OMG, I had the same procedure done in Sept 2011 and my weight has increased 45 pounds. Don't let them kid you...that so called Robotic surgery is still major surgery and invasive. When I came out I was in extreme pain, NOT because of the surgery per se but because of the way they positioned me on the table. I think it's called the Trundleberg position - essentially with this surgery they put the table at a 20 degree angle so your head is down and feet are up. Well, they pinched a nerve in my neck and a surgery that should have only been 2 1/2 hours ended up being 5 plus recovery time where I did not come out of the anesthetic like I normally should have. It took my neck 2 weeks to 'unpinch' and I'll leave out all the other details but it was a freaking nightmare that has now done permanent damage and causes numbness and tingling in my hands and fingers which keeps me up all night. Back to what my stomach looks like...HELL! It's as if they stretched the inside organs and muscles and fibers and skin and now it sits on my lap, covering over part of my pubic area when I sit and floats just above that when I stand. It droops down into 2 rolls that go all the way across. Also there is a "puffy" area just above my bellybutton along with one of the scars that puckers into it. I can't stand to look at myself - It's like looking at someone elses body or something which resembles an extensively misshapen Pillsbury dough woman. I was a little overweight to begin with but always had a flat abdomen with the exception of a small pooch from being pregnant (with a boy) some years earlier. I also had an easier time losing weight than I do now and feel like I have zero energy to even work out. Talk about aging...I am so tired from working out (I have a total gym and walk and swim and do yard work) and LOSE NOTHING! Also, my doctors don't like prescribing HRT...so I don't know what to do but was thinking about laser LIPO or...but think a doctor would want me to lose more weight first, the trouble is...it's just not coming off!! Please, someone, anyone advise me...?
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OMG, I had the same procedure done in Sept 2011 and my weight has increased 45 pounds. Don't let them kid you...that so called Robotic surgery is still major surgery and invasive. When I came out I was in extreme pain, NOT because of the surgery per se but because of the way they positioned me on the table. I think it's called the Trundleberg position - essentially with this surgery they put the table at a 20 degree angle so your head is down and feet are up. Well, they pinched a nerve in my neck and a surgery that should have only been 2 1/2 hours ended up being 5 plus recovery time where I did not come out of the anesthetic like I normally should have. It took my neck 2 weeks to 'unpinch' and I'll leave out all the other details but it was a freaking nightmare that has now done permanent damage and causes numbness and tingling in my hands and fingers which keeps me up all night. Back to what my stomach looks like...HELL! It's as if they stretched the inside organs and muscles and fibers and skin and now it sits on my lap, covering over part of my pubic area when I sit and floats just above that when I stand. It droops down into 2 rolls that go all the way across. Also there is a "puffy" area just above my bellybutton along with one of the scars that puckers into it. I can't stand to look at myself - It's like looking at someone elses body or something which resembles an extensively misshapen Pillsbury dough woman. I was a little overweight to begin with but always had a flat abdomen with the exception of a small pooch from being pregnant (with a boy) some years earlier. I also had an easier time losing weight than I do now and feel like I have zero energy to even work out. Talk about aging...I am so tired from working out (I have a total gym and walk and swim and do yard work) and LOSE NOTHING! Also, my doctors don't like prescribing HRT...so I don't know what to do but was thinking about laser LIPO or...but think a doctor would want me to lose more weight first, the trouble is...it's just not coming off!! Please, someone, anyone advise me...?
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