Has anyone had any plastic surgery after being banded. I'm thinking of a little lipo and a nip and tuck on my arms and thighs

Hi,

I am not at my goal weight yet, but I will definitely get a breast lift and whatever else I need when I get there. Just like getting this surgery, it's a personal decision you have to make for YOU! If you want to do it, find a great surgeon and get a consultation, learn as much as you can, and then decide. I have several friends who did breasts/tummy tuck after bypass surgery and they look amazing! They said it was SO liberating to get rid of the extra skin when the fat is gone! YAHOO!

When at goal I will probrably spend as much on the ol' chassis repairs as I did on the original banding surgery.

Kellybelly & Parvathi both JUST had PS done... read their update threads, they're inspiring! :scared:

Kelly's

Jess's

Hey,

I am 3 weeks post op from an Extended tummy tuck, breast lift and lipo. My weight has been up and down but mostly up my whole life. I have had 5 pregnancies one was twins. My body was in BAD shape all over. I went for a consult just for a TT and walked out with a date booked for all the other stuff.

I remembering dreaming of the day that I could get a TT and how different life would be without a belly hanging half way down my thighs. well life is different in so many ways. I have WOW moments every day. it is the best thing I have done for myself...aside from banding. The pain was never as intense as I thought it would be and the recovery although slow is no where as bad as its made out to be either. I think alot of it has to do with the mind. We have been so big and lived life imagining these things that when it finally happens we dont really feel the pain and discomfort because of the happiness we feel without the hanging bits. Thats where I am coming from.

If you are every in the position to do it I suggest go for it, it truely is a life changing experience especially if you were like me and hadnt seen your thighs and pinny for so long you forget what they look like :scared:

Kelly, your photos are great..... I didn't know you had twins, me too!

Hey, could you tell me how tall you are? Your stats are most impressive. No lapband yet, have psych eval coming up. :scared:

Hiya Patty

Thanks for the compliment!! I had fraternal girl/boy twins. They are nearly 8 now. I have a 13 yo daughter and a 2 yo daughter. I also had a stillborn baby boy in 1996.

I am 5"6 tall and currently on about 190lbs. I started at 265lbs. I still have a lot of swelling in the lipoed areas(upper abs, hips, back and waist).

Thanks again for the compliment.

Dear Miss KellieBelly,

I think you'd better change your name, Girl! WOW. You ROCK! What an inspiration to me...I can't wait to get down to that weight...you motivated me for yet another day of clean eating...I already did my workout! YAHOO!

Rose

Hi,

I had a full TT and medial thighplasty last August. I am almost 3 years post op and really wanted to do this to complete my journey.

Babs in TX

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6/23/03

I'm faaaaaaaaaaaaar from goal, but pretty sure I will require PS if I'm to look like I'm not melting.

My trouble area, methinks, will definitely be my stomach/pannus (hopefully not requiring pannus red. TT), upper thighs, and upper arms. Not worried about the boobs. The stomach and thighs - go for it. The upper arms -- as MUCH as I'm looking forward to wearing tanktops, not so sure... that brachioplasty scar is nasty stuff...

Hi Babs, do you have any pics of your before/after?

About two years after being banded, I had a panniculectomy with rectus muscle repair. I had a complication (one of those resistant infections--had to be readmitted and on IV antibiotics for about ten days), but I was MO at the time and the supervising surgeon told me that the complication rate for that surgery on an MO patient is 100%.

A year later, still MO, I had a breast reduction and he tweaked the panniculectomy a little to remove dog ears.

My "wisdom" such as it is, is that the belly probably could have waited, had I been in search of perfection. What I went for at the time was relief from that hangy thing. But I'm glad I didn't wait for the boobs. It is NOT a painful surgery and the recovery goes pretty fast (all things considered) and I think I can get by with what I have even when I lose more weight.

Also, I went to our daughter's (she wore a 36-J bra) PS for the boobs and the panniculectomy revision. I told him I didn't want to look like Paris Hilton, I wanted a more Rubenesque shape. He "got" that and had no problem doing the surgery on someone who was not at any "goal" weight.

Good luck with this!

Hi Wheetsin,

The only person who has before (nekked pics) is my surgeon. I am not brave enough to post anything of the before here or anywhere else. Regarding after, I was waiting on an article that was supposed to come out in the NY daily News that had photos of me. They cancelled this article and now it is going to appear in the Washington Post, but the photos that were taken for the Daily News cant be used by the other newspaper, so I am waiting for them to call me to set up a new AP photo session. The article was about Plastic surgery after weight loss surgery and I agreed to do this in January this year. I will post my pics soon either way! I am pleased with the results of my TT. I have an excellent surgeon and my TT came out great. I have a new bellybutton and my scar line is looking really clean and neat. With underwear on, you wouldnt know that I was cut from hip to hip!!

Babs in TX

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