Plastics: Before & After (post your pics here!)

[JamieLogical 8,708]

@@bayougirlmrsc With fat grafting, they take the fat that is liposuctioned from other parts of your body and inject it into areas that are less "plump". My particular surgeon is a specialist in this when it comes to butts. Of course, you have to have fat left in other areas to Lipo from in the first place, so it might not work for someone who is all the way down to goal and doesn't have any/much stored fat anywhere else on their body. Then you would have to resort to implants or gels and that seems a bit more scary to me!

[Soontobeskinnyme 21]

@@NewSetOfCurves do you have before and after?

Here is my pic taken at PS office at one year. And my day before LB surgery and i guess about two years post op TT in purple

wow you look great

[BayougirlMrsS 3,934]

@@NewSetOfCurves WOW!!! honestly i thought you had already had work done. You look amazing.

My regret... i wish i had done a reduction at the same time (i was a 44H before and im a 34H now). and I wish i had done some Lipo on my legs (outer and inner) But my husband didn't want to have this done and only told him two days before surgery because i know he would talk me out of it....

I love my results and would do again....

@@JamieLogical how was the pain? And What dr. did you use in Mex? I went check out Swet Pee's ... he does some good work.

@@Soontobeskinnyme & @NewSetOfCurves.... Thank you.

[JamieLogical 8,708]

@@JamieLogical how was the pain? And What dr. did you use in Mex? I went check out Swet Pee's ... he does some good work.

I used Dra. Laura Carmina Cardenas from Beauty Enhance in Tijuana. The pain was bad. Not gonna lie. She does an incredibly tight muscle repair with her tummy tucks, so it was a while before I could walk without a walker. Then I had a complication where I had swelling in my lower back. My PCP called it a "lipoma"... an area of soft tissue where Fluid was collecting. The incision for my extended Tummy Tuck is almost circumferential... there is about a 3-4" gap in it above my butt crack. Since all the lymphatic channels are severed during a tummy tuck, that little space was the only area where Fluid could move between the upper and lower halves of my body. Then with the fat grafting to the upper part of my butt, I think that may have "blocked" some of the fluid as well. So everything collected at the base of my spine and I had a lot of swelling and pain there for months and months until new lymphatic channels were established.

Now though, that's all a distant memory and I am THRILLED with my results. I'm especially thrilled that they held up through my weight re-gain and re-loss. It's kind of like WLS... it's rough going in the beginning, but the long term results are so worth it!

Edit: It occurred to me that you might have been asking just about the pain of the fat grafting. If there was any specific to the fat grafting, it didn't even register compared to the pain of my muscle repair. General pain and bruising from the Lipo, of course, but it was minimal.

[NewSetOfCurves 1,553]

Thank you @@bayougirlmrsc, but I assure you my tummy is all wrinkles with a bit of a hanging apron below my belly button. My upper and inner thighs also have some skin as well, but fortunately I have very little fat and a lot of muscle tone; so, I have already been told that I am a perfect candidate for the spiral thigh lift. My breast do not exist. My 12 year old daughter and I can share sports bras. Literally. In fact, we do share them. Ugh. So I am ready to look a little more accentuated in that area.

[JamieLogical 8,708]

My breast do not exist. My 12 year old daughter and I can share sports bras. Literally. In fact, we do share them. Ugh. So I am ready to look a little more accentuated in that area.

Ha! That was so me after I lost my initial weight if you look back at those August, 2011 photos I posted. That padded bra is the only thing saving me at that point! Now that I have my implants, I can't imagine that I ever lived without them. I see old pics of myself (I have some nude pre-op pics as well) and I want to cry that my breasts were ever that pathetic!

[BayougirlMrsS 3,934]

my daughter in law lost 80lbs doing the Ideal Protein diet and she is in the same boat at you. She will need some nip and tucking. and i will be there for her just like she was there for me. I love her to death. and i am so proud of her. I know there is no way i could have stuck to that diet... OMG...

But anyway, im wondering how much for what @@JamieLogical and @@Sweet Pee I know she won't need that extensive, but she will need more than what i had done.

I exercised 5 days a week and thank God my skin went back for the most part in most places.... she didn't and has more skin.

[JamieLogical 8,708]

But anyway, im wondering how much for what @@JamieLogical and @@Sweet Pee I know she won't need that extensive, but she will need more than what i had done.

I had my surgery 3.5 years ago, so prices may have changed somewhat since then, but I had all my work done, plus a two week stay in the Beauty Care Recovery House (24/7 nurses and all meals prepared) for about $10,500.

[Sweet Pee 349]

my daughter in law lost 80lbs doing the Ideal Protein diet and she is in the same boat at you. She will need some nip and tucking. and i will be there for her just like she was there for me. I love her to death. and i am so proud of her. I know there is no way i could have stuck to that diet... OMG...

But anyway, im wondering how much for what @@JamieLogical and @@Sweet Pee I know she won't need that extensive, but she will need more than what i had done.

I exercised 5 days a week and thank God my skin went back for the most part in most places.... she didn't and has more skin.

Yeah, my price was quoted some time ago too. Probably best to contact Dr. Victor Gutierrez's plastic surgery clinic directly. He is very good about responding quickly to emails.

[jess9395 5,449]

Here are my before and after pictures. Just click on the link.

http://www.bariatricpal.com/gallery/member/116222-sweet-pee/

Thanks for sharing! Your befores look a lot like I look now... Not much subcutaneous fat left just wrinkly skin. Your bra size is similar too and I don't think I want implants either (though my husband is thinking otherwise...) so it's nice to see what happens without them!

[Sweet Pee 349]

I remember my boobs were only skin and nipples. Yuck!

I love them now.

Only a artistic surgeon could work with the tiny breast tissue I had left, and make them beautiful and symetrical without implants.

All of the other plastic surgeons told me I HAD to have implants.

I really love my boobs now!

[gowalking 10,790]

Thank you for sharing your pictures. Everytime I think I'm OK with my body the way it is, I see how much better it can look and I think all over again that I should go for it. I just hate the idea of more surgery. Maybe in time I'll want it more than dreading how it has to be done.

[MichiganChic 3,262]

Thank you for sharing your pictures. Everytime I think I'm OK with my body the way it is, I see how much better it can look and I think all over again that I should go for it. I just hate the idea of more surgery. Maybe in time I'll want it more than dreading how it has to be done.

You are wise to be sensible about it. I had a LOT of it, and I do look a lot better, but had some complications I'm still dealing with. And I'm far from perfect all over. I looked pretty good in clothes before, and I usually wear clothes, so I was pretty good to go.

One of the plastic surgeons came to our WLS support group meeting and talked about how any candidate for plastic surgery has to have mental fortitude. I think that's the understatement of the year. It's not for the faint of heart. I'm not sorry I did it, but I had to deal with open wounds that I think would have sent me into a panic if I weren't a nurse. It's been 8 months, two surgeries, and I'm just starting to get my energy back. And I'm looking at more surgeries to finish it up. So, thousands of dollars and probably a year and half by the time it's all done, potential long term issues with swelling and numbness......it's a lot to think about.

I don't mean to be negative about it, but just pointing out it's a much bigger undertaking than meets the eye.

[Pepper123 320]

@@JamieLogical u look great!!!!!...

[Pepper123 320]

@@JamieLogical am only 4 months out lost 53 lbs and my tummy is such an eye sore !!! also i need need some ass desperately LOL..waiting for my sleeve anniversary to do all this!!