The experience i had with Dr. McClure and the staff at Goldfingers was next to none!! This Dr is real! He is honest and his bedside manner is very professional, he is very straight forward with results and what he can and can’t do. i am soooo happy with my results. He did an amazing job and i recommend him totally!!! Thank you!
This is my one year anniversary. I waited to see how my body would heal. I'm very satisfied and pleased with my results, and I would like to mention that I DIDN'T WORKOUT AT ALL. One of my greatest life decisions I have ever made. After having children. Performed by a heaven sent doctor & his team. I'm a 28 year old mother of three. I had three deliveries via C-section. Never in a million years would I ever imagined that I would have to have plastic surgery, after my 3 children I definitely considered it. At only 28 years old I knew that I could not continue to live the rest of my life with that muffin top and all that extra skin. I did some serious research long and hard, over a year of researching different doctors. I knew I definitely wanted a doctor that has a proven track record. Who can identified my with my skin tone, pigmentation and the texture of my skin. I definitely did not want to have to travel out of my state to have surgery!!! Dr. Michael McClure took the time to explain step-by-step each procedure and what was going to happen during the surgery. I'm very satisfied and happy with my results once again THANK YOU Dr.Michael McClure...
From start to finish my experience was amazing. After a large weight loss, I had a tummy tuck as well as a breast lift with small amount of reduction. Dr. McClure spent a significant amount of time with me at my consultation and fully explained what I needed, and what I didn't. I also appreciated how he made suggestions to me, but ultimately listened to what I wanted, as long as it was safe and the results would still be good. For instance, he suggested only a breast lift, but I really wanted some breast tissue removed as well, as I wanted to end up smaller than probably most patients do. He explained why he couldn't remove too much, but he did listen to my wishes. His bedside manner is comforting. I was nervous the day of surgery, which I assume is normal, but he was very calm which helped me to stay calm. Coming out of anesthesia, I remember opening my eyes and looking up at him and him saying, "Well hello there" or something along those lines...I fell right back to sleep for a while longer. This might sound like a silly, minor thing, but that was comforting and gave me the impression he really cared. I never felt rushed at any of my pre-op or post-op appointments, or the day of surgery. For aftercare, he and the nurses were always available, and I did take advantage of the opportunity to call with questions, email photos, and to go in. The nurses are fabulous as well! Recovery was generally as expected, and I am SO happy with my results! I am not sure what other cosmetic procedures I may want in the future, but I do highly recommend Dr. McClure!
He is a very knowledgeable doctor who is able to discuss the pros and cons of surgery. I felt very comfortable with his sincerity in our discussion about what he has to offer and I am very impressed with his training and plan to move forward with future work.
I wanted to have perky boobs again and a nice size. I wanted a C cup. He recommended 330 cc and boy I am glad I listened. They look great!!! He did so go and bedside manner was excellent. I always felt comfortable and not rushed. I would recommend to anyone wanting a boob job!!! Well worth it I also had one boob that was borderline needing a lift as well. He advised me and told me what it could look like with or without a lift. He didn't push me for a lift just for more money... He actually said let's try with out as it should be fine. Well I'm glad I didn't do it They are perfectly aligned and no need for a lift. Which is more scaring Oh the scaring is great! Can't really see it and the scar is very minimal Great surgeon
I not only had a breast augmentation, we did the tummy tuck at the same time. I didn't take before and after pic. but the results are amazing, better that I had hoped. I am so glad I had this done. I lost 45 pounds and just wanted to have my clothes fit better, and not look at all the loose skin. Getting my arms done next. Will quite after that, but so looking forward to the change. Updated on 16 Aug 2016: Dr. Mc Clure is fantastic, his beside manner and explanation of the surgery is clear and precise and welcomes questions. I am 71 and had the tummy and breast done. I had lost and kept of 40 lbs and the tummy was awful, the breast just small. I didn't want to look 20, but what Doc. McClure has done is wonderful. I feel so good about myself now. The first few days if healing where not comfortable, but so worth the outcome. In a few weeks I am having an arm lift done. I do not have before and after pics. hopefully the clinic will post them. Not ashamed of my shape anymore .
