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Lucky you .. I can only wish for something like this with insurance approval. Congrats to you :D

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It's nice that you are getting approval for this (sorta - even better if things weren't bad enough for the insurance to take notice, but that's life!) I had an extended TT (the panni taken a little farther around, plus muscle tightening) along with manboob reduction, partially paid for by a couple of needed hernia repairs.

It certainly isn't as much fun as the original VSG typically is, particularly for the boys down there (the most disconcerting part of the whole thing); it seems that the channels through which our testes descend from infancy to their permanent location also make a wonderful drainage conduit for anything accumulating in the abdomin after such surgeries - and things flow downhill. Sweatpants may be the dress of the day for a couple weeks or more; I carried a grapefruit down there for the better part of a month. YMMV, and hopefully yours will vary to the better side than mine did.

This is not to dissuade you from getting done what needs to be done, as the results are worthwhile, but it is a reflection that these procedures do typically involve longer and harder recoveries than is normal for our original bariatric procedures due to the amount of cutting and surface scarring that is involved, so that should be planned for (and hope for a better than average recovery!) I went into this after seeing my wife go through this, so eyes were wide open and that still doesn't completely prepare you.

Good luck and smooth sailing with yours,

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Just had my panni done last week. Not a happy camper while recovering but i know i will be happy once Im healed. Day of surgery wasn't bad. Didn't use much for pain medicine. Second and third days were rough and getting in and out of the hospital bed was horrible but after a week things are going more smoothly.

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