I ran into a friend of my mother's the other day, my mum had told her about my sleeve. I found out she has had it done too and lost 195 pounds, she is three yeas out now. She mentioned the saggy skin and said she had her tummy tuck at a local hospital for FREE because she donated her excess skin to the burn unit.

Apparently if you have a few pounds of excess skin and donate it (via tons of forms) you can get it for free!

Anyone heard of this before??

I saw your posting about free tummy tuck if donate skin. how do we go about that

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I would donate my skin wish they had a site to sign up to donate I was 448 lbs and now I have a chest that fell to my drawers lol now I have a chestertodrawers lol

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So I talked with her today to clarify "free" and make sure I understood her correctly. She said the anesthesiologist's fee was free as was the hospital stay. She still paid her surgeon fee which was $2,000. She said she was originally quoted $8,000 for it. I don't know why she had it done at the hospital though, most are done at the Surgeon's own little office/OR room.

He does tummy tucks in his office? I think I'd rather pay for surgery than go to some hack. Just saying...

In general, surgeons aren't looking for post WLS skin to reuse as it is stretched out. A teaching hospital may offer some kind of deal for plastics if residents can assist or otherwise learn from it.