Early 40's, 1 Child, Tummy Tuck & BA - Charleston, SC

Just an update. Eating good, Very healthy lifestyle. 132 lbs now and 5’8”. Haven’t smoked since 2 months before my surgery, so that’s been amazing for me...staying positive! Trying to be healthy but some things just can’t be changed with diet. Found a surgeon to fix things but gonna be about the cost of my original surgery, so it will take a while longer. Hopefully some day I’ll feel more comfortable again! Always could be worse!

So it's been 1 year since my surgery and over 8 months since my revisions. This will be the last post I do until I can afford to have a new doctor correct all my problems. So, here it goes.
I was told the 2 nd surgery would make my scar on my tummy the thinnest nicest part of my scar. It is bad and I hate it. By this time with the 1st surgery, my scar wasn't great but was much better. This is very thick and looks deformed. I babied it for months too, I knew the sutures didn't look pretty when I had it done but figured over time it would shrink up. Nope. I also have scar tissue in my abdomen that bothers me constantly. I have one flat ab side and one with a giant lump in it. Also, never was any benefit to either of the flank lipos he did. When 3 of my friends had theirs done it was awesome. I, on the other hand, feel like I did a lot of suffering for nothing. One of my breasts is still quite a bit higher than the other and is hard. It still digs into my chest wall and something will eventually have to be done about it.
Sorry everything is negative. Wish I had better to report. I had really hoped everything would turn out better, but hopefully my experience will be a lesson to others.

I've included pics to show where I stand now. I have been active for about a month. It's been a rough start, but I am determined to get strong again. I have truly tried to stay positive, but it's been difficult. I try to find something each day that's good no matter what. As far as my body goes, I have a long road ahead. My left breast has settled downward even more while my right has stayed high, so there is even more of a difference now. The right, high one is hard and uncomfortable because it is filled so much. I never lost that uncomfortable feeling there that the doctor told me in the beginning was normal. That and the fact that It is quite a bit smaller than the other would have made me choose silicone if I had known. I have quite a bit of scar tissue left in my left abdomen that was left in the revision. My gynocologist remarked about it during my visit and thought it might have something to do with some ab pain I've been having, until we discovered another cause. It's not painful, just uncomfortable and tight there and stops my tummy from being flat all the way across. My flanks are what I am most disturbed by. 2 lipos (the last one very painful) and they look like they were never touched. I have no idea why. I have eaten very healthy and low calorie through everything. I just don't know what else to do. The scars that extend onto them are not pretty either. After speaking to other doctors, it will cost about as much to fix my problems as it did to have the first surgery. So I'm not sure when I'll be able to do that. I'm just going to take it 1 day at a time and hope we can make it work eventually.