Arm lift question - embarassing

J G.
on 7/27/11 3:12 pm

I read advice here to keep everything you will need at waist level. This makes me wonder, how do you wipe your butt???

-thanks, Jenny

Laura in Texas
on 7/27/11 9:42 pm

RNY on 09/17/08

Lifting my arms up was a problem the first couple weeks. I had no problem moving my arms down.

Laura

Laura in Texas

53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)

RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis

brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco

"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."

Jujuvee
on 7/27/11 10:08 pm

I have already prepared my husband as I will be having LBL and arms done. He's such a trooper he had arranged for his sister to stay with us LOL!! He has a super weak stomach but great intentions!!.

HW 405- Pre op weight 374- Plastics weight 203 Current weight 194

Circumferential lift/Brachioplasty November 8, 2011
16.3 pounds removed.

Revisions + Thighplasty October 23, 2012

Breast lift- Spring 2013

cleos_mom
on 7/27/11 10:38 pm - phila., PA

RNY on 06/18/07

you just do it, it may hurt a little but I will have no one wiping me as ling as I have hands on the end of my arms.
actually out of all the surgeries i have has the arms was te easiest the worst part is u cant lift anything with any weight to it
Susan

(deactivated member)
on 7/28/11 3:15 am

VSG on 12/21/09

Susan, YOU'RE A HOOT, GIRL..!!

Renee2007
on 7/27/11 11:32 pm - Central, FL

DS on 01/28/08

It wasn't a problem at all for me. Like laura said, it's the reaching up and stretching too far that you need to be careful about. The closer you keep your arms to your sides the better.

Renee
I

My DS
SW/263 CW/136 GW/150

J G.
on 7/28/11 5:32 am

DS on 06/23/08

Oh geesh, I had it all wrong. I thought you had to keep your arms out to the side like chicken wings.

J G.
on 7/28/11 5:29 am

DS on 06/23/08

thanks for the great info y'all!!!

LadyJwb
on 7/29/11 10:03 am - Philadelphia, PA

RNY on 05/29/08

I'm only four days post op Brachio plasty and honestly I have no problems wiping . I actually brushed my own hair in a ponytail to go to the doctors office (the DH had my looking crazy...lol) my arms have not been painful at all so far. Just really tired.

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