# Um...oh...oh honey. \[Considering Plastic Surgery?\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474 "2008-01-29T17:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/41 "2008-01-30T02:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=norinew] Not as far as I’ve been able to find out. If you are relatively young, if the excess weight is a relatively “recent” development, if you’ve never had babies, these things will all help. Also, the skin _will_ “tighten up” some on its own, over time. But anyone who loses significant amounts of weight will, inevitably (AFAIK) end up with skin issues. [/QUOTE] I join your club. I look like a melted candle. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/42 "2008-01-30T06:58:48Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] I had botox injected in my balls a year or so ago (they were all wrinkled). I posted about it here. I’d linky-link, but I’m posting from my phone and haven’t figured out how to copy and paste. Maybe some enterprising doper would be kind enough to dig up my thread and post a link. Or not. Either way, my balls are smooth and shiny. [/QUOTE] We have: [How can I make my pubes grow longer?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399257) & [I’m going bald (down there)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438953) ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/43 "2008-01-30T10:47:17Z")
I like to think that I’ve got everything I had when I was 18, it’s just given in to gravity. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/44 "2008-01-30T10:59:20Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I figure to feel sexy with excess tummy skin, I’ll try black corsets. Would that work? Corsets and stockings? Yes, but it has to be a real corset! Bustiers don’t come down far enough on the tummy, leaving you with. . .well, whatever would be the “hanging down” equivalent of “muffin top”. :eek: My problem with corsets is I can’t find any freakin’ _long-sleeved ones_ to cover the “bat wings”. 😉 Truly, though, there’s a plethora of lingerie that will hide a _lot_ of flaws, and if you’re to that point with a guy, anyway, he shouldn’t care! > [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > I join your club. I have a newsletter. Would you like to subscribe? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/45 "2008-01-30T12:22:28Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] We have: [How can I make my pubes grow longer?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399257) & [I’m going bald (down there)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438953) [/QUOTE] Nope. Neither of those. I’ll try to find it when I get to the office. Thanks, tho. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/46 "2008-01-30T13:38:18Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] We have: [How can I make my pubes grow longer?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399257) & [I’m going bald (down there)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438953) [/QUOTE] [Here it is.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352457) It was actually _two_ years ago. My how time does fly. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/47 "2008-01-30T13:43:39Z")
**Winston** , am beginning to see a pattern of anatomical fixation. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/48 "2008-01-30T14:48:25Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I think I’d like a breast. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=fatgail] Like on your forearm or something? [/QUOTE] Well, it does help keep your watch from slipping. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/49 "2008-01-30T14:56:16Z")
In all seriousness, I’ve told myself that if i lose the forty pounds i want to lose by november (for my sister’s wedding), I will treat my self to mesotherapy (sp?) which is a different sort of liposuction, where they inject “something” to dissolve away the fat that is expelled in your wastes. All my life, even at my skinniest (wedding day), I have had a pooch belly that no matter of diet, exercise, bulimia, crunches or anything could alleviate. I need that sucker GONE in order to live my life to the fullest. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/50 "2008-01-30T15:04:47Z")
I need to lose 50-100 pounds (depending on whether I want to just be a bit healthier or in really good shape. Most of my weight is in my belly, ass and thighs. At my age I don’t know how stretchy my skin is, so I suspect I may end up with flappy skin. Fortunately, it’ll be in places not overly visible when I’m dressed, so no one will ever see it. I wouldn’t mind taking the easy way out and going with liposuction, but realistically I know that if I do I’ll just out it all back on unless I change my eating habits. As a friend puts it, don’t think of it as “dieting” but as a lifestyle change. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/51 "2008-01-30T15:27:04Z")
