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C section over hang

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Keely199 · 14/05/2024 14:05

Is there any way of getting rid of my c section over hang completely without getting surgery it's been 13 years and Still gets me down iv had 2 more babies since then but natural births that and the c section on top as completely ruined my body iv also get vericose veins all over my legs can't wear anything fitted it's clings to me even when iv lost weight it's depressing I can't wear tight tops as it's makes it obvious.

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Keely199 · 14/05/2024 18:41

fisherking1 · 14/05/2024 15:59

I think it has a lot to do with the surgeon tbh and I didn't have one with my first 2 sections but did with my third. I don't think it is that easy to get rid of an overhang.

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Supposed to get your babies out safely but shouldn't mean they don't enough care leaving women to look a bloody mess then won't fix it later on it's a joke I'm botched through no fault of my own.

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Pennyandolive · 15/05/2024 09:52

OP, kindly I think your mindset is holding you back. Yes, it’s unfortunate that you have the overhang but you seem to believe there’s nothing you can do about it. You CAN. It’s just not easy and you have to commit yourself to it. You seem to be thinking people are saying it’s your fault - that’s not what they’re saying - they’re trying to empower you to take this situation and turn it around. You wanted non surgical solutions and the only real non surgical solutions are diet and exercise, working on your mindset and changing your wardrobe. There is no magic pill that will do this for you. It takes work - and not just for a few months.

I don’t think you really posted this for advice but for sympathy but the reality is that sympathy isn’t going to help you change anything.

Keely199 · 15/05/2024 21:08

Pennyandolive · 15/05/2024 09:52

OP, kindly I think your mindset is holding you back. Yes, it’s unfortunate that you have the overhang but you seem to believe there’s nothing you can do about it. You CAN. It’s just not easy and you have to commit yourself to it. You seem to be thinking people are saying it’s your fault - that’s not what they’re saying - they’re trying to empower you to take this situation and turn it around. You wanted non surgical solutions and the only real non surgical solutions are diet and exercise, working on your mindset and changing your wardrobe. There is no magic pill that will do this for you. It takes work - and not just for a few months.

I don’t think you really posted this for advice but for sympathy but the reality is that sympathy isn’t going to help you change anything.

Il be honest I did yeah its hard because feel like I had to suffer they left me looking a mess it's just having the time and energy to try and get rid of it's been 13 years it's hard to give up the nice foods to go on a strict diet sorry iv been unreasonable feeling sorry msyelf a lot it's not just the over hang that bothers my legs are covered in bumpy blue veins that I can't get rid of with diet or exercise there itchy at times but my doctor isn't concerned they just don't care.

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Ifyoucouldreadmymindlove · 15/05/2024 21:09

TribeofFfive · 14/05/2024 14:08

Diet and exercise, both during and after pregnancy. I’ve had 4 csections and don’t have one but it’s been bloody hard work! If you get a PT they will advise which exercises work.

Sadly, this is true. It is partially a preemptive exercise.

Ifyoucouldreadmymindlove · 15/05/2024 21:11

Keely199 · 14/05/2024 14:47

Suggesting iv got money to throw at a personal trainer I'd be less pissed of if you told me to do some home exercise not starve mysel pay money out I don't have.

How did it get to posts like this so fast? 😳

Keely199 · 15/05/2024 21:15

Ifyoucouldreadmymindlove · 15/05/2024 21:11

How did it get to posts like this so fast? 😳

I was suggested to get a personal that I cant afford that's what my comment was aimed at.

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ShowOfHands · 15/05/2024 21:19

I am extremely fit. I run miles every week, climb, cycle, lift heavy weights. I eat a very healthy diet, no alcohol, no sugar, vegetarian. I have exercised a lot and eaten healthily for my whole life. I'm a slim size 8. I have excellent muscle definition. I work really hard.

I have an overhang and nothing, but nothing will shift it. There are different types of overhang. Some might be affected by diet and exercise, but others - like mine and I think yours op - are due to the way the incision is stitched and the structure of my abdomen now. It won't reduce. I have a pretty toned stomach down to my belly button. Below it is different.

I've spent quite a lot of time thoroughly miserable about it, but recently have been doing yoga. Does fuck all for the overhang of course, but I'm learning to use my body differently and am actively trying to spend the quieter portion of each practice feeling happy with my body. It is helping. I'm trying to accept it.

A friend chose to save up and had an abdominoplasty. She was the same as me. Incredibly fit (we ran together, did marathon training, hiked), but it just wouldn't go and she decided that surgery was worth it.

Keely199 · 15/05/2024 21:32

ShowOfHands · 15/05/2024 21:19

I am extremely fit. I run miles every week, climb, cycle, lift heavy weights. I eat a very healthy diet, no alcohol, no sugar, vegetarian. I have exercised a lot and eaten healthily for my whole life. I'm a slim size 8. I have excellent muscle definition. I work really hard.

I have an overhang and nothing, but nothing will shift it. There are different types of overhang. Some might be affected by diet and exercise, but others - like mine and I think yours op - are due to the way the incision is stitched and the structure of my abdomen now. It won't reduce. I have a pretty toned stomach down to my belly button. Below it is different.

I've spent quite a lot of time thoroughly miserable about it, but recently have been doing yoga. Does fuck all for the overhang of course, but I'm learning to use my body differently and am actively trying to spend the quieter portion of each practice feeling happy with my body. It is helping. I'm trying to accept it.

A friend chose to save up and had an abdominoplasty. She was the same as me. Incredibly fit (we ran together, did marathon training, hiked), but it just wouldn't go and she decided that surgery was worth it.

I knew it isn't always possible to get rid of regardless of what some women do like yourself you tried and tried but it's still there I get told of for saying its pot luck if you can get rid of it not everyone is so lucky to go back after surgery and we get no help to fix even when it's the NHS that made the mess in the first place we have to find the money somehow Il have to do without I cant blow all my savings on surgery unfortunately lol.

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VeryUnlikely · 15/05/2024 21:40

I LOVE my overhang! It's a crazy, long wonky line as DS was an emergency caesarian too and was pulled out weighing nearly 10lb. And he was technically two and a bit weeks early.

My overhang spills over my knickers, and sucking in doesn't make a damned bit of difference and never will - the nerves are shot. But I often pull the overhang up and stare in amazement at the massive scar - which, if it had been the result of a traffic accident, would be a major talking point...but when it's just a long scalpel incision for the mere thing of pulling out a baby human, it's not, it's unimportant. Oh, and it's not painful oh no. Easy peasy.
That overhang is a forever reminder of what a weird, wonderful, frightening, long, despairing in my case, experience it was. DS is a teenager now.

Keely199 · 15/05/2024 22:09

VeryUnlikely · 15/05/2024 21:40

I LOVE my overhang! It's a crazy, long wonky line as DS was an emergency caesarian too and was pulled out weighing nearly 10lb. And he was technically two and a bit weeks early.

My overhang spills over my knickers, and sucking in doesn't make a damned bit of difference and never will - the nerves are shot. But I often pull the overhang up and stare in amazement at the massive scar - which, if it had been the result of a traffic accident, would be a major talking point...but when it's just a long scalpel incision for the mere thing of pulling out a baby human, it's not, it's unimportant. Oh, and it's not painful oh no. Easy peasy.
That overhang is a forever reminder of what a weird, wonderful, frightening, long, despairing in my case, experience it was. DS is a teenager now.

I'm happy that you love your over hang 😍I'd love to see be happy about it for once.

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