Hopefully it’ll get better.

It started out great I was very excited about my surgery and couldn’t wait to totally heel, well now I’m 1 year 3 months post-op and I feel so disappointed in my results my upper abdominal area is still bulging out and gets really swollen even if I go for a short walk, I’m still wearing the compression belt most of the day because of the swelling, my belly button is off center more to my right, I have one very obvious dog ear, a small bulge of fat on my Lower left abdomen and pudgy vaginal area and uneven flanks(which I payed to have liposuction). I went back to see Dr. Gunn at I think it was 3 months post op where he initially said he’d fix everything at no cost and he’d just use a local anesthetic, then I went for another post op appointment at around six months and was told by Dr. Gunn it was going to be $1,500 charge because he didn’t think a local anesthetic was a good idea being I needed a lot of work done and that fee would be just for the Anesthesiology and I said okay, three months had past this is during first wave of Covid 19 and I didn’t go back afraid of getting sick and they were also closed for 6 wks, I also had other medical issues to worry about. Anyway I called to see if they’d still honor the $1500 fee and to see if I can make an appointment and I was told that they were no longer honoring that fee and that I would have to pay $2600.00, needless to say I was very upset and might’ve got anger at the wrong person which was the poor nurse I was talking to. Dr Gunn saw me again to reassure me that it wasn’t him but that the anesthesiology fees have gone up, as soon as I walked into the exam room he had my fat belly pictures up on the computer screen and a post op picture of me (which I purposely sucked in my stomach so the picture could look better ) to show me basically how bad I looked before the TT. Anyway he was as polite as usual and gave me a estimate of $2600 again to do the revision surgery and promised me that price wasn’t going to change.

I went for a Tummy Tuck July 16, 2019 so far no regrets, I’m still a little swollen and I still feel the tugging and pulling in my abdominal area and I’m only two weeks post op and so far so good. Dr. Gunn is really nice and very professional and as far as I can tell he’s done an awesome job. I’ve seen pictures of other women who’ve had a tummy tuck and I feel really bad for them their stitches are so wide and bloody. My stitches are hardy noticeable even right after surgery there was hardly any blood any where and the pain was minimal. If your in the Birmingham AL area and need a TT I really recommend Dr. Stephen Gunn.