would you get plastic surgery?

[zazA09Jane]

if you were really unhappy about something and had the opportunity? fair enough some celebs just get too much done but I dont think people should be criticized if they werent happy with a certain feature and got it changed to feel more comfortable with their appearance, opinions?

TillyTummyTuck sorry to hear you're post-surgery issues. I had the same procedure a few years ago. I didn't experience any leaking gunk but I was extremely bloated for a long time. It also took me approx a month before I could stand straight. As for the "lifted pubes" they will settle & lower when the bloating & swelling subsides.

As for the questions in the OP: I had surgery for both cosmetic & medical reasons. Despite being fit (regular runner, yoga, work outs etc) my abs were so badly separated that part of my intestine protruded through. There was no muscular support for my lower back which meant everytime I stood up I would feel like I was leaving my pelvis behind (very painful). After 11 years of this I had had enough. Having the muscles shortened & stitched together gave me the support necessary for normal function & repaired the hernia.

Cosmetically, my skin has zero elasticity and I had been left with a wrinkled, stretchmarked mess of crepe paper-like skin which hung loose and had to be tucked into my jeans. There was no fat in it so lipo etc would have made no difference & it was too damaged to ever shrink back to the muscle thru exercise.

This procedure has not set me on the path to a lifetime of further enhancements. My self esteem was totally healthy before the procedure - for example I always wore bikinis on the beach despite awful stomach and I never felt the need to hide away.

Rudy how are you feeling?
How did it all go?
Will you tell us what you had done?
(totally understand if you prefer not to )

Really it's the possibility of it going wrong that puts me off, when you start researching online you tend to come across a disproportionate amount of accounts from those who've had problems.

With MRSA and other super-bugs becoming ever more prevalent in hospitals (and everywhere else for that matter) I just couldn't justify the risk. When my DH was in hospital last year he was in a bed next to a 30yo man who had done into hospital for a very minor op and had ended up losing both legs an arm and big parts of his torso to a flesh-eating bacteria. It just happens too often.
So for me it's botox - yes, surgery - no.

I wouldn't - I'd rather work on accepting myself as I am and not letting physical appearance define me - and wouldn't want to give my children the message that appearance matters to the extent that it's better to go through pain and surgery than accept it. After a lifetime of body image issues, the way I look honestly doesn't matter to me any more.

He was in a bed next to a 30yo man who had done into hospital for a very minor op and had ended up losing both legs an arm and big parts of his torso to a flesh-eating bacteria.

Even if I could afford surgery, I'd now be learning to live with my shape-shifting face!!

I definitely would. I'm due to have weight loss surgery & if it works I will definitely be left with saggy skin. Lots of saggy skin. If that happens I will somehow scrape together the money and have plastic surgery to remove it and maybe have new boobs as they are definitely going to vanish.
But I don't think I'd ever have anything done to my face , but if people have something that really makes them unhappy, a big nose or sticky out ears, then they should go for it if they want to.

I have a very badly scared right arm from my wrist to my elbow. Dcs think I have 3elbows lol. I wouldn't dream of getting them "fixed" They are my war wounds. They remind me how strong I can be.

However I would have my stomach stapled, porcelain veneers and a tummy tuck for the after affects of tge stapling in a heart beat. :)

I wouldn't have surgery for anything that wasn't medically necessary. No anaesthetic is entirely without risk, no surgical procedure is entirely without risk. Complications of either could be worse than living inside my saggy, wrinkly, drooping body.

I tell my boys my body is like our wooden kitchen table. Every mark / wrinkle / scar / droopy bit tells part of the story of my life. I can point out the deep gouges on the table where DH was doing some DIY and forgot to put a board down first (and 10 years later on we still use those bedside cabinets). I can point out my appendix scar from 25 years ago. I can see the marks where DS1 was learning to write and I still have the saggy apron like tummy he left me with once born.

All me, all my life story. Quite happy not to replace my table or surgically rewrite myself :)

I am planning on having some after I've had my twins. Lipo and a tummy tuck

Yes id have a nose job as mine is huge. Then boob job as one boob is a total different cup size to the other.

Personally I wouldn't.

I used to work in a solicitors doing medical negligence. I hate my nose but I wouldn't ever get it done. Used to spend the majority of time working on plastic surgery post complications and "botched" surgery. The poor people who had complications or botched surgery would then have had to have corrective surgery and this was often even more upsetting for them.

I'm looking in to laser eye surgery at the moment though, which has similar pros and cons. But that's more of a necessity than vanity for me (one eye high plus and high astigmatism, the other not).

But if you get referred by your GP to a reputable surgeon it's much safer, ChuffMuffin (what a charmingly poetic name btw )

Hic - I do see your point, and it's part of the reason I'm still not sure if I want reconstruction after my bilateral mastectomy. But then I think, I'm 36, I've had breast cancer, I hope to live for a good while yet, and I'd like to do that while having more choice about what I wear. I don't really think it's about vanity, more about normally. I have scars enough!