Cosmetic surgery can make you look younger and feel more attractive as well as more proportionate. It helps to improve your confidence and be more relaxed in your own skin.
Whether you are checking out possible surgeons and getting yourself and your house ready for recovery.
Pre-Operative Visits
When you arrive at the hospital, the first thing on your agenda is likely to be check-in at admissions. You’ll also go to a preoperative area where someone on your care team will take your health history and measure your vital signs, and then you’ll wait until there’s an available operating room or procedure room.
He or she will discuss your aesthetic goals and what results you hope to achieve, asking questions about why you’re getting surgery and what you expect is possible (maybe even taking a few ‘before’ pictures along the way).
Leave cash, check or credit card payment from your first appointment, along with a list of all medications (including aspirin, vitamins and herbal supplements), for your appointment. Be sure to also have written contact details of someone to drive you home after surgery, since you will not be permitted to drive home from the procedure. Also, find someone who can stay with you for 24 hours post-op, as you will also need someone with you afterwards.
The Day of Surgery
At your consultation, the surgeon will discuss your medical history with you, perform a physical examination of the area concerned and potentially take photographs or use computer imaging software to show you examples of the outcome of surgery. Going with a friend or partner to the consultation, and having some support afterwards, can be really useful.
Question your surgeon about his or her education and training, and the types of procedures performed, in order to feel more secure that you are making a good choice. Once you have gone through these steps, it might feel much easier to reveal intimate details.
Anesthesia will impact your recovery too. Ask the surgeon if an anesthesiologist is used and if surgery will be performed in the office. Find out how much time off from work you’ll need and any activity restrictions you might have, as well as when results might begin to become apparent.
Post-Operative Visits
(“For all the work you put into preparing for the surgery itself, the recovery phase is where you’ll really need to lean on your support systems. Talk to family and friends so they can prepare themselves for how hard you’ll have it and you can make use of their emotional and logistical support throughout.”)
Please make sure that you bring all insurance information and medical records with you the day of surgery, as well as any consent forms that need to be signed. Reading these ahead of time can be beneficial but, on the morning of surgery, it is likely that you will be forgetful, which is where your friend’s recap can be very helpful.
You will ultimately be taken for surgery, where an anaesthesiologist will induce general anaesthesia before the surgical incision(s) are completed by your surgeon. Depending on the type of surgery, it’s likely you would have no memory of events as vital signs are stabilised; you would then be transported to a recovery room and discharged from your surgeon at the point that it deemed appropriate.
Recovery
Effective communication between you and your surgeon, realistic expectations and (expletive!) scrupulous attention to pre- and postoperative instructions are all part of a successful surgical process. Your surgeon will explain what the surgery entails (and its benefits, risks and alternatives) and will tell you that our bodies are not perfectly symmetrical and that surgery won’t make them perfectly symmetrical.
List any of the medicines or supplements (even herbal teas) you take without a prescription – they might interfere with surgery and recovery, and be sure to eat a healthy diet with lots of fluids before any surgeries that are planned for you.
When the scheduled day for your surgery comes, you have to come to the clinic or the hospital that advised you, and then go under the anesthesia and will discharge you after you go under the anesthesia or you will stay over night depends on your type of surgery that you go under. If you go for a minor surgery then you will stay over night with a lot of medication that help decrease your pain. Sometimes they gave you an ice pack on top of your stomach and they will put a catheter in your private and help you to release your pee.
