Starting my PS journey-first consults today

[kristieshannon 1,569]

On 07/27/2021 at 00:05, Sandee29 said:

Good luck with your 3rd consult. There are FB forums for plastic surgery and you can post to see who went where and if they had a good outcome. That usually helps me make a decision or go to get another consult. Make sure whoever you pick has experience with weight loss patients AND is board certified.

This is an old thread :) I had my surgery back in January! Feeling great & loving how it all turned out.

[Sandee29 113]

awesome!! which surgeon did you end up going to?

[kristieshannon 1,569]

On 07/27/2021 at 01:56, Sandee29 said:

awesome!! which surgeon did you end up going to?

Dr Alex Earle at Pure Plastic Surgery in Miami. He and his team are really awesome.

[KLW21 0]

On 6/26/2020 at 11:11 PM, catwoman7 said:

a lot of people travel - some even go across the country - or out of the country. There are no plastic surgeons in my area who either specialize in massive weight loss patients or have done a truckload of surgeries on them, and I felt that was important. Supposedly plastic surgery on massive weight loss patients is a complicated subspeciality, so I wanted someone who has does them all the time (or better yet, specializes in it). So I had to go to Chicago for that, which fortunately is only a two-hour drive from here. I was OK with that. I figured if I had some complication after I got home that no local MD wanted to deal with, at least I could drive back down there fairly easily.

P.S. those quotes you got were about what I was finding. I was told both here and on another forum to expect about $8K-10K per procedure, with an LBL counting as two procedures (since they do front & back). I found that rung true. That was a couple of years ago, but it sounds like your estimates are in the same ballpark.

Who did you see? How long after your goal weight did you have surgery? I’m past goal (reached normal BMI at 6 months). Now down another 10 lbs. I feel like the excess skin is making me think I can’t just try to maintain.