Hello! I originally had a breast reduction and abdominoplasty in December 2006. I was fairly happy with the results, better than what I looked like before I had the surgery. Hung out between 160-170 for years, then BOOM hit peri-menopause and weight climbed to 192! On December 11th, I went on a Keto-ish diet (you can read my progress HERE). I have lost 35 lbs to date.

The problem? I have deflated worse than EVER since losing this weight. I now have significant "dog ears" on my hips and the sides of my breasts, and my underarms and thighs are hanging worse than they have ever been. I was able to live with them before, but now it's no bueno. I am 44 but I feel my body looks 50 years older than that.

So . . . I am having additional PS on August 31st! After meeting with my surgeon, here is what I am having done after we reviewed what I was unhappy with, plus he was not happy with how my abdominoplasty scar looked:

• Scar revision of mons
• Lipo of abdomen and lateral trunk
• Inner thigh lift w/lipo
• Breast reduction revision
• Brachioplasty (arm lift)
• BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFT OMG

About the BBL - super excited about that! I have always been squarish, not much waist and a really flat butt, but we discussed it and since he is going to re-contour my torso anyway using my fat to do a BBL will correct a lot of the loose skin I now have hanging off my butt plus round me out! Waste not, want not, right? LOL

I will come back and post before-and-afters once done :)

So I have now watched every Skin Tight Episode to date: Seasons 1-3 (including last night's newest episode) :D I love watching the total skin removed get weighed and revealed to the patient. It is incredible how much they take off.

I guess I am wondering how realistic.. or unrealistic, really... Skin Tight might be making me. People seem to be getting an average of 10 pounds or so removed, and really appear teeny and flat afterwards. Do you all know how much skin in pounds was removed? Did you feel considerable smaller afterwards?

I feel like my expectations are becoming waaaay too high and I find it difficult to think about anything else. 7 weeks couldn't be longer :(

Oh my, that sounds really scary. He did say he didn't know if there was tunneling. I hope not! How cool that you ended up in the medical field after all of this! It'll sure show you if you're cut out for the ick, won't it!

Yes a seroma, but a really deep channel. It made me sick at first to see how deep it was. Of course since then I changed careers and got in the medical field. We pack wounds and place drains daily in my dept (lots of drains for sleeve leaks which was frightening to me before surgery - I didn't want to be one of our patients!) and act like it's no big deal. But I have never forgotten how big of a deal it was to me at the time. It's totally foreign.

It sounds like you have figured out a way to make it work for you, so that's good. One day at a time. Hugs.

SallyCat, thank you so much for sharing that! Sounds like yours was a seroma? Mine are more like little Grand Canyons, but a packed opening is an opening so knowing yours healed nicely is very comforting.

So the first time I had to pack them, one fell out on the floor. Which I can't pick up because I can't bend over to pick anything up! I now have figured out how to hold my legs together while I get the poise pads ready to wrap around my thigh incisions and those hold it in. And then wriggle up the compression garment without anything shifting to hold everything in. So much exhausting juggling involved in wound care...