"After having gastric bypass in Feb of 03, and going from 270lbs to 135 lbs, and then getting pregnant and having a baby in 05 with a steady weight after my pregnancy of 145 lbs and then recently becoming divorced, I figured it was time to get a little work done, I had a breast lift with implants, standard tummy tuck, lipo in my back, saddle bags, inner and outer thighs. I had my surgery done on 8/22/07, as of today I am 10 days out, and I feel great. I saw my sister do this same surgery with a different Dr. (Dr. Leber) and I can tell you people have different pain tolerences, I found the surgery to be a much easier recovery than my sisters, for myself the pain was very tolerable, and the pain meds worked beautifully, I would say after day 4 it was mostly my back hurting from being hunched over more than anything else! I am still very swollen and I weigh 10 lbs more than when I had surgery, but I already have a beautiful hour glass figure, even with all the swelling! I love my new breasts, they are beautiful, and my tummy is so flat! I am totally black and blue on my lipo areas, and my thighs look huge from the swelling still especially from wearing the garment and the binder it pushes all the swelling downwards, and I normally have timy ankles but they are huge right now. One of the most exciting things is that my saddle bags are GONE!! They were my most problem area, and poof....gone...yipee~! My surgery in total cost just a tad under $18000.00, this included everything, even my nights stay at the hospital I was transported to where they took wonderful care of me. Dr. Gitt was fantastic, put me at ease, and his staff is top notch, I have worked mostly with his RN Laura, Luv her! I have had a fantastic experience so far and cannot wait to see the final results a couple of months from now. I am happy to answer any questions that anyone might have, just email me through my profile ( my profile is still the old school style, and it is very detailed from my start of gastric bypass till now) All in all I love Dr Gitt and his team and I can not thank him enough. Also, while I was in surgery Dr Gitt found a hernia and fixed it and billed my insurance without me having to pay my out of pocket deductable ( since the plastic surgery was a cash pay) and also he had a suspitious mole removed by my old belly button and sent it in for tests, turned out that the mole was "changing" and it could have lead to a cancerous state if it had not been removed, also my new belly button is adorable! I got all of my drain tubes removed today and I'm feeling terrific! Thanks again Dr Gitt and staff! "
"Dr. Juarez was great, I had origianlly gone to a seminar for Dr. Zahn, but switched because I wanted the procedure done Lap. So since I did not meet Juarez at a seminar, our first meeting was at the initial consult on July 2, 2002. I waited for that apt. since early March, so it felt good to be a step closer. He was really nice, and said lap should be no problem. My suggestion to anyone making an appointment with Juarez, is to make it for first thing in the morning. I was scheduled the first patient so I did not have to go through a long wait in the waiting room. (I have heard it can be quite a wait in there....) I have mostly dealt with Angelia, and she has been nothing short of wonderful! It took until July 31st (my apt. was july 2nd) to get all the paperwork to insurance, the transcriber was on vacation. I was not approved by insurance until first week in Sept. 2002. I now have a surgery date of Feb 2nd. 2003. The whole process will have taken 11 months from waiting for seminar to surgery date! So far I am very happy with Dr. Juarez, as well as his really really hard working pressed for time staff. I just wish this journey would take less time. "
