Realty check - body image

[LBTC]

If I had $10K to spend, I would *SO* have a boob job!

Is that really how much it costs?

H&B
~T~

[HoddyToddy]

Is that really how much it costs?

H&B
~T~

For really good ones! I'm not really sure, actually!

But I do know that each implant alone is about $2K. Then you have the consultations, the actual surgery, the anesthesia, and so on...

Only if I win the lottery or inherit a lot of money from some old crazy aunt I never knew I had....!

[limewave]

I've looked into having brachioplasty because my upper arms are so flappy. I have a hard time finding shirts to wear. The more I do weight training, the worse the get

Anyways, it was 3-4k per arm and there's no implant involved in that surgery. I imagine a boob job would easily be 10k.

[Tuckervill]

How about a tummy tuck--the mommy makeover kind? What do they run?

I've always wanted one, since my first child. The first time I ever brought it up with my husband he was more dismissive of my feelings than he'd ever been. He thought it was unnecessary, but now that I'm much older I don't care much what he thinks. I'm going to find a way to get it.

I don't feel as horrible about my baby flap that I used to. I developed a new appreciation for life and everything one day, when I ran across a picture of a line of women standing naked. They were in line for the gas chamber. :'''( I studied that picture for a long time and it was utter sadness to behold and I will never forget it. But I learned things about women's bodies that I never knew before. I don't want to trivialize that event ever at all, but that photograph had a profound effect on me in ways aside from the obvious.

Karen

[silver]

cost depends on where you live and what choices you make. Mine was less than $4,000. I have high profile saline, smooth Mentor implants, placed under the muscle (costs more than over the muscle but definately has better results), with the incision under the breast (less chance of have numbness in the nipple area). I believe that I had a great job. I am VERY pleased with the results.....let's see.....I got them in Nov. 04.

I drive an old minivan that rattles. The way I see it....the cost is the difference between driving a new car.

However, I live in the boonies. I've heard advertising for a BA for $2,000 but the price has an * by it and says over the muscle only. I feel sure that once they get the person in there they sell them up.

[sundial]

In my 20's I used to wish for the Boob Fairy. Well, she came in my late 30's and now I have a hard time finding tops that fit broad shoulders and boobs without taking it in at the waist. Ack!

[KSH]

cost depends on where you live and what choices you make. Mine was less than $4,000. I have high profile saline, smooth Mentor implants, placed under the muscle (costs more than over the muscle but definately has better results), with the incision under the breast (less chance of have numbness in the nipple area). I believe that I had a great job. I am VERY pleased with the results.....let's see.....I got them in Nov. 04.

However, I live in the boonies. I've heard advertising for a BA for $2,000 but the price has an * by it and says over the muscle only. I feel sure that once they get the person in there they sell them up.

I live in Dallas, TX... and you can get a very nice breast augmentation (BA) for $4000-$5000 around these parts.

For a really well known popular Dr. it's around $7000. I can see a BA costing around $10,000 IF you need a lift AND implants. A lot of women who are fixing what pregnancy did to their boobs, need both the lift and implants... thus it's a lot more money.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I don't feel as horrible about my baby flap that I used to. I developed a new appreciation for life and everything one day, when I ran across a picture of a line of women standing naked. They were in line for the gas chamber. :'''( I studied that picture for a long time and it was utter sadness to behold and I will never forget it. But I learned things about women's bodies that I never knew before. I don't want to trivialize that event ever at all, but that photograph had a profound effect on me in ways aside from the obvious.

Karen

Thank you for posting that profound insight, Karen. I hear you. My best friend in high school 40 years ago had Jewish parents who had saved dozens of photographs from the concentration camps in order to remember. They let me see them when I asked and i too was deeply changed forever by those pictures. It gives you a real view of how precious our lives are, and how horribly easy it is to forget that.

Not really much to do with this thread except in a superficial way of course.

[annie]

Is that really how much it costs?

H&B
~T~

Depends on where you live, how much you need to have done - like do you need a lift, also. Silicone is more expensive than saline. Mine were saline, under the muscle, crease incision, just like Silver. Cost was right under $5K. Worth it, IMO. I, too, am very happy with my results and would recommend my surgeon.Don't know the cost of a TT, Tuckerville, but I would guess it's higher. Maybe not, tho', since you wouldn't have the cost of the implants, plus the surgery. Hey - go for it if you can. Life is short.

Annie

[Zen]

I'm happy to be alive.

I was recently by one doctor that I should have been dead five years ago, related this comment to another doctor who said "yep, that stent pulled your azz out of the fire".

Things like this tend to change ones perspective.

[sundial]

If I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and had a mastectomy, I'm not sure I would opt for an implant. I hesitate when it comes to foreign objects in my body. I stressed over the titanium staple in my knee.

[LBTC]

I stressed over the titanium staple in my knee.

But, sundial, titanium is Good!

H&B
~T~