From DDDD to C - TEXAS

I have been considering having this breat reduction since I was 17 years old... at 14 year of age I was already 32D! At 16 36DD and now currently at age 21 I am 38DDD/F! This weight is enormous!!

I do not want to live with this back pain so I went in to my primary care and asked her what should I do. She put in a request for me to recieve a consult with a lastic surgeon and told me not to get my hopes up because being that I am currently over weight the insurance may not approve the cost of surgey. That it would be left up to the consulting Doctor to put in a request and then it could still be denied... So with a heavey heart I went to my consult on the 5th of August 2011 (6 days ago) and saw Dr. Nabil Habash @ Seton Medical in Round Rock Texas... I got there 20 minutes before my consult and he was out to lunch. My appointment time rolled around and he wasnt in yet. I am a pretty impatient person when it comes to being made wait when I pride myself at being on time... so when 15 mintues after my appointment time I wasnt called back I was ready to leave... As I was gathering my things the nurse came out to bring me back. I went back and she took my weight and explained things. When the doc came in I was so nervous I was watery eyed and twhen he told me the same thing about the BMI and how picky they are about it I ended up crying. Though I am over weight by BMI standurds I do not look as heavey as I am becasue I truely am heavy boned at 5'6.5... This was actually proven by water bathe test... anyways he said he was sorry to make me cry... I explained it wasnt his fault... and then he asked to take photos... this was the part i dredded most... i dont even allow my husband of 3 years to see me completely naked with lights on :/

So he took pictures. He explained the proceedure and such... I left...

August 10th @ 2:30 I recieved a call that my insurance approved to pay for the entire cost and when would I like to set my surgery... shocked and awed I told them id get back to them.

I talked to my spouce and he needs a month advance to put in notice to take medical leave to help me with our toddler son... and so I set the date for october 6th at 8 am...

Now i am completely nervouse and scared from hearing all these war stories of the docs taking too much away or disfiguring the breasts... I havent heard many good comments from those around me and it is scaring me. I am wanting to go down to a C cup for comfort reasons but am scared that he may make them too small... I have looked up reviews on my doc and can not find a single one :(

Is it worth it to take the chance... what happens if he does mess them up or makes them way way too small for my figure... what then can I do???

So the doctor measured me this morning. and I reported i was a 40DDD but he measured me at 38DDDD, yes that is 4 Ds!I simply can not wait to get this weight off my chest!!

Another thing, I asked the doctors nurse over the phone if she or her could fax me a letter to give to my husbands work(army) so he could take off to help with my 2 year old who is always wanting to be picked up, and since i will not be able to lift more than 10 pounds i will definitely need the help. well i have asked three times and sent two emails... she has said she will do it each time and still hasn't... He has to put in the medical leave at least 32 days before needing it... I am just getting a bit frustrated because if he does not get this paper he can not take off to help me and i feel a bit discouraged by being not taken care of when all I need is a simple email!

Ok so This morning I went to see Dr. Byrd, who is a plastic surgeon 2.5 hours away in Dallas. Let me just say he is awesome, kind and very informative! I chose to look for surgeons there because that is where I will be recovering... not that my first surgeon wasnt kind because he was, it was his staff that i did not like because they took days to ever get back to me through email or phone... anyways, at the appointment this morning they did the same thing as the last appointment with all the measuring and such. but after i was able to go to his office and sit in a chair and talk face to face and even see before and after pics of other patients. i really like this doc. He answered all my questions and was really cool about them because i had a ton of them! We discussed the processes and he put the request through since it all had to be done over for my insurance to pay for it. We talked about dates if the insurance comes bak sometime next week with an approval which we are both positive they will since they did with the last... my main concern was doing it all in a certain time. i was having hope to maybe do the surgery later but it will not be possible because it completely slipped my mind that starting november 16th i start my externship that i can not reschedule... so he says he has room to do it in october to give me appropriate healing time. so now we wait for the approval.