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KayB

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I debated whether I should even post this thread because, well, I feel so vain.

I am scheduled to undergo a tummy tuck on July 18, the Monday after summer school concludes. Teaching those teenagers is how I'll help pay for it!

I might also have the area under my chin liposuctioned. Blessed with fat chin genetics, I have a double chin no matter how skinny I get.

If I get up the nerve, I will don a bathing suit and have my husband snap a before photo for you all. The skin hangs down through the leg holes of my suit, past my pubic area. I've been thinking of an abdominoplasty for a long time.

I really like the surgeon. I'm quite excited but nervous, too, because I hear the surgery can be very painful. Has anyone had a tummy tuck?
 
Yes! I just had 360 TT with muscle repair, breast lift, upper torsoplasty, BBL and extended arm lift in December (I went to Tijuana for mine, and yes, all of that was in a single surgery session). There is NOTHING vain about wanting to feel good in your body and for your body to match the work you've done to improve it. I may go back for thigh lift - still deciding on that one. I will be getting varicose veins removed, and getting the thread lift in my neck because the loose skin there is not enough to warrant actual surgery, but is enough to be bothersome to me.

The pain, for me, was not too bad. The muscle repair has probably been the hardest in that department.
 
Thank you so much for replying.

You are very brave to get all those procedural done in one go. I have heard that the muscle repair is what makes the tummy tuck painful; I will be getting the muscle repair, too. A csection and several abdominal surgeries has stretched this poor old tummy out beyond anything I can do!
 
I did not have anything done and may not. But I don't think it's vain to want to look how you feel. And we had surgery to lose weight. No matter how much of that decision was based on health factors, for most of us, wanting to be thinner for aesthetic purposes played a part.

Good luck on your surgery. I hope you get up the nerve for before and after photos, at least for yourself.
 
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