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Update-yes it was not painless
Yes it was not painless...Yes you WILL need help. YES it was worth it.
This is my review at Day 6 that I posted on another forum.
Tummy tuck-okay so I will freely admit even after all the research I was still not prepared. This morning I'm at the point where I'm not feeling brutally bad and that may turn into the eventually forgetting about how excruciating painful the first 4 days really were - which I CANNOT do. .. yes it HURTS!! The brutality of what I have voluntarily done to my body to finally get rid of my "cats ass". This is what I named my belly area since my weight loss. Most of the accounts of a TT described difficult discomfort and trouble pooping. Which are all true but came across this blooger post that describes my experience to a tee with a bit a humor. .enjoy..sorry it is a long post.
So here it is: The pain was not just bad - it is your worst period ever - poorest dental surgery - two vertebrae out in your neck, having had your first training session with a personal trainer who made you do a marathon and 100 crunches in one day BAD. In fact it was worse than all of that because you were trapped on your back couldn't move on your own, if you laugh (and still now laugh) the pain is blinding and you're terrified that that tickle in your throat may actually force you to cough because a simple cough can make you cry it hurts so much. I don't want to sugar coat any of this because when you choose to make a decision like this you really need to know. You need to know that potentially, that entire first 2 weeks that you are nearly helpless AND you have a drain (perhaps two) hanging out of your healing incision that has blood and fluid and body tissue bits in it that you have to measure and then deposit into your toilet every twelve hours. You are on pain medication that constipates you and makes you all muzzy headed, in that "What the hell am I doing here? Who is that person standing in my room?" way.
And you need to know this sort of stuff so that you can possibly purchase the dozen pair of SPANX and try them out before you make a decision like this. I have no doubt that more than likely by next week even I'll be able stand fairly tall, and the swelling in my lower abdomen will have probably disappeared and I may be marvelling at my naked stature in the mirror thinking "Check out that cool new belly button!" Perhaps I should be looking at this process like childbirth that you go through all the pain of labour and delivery but at the end you have this amazing child to adore and snuggle with. Maybe I will be adoring and snuggling with my stomach. It's just that for any of you who are contemplating this, you need to know. YOU NEED TO KNOW. Do not make the decision lightly - think it through - remember bloody fluid and body tissue bits. I had thought this through - went into it expecting the worst and hoping for the best and those first days? Were pretty freakin' bad. And really who is in labour and delivery for 96 hours straight? People need to know that.
That being said, I wasn't completely in a codeine coma for the first several days (mostly on the advice of the surgeon who didn't want me to get all backed up) and my first ENTIRELY sleepless night as a result of the codeine with caffeine probably didn't help my healing process move along quickly. Perhaps if I had been in a drug-induced coma I would be singing a different tune here, but that wasn't for me and YOU NEED TO KNOW - because all those retrospective journal entries are not giving you the skinny.
Oh and passing gas? Had I mentioned that? The fumes emitting from my nether regions are not pleasant. My stomach is sometimes numb, sometimes painful, swollen, warm to the touch and has pins and needles. I just wanted to be sure that I wrote all that stuff down too - not to be one of those negativey-negative people, but to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about this type of surgery, because we should do that for each other, right
This is my review at Day 6 that I posted on another forum.
Tummy tuck-okay so I will freely admit even after all the research I was still not prepared. This morning I'm at the point where I'm not feeling brutally bad and that may turn into the eventually forgetting about how excruciating painful the first 4 days really were - which I CANNOT do. .. yes it HURTS!! The brutality of what I have voluntarily done to my body to finally get rid of my "cats ass". This is what I named my belly area since my weight loss. Most of the accounts of a TT described difficult discomfort and trouble pooping. Which are all true but came across this blooger post that describes my experience to a tee with a bit a humor. .enjoy..sorry it is a long post.
So here it is: The pain was not just bad - it is your worst period ever - poorest dental surgery - two vertebrae out in your neck, having had your first training session with a personal trainer who made you do a marathon and 100 crunches in one day BAD. In fact it was worse than all of that because you were trapped on your back couldn't move on your own, if you laugh (and still now laugh) the pain is blinding and you're terrified that that tickle in your throat may actually force you to cough because a simple cough can make you cry it hurts so much. I don't want to sugar coat any of this because when you choose to make a decision like this you really need to know. You need to know that potentially, that entire first 2 weeks that you are nearly helpless AND you have a drain (perhaps two) hanging out of your healing incision that has blood and fluid and body tissue bits in it that you have to measure and then deposit into your toilet every twelve hours. You are on pain medication that constipates you and makes you all muzzy headed, in that "What the hell am I doing here? Who is that person standing in my room?" way.
And you need to know this sort of stuff so that you can possibly purchase the dozen pair of SPANX and try them out before you make a decision like this. I have no doubt that more than likely by next week even I'll be able stand fairly tall, and the swelling in my lower abdomen will have probably disappeared and I may be marvelling at my naked stature in the mirror thinking "Check out that cool new belly button!" Perhaps I should be looking at this process like childbirth that you go through all the pain of labour and delivery but at the end you have this amazing child to adore and snuggle with. Maybe I will be adoring and snuggling with my stomach. It's just that for any of you who are contemplating this, you need to know. YOU NEED TO KNOW. Do not make the decision lightly - think it through - remember bloody fluid and body tissue bits. I had thought this through - went into it expecting the worst and hoping for the best and those first days? Were pretty freakin' bad. And really who is in labour and delivery for 96 hours straight? People need to know that.
That being said, I wasn't completely in a codeine coma for the first several days (mostly on the advice of the surgeon who didn't want me to get all backed up) and my first ENTIRELY sleepless night as a result of the codeine with caffeine probably didn't help my healing process move along quickly. Perhaps if I had been in a drug-induced coma I would be singing a different tune here, but that wasn't for me and YOU NEED TO KNOW - because all those retrospective journal entries are not giving you the skinny.
Oh and passing gas? Had I mentioned that? The fumes emitting from my nether regions are not pleasant. My stomach is sometimes numb, sometimes painful, swollen, warm to the touch and has pins and needles. I just wanted to be sure that I wrote all that stuff down too - not to be one of those negativey-negative people, but to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about this type of surgery, because we should do that for each other, right
2 weeks
Still swollen but can see the difference.
before photo
Provider Review
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
327 N. San Mateo Dr., Ste. 4, San Mateo, California