I'm 26, and has gastric bypass surgery in Oct 2015. I am now looking into plastic surgery. My insurance will cover a panniculectomy, due to my rashes under my belly hangover skin. I want to have kids within a year or two at most. So I am leaning towards the panniculectomy just so I can be healthier for when I want to have children. It would seem a waste to have a tummy tuck before children.
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Yes, you sound like a good candidate and a pannic will usually help. It's just a matter of seeing if Medicaid will approve it - sometimes they will and other times they won't. If you can afford better insurance then you can make sure you get one that covers pannics. Otherwise...
It certainly is recommended that you be at your lowest maintainable weight when you do the tummy tuck. It would be possible to do the panniculectomy before then. As long as you are still able to lose a significant amount of additional weight, the tummy tuck should still be successful.
It is certainly possible to do both a panniculectomy and an arm lift, or brachioplasty, at the same surgery. Generally speaking, the pannic is (hopefully) covered by insurance, and the arm part, or other parts, tend to be cosmetic since they are not covered by insurance, and that becomes...
