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Former Fat Girl and Cosmetic Surgery Virgin - Virginia Beach, VA

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I had a tummy tuck and a medial thigh lift with Dr...

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MoldedClayDecember 28, 2012
WORTH IT$10,600

I had a tummy tuck and a medial thigh lift with Dr. Viennas at Eastern Virginia Medical School in VA Beach, VA. I am a 20 something female who had lost a lot of weight and had hanging thighs and redundant skin on my tummy. I had dieted and exercised to get my bodyfat low. However, the loose skin would not "snap back" no matter how much working out I did.

In mid December 2012, I had the procedure as an in office procedure. Afterwards, I stayed with a nurse in the recovery suite in a local hotel for a little over a day. Then I went home.

I am still recovering and am somewhat swollen but my tummy and thighs look a lot better. I am satisfied and would do it again. Dr. Viennas is very nice and knowledgeable. He has excellent bedside manner and will prescribe you whatever medicines you need to be comfortable. I have nothing but nice things to say about this man!

The procedure was painful right afterwards but that is to be expected. The only thing that I would have changed was I would have had intravenous pain medicine for the post operative surgical recovery suite or a pain pump. I was using oral medications (Demerol) while I was with the nurse in the recovery suite and I was still really hurting. That oral medicine really does not cut tummy tuck pain for the first 24-36 hours afterwards. You need something intravenous or a pain pump. But other than that, my experience with EVMS was great and Dr. Viennas does great work. My scars don't even look that bad. I am about to start using a little scar treatment and they will surely fade to barely noticeable.

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Lambros Konstantinos Viennas, MD

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

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Kimmers25
December 29, 2012

Welcome to the community:)

Congratulations on your new body:)

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pipsypie
April 19, 2013
Hi congrats on your surgery and on your weightloss well done. Can you tell me more about the copper peptides? I am 3 months post op from a tummy tuck scar revision the actual TT was done 5 years ago but the scar turned out bad. I have bought copper peptides serum and supercop cream and I use silicone sheets 24/7. I have not yet begun the CP treatments can you tell me how you treat yours with the CP's? Many thanks x
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MoldedClay
October 3, 2013
Sorry. I am just now seeing this. Perhaps you can still use this information and if not, it can help someone else. Copper Peptides are what makes the skin grow back healthy. According to some specialists, the skin will not grow back scarred if you put copper peptides on your new wounds or new scars. I ordered mine from some place on Ebay or Skin Biology's website. To "remove scars", they advise you to abrade them and then put the copper peptides on them to remove the scarred skin and then to facilitate newer and better skin underneath. To be real with you, I used copper peptides from the beginning on my stomach tuck and I still scarred. I believe it is hype to a certain extent. What really helped me was exfoliating with chemical peels and body scrubs. After my manual or chemical exfoliation, I used the copper peptides. When that ran out of copper peptides with less than good results, I just used Mederma or Scar Guard. For my weight related stretch marks, I also peeled and exfoliated and used Palmer's Fade Cream for Stretch Marks on it. I tried Mederma's stretch mark cream but it did not do anything for my old marks. Anyway, this is general scar information. Please send me a PM if you need anything more.
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I am off of narcotics now and I am just using...

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MoldedClayJanuary 3, 2013
I am off of narcotics now and I am just using extra strength Tylenol. I get little "twinges" in my stomach and thighs but it is not bad. My incisions are a little itchy but I guess that means they are healing. I have started using Mederma and scar guard on them to reduce scarring. My swelling is going down some. So far, I am satisfied.

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I am feeling pretty good. I go for another check...

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MoldedClayFebruary 2, 2013
I am feeling pretty good. I go for another check up soon. I have not been cleared to do any abdominal or thigh work yet. So, I will be glad when I am able to work out again and make my results look even better. I still have a little loose skin at the top but my tummy tuck is still new and a lot of loose skin was removed. So, I will give it time to tighten up and also begin working out again as soon as I am able to tone things up. A tummy tuck is not a magic bullet. The nurse who cared for me after surgery even said that. She said that my stomach looked better than a lot of her patients because I waited until I got down to my goal weight before having it done.

I had horrible constipation one day about 2 weeks after surgery. So, if you have this surgery, I recommend you eat 2 prunes in the morning and two prunes at night with a glass of prune juice until you are off of narcotics!

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