markashleigh1979 do you have any pics?

[markashleigh1979]

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Hi Guys,
These are my new pics ( 3 weeks and 1 day post op) . I have one thing that is bothering me...the LHS side is healing well and is almost flat except for the scar tissue which makes it pertrude a litte....which doesnt bother me......but the RHS stands out more and seems to be swollen, well i hope it's swelling and not left over fat.....should i still have inflamation at this stage ? or am i just being impatient?
Do you think these resulta are good so far?

Thanks in advance for your comments

[London_boy]

he was going to post the one of you in the leathers  

Damn I knew I should have taken that one off there !!

london boy do you have any 5 month pics?

Not yet although I should take some as things are changing all the time, the slight build-up of fluid that I had on the rhs seems to have reabsorbed and as the months go on, it starts to look more and more natural......

whens the soonest i could get op after consultation?

I waited quite a while but only because of work committments but others on here have waited a matter of weeks between the initial consultation and the op.
Best of luck with the consultation mate, you obviously need to make your own decisions but if I could go back and do it all again, I wouldn't do anything any differently.

if its a prob will remove

Not a problem at all, it just took me by surprise.  It was one of those strange double take moments when I thought, hang on a sec, I recognise him.......

[markashleigh1979]

No comments......is that good or bad? lol

[phantom]

Re 'when can you have surgery after the consultation'

Just as soon as there is a theatre slot available in theory.

Mr Levick was the 3rd initial consultation I had with plastic surgeons.  I think I had already made my mind up before I even went to see him which was on December 13 2005.  I arranged to schedule surgery straight after the consultation (despite Mr Levick telling me go home and sleep on it).  The earliest they could offer me was Friday 13 January.  Fortunately work commitments prevented me from that particular date , so I am being 'done' on Fri 20th instead.

[limaecho]

well consultation will be April for me, and surgery around June-ish. I was just hoping his waiting list would be slightly shorter than the NHS!  

I have the money saved up anyway to buy a car, just weighing up which is more important. My mind has swayed me from NHS + Car to Levick, simply for better results and I can get rid quicker.  

[phantom]

limaecho

I am of the opinion that if I had have gone via the NHS, aside from the waiting, I would not have the luxury of choice in who gets to operate on me.  The chances are it would be either a general surgeon or even a plastic surgeon but who's caseload would be virtually all female patients for breast reconstruction or mastectomy.  Even female breast reduction is very, very different from male chest reduction.

What better to use a guy that has had the surgery done on himself and whose caseload is made up of many, many male chest reduction procedures each year, that is Mr Levick?

You can get a car anytime... but chest reduction is for life, not just for...erm... you get the picture...

[limaecho]

phantom, that is exactly the way I look at it. The amount of people Levick looks at in a week, the NHS surgeon I would go to is likely to look at in a year. Practice makes perfect - hopefully! I've decided I'd rather have it done properley, than just for the 'sake' of it.

[ruggedtoast]

Mark, I think its much its much too early to be worrying about the results. It looks very good so far compared to a lot of post ops ive seen so shortly after. Was it lipo and excision or just lipo?

[markashleigh1979]

Yer i know it's just so hard when you want to see the end results now.....guess it's just a waiting game  :-/.

The ps said i needed only lipo.....the tube they used removes some of the excess gland too .