tummy tuck

[stopsayingmum]

Anyone had a tummytuck?
What is it really like? Is it worth it?

I dunno, but I want one as well.

I did have a breast reduction at the age of 22 and that was well worth it, but the buggers have grown back now thanks to breast feeding!

I had one 2 years ago and it was a horrible botch job which nearly killed me. My body went in to shock after the op - my BP fell to 40/10 and I was haemorraging faster than they could give me transfusions - all the while my parents sat by the edge of my bed weeping.

Once I was released from hospital I suffered terribly with seromas (bags of fluid forming under the skin) - some as large as 1 litre - photos I have show that I was more swollen then than I am now at 32 weeks pregnant. The pain had me delirious.

I missed a massive promotion at work because I wasn't prepared to fly out to Bangalore 4 weeks post-op...

6 months later I had to have ultrasounds because the chronic on-going pain led my doctors to believe I was possibly laying down calcium (growing a bone) in my abdominal wall.

Would I do it again? Hell no!

that is absolutely awful skihorse.
It makes me wonder what the ratio is between awful experiences and good experiences.
I hope you were able to get your life back together. You sound pretty strong about it now. Thanks for sharing.

I think "most" people have a good experience - but I think I went in to it all a bit on the naive side. I didn't even entertain the possibility that it might not work out - my surgeon had said to me "I don't call this plastic surgery, it's reconstructive surgery".

I think I'd just read too many stories about women doing a 3 mile run 2 weeks afterwards... of course nobody wants to read the shitty stories do they?

blimey, what a terrible experience. Did you get any support or further help from the surgeon who did it?

piratecat - In retrospect I should've sued, but I was so traumatised I didn't ever want to see him face-to-face again. I didn't want him touching me or looking at my tummy.

I've since googled him and seen that he's very "litigous" with anyone criticising his work.

Maybe one day I'll have the confidence to try and get it fixed - I don't know.

But I've certainly not got the tummy I dreamed of...

skihorse, i am so sorry. what an ordeal.x

I remember that Colin Hendry's wife Denise aged 44 died from complications due to a botched tummy tuck. Sorry to read your story skihorse, it is not very often we hear the negative side of cosmetic surgery.