wantstoknow1

Thank You :) I am so happy that I am free of all the crazy habits I developed in trying to avoid people noticing my fat loose arms. Some are still there that I am trying to get rid of, like cringing when someone is talking to me and then makes a friendly gesture and touch my arm. I had always caught myself jerking back a bit. I wonder if I had a look of fear on my face. Another, blow drying my hair in a night gown, and when my husband would walk in stopping and putting on a robe, and then continue, later saying "is it hot in here, or is it just me?" Ha Ha as if he never saw that before.... About a month ago I dug up an old fat picture. I used the scanner for the first time and posted it on here. You can see how fat my arms were.

I am 5'1" and have 500cc. People use to notice my slim waist before surgery. I have lost that look with my implants. I now feel like my chest meets my hips which makes me look fat. Short ladies please consider this when choosing your implants. You will look good naked, but feel fat in clothes.

I like PleaseNoRegrets input, but I do feel the numbers are wrong. Even my surgeon will admit that approx. 20% of plastic surgery on the breasts require some sort of revision, however I agree with you as to where to place blame. There are so many factors involved, and our bodies are not all the same. A while ago I had been conversing with people from this site who had lived in other countries. What most of them had found astonishing was that in the US with the extent of some plastic surgery procedures that a majority of the time they are done in an out patient basis. Really if you think about it, with other surgeries that are for medical reasons that are as invasive, they would require a hospital stay. More than likely I would have never been able to afford it if that had been the case. However I still believe that a majority of our complications have to do with after care. We all know that health care in the US is mostly money related, insurance, medical necessities, hospitals, medications, etc. This being said, I too signed on the dotted line.

We are patients and consumers at the same time. I wonder how things work out for people who attempt to sue. After reading all these stories on here and having a few issues of my own, it does not seem that easy. It is starting to appear that plastic surgery is a profession were you can make mistakes, have displeased customers, and it's up to the costumer to come up with more money, and suffer more pain if they want it corrected. We all have read some horrifying stories, some may have brought us to tears. We also see photos and complaints from people were we see nothing wrong, think that look great and think "if that was the least of my worries". I wonder what it takes, severe disfigurement, death, I am curious?

I hope not, lets just hope everything is OK.