Reviews you can trust, from real people like you.
How it works
- Our highly-trained Review Moderation team evaluates all reviews before they're published to ensure they're written by people like you and not a member of a doctor's office.
- This multi-step process takes up to 24 hours from review submission to publication.
- Doctors can't pay to have reviews removed or hidden.
- Reviews are only removed at the reviewer's request or if they violate our Terms of Service.
If you have questions or believe we should re-evaluate a published review, let us know.
Sort by:
*Treatment results may vary
52 Years Minimal Down-time Tummy Tuck, NO Drains, NO Drugs! WHAT? Yes! Only with Dr. Brian Windle , Seattle, WA.
I have thought about doing this for over 10 years. I had three kids by C Section and the muscles don't ever recover from being cut lengthwise, and I am 53, so I could have done this ages ago and benefitted. After three C Sections, the tummy starts to sag, and then as you age all of the fat accumulates there, and then gravity sets in. It isn't pretty. By biggest problem to solve was keeping my pants up.The second problem was hauling around the extra weight, roughly 6 pounds of flesh and fat. Once it begins to hang down, it sits on your lap like a toddler (that never gets up!).
When I met with Dr Windle, he told me that he does a quick recovery tuck with no drains, and he does not use conventional pain meds. My son in law is a plastic surgeon, and he told me "yeah, whatever- I always hear about this crap, but go ahead if you think its going to work". OK. So I did. Call me a rebel. And add that I realize though my dear son in law is an excellent surgeon (he really is), I know that experience (that Dr Windle has) is really what I needed to lean on. I did not have the the time to be down on back for 8-10 weeks, nor do I think that being drugged up to do so is a good plan. I hate pain meds, they wreck me.
I went in for my morning appointment, I was out of surgery and in the car (hubby driving) by 1:30pm. I got home an hour later and within 45 minutes, I was taking my first walk up and down my hallway with a binder on around my stomach. That first afternoon isn't too bad because you still have a little anesthetic working in your body. I was on an aleve and tylenol regimen (high but safe doses). The first shower, the next day I think, was really horrible. No other words, but take heart it gets better. You need to expect pain and inconveneince for the first week, but it is do-able. YOU ARE up walking, not standing straight, but as straight as possible, and in the next week things start to improve. At the end of 7 days I was taping for a paint job in our basement. Showering is difficult without help initially and so is getting in and out of bed. I was driving in my second week, and by the third week I was doing so well that I over-did it (I work from home so it was apparently too tempting to do my regular work).
Expect your abdominal muscles to need 6 weeks for full recovery (as is normal with any surgery on any part of your body) but with this procedure you are NOT on your back or sitting all the time until you are healed. Mine was nearly uneventful recovery. I had the misfortune of having the heaves once (something I ate) at week 3 and I truly thought I had ruined everything inside. Aside from the immediate pain, and pain that day, once the episode passed all was well.
The result is what I needed - the pannus is gone (the saggy toddler on my lap), I fit regular normal clothing and my pants stay up. I did not go into this surgery hoping to come out a swim-suit model. I'm a gramma, and I have a gramma bod. I am getting more fit now that I can move normally and that was part of my goal. Its hard to treadmill or elliptical with the "toddler" hanging onto your belly so now I am moving freely at the gym.
My mentality on plastic surgery is that if it is medically sound and physically necessary, get it done. I wish I had not waited, but like they say when the student is ready, the master appears. I was in the right hands at the right time, and I am LUCKY that Dr. Windle had been my surgeon. Get it done, don't wait! And believe that rapid recovery is possible.
When I met with Dr Windle, he told me that he does a quick recovery tuck with no drains, and he does not use conventional pain meds. My son in law is a plastic surgeon, and he told me "yeah, whatever- I always hear about this crap, but go ahead if you think its going to work". OK. So I did. Call me a rebel. And add that I realize though my dear son in law is an excellent surgeon (he really is), I know that experience (that Dr Windle has) is really what I needed to lean on. I did not have the the time to be down on back for 8-10 weeks, nor do I think that being drugged up to do so is a good plan. I hate pain meds, they wreck me.
I went in for my morning appointment, I was out of surgery and in the car (hubby driving) by 1:30pm. I got home an hour later and within 45 minutes, I was taking my first walk up and down my hallway with a binder on around my stomach. That first afternoon isn't too bad because you still have a little anesthetic working in your body. I was on an aleve and tylenol regimen (high but safe doses). The first shower, the next day I think, was really horrible. No other words, but take heart it gets better. You need to expect pain and inconveneince for the first week, but it is do-able. YOU ARE up walking, not standing straight, but as straight as possible, and in the next week things start to improve. At the end of 7 days I was taping for a paint job in our basement. Showering is difficult without help initially and so is getting in and out of bed. I was driving in my second week, and by the third week I was doing so well that I over-did it (I work from home so it was apparently too tempting to do my regular work).
Expect your abdominal muscles to need 6 weeks for full recovery (as is normal with any surgery on any part of your body) but with this procedure you are NOT on your back or sitting all the time until you are healed. Mine was nearly uneventful recovery. I had the misfortune of having the heaves once (something I ate) at week 3 and I truly thought I had ruined everything inside. Aside from the immediate pain, and pain that day, once the episode passed all was well.
The result is what I needed - the pannus is gone (the saggy toddler on my lap), I fit regular normal clothing and my pants stay up. I did not go into this surgery hoping to come out a swim-suit model. I'm a gramma, and I have a gramma bod. I am getting more fit now that I can move normally and that was part of my goal. Its hard to treadmill or elliptical with the "toddler" hanging onto your belly so now I am moving freely at the gym.
My mentality on plastic surgery is that if it is medically sound and physically necessary, get it done. I wish I had not waited, but like they say when the student is ready, the master appears. I was in the right hands at the right time, and I am LUCKY that Dr. Windle had been my surgeon. Get it done, don't wait! And believe that rapid recovery is possible.
Provider Review