Does Your Belly Feel Different After TT???
I am curious to know from those of you who have had a tummy tuck with abdominal tightening if after you healed up did you’re torso still feel the same? What I am asking is kinda hard for me to describe. Do you actually feel the difference in the muscle of the stomach afterwards? Is there any pulling or pinching of either the muscles or skin after the healing process is over? I guess I imagine it to be like “breaking in" your new tightened belly muscles and skin.. sorry, I just can’t seem to put it in words today. Hope you all get what I am saying…. lol
-Michele
lap band '05/revision to rny 11/21/07
5'6- hw/276 sw/242 cw/144 gw/140
then- bmi 36-39 now-bmi 24- NORMAL WEIGHT
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LOL! funny that you ask - I had my TT at the end of May and I feel a BIG difference!!! It's like my stomach is sucked in..... ALL the time!!! LOL not uncomfortable, just different. it's funny cause at first i thought I couldn't breathe deeply.... I had to adjust.
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It is different, but it's a good different. It feels like your stomach is always pulled in, but you don't have to work so hard for it to be that way. I don't know about the "after the healing" question as it takes a long time to heal, but you do go through different little weird phases. Like skin sensitivity, itchy/burn type feelings. And you can over do and probably herniate something really easy if you're not careful. But oh my go**** is so worth it!
I'd say for me the hardest thing has been waring this bindering in this sweltering heat because I am wearing a really thin cami under it just to help my skin or else I'd really be sore. But, I've only got 5 more days of wearing it according to my surgeons rules. Then I'll wear it as I feel I need it. I have been 100% faithful in wearing it - sweltering heat and all!
Tonja
I'd say for me the hardest thing has been waring this bindering in this sweltering heat because I am wearing a really thin cami under it just to help my skin or else I'd really be sore. But, I've only got 5 more days of wearing it according to my surgeons rules. Then I'll wear it as I feel I need it. I have been 100% faithful in wearing it - sweltering heat and all!
Tonja
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I had a tummy tuck and lipo of the side flanks performed by Nathan Miller with Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates in Oklahoma City on June 23rd, 2009.
I had a tummy tuck and lipo of the side flanks performed by Nathan Miller with Cosmetic Surgery Affiliates in Oklahoma City on June 23rd, 2009.
Yep, tight as a tick! I had my TT in 2003, five years before WLS. I had lost 72 pounds, down from 292 to 220, thought I was *healed* of my obesity, had a big ol' kangaroo pouch, got it chopped off. Started eating all those yummy casseroles the church ladies brought me and proceeded to gain 50 pounds back. Now TIGHTER than a tick! But now that I have had WLS and am 60 pounds less than I was when I had the TT, my stomach feels completely normal ... and wonderful! In fact, the same surgeon who did my TT just did a brachioplasty on me last week, and he said when I was laid out on the operating table, everyone said, "Wow, Dr. Woods, that tummy tuck looks great!"
In other words, don't gain any weight back, and you will get used to the nice taut feeling :-)
--Dorothy
In other words, don't gain any weight back, and you will get used to the nice taut feeling :-)
--Dorothy
Highest weight: 292 Pre-op weight: 265 Goal met: 150 Six years out: 185 and trying to lose again!
It is TERRIFIC! There is some numb places still which makes for a strange sensation etc.
But like everyone else said, you are all sucked in and don't have to TRY to do this anymore.. and to not have all that bouncing around.. wow it is so nice. i still find myself trying to lift my pannus up so I can clean under it.... NOT THERE!
WOOHOOOO - You will adore it if you do this.
But like everyone else said, you are all sucked in and don't have to TRY to do this anymore.. and to not have all that bouncing around.. wow it is so nice. i still find myself trying to lift my pannus up so I can clean under it.... NOT THERE!
WOOHOOOO - You will adore it if you do this.
Hugs, Melissa
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LBL - 4/28/09 with Dr. Rene Recinos
heehee! I remember when I was a little girl my dad told me if I sucked in my stomach all the time it would stay skinny. I have never "not" sucked it in. Its awful! My surgery date is July 29th and I can not wait for this to be over with! I am sooooo looking foward to my new tummy. I already wear clothing I never dreamed I would ever wear, feel confident and love it! I can't imagine how I will feel once this is over and done and healed.
I just wondered how foreign your belly feels afterwards. I know when I had my open incision (which was left open for 3 weeks) when it healed it felt like I was touching someone elses belly. A little numb in places and sensitive- almost like a sunburn feel. I just can't invision it being not only flat, but taut. NO saggy skin. I don't ever remember a time in my life when I didn't at least have saggy skin there. Oh yess, and there will be no more lifting of the panni to clean! Congrats to you all! I will be joining you soon!
I just wondered how foreign your belly feels afterwards. I know when I had my open incision (which was left open for 3 weeks) when it healed it felt like I was touching someone elses belly. A little numb in places and sensitive- almost like a sunburn feel. I just can't invision it being not only flat, but taut. NO saggy skin. I don't ever remember a time in my life when I didn't at least have saggy skin there. Oh yess, and there will be no more lifting of the panni to clean! Congrats to you all! I will be joining you soon!
-Michele
lap band '05/revision to rny 11/21/07
5'6- hw/276 sw/242 cw/144 gw/140
then- bmi 36-39 now-bmi 24- NORMAL WEIGHT
"It's Not Who You Are On The Inside, It's What You Do That Defines You".....
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