Introducing myself

Hi everyone.  I hang out on the sleeve forum, but as I have just scheduled a brachioplasty for July 10, I thought I'd pop over here and get acquainted.  I'm not new to plastic surgery; had a tummy tuck and breast reduction in 2003.  But these arms!  Bat wings!  I'm a church music director, and when I conduct ... flap flap flap!  It is awful.  Can't wait to be flap-free!

I had hoped to get an inner thigh lift at the same time, but the surgeon talked me out of it.  He said that for the amount of skin I have (droopy but not excessive, and my thighs don't rub together, thankfully), he wouldn't recommend it -- tough recovery because of where the incisions are, etc etc.  Anyway, it didn't take much un-convincing.  In fact, if I didn't swim, I wouldn't even be thinking about it, but I would have liked to look better in a bathing suit.

Sooo, since he talked me out of the thigh lift, I decided to have my under-eye pooches removed!  I hate them.  They make me look OLD!  So arms and eyes in two and a half months.  I can hardly wait!

Any of you all who can tell me about your experience with those two surgeries, I'd be much obliged :-)

--Dorothy

Oh my how exciting for you!!  The thing that stinks with the brachio is you never really understand how much you use your full range of motion untill you don't have it.  I am a little over 4 months out and I still struggly a bit reaching for high things.  I feel the tightness in my underarms.

I am actually going to have a revision done.  My right arm looks ok but my left arm doesn't look like he did anything.  I will be going to the surgeon who did my TBL and he said I wouldn't need the armpits redone.

The armpits are what is the hardest in my opinion.

Good Luck!! and Welcome