I'm scheduled for my tummy tuck and implant replacement, with a lift, on Thursday, 2 days from now, and I'm only starting to get nervous. I'm more nervous of the actual surgery and being put under, than anything else. I had scheduled a body lift with a BA with a different surgeon but after researching, through this site, more thoroughly, and communicating with previous patients, I discovered that the surgical team I chose are yes, triple board certified, but NOT in plastic surgery. I literally almost had a board certified dentist perform my plastic surgery... anyway, after losing my deposit, I feel 100 times better in choosing the board certified plastic surgeon who will be slicing and dicing me in 2 days. Don't get me wrong, I have seen that many board certified COSMETIC surgeons who have performed many PLASTIC surgeries with a stellar outcome but I do not want to take the chance, with my body, after paying a substantial amount of money to becoming a botched patient, when more than a handful of previous patients have had issues, the same issues, with problems not being addressed and not even a call back (all communications ceased) I can't feel good about following through so... Onward and upward!
Updated on 9 Jul 2020:
Holy Mary, mother of God! The pain!! I can barely function at the moment.. these pain pills are not providing much comfort at all! Thank God I have a cath in or there'd be absolutely no way of getting to the toilet! Will post before and after when I can actually move...
Updated on 5 Sep 2020:
So, I'm 9 weeks post op and I am at my wits end... I had my tt and implants replaced (from saline to silicone) with a lift.. I had my 1st BA 20 years ago, had a lift and needed an implant for volume up top and Dr. Wilson (Scottsdale, AZ) recommended that the implants be done under the muscle to achieve the look that i wanted. This time around I also opted to have my implants go under along with a lift and the doc recommended again, the "key hole" procedure and a silicone implant, under the muscle. The day of my procedure, 5 minutes before goin under, my surgeon said that we probably don't need to go with the "key hole" procedure, that it wasn't absolutely necessary.. Fast forward to my 6 week check up, I expressed that I wasn't happy with my outcome, that it doesn't look as though I even had a lift but just the bottom of my breasts were removed.. then the surgeon's assistant told me that my implants were put in OVER the muscle! I kinda flipped out and asked why that was, being that we were all clear on going under the muscle. She said, " we put them in the way we find em".. said that my implants weren't under the muscle when they removed them and they didn't put them under because it's a 2 part procedure and they just put them in the way they found them. WTAF?! Am I crazy or does this not make sense? We went back and forth for a minute and I had to leave, i was so mad... I literally look worse than before surgery and these people are acting like nothings wrong, that I look great! I look like I still need a lift and being that the implants are over the muscle, my breast look like they're weighted down BY the implant... Am I crazy? At my appointment last week, he told me that now there's only going to be so much he can do, as far as a lift, and he's concerned that lifting them where I want them, my nipples may not be covered by my bra or bikini top... huh?! Told me that losing weight would help in the "sagging" look... Please tell me what I am missing here!
Updated on 20 Jul 2021:
This guy knows what to do but lacks the skills to do the job well. I went in to have my implants replaced, under the muscle and required a lift, which was all agreed upon in the consult. I came out with implants replaced, just thrown in, and zero lift. I looked worse after the surgery than before.. Also had a tummy tuck with lipo on my flanks and thighs.The skin removal on the tummy tuck, was not done evenly, so I'm lopsided and there was obviously no lipo done anywhere on my flanks or sides of my stomach so around the dogears that I'm left with, it's lumpy and uneven. As for the lipo, on my inner thighs, it wasn't performed properly and I'm left with saggy, uneven skin. I was assured that if I was unhappy or the outcome wasn't as we agreed, he would fix it and I'd just be charged for anesthesia. THAT, ladies and gentleman, couldn't be further from the truth!Every appointment after surgery I received the run around and every issue I brought up was dodged .. he wants to CHARGE me for the having HIS mistakes and fu@k ups redone, correctly, how they were to have be done THE 1ST TIME! When HE removed the skin from my stomach, he removed more skin from one side than the other and didn't lipo my sides OR the flank area.. he didn't do my breast lift OR place my implants UNDER the muscle and he apparently went through my stomach area to lipo my thighs, not using the correct angle by going through my inner thighs, to achieve the desired results.How do I know these things? Because I've seen 3 other surgeons for consults and have discussed thoroughly what went wrong and what would need to be done to correct the mistakes that I'm left with. I've had my breasts REdone, properly and have a surgery scheduled to fix my tummy and thighs in a couple of months. I had initial surgery, with Dr. Webster, last summer, before covid showed up so my husband couldn't attend my appointments with me, so I recorded all visits as to keep him in the loop as to what was going on, and it's a good thing I did. (My husband is an attorney and no, recording my conversations with my surgeon, is NOT illegal.)I was treated as though I was a crazy person, when pointing out my issues. I could actually hear the last assistant I met with, talking sh!t, from down the hall outside my door regarding my tummy tuck. The only individual who portrayed and level of "professionalism" was the receptionist!! And I'm being 100% honest.