30 Years Old, 5 Kids, Mommy Makeover for Avid Gymgoer

After having 5 children and gaining and losing so much weight as one can imagine I had a lot of loose skin and abdominal wall laxity. My diastasis (the space between my abs) was so bad I could fit 7 fingers in the gap!
Fast forward to march of 2016. I opted to have a tummy tuck with another surgeon here in town. She is a younger doctor without many years of experience (that isn't to say she is not good at what she does) we had talked about how much skin laxity I had for a thin person and whether or not I would need an extended tummy tuck. I had researched this for years and knew with the amount of skin that I had I would either need a vertical incision or an extended tummy tuck they're wrapped around to the back. She assured me several times that not only did I not need Lightbow suction to my abdomen but that I also did not need an extended tummy tuck. This bothered me going into surgery because I felt like I would not be getting the optimal results that we had hoped for but I trusted her since she was the surgeon before surgery I told her if you open me up and see that I have more laxity than anticipated please just give me a vertical incision I am just wanting all the excess skin off I do not care about this car at this point .

With my last child I went from one 130 to 200 pounds so with each pregnancy I gained a lot of weight and lost it pretty rapidly which amounted to the excess skin I am an avid gym go over and actually had abs but of course you couldn't see them due to the excess skin and I really wanted all my hard work to show.

Immediately when I came out of surgery my stomach was still wrinkly I brought this to the attention of Dr. Prince and she said that it was from the swelling. Of course this does not make sense because when he swell the skin becomes tighter not looser so immediately we knew that I would still have skin laxity.

Over the course of six months to a year of follow up appointments I would bring this up to her that I still had loose skin while bending over and also a bolds in the upper abdomen where it felt like the stitches had not help but she assured me that everyone will have excess skin or bending over or sitting down and that I looked great and should be happy.

Don't get me wrong, I looked 1000 times better than I did before and was very grateful to have the huge flap of loose skin off and to be able to wear normal clothes but I was still somewhat unhappy that we had paid so much money and all the skin still was not gone.

At the time I was working towards doing a bodybuilding competition and her patient coordinator as well as Dr. Prince kept assuring me that I looked great and that I was just being hard on myself and that I should be happy but I knew for paying seven grand that this was not the result that I wanted even though yes I did look a lot better I wanted perfection though for seven grand .

Two years later after dealing with more skin laxity as the skin relaxed I started researching having a provision tummy tuck and came across Dr. Kris sheemake. He did not belittle me or make me feel as if I was just trying to get a perfect result but he said that not only did it feel like the abdominal wall stitches may not have held a scene when I've been over but also that he could take off at least another 3 inches of skin and give me a better result. After nursing five children I also opted to go ahead and do the whole mommy makeover

Dr. shewmake gave me beautiful breast that were exactly what I had asked for and flat stomach with NO excess skin.

So far I could not be happier with his staff as well as his bedside manner and expertise.

Sorry for the Typos in my original review. I was still pretty groggy from the pain meds!

Friday night I had an extreme setback that made me want to die. I have been taking the laxative my doctor gave me but apparently not enough and not drinking enough water I had become extremely constipated and impacted (disgusting I know) Friday night ended up with me throwing up from 1 AM to 6 o'clock in the morning with few breaks from the pain in between. I have had prior surgeries before and never have had a problem with opiates and constipation until now so this was a horrible experience to say the least. Luckily the lack tubes finally worked around 6am and I was able to sleep.
The pain was so bad I felt like I was going to pass out in my face was as white as a sheet not a fun experience!

Now.. day 6 as far as recovery goes I'm doing great. My breasts have already dropped to what I assume is almost their final position!
They are firm yet squishy. Which is exactly how I wanted them!

As a weightlifter and being pretty lean I was concerned about being able to see or feel the edge of the implant or see rippling but so far I cannot see any of that and I do not have a lot of swelling in my breast so I'm assuming that since my surgeon overfilled the implants a bit I will not have that issue .
So if you are very lean and would rather have Saline for the added safety don't be turned off necessarily because you are thin- I feel like I have a great result at 5'6 and 140lbs.

My husband and children have been a great help in my recovery I am standing a little straighter each day but still a bit hunched over I actually bought a walker but have not needed it this time.

Sometimes I do get very weak or out of breath if I am up doing stuff but that's getting few and far between.

I also had a circumferential tummy tuck and the only thing I'm worried about is that maybe my butt will look a little bit flatter, but it's also more lifted ...so I guess that is a trade off.
I can always build it back up through weightlifting. I am glad to have the loose skin gone though

So far so good????????

As stated in the aboveboard comments, unfortunately all my recent before pics are on a. Token phone. I'll eventually update them in this review though but I DID have a lot of excess skin when sitting or bending over enough that I could pick it up !
My skin elasticity after so many kids was just horrible.