanted $100 and I said "See ya"...but the ones that had the best reviews, and I would have felt comfortable with did not charge a consult fee.

Now this could be different if you are in a smaller town where there is not much competition between surgeons...if this is the case they could all easily charge consult fees, and everyone would pay them because they had no other choice.

Also I can see a Doc charging a consult fee if you were just going to him for a second opinion...If you are just looking for their advice to go back to your previous surgeon I can see where charging a consult fee is fair.

I guess to answer your question :)...I'd say alot of Docs will charge a consult fee...but you can find the Docs that do not...it just takes time in research and calling the Dr. offices directly...But more often than not you will find most charging at least $100 per consult. Oh and some will credit this back to you if you do have work done with them, but you need to clarify that with them before you get the consult.

Mine wasn't really a mini...it was a unique procedure where we "float" the belly button down (mine was high enough and I did not have any stretch marks)about 2 inches...In order to have this procedure you should have a high belly button, and preferable not too much loose skin above the belly button, as well as no stretch marks that need to be pulled and cut away.

The Doc goes under and tightens the muscle all the way, like a "traditional tummy tuck...and then pulls the flap of skin down...so only about 2 inches of skin from the bottom was removed...the only cut was under the skin detaching the belly button from its "stem" and then the cut just above the pubic hair line. The belly button is then re-attached lower...but the muscle was tightened from the top down.

But this time we will do the traditional so I will now have the cut/scar around the belly button and probably a bigger scar at the pubic hair line...but it will give the Doc more room to get up in there. And knowing how nice his cut lines and stitching are I hope to have the nice straight scar as I do now.

Thank you, I'm trying...fighting this aging all the way...And its a good thing no one warned me about how much damamge a few babies could do.

I've had to have other things fixed to - rectal prolaypse...and the one surgery I think every women should know that they can get fixed easily is fixing Urinary incontinence, brought on by the laxticity from child birth....I'm so HAPPY with that surgery, I don't pee my pants when I sneeze now :)

From what I have researched I dont think stitching coming undone is a "usuall" occurance...but with my luck I dont take anything off the table. I also had silicone breast implants done in 2006, thru the armpits...One ruptured (I found that out from a mammogram, and then convinced the hubby to let me get the TT at the same time :).

Well the rupture rate for a silicone implant is like 2-3%, that is why they have a lifetime warranty. Well see with my luck I was one of those small percentages...soooo needless to say now I believe I fit into the small percentage that also has a TT stitch break (I think this is what has occured, and we'll find out soon enough.