I love Dr. Michael McClure. I had a horrible experience with liposuction 3 years ago, which left me with bumps and disfigurement on my abdominal. I did lots of research finding a new doctor and came across Dr. McClure. He was super nice and gave me lots of information about everything I needed to know such as what the results will look like, what the pros and cons would be etc.... I said yes to the revision and made the BEST decision in my life!!!! He took his time out and did everything like he said in the consultation. I have been so depressed and unhappy for years and now my results are amazing and I'm extremely happy. All the bumps and disfigurement are all done. I HIGHLY recommend Dr. McClure, you will not be disappointed. Not to mention the clinic staff AMAZING!!!
After Dropping 125lbs with an "MGB" Mini Gastric Bypass I have kept the weight off and was ready for my butterfly transformation. I needed a full lower body lift, medial thigh lift, breast lift,and brachioplasty. The only stickler I had was I wanted a surgeon who specialized in excess skin and not just cut and paste! Not to sound hasty but there is a difference between sculpting with too much then sculpting with just the right amount!
Never in my dreams would I have imagined having 5 children, nor a Tummy Tuck! So glad I did. After my set of twins (7 lbs each!) 2 years ago, things were never the same again. I was left with that dreaded mommy apron, haven't felt like myself since before this happened so after much research I did it! Updated on 9 Jun 2015: So it's been a little over 3 weeks now since TT. I must say I had no idea how much it would hurt in be beginning. The first 3 days were brutal. After 3 csections I thought I would breeze through this. But for the first week I really needed my husband for everything! Thankfully everyday I feel better and better. The saying what a difference a day makes holds so true in this recovery process. I am needed upright 98 percent. I'm holding back just a little for the sake of total healing. My back really hurt the first 2 weeks, but feels amazingly better this week. I am thrilled with the progression and am so happy I made this decision. It wasn't easy, as I felt guilty for willingly choosing to undergo an "elective" procedure. But already I can see the changes that this will make in my life. I work out regularly and can't wait to hit the gym again with a new sense of motivation! Updated on 22 Jun 2015: Well it's been 5 weeks. And I must say every day I feel better. I still have some slight aches. But overall I feel great. I am active, moving around and exercising lightly. This experience has really made me evaluate what I take into my body. Nutrition is so key! I have revamped what I eat chicken completely! It makes such a difference belly wise. I am eating more plant based foods and protein and less meat. I have completely stopped wearing compression garments as of 2 weeks ago (my PS said I could stop after 2 weeks). Although they feel great and give me support, I didn't want them to become a crutch. Updated on 27 Jun 2015: I went to my 6 weeks post op yesterday. All looking good. All restrictions lifted. I go again in another 6 weeks for the final post op appt. I feel good, love the results, and I'm so glad I did it. Sometimes it's still hard to believe I got a tummy tuck. In wearing my clothes now there is so much room where that excess skin use to be. I asked about scar treatment.. Dr isn't really a fan of what's out there but he said it won't hurt to try. So I'll see be hat happens with the Scaraway. Updated on 27 Jun 2015: Side comparison Updated on 29 Jun 2015: So it's offically been 6 weeks and 3 days since my tummy tuck with muscle repair. I am using scaraway and also bought some Mederma with spf for when I go to the beach this weekend for the first time since surgery. I don't know what I will wear yet, but most likely will cover my tummy. I still have a scar around my belly button I'm not too thrilled about. But hopefully over time it will fade. I do have to work on my posture as it makes a huge difference in appearance and my back aches. After being hunched over a while, it's so easy to do it since psychologically I'm trying I'm protecting my abs. Updated on 9 Jul 2015: So I guess trying to resume all normal activity at this point has caused me some pain. The pain is mostly in my upper ab area (muscle repair). It feels like I pulled a muscle although I know I didn't. The pain lessens as I lay down and relax. Just a reminder I guess, to take it easy and listen