Plastic Surgery: Plan For Recovery

A common misconception about plastic surgery is that because it is often consider elective or cosmetic that it is not a serious surgery

. If you are looking forward to plastic surgery, you should know that it is a major surgery, and following recovery procedures is imperative in your healing and gaining the best results. You could not only mess up the effects of the surgery, but you could cause more damage that will entail further surgery if you do not adhere to strict recovery directions.

To begin, you should consider the recovery just as important as the actual plastic surgery procedure. Being blase about your recovery may do worse than negate the effects of the operation, it may cause worse cosmetic damage. Be sure to converse with your doctor in a pre-op consultation about what to expect afterward. Be honest with yourself about your ability to recover well.

If you do not have the needed time off work to promote proper healing, consider postponing until you have saved up some vacation time. Know that the immediate results of the operation can be traumatic. You will look bad, and you move like you have just had major surgery. You have. The aesthetic results that you discuss with your doctor and will attain are eventual, and can only be attained using proper recovery methods.

Immediately afterward, you may or may not have to remain in the hospital depending on the degree of your surgery and how you maintained during the surgery itself, but even if you undergo an outpatient procedure, go home and rest. In fact, overdo the resting. Aim to take off work for a few weeks, and arrange for heavy housework to be done for at least that amount of time.

If you have children especially little ones that you tend to lift a lot or that you need to reach things for, be sure to account for them as part of your work load. Reaching for a glass, lifting a gallon of milk, lifting a baby, especially one that is in an infant car seat, are all things that can pull stitches and demote healing. For several weeks before the big day, pay special attention to every movement that you make in a day, and make sure that you have all of those needs covered as a part of your post op self-care.

Even when you are able to return to work be it at the office or at home, it is likely that exercising will still be off limits, perhaps for six weeks or more, and if you have a very physical job, you should seriously consider that before choosing to have elective plastic surgery.

by: Abigail Aaronson

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