On July 21, 2010 at 4:14 PM Pacific Time, leechetta wrote: Actually I'm not the same fun loving girl I used to be by a long shot  but I'm  fairly well balanced and have a good sense of humor and I don't go around all angry all the time.   We all have bad days and make mistakes or maybe my doctors interpretation of how a body should be is different than mine. The type of sugery I had "circumferential belt lift"   pretty much of a crap shoot.    So many compex connection areas that deal with thrusting and gyration and so on are excluded from consideration.  Everything is done below important  connection areas that suspend lower areas.Abdominal area, midriff and sides are alienated from the process of harnessed-integrated trunk connection.   When the body is splat out ,ie. inanimate, on  a surgical table powerful areas that contain pleating capabilities (sort of like accordion pleats) required for bending or folding can be lifted or moved  away from the area where bending and folding is necessary for ease of movement.    Everything needs to be aligned for  standing  and sitting  and this is hard to determine when the body is inantimate  and supine. My doctors said there was a trick they had to accomplish hooking everything up correctly.  This was in 2001.  Their trick didn't work for me.  I hope they have come up with a new and better trick since then.  Medically I'm alive and  my legs are still hanging on somehow and I can still walk about . Soon I may not be able to.  Sitting is another story though. I suppose it's all relative ...a person with a severly burned groin  might be happy as hell to have a thin sliver of hardened skin like I have (maybe??) now holding their legs pelvis crotch and groin all together "teeter totter style." I think about that a lot.  I wasn't a burn patient though.   When I sit there is no compartment for the front of my upper leg to fill.  It gets pulled down down into my inner leg. This stress has shredded away any adipose in my groin and   inner leg. My sinews and tendons are so tightly trapped in a direction they can't function well in. I even have trouble breathing with  so many very fragile sensitive areas trapped so tightly. Deep pain on each side of  my pelvic mound  like I'm been kicked real hard to the point of seeing stars almost the whole time I'm at work sitting. I have five more years till (semi) retirement.  I don't know how I'm going to make it but I've been thinking that way for the past nine years so maybe I can make it another five. Sheesh I hope so.  All I know is that I'm super ready for  complete bed rest  and maybe doing the dishes every other day - but I can't have that life style now. I smile a whole lot through it all - I'm a smiling fool--but I reserve certain times when I don't smile -that's for sure. Sorry about that.  And I'm scared and I can't get any help or  support   I've been to doctors and after they jump back in shock after seeing my pelvis  they compose themselves and say that I seem fine to them.  So I try to think that I will be fine someday but some days I can't believe that because everything hurts so much and is so out of whack.    If any one out there is considering having a surgery of the type I had after their weight loss be sure to take one of my pictures on your consulation with a plastic surgeon and tell him/her to look at it and promise that won't happen to you..
Caroli or however you spell your name.  sounds like you're doing good.  Good for you.  Sorry I'm not. I thought it "takes a village" ...guess you don't think it does.

You sound like a very angry, upset individual based on your numerous negative comments on here.  I'd appreciate it very much if you'd contact the physicians whom you have a problem with and discuss your concerns directly with them.  Your posts are not helpful to those of us who truly are interested in getting support and helpful information on this site.

Thank you!
Carol

but plastic surgeons can do just about whatever they want to a person's groin and there doesn't seem to be much interest or study as to just what  all their  "extremely complicated connective tissue maneuvering" can mean to the body. Duh!  I know I'll never make a touchdown after my circumferential belt lift 2001. One would think the bio mechanical research PhDs could hone in on this a little bit.  Guess the money just isn't there. Pitiful My perfectly okay groin is now completely  eroded after Iowa City circumferential belt lift.
That rap singers mother died and all from her abdominoplasty but her doc was just "conveniently"  labeled as person who sometimes drinks alchohol.  End of story. Ho hum let the carnage continue unchecked.