to your body. Updated on 12 Jul 2015: Overall I am super happy with the results. My motivation is back to eat better and exercise. I'm even wearing waste level shirts again after years of long shirts and blouses and always trying to cover my midsection. I'm afraid to test or push my body workout wise though. I know it's all psychological because I'm pretty healed. It's exciting to see how the body heals over time. I know as time goes on I will get stronger physically and continue on this road to feeling and looking great. Updated on 19 Jul 2015: I'm feeling great.. More active.. Going to the gym a few days a week. It's nice having the self confidence back and not worrying about hiding my sagging apron of a stomach. I find that stretching really does help with the tightness of the abdomen area. A couple weeks ago I was having some pain after resuming gym activities, when a Fellow RS member suggesting stretching.. That did the trick! Updated on 13 Aug 2015: Feeling great. Back to normal activities and exercise. There is still a little numbness, but no pain. I have a tiny dog ear that depending on how it looks at my 6 month post appt, I may not worry about. PS says he could fix pretty easy if it still bothers me. I am still amazed by how it feels not to have a sagging stomach. It has made a world of difference in my life and fitness activities. I'm just so glad I made the decision to have the surgery. Updated on 15 Aug 2015: So while I'm very pleased with my results... I'm not sure how the color of my belly button is going to turn out. It's rather dark and has probably ways been that way. It's just now that I can see it. Updated on 28 Aug 2015: Still hanging in there. Still have some minimal swelling. Updated on 3 Oct 2015: Still loving the results. Wish I would have had lipo of the flanks now, but I'm continuing to work out hard, mostly weight lifting with a little cardio. Updated on 16 Oct 2015: It's been 5 months now. I have been experiencing some slight twinges mid abdomen. I wonder if it's just the nerves "reconnecting." I have a thicker layer of fat than i want, so I am considering lipo sometime next year if I don't see any changes via my fitness and eating regimens. Updated on 16 May 2016: All is well. Still very happy about the results! Wish my belly button wasn't so dark or so scarred, but still extremely pleased.
Today is the day!!! I'm having a mini TT with lipo and a huge lipoma removed from the right side of my waist while they're at it! You can see the Lipoma in the front view picture. I am extremely excited!! Not nervous one bit! It's been my dream to have a nice flat tight stomach for years! My two kids are now 18 and 19 years old so I've wanted this procedure for ever! I am 14% body fat, I weigh 135 and I'm 5"3'. I am a personal fitness trainer and I am a Crossfitter, it's going to be the hardest thing in the world for me to not be able to go to Crossfit for supposedly 8 weeks but I know I'm going to love my results and be able to wear just about anything without having to worry about my fat spilling over my pants. Today is Thursday and I need to be back training my clients in 5 days! I've already told them I can not lift their weights for them for a couple of months, I'm so used to handing everyone their weights and demonstrating but I know I can't do that. Everyone is fine with that of course, im just worried that if I tell one of them to do something and they don't understand, how can I show them if I can't demonstrate? Oh well I'll figure it out, lol! I've included 3 pictures, the first two are me standing up obviously, and the third is me bending completely forward with my torso parallel to the ground which shows how lose my skin actually is. This is why when I go to the beach I can't take my clothes off unless I'm lying down, cause I actually think my "lay down body" is pretty decent lol Ok 5 hours till surgery! I'll update later! Woohoo! Updated on 15 Jan 2015: My boyfriend took these two pics after they drew all over my stomach I was so excited here! Now I'm home recovering, they put a drain in me which is fine and actually the most pain I'm feeling is from the lipoma they removed! I can't seem to walk straight it feels like it's pulling and also it feels wet on that undergarment they put on me and you can see slight pink blood coming through, so it's oozing but thank god I have a drain otherwise I'm sure I'd be soaked! Updated on 16 Jan 2015: Didn't sleep all night was up to pee 4 times which is rare for me, I think I'm just still so excited about the whole