3 Kids-Stretched Muscles and Stretched Skin That Needs to Go - Miami, FL

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Update 9 months post-op

  • 14 Oct 2017
  • 9 months post
After 6 months of faja wearing, one piece bathing suit summering and a breather after starting school this is what my tummy looks like. I wore the silicone scar strips my Dr gave me through the summer and haven't used one in a month. I did not retouch my body at all in these pics. I did however crop to zoom for necessary viewing. Dr. Pazmiño is AMAZING!!! I will go in to revise part of the scar on my left side but so satisfied with the results. I do have stretch marks from the belly button down due to pregnancy and not the surgery but it's barely noticeable. I will update after the revision. I can't recommend my Dr and team enough!!!!

No more seroma, all healing nicely, again!

  • 10 Apr 2017
  • 3 months post
Phwew! Finally, my body has absorbed the rest of the fluid from the seroma that was drained over a week ago. I was compressing really hard after Dr P drained it (only 7cc's). I can feel the skin where the seroma now feels like the rest of my tummy. Tight, hard and no water bed. Malena (dr's assistant and wonderful moral supporter), suggested I start using a Homemedics back massager(think big vibrator) for 10 mins daily to break up any hard tissue below the surface. I bought it on Amazon and have been using it for 3 days. I do have some tenderness in some spots like nerve tenderness but I can already feel a difference. My stomach was tight before when you push and now it feels more like supple skin (not loose, just normal). I am taking it easier (it helped I had a respiratory virus-totally zonked) and I suggest whoever reads this do the same. My dr and his staff are AMAZING!!! As a patient, you have to do your part too-recovery is super serious and important that you follow it to the letter. I am super happy with my Dr, Malena, his staff!! I need to find out how to change the review to "WORTH IT!"

Overdid it! Ugh!!

  • 31 Mar 2017
  • 2 months post
So at my 6 week mark. I was feeling good-too good. Over confident in my mind and lifted and moved things around the house. Big mistake. Gave myself a seroma. Boooooo!!!! So angry with myself. I began compression-tight, uncomfortable compression. The waterbed wasn't that big at first. My PS was confident it would go away by itself. But with my busy life and not resting, it didn't. And now today, I am going in to have it aspirated. Dr recommends rest (bed rest) for a few days. Ugh!!!! Not that I don't "want" to do as he says or catch up on zzz's, movies and shows. But it is sooooo extremely hard to be down and off line with my family and household-my life. I know I have to in order to heal. Sorry to vent and whine-not usually my style. But, I'm really mad at myself. I just want to get over this hump. So many people depend on me and I feel terrible I can't be there for them. Frustrated!!! God grant me the strength and serenity to accept these things that I cannot change. ????

Provider Review

Pat Pazmino, MD, FACS
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
848 Brickell Ave., Miami, Florida
  • 8 Jan 2017

He was the first consultation among 6 PS. I did my research and came full circle. Out of all that I interviewed I felt Dr. Pazmiño had a unique technique for the tummy tuck. His was different from all other dr's which offered the same standard cookie cutter tummy tuck. Like that of an sculptor an artist of the body which is what I was looking for in a PS. His demeanor was warm and focused on explaining the process and answering any questions I had at the time (I was nervous so of course I forgot everything I wanted to ask). I even met with him a second time (free of charge), this time with my husband to be thorough and make sure I didn't miss anything. I also went to tour the surgical facility, it's independent from the dr-which seemed up to date and adequate. It's not as "fancy" as some of the other surgeons but it is clean, has been operating for many years and the staff had many reassuring comments about Dr. Pazmiño as a surgeon. Dr. Pazmiño's office staff have been very helpful and kind so far. The office is small, clean and I didn't feel overwhelmed by a crowd of people as I did at some of the other offices. Fingers crossed the good experience continues....will keep the site posted.....