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Hey all. Thank you for sharing your incredible...
Hey all. Thank you for sharing your incredible transformations. I have thought about getting this for longer than I've been eligible. At 13, I weighed 250 (at a height of 5'9) and that snapped me out of whatever was making me gain weight. I have lost 65lbs since then, some of it a little too quickly I guess. My body, which has been trained only to expand, never really shrunk.
I'm going to be a senior in college in the Fall and I feel that I shouldn't have to look the way I do. I have never, not once worn a two-peice suit, never gone a day without spanx since I was 14, never participated in a drug fueled [RS bleep] or poorly conceived skinny dip... the list goes on. So many things I would do differently if I was not scared of people seeing what I look like undressed. Debauchery aside, I think I look good in clothes now but there are so many more things I could wear after the TT. I'm a superficial 21 year old. I might be expecting a lot from this
I have a consultation scheduled but its not for another month. It's frustrating that I have to continue waiting now that I am ready to get the surgery. I'm definitely on the bigger side so I'm rather scared that they might tell me I haven't lost enough weight. I've also considered that they may turn me down because I'm so young but I don't intend to have any biological children. Any thoughts?
I'm going to be a senior in college in the Fall and I feel that I shouldn't have to look the way I do. I have never, not once worn a two-peice suit, never gone a day without spanx since I was 14, never participated in a drug fueled [RS bleep] or poorly conceived skinny dip... the list goes on. So many things I would do differently if I was not scared of people seeing what I look like undressed. Debauchery aside, I think I look good in clothes now but there are so many more things I could wear after the TT. I'm a superficial 21 year old. I might be expecting a lot from this
I have a consultation scheduled but its not for another month. It's frustrating that I have to continue waiting now that I am ready to get the surgery. I'm definitely on the bigger side so I'm rather scared that they might tell me I haven't lost enough weight. I've also considered that they may turn me down because I'm so young but I don't intend to have any biological children. Any thoughts?
Hello! I've been absent as I've held of updating...
Hello! I've been absent as I've held of updating until my consultation which was this morning.
Liked the doctor a lot. He seems very experienced since the hospital he works at has an extensive weight loss surgery program and they inevitably turn to the plastic surgeons when they all have gross extra skin like me! He also mentioned that he is a salaried doctor so he's not interesting in jacking up the cost because it won't guarantee him any extra. Not a peep out of him about any reasons to not do the surgery (size, future children, etc) so that was a relief. Hospital fees will include a nights stay in the hospital which I'm happy about. He also clarified that without the muscle repair (due to not having kids), it's considered a Panniculectomy. He mentioned that he takes great care with his scars and that is also great especially because of the next part:
DILEMMA: He said that for the best results, he suggests that I have the skin taken vertically as well as horizontally so the scar will be an upside down T. Not what I want to hear!! But from my second picture above, its clear that he's right. My shape may benefit greatly but I really never will get to wear a bikini. I'm 21 for gosh sakes! He said he could alternatively do it normally (the one horizontal scar) but he would have to do lipo too and I would only have "moderate" results. He said he wouldn't need to do lipo if I went with the vertical. I'm pretty upset about the prospects so I have a lot of thinking to do.
I have only seen one example of a vertical scar here on the forum (and I remember it being one of those either not worth it or a question for the doctors about something wrong with it), not too encouraging! Can anyone at all point me in the direction of some Real Self-ers who have the vertical scar? I feel like I'm jumping into uncharted territory. I wasn't at all nervous about the horizontal but I hadn't even considered if I would need a vertical scar...
I asked for photos from the Dr for examples but he says he is so busy (only two PS in the hospital) that he hasn't had time to put together a portfolio and though he excused himself to dig some photos up for me, we decided it would be best for him to email them to me so I am waiting waiting waiting to see his work but if his scars are as nice as he claims, I would be open to the vertical one. He is also including the pricing in the email so I'm still in the dark on that one (he was willing to draw up some estimates there but I didn't push for it).
Liked the doctor a lot. He seems very experienced since the hospital he works at has an extensive weight loss surgery program and they inevitably turn to the plastic surgeons when they all have gross extra skin like me! He also mentioned that he is a salaried doctor so he's not interesting in jacking up the cost because it won't guarantee him any extra. Not a peep out of him about any reasons to not do the surgery (size, future children, etc) so that was a relief. Hospital fees will include a nights stay in the hospital which I'm happy about. He also clarified that without the muscle repair (due to not having kids), it's considered a Panniculectomy. He mentioned that he takes great care with his scars and that is also great especially because of the next part:
DILEMMA: He said that for the best results, he suggests that I have the skin taken vertically as well as horizontally so the scar will be an upside down T. Not what I want to hear!! But from my second picture above, its clear that he's right. My shape may benefit greatly but I really never will get to wear a bikini. I'm 21 for gosh sakes! He said he could alternatively do it normally (the one horizontal scar) but he would have to do lipo too and I would only have "moderate" results. He said he wouldn't need to do lipo if I went with the vertical. I'm pretty upset about the prospects so I have a lot of thinking to do.
I have only seen one example of a vertical scar here on the forum (and I remember it being one of those either not worth it or a question for the doctors about something wrong with it), not too encouraging! Can anyone at all point me in the direction of some Real Self-ers who have the vertical scar? I feel like I'm jumping into uncharted territory. I wasn't at all nervous about the horizontal but I hadn't even considered if I would need a vertical scar...
I asked for photos from the Dr for examples but he says he is so busy (only two PS in the hospital) that he hasn't had time to put together a portfolio and though he excused himself to dig some photos up for me, we decided it would be best for him to email them to me so I am waiting waiting waiting to see his work but if his scars are as nice as he claims, I would be open to the vertical one. He is also including the pricing in the email so I'm still in the dark on that one (he was willing to draw up some estimates there but I didn't push for it).
Forgot to add another con to the normal horizontal...
Forgot to add another con to the normal horizontal scar: he said it would likely need to be higher up so there goes my dreams of low rise jeans anyway. Ah!