thing! I go today for a checkup and I have list of questions! I can not wait to see what it looks like! I'll take pics and post them later today! Updated on 16 Jan 2015: Ok so all day I've had this huge migraine, I went to my dr's appointment at 2:30 and sat on the reclined table and the nurse unzipped my tight compression garment and all of a sudden I got dizzy nauseous broke out into a cold sweat and by heart rate dropped to such an alarmingly low rate and I turned completely white. The nurse put smelling salt under my nose to snap me out of it but I do not believe that did anything. They brought me soda and crackers, 2 things I never eat but I did take a couple sips and ate a cracker and started to feel a little better but my migraine was relentless, dr McClure came in and checked me out said everything looked good and he really took his time telling me exactly what he did to me and I was so happy, I'm still swollen and the drain is still in but I only had to empty it once since this visit and it's still empty, here are the pics we took today while at my checkup. They changed my dressings. He said he went in through my belly button to lipo above it. And I love how thorough he lipo'ed my flanks! He said he cut off about 4 inches of skin below my belly button so it's nice and tight! I told him he was an awesome sculptor! I can't wait till the swelling goes down to see how it's really gonna look! Updated on 19 Jan 2015: This is the first day that I feel like I can get around much better. My TT incision doesn't even hurt at all except where the drain is sticking out if I move a certain way. The thing that's hurting me the most is still from my right side where they removed the lipoma. The compression garment is definitely not its friend! It feels like it's pulling it apart and I have to constantly be holding the compression garment away from it. I am off pain pills except the occasional Tylenol and today I took pics before my shower!! You can definitely see a difference but man am I still very swollen!! It's all so exciting though because I did the bend over test and guess what? No more wrinkly skin!! Updated on 20 Jan 2015: I was so nervous to get up and go to work. I am a personal fitness trainer in a gym, and my clients all know that I'm not allowed to lift their weights for them or set up their squat racks for them and they were fine with it! I only had 5 clients in a row today, I purposely set it up that way to see how it would feel to be on my feet for more than 5 or 10 minutes at a time and I was curious to see if my drain would fill up more, it didn't, at all actually! Half way through the first client I started to feel dizzy and nauseous but very very little. My client didn't even notice. I did sit down and continued to coach from my seated position which was fine even though I just hate doing that. I kept a game face on and kept on coaching! I made it through the next 4 clients with the same tired dizzy nauseous feeling but no one noticed! Mission accomplished LOL!! I was standing up for only a total of 3 1/2 hours, tomorrow I'm running 3 bootcamps and 3 clients in between so that will be a total of 7 hours on my feet, yikes!! I'm gonna bring my nausea meds with me for sure but I'll be fine! I've already picked out the people that will be demonstrating the stations in the Bootcamp tomorrow lol, no they don't know it yet but they're all such hams they'll love it! So now I'm back home and just so tired im gonna pass out for a bit ... One more thing, I sneezed yesterday and it was the most painful experience, it felt like a lightening bolt struck me and stayed there burning me for a good 5 minutes. It felt like something popped! No I haven't looked yet and no I did not have any muscle repair so it wasn't an inside stitch busting open... Or was it? Well anyway, the moral of that story was do not sneeze!! Updated on 24 Jan 2015: My surgery was jan 15th Thursday, I started working training clients in the gym 5 days later which sucked because I definitely wasn't ready to be on my feet for long period of time at 5 days post op, but I did it with a smile of course because I didn't want my clients to feel bad for me. I worked everyday last week except Monday with yesterday Friday the 23rd being the busiest! But I made it and I can tell that I was super swollen under my compression garment and in bad pain too. I went home took a pain pill and was too scared to check out how swollen I was until this morning, I need a freaking shower so bad so I stripped off my CG and took some