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Hello everyone! I had GBS in 12/04 and I went from 300 to 145. Now i am interested in recon- structive surgery. Please tell me what type of plastic surgery you had done,how was the recovery period? and in how much time you returned to work?.Thank you so much may God bless you! Annette

You might try the plastic surgery board for all that.....everyone is different... Darlene

(hijack) Hi Darlene, Are you going tho the conference in Universal City on the 9th next month? Missy~~~

Missy, Sorry for the late reply to this, just got it from my bulk folder. Sometimes it does that with OH mail...grrrrrrr As fro the converence, I'm not sure yet, might be bringing a few others with me if I do.....are you going to be there? Darlene

I lost 220 lbs, waited 6 months and had my body conturing surgery. I had a tummy tuck and upper body life. Basically about 6 feet of incisions during a 7 hour surgery. The first day I slept more than I was awake due to coming out of the anethesia and the strong pain medication I was taking. Second day I told my caretaker I wasn't taking the strong medication because I felt like I was going to fall down when I tried to walk. I was way too drugged. I went on the lowest dose of 4 kinds of pain meds the doctor had prescribed which worked fine for me. No pain plus I was awake and aware. I started walking the house, then to the mail box, up an down the driveway several times on day 3. By day 8 I walked 3 miles (1 mile each time) and told my plastic surgeon on day 9 it was time for me to go back to work. I went back to work (accountant so I sit most of the day) on day 10 feeling great and haven't slowed down since. I did have a couple of days when I suddenly hit a brick wall at about 2 weeks after surgery. I had guest and simply did too much those days. Both times I'd been going non stop for 16-17 hours. All it took was a good nights sleep and I felt fine the next day. The only negative to my surgery was that I still had two of my five drains for 2 months after surgery. The surgeon had never had a patient with drains that long, but didn't know if it was because she removed 22 lbs (most any doctor in the practice had ever removed from a patient) during surgery, or if I had simply been too active leading to the excess fluids. I had not been told not to exercise because she didn't think I'd be able to so soon after surgery. She expected me to be exhausted and unable to stand straight at 9 days out from surgery. Instead I walked in standing straight, walking normal and feeling great. She calls me her miracle patient because most people are still complaining of fatigue for months. The surgery wasn't nearly as bad as I'd anticipated. I expected a lot of pain but at most had a level 3 pain on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most pain. I love my flat tummy and no love handles by the way. I could use other surgery like my arms and even my neck/face, but probably won't ever have it. Those areas probably aren't any worse than most 60 year olds but they could look better. I've given it a lot of thought and know the surgery has to stop somewhere. I was self pay and have to take personal time off when I have surgery. We only get 6 days a year personal time so there's not a lot of room to build it up. Best of luck to you on your reconstructive surgery.