Support Group Meeting: Skin Removal

Mar 08, 2010

I attended my second support group meeting last night and it was great.  I think after my surgery I will be attending them more often.  Last night we had a special guest speaker, Dr. White,  from Wilmington Plastic Surgery.  He came and talked about the different surgery options for skin removal after bariatric surgery and all of the payment options.  The average skin removal runs anywhere from $6500 and up in our area.  Dr. White also had one of his patients that had skin removal after RNY come in a do a brief testimonial.  It was a very interesting meeting.  I learned alot, but I don't think I will go with skin removal (at least I don't think I will need to yet).  I think if I do a lot of toning when I exercise I will be alright.  I will keep my fingers crossed.  For those of you that have any questions about the pain after skin removal, we were told that there is a pain pump used now that attaches to your belt and you have injections going right into your stomach muscles and it keeps that area numb for at least 4 days.  I thought this was a neat idea, but still not for me LOL.

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