Good Luck on the 15th!
Good Luck on the 15th!
I had my arms done this past December, 2020. I lost so much weight after my sleeve surgery in 2017 and as thin as I got, my stomach sag and the bat wing arms bothered the heck out of me. I had the tummy tuck in Oct. 2020 (excellent outcome) and the arm surgery recovery was much harder on me. I am thrilled with the look of them and they are not thin-thin arms... just all of the bulk gone. The scars are long (bottom of arm pits to below my elbows) but I am using a scar cream I bought at my doctors office. It's weird, but I have numbness from my elbows down to my wrists... where she didn't cut. It will pass, eventually. My surgeon explained to me that she could NOT make my arms super thin because it would feel horrible on me, and too tight isn't the better way to go. I trust her. So much so, that I am having my neck lift done in April (the last visible remnants of the 130 lb weight loss).
I knew beforehand that my arm scars wouldn't be straight lines... they zigzag a little. She had explained the reason why and I accepted it. (The arm skin is so very thin, like tissue paper, that when she cuts, and pulls the skin up to suture it, it stretches, so she has to cut more as she aligns it.) 3 months out and I am a tiny bit swollen still, but they look better than that first couple weeks.
I hope you get the outcome you are looking for, if you have a redo.
Height: 5'8"
Highest Weight: 270 BMI 40.3
Day of Surgery Weight: 223 / Pre-Op nutrition diet: LOST 47 pounds
1 Month Weight: 202 (-21 lbs.) TOTAL LOST: 64 pounds
2 Month: Weight: 188 (-14 lbs.) TOTAL LOST: 78 pounds
6 Month Weight: 169 (-2) BMI: 25.7 TOTAL LOST: 97 pounds
"If you can't laugh at yourself, life's going to seem a whole lot longer."
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