[QUOTE=norinew] Well, as for me, I’m not looking “traveled”, I’m looking like I’ve lost 140lbs. In other words, my body is now a size 16, but my skin is still a size 32. I will be having a tummy tuck done whenever my weight decides to stabilize (every time I think it has, I drop another five pounds out of nowhere). I’ll also petition my insurance company to pay to have my “bat wings” and thighs fixed; they probably won’t, but they might, you never know. Then, whatever plastics they _won’t_ pay for (and I _know_ they’re not gonna spring for a face lift and breast lift and augmentation), I’ll have done out of country where I can _afford_ it! In other words, no, I don’t need “a little work” done, I need a _lot_ of work done! [/QUOTE] You need to learn to play the “insurance game”. For the breasts - talk to your doctor about the shoulder, neck and back pain - even if you dont have any! It really sucks when your boobs end up saggy and nothing but extra skin after losing weight. And really sucks when you cant find a bra that truely fits - I have to get the molded cups otherwise I just dont look right. for the thighs - complain about the rashes , especially when exercising. Explain how your skin pinches and how uncomfortable it is to do things (like riding a bicycle). Same thing with your “wings”. Make sure you emphasize how the extra skin is always getting pinched when you do x and y (especially when you are indicating exercising, this seems to get the insurance to take notice that you are changing your lifestyle and focusing on being healthy). Unfortunately for me, I wasnt able to get mine done before losing my job (due to a work related injury). So, off to Mexico for mine, and hopefully soon. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/52 "2008-01-30T15:34:40Z")
[QUOTE=LurkMeister] I wouldn’t mind taking the easy way out and going with liposuction, but realistically I know that if I do I’ll just out it all back on unless I change my eating habits. As a friend puts it, don’t think of it as “dieting” but as a lifestyle change. [/QUOTE] I’m not sure if you’re talking to me or not, but I wouldn’t get the mesotherapy until AFTER I’d lost the weight i want to lose. This pooch belly has been there since I was eighteen, through massive weight fluctuations, it doesn’t reduce, just gets flabbier and more or less pronounced. It is really a psychological block for me, because even when I weigh a perfectly healthy weight, I have to buy pants two sizes bigger to fit this belly. Skirts, dresses, all have to be baggy, even when I have thin legs and hips and arms and all that. I’m pretty sure it’s all my pent up rage. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/53 "2008-01-30T15:35:41Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] Bless your pea pickin’ heart. Could it be a semi humorous way of asking whether people on the board are considering plastic surgery? No nonononono, never that. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] I had absolutely NO IDEA that’s what the OP was asking. But no, I like the look of aging naturally. It’s much more dignified than looking plasticized. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/54 "2008-01-30T16:25:42Z")
[QUOTE=fatgail] Oh come on. A little tuck here and there? You’d be a regular Jim Nabors! If I had the money, there are many many horrible problems I’d try to rectify. Post childbirth knee shooters, tummy tuck, a little jowl work…but it’s all just a pipe dream. [/QUOTE] It’s like putting the blue ears on Mr.Potatoehead. Still Mr. Potatoehead. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/55 "2008-01-30T20:28:37Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] You need to learn to play the “insurance game”. For the breasts - talk to your doctor about the shoulder, neck and back pain - even if you dont have any! It really sucks when your boobs end up saggy and nothing but extra skin after losing weight. And really sucks when you cant find a bra that truely fits - I have to get the molded cups otherwise I just dont look right. for the thighs - complain about the rashes , especially when exercising. Explain how your skin pinches and how uncomfortable it is to do things (like riding a bicycle). Same thing with your “wings”. Make sure you emphasize how the extra skin is always getting pinched when you do x and y (especially when you are indicating exercising, this seems to get the insurance to take notice that you are changing your lifestyle and focusing on being healthy). Unfortunately for me, I wasnt able to get mine done before losing my job (due to a work related injury). So, off to Mexico for mine, and hopefully soon. [/QUOTE] Those tips about the thighs and arms might just work. I was going to petition my insurance company to pay for them, anyway, but you’ve given me ammunition! As for the back/neck pain, I don’t think anyone stupid enough to buy that could get a job, even with an insurance company! I started out a little less than a C cup and am now less than a B cup. Plus I need (well, want) augmentation, which my insurance _is not_ going to cover. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/56 "2008-01-30T20:44:09Z")
Well, yes, thanks. I am planning on a boobectomy sometime this year. I am sick and tired of carrying all that extra weight and I have marks on my shoulders that will never go away. ---
**Author:** ![fatgail](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fatgail/32/7285_2.png) [@fatgail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatgail)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/57 "2008-01-30T20:48:11Z")
[QUOTE=Mighty\_Girl] Well, yes, thanks. I am planning on a boobectomy sometime this year. I am sick and tired of carrying all that extra weight and I have marks on my shoulders that will never go away. [/QUOTE] a boobECTOMY or a reduction? I mean, how about a nice b cup? Man I’d love to have these swingers tightened up. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474/58 "2008-02-01T05:06:06Z")
Aiming for a b cup. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/um-oh-oh-honey-considering-plastic-surgery/435474.md?page=2)