Plastic Surgery Consult (1/9/08)

Jan 09, 2008

 

Today I had a plastic surgery consult with Dr. Donald Griffin.  It was regarding breast implants.  Of course, I don't keep much from my gastric bypass friends! This subject is no different.  I had a breast reduction in 2005 (thank goodness) and now after losing 130+ lbs, I have nothing left!  It looks like the air has been let out of my two tires. 

That's not the reason for this blog, however.  While I was there, I asked him about the trouble pocket on my left middle tummy area.  If you look at my pre-tummy tuck pics, you will see on my left side, under my breast, a puffy fat area.  Well now, this has been pulled down to my mid tummy.  I wanted to know... is it fat?  Loose skin?  Can it be lipo'd? Should I have gotten cut up and down my tummy when I got the abdominoplasty procedure? 

He basically said that because of my obesity, the skin was stretched out.  Nothing can make it spring back.  I knew that.  You knew that.  Heck we ALL knew that!  He said that its not worth cutting and redoing the tummy tuck, or the long vertical scar on my tummy.  He could go in to a loose skin area on my hip where the scar stops and go up and remove some "stuff" but it will still look and feel "jiggly" as he put it. 

So this is it.  I know what it is now.  Its not fat.  There is nothing that will cure it.  No amount of working out.  No surgery.  He said basically there is no perfect fix.  I'm stuck with paying the price to my stupidity and unwillingness to take care of myself.  I want to shout it from the mountaintop, from the rooftop, from any top I can reach... "Don't let your children become obese!  Don't let yourself become obese!"  It's not worth it.  There are too many repercussions that we must live with...  yes you can always lose weight, but that doesn't mean your body will physically rebound back to its original shape.

Now as for the breast implants... no decision on this yet.  I have some things to consider...  finances, and the possibility that there will be future surgeries involved.  When you lose weight, and have had a reduction, sometimes you must go back for revisions either because the nipple skin needs corrected, or some stitching needs to be done to hold the implants in place.  I might just buy bigger padded bras! lol

 

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