I decided to start a new thread because my surgery date is fast approaching. I am getting very nervous. I am having a lower body lift with a hernia repair. I am staying one night in the hospital. I will go home with a pain pump. I should have drains in for 2 weeks. I am taking 3 weeks off from work. I am getting partial insurance coverage becaues of the hernia repair. My surgeon said that I can expect her to remove between 5-9 lbs which should easily put me at goal. Of course I am hoping for much closer to 9. I am driving my friends and family crazy with my nervous chatter on the topic. Can anyone relate? Anyway - I think that I included the usual questions that people want to know when they read these threads! Most of my nervousness stems from not being able to do things for myself and fear of gaining weight becaue my exercise will be so limited! Can anyone relate to that? Am I being silly? Hope whoever reads this thread will find it as informative as I have found all those who have gone before me!

If you look down below at the other threads I did post them about a week ago. Good luck!

Your pics look great! So soon after surgery too! Do you see even more improvements in the healing now?

Hey guys,

havent checked in for a while now. I am now 2 months out and I am doing pretty good. completely back into the swing of things at work and almost back at working out (like at 80% at this point). I find that my only discomfort working out is in the area of my outer thigh lift it feels like pulling with high impact exercise like running. I also have a serenoma on mhy backside which I have to get drained frequently - it doesnt hurt at all just a pain to get to the surgeon's office.

Aside from that I am doing pretty great physically. My belly is amazing now and my butt is basically fabulous -- i mean not perfect but much better than I ever imagined it would be.

Problems - shopping. I have developed a taste for very expensive clothing which is really bad ... hopefully I will get tired of that or grow some self control.

Another weird thing is that I see a ton of flaws in the rest of my body although I know objectively it is just fine. I think that my butt hips and stomach looking so good makes me see extra flaws elsewhere. I am considering getting some skin removed from my upper back and a breast lift but I wonder if it is worth the pain, extra scars and $$.

I have a had a lot of requests for pictures and I would be happy to share but I don't know how to send pictures on LBT through private mail. Anyone know?

Glad you're doing so well. I am feeling better everyday, also. Would love to know if you learn anything about having skin removed on the back. I have extra skin that goes over my bras, but I'm pretty tired on being carved up! LOL!

Karen, you may be experiencing a bit of plastic surgery addiction. This is a topic they've covered extensively and it appears that once they've gone under the knife for PS, the fear and stigma of PS has been removed for them and they start seeing other areas they'd like to improve. I'm sure it's a fine line between wanting to be your best and going overboard on PS to achieve it. Have a talk with your surgeon and see what he thinks. If you trust him and he's a reputable surgeon, he probably will tell you if he thinks you are crossing the line.