pics! Definitely a word of advice! Do not do too much too soon! REST! It will be worth it! I'm going to be vegging this weekend and have my boyfriend wait on me hand and foot! His words not mine! Lol :-) Updated on 28 Jan 2015: its getting easier day by day I like how my belly is coming out but it's still swollen of course which is expected and that's fine. I know it's going to take a few months to really get down to how it's supposed to look so I'm good with that, after all, it's winter! When I first stand up I can feel the stretch in my stomach and it kind of scares me because I am imagining the incision opening up. I still have the Steri-Strips on my incisions and I noticed a little bit of it coming off today so I looked and I could not believe how awesome my skin has closed up already! This is so fun!! I can't wait to get back to Crossfit! This weekend there is a CrossFit competition in downtown Orlando on Wall Street called war on Wall Street and I'm going to be there cheering on all of my people from my gym! I was originally supposed to be in this competition with another member from the gym but I chose to have a tummy tuck instead LOL! Anyway I took some pictures for you all to see let me know what you think! Updated on 7 Feb 2015: I feel unbelievably awesome!! I went out dancing with friends last night, I just danced a little, I can't shake it too hard yet lol!! I'm wearing spanks now basically just to keep my clothes from rubbing on my incision which kind of hurts a little when that happens. I'm still a little swollen but not as bad as I thought I was going to be. A lot of people on here say that the third week is swell hell but I actually think that this week I have the least amount of swelling. Since the surgery I am only down 1 pound, I thought it was going to be more but that's okay. I took some pictures yesterday of me bending over and I am so extremely happy with what I see I just can't believe it!!! This summer at the beach is going to be so fun for the first time ever! Although I still have some folds of skin and a little bit of wrinkles when I bend over, (something that you should expect from having a mini tummy tuck) it is absolutely nothing like it was before and I just love how natural it looks I just love it love it love it love it!!! And just think, in a couple of more months when the swelling is completely down and the scar heels even more it's going to look better than this?!!! Wth!! Woohoo!!have an awesome day ladies, and here are my pics!! Updated on 15 Apr 2015: Hi sexy ladies!! Sorry I haven't posted in 2 months!! I've just been feeling so fat! I've been partying way too much and gained a couple pounds, I definitely feel like I can lose 10 lbs to feel super great!! I'll get there. Just protein and veggies only and I'll be back! It's just been so fun going out dancing and feeling so great that I just can't stop! Lol.... anyhoo, tomorrow I'll be running a 5k. I hate running but there's a huge party afterwards. Oops see? Partay time!! Lol At least I'm back to Crossfit and killing it, rope climbing, box jumps, clean and jerks etc. I love seeing everyone's progress on here. I'm so happy I had this mini tummy tuck, bending over without that wrinkly hanging skin is absolutely priceless! Here are some pics!!
Sorry to hear of your issues. It does appear like you have capsular contraction from your pictures and symptoms. Capsular contraction can occur weeks after surgery or years later. Please follow up with your plastic surgeon so he/she can guide you on your options. Best of luck. Dr Michael McClure M.D. Board certified plastic surgeon
This is common in a breast reduction. There are hundreds of stitches placed in a breast reduction. Sometimes before they dissolve, your body can push them to the surface of the skin. If this occurs, they can be pulled out. Best of luck. Dr Michael McClure M.D.
Some people can lose breast mass by losing weight. When you lose weight you also lose the fatty tissue in your breast. The amount varies per individual patient. Unfortunately, the ptosis (sag) most likely will not improve without a breast lift/reduction. Good luck
It can vary depending on where you live. Also, some very large reductions would take extra time and could cost a little more for anesthesia and O.R. facility fee. Figure somewhere between $6500-$7000 Good luck. Dr Michael McClure M.D.
Excellent question. Usually, the larger the breasts, the longer the operation. Two and a half to three hours is a realistic surgical time for an average breast reduction. Best of luck.
