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suzanne · 11-08-2006, 05:57 AM

I have wrote about this before, I had a lower body lift and inner thigh lift at the same time on September 13. My experience has been difficult. I developed wounds because having a lower body lift is more cutting, and with that you can get wounds that take forever to heal, I have to go to a specialist three morning a week, and I have been doing it for 5 weeks now, and still have a month atleast to go. I also have a machine hooked to me that is called a wound vac that is hooked to the wounds to help them heal faster. That said, I would do it again, the reason I choose the lower body lift and over a tummy tuck was because I had lot of extra skin on my back and I also had the cut up the middle that runs from the lower body lift cut up to between my boobs, however this is where I have the biggest wound as well and have been told it is because the blood supply was cut off so much. I really haven't had problems with the back of me so much, just one wound that is very small. Just know with a lower body lift you can have more problems, but I have found the results are better than just a tummy tuck. I also found that a lot of doctors won't do all of that at once because it is a lot on your body. I didn't have any problems with my inner thigh lift it went great. One big piece of advice I can give you is beef up your protein, protein is what you use to heal and that will help a lot. They told me if I had more, this may not have happened like this.
Don't want to scare you but just wanted you to have some information that I wasn't given. I don't regret it and would do it again in a min!!! Just remember the healing process can be longer than you think.