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GGRLHWK
on 3/9/10 1:55 am
Topic: RE: Revisions with Glas****
He is awesome and so is his staff.  The process is different time lines depending on where you are with insurance, etc. Good Luck
leechetta
on 3/9/10 12:22 am, edited 3/9/10 1:55 am
Topic: RE: cookie cutters
My 2001 LBL experience with Coralville, IA plastic surgeons went badly.

Yes I think it could have been okay if they had been more observant.  Maybe they didn't have time. Doctors have such busy schedules. Maybe they have more time now and can be more observant and thoughtful  with technical /surgical manuvers and how it could affect people after they leave the surgical suite  and hit the road.

Leech

sallyj
on 3/9/10 12:16 am - Spokane, WA
Topic: RE: cookie cutters
So I gather you had the procedure and don't like the results?  I can understand that; I just didn't get that from your original post.
leechetta
on 3/9/10 12:01 am, edited 3/9/10 12:20 am
Topic: RE: cookie cutters
I would say that they are superlative doctors and they may do the procedure itself "correctly." and� other procedures correctly within�a certain scope.� This LBL stuff s extremely complicated. � I would say they lack the great amount of finesse it takes to do the person's body correctly. I ought to know.� My delicate inner�leg /�groin skin pulled up so tight� to just under hip� bone that it would get embedded into tiny pelvic bony crevices and skin would scrape and pull when changing from sitting to standing to walking positions.� After almost 9 years of great amount of stretching, yawing pitching every day� to grow more skin I am getting a bit more comfortable just lately.

fi�nesse (f? nes)

noun

  1. adroitness and delicacy of performance
  2. the ability to handle delicate and difficult situations skillfully and diplomatically
  3. cunning; skill; artfulness; craft

Leech

sallyj
on 3/8/10 9:27 pm - Spokane, WA
Topic: RE: cookie cutters
So is your concern that they aren't doing the procedure correctly?  That the procedure itself is a problem?
leechetta
on 3/8/10 8:42 am
Topic: RE: cookie cutters
Doctors  have a procedure and people have a pelvis.  Pelvis and  how it joins and moves with hip ,femur and probably solar plexus all highly dependent on arrangement of connective tissue that pelvis is enveloped or cradled in. PS just yank this here and that there and say okay you have less skin now . But  it must be a constantly evolving real crap shoot to get everything hooked up properly.  Especially if the body lift receipient can't posture themselves in certain ways so it can be determined  what should go where(?) so body can( after certain amount of healing time )reagain proper and comfortable alignment and full functionality.  Then there is the problem of skin contraction months after the lift which can just change everything.
The pelvis can tilt and rotate at full throttle or not  and it's not at full throttle during the surgery -(that's for sure) and if this isn't fully understood well and how could it be really  ...pity the fool.  But if all your after is less skin then it'll do that.
Someone wrote in recently that that the things I'm writing about are being taken into consideration nore recently by some doctors.  And surgical table used has a  kind of water bed type of base so everything can be arranged less crudely and haphazardly.  This sounds somewhat promising I suppose.

Leech

sallyj
on 3/7/10 9:51 pm - Spokane, WA
Topic: RE: cookie cutters
I don't understand.   If this very intensive surgery is suitable for only a small number of patients--who meet the criteria--why is this a bad thing to know?  From what I read when I was looking at plastic surgery, most surgeons who do LBLs have a rather strict age and health requirements because it is so hard on the body.
leechetta
on 3/7/10 1:23 am
Topic: cookie cutters
My 2001 LBL experience with Coralville, IA plastic surgeons went badly. You must fit their procedure not the other way around. I pity the fool.

Leech

huth7226
on 2/28/10 9:49 am
Topic: Revisions with Glas****
Just wondering if anyone can give me any information on their experience with Dr Glas**** and revisions.  I am going to the seminar next week and wondered about how long it takes to get an appointment to see him and then how long for the surgery process.  I am really excited about this process, I have heard nothing but awesome review about him and his office.  I have had many complications and I am hoping he can offer me some hope that will get my health back to were I need to be.  I am so thankful they he has agreed to take me on, I was talking to physicians from New York and Texas and just so thankful I can get something done her in IOWA. 
WeekendWarrior
on 2/25/10 8:02 am - Central, IA
Topic: RE: UI grad student with Wellmark BCBS, want DS
Wellmark covers the DS if your BMI is 50+, so you should be covered.

Here is a LINK to the WLS policy.

Does anyone know if Wellmark requires a 6 month Dr. supervised diet?

The policy doens't specifically say that, but one of the surgeons I consulted said they do.

I am looking at getting the VSG, but they still consider it investigational.  I am going to appeal if they deny.

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