Okay, so I have an out belly button. Can you please help me? I need to know how to get it regular. I've had it for a long time and it's really anoying. Please give me feedback. Thanks, and anything not including surgery.
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i'm not sure but ask your doctor he may have some suggestion with out surgery, not everything needs surgery. good luck
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Congratulations on losing the weight. \n\nI had the abdomnioplasty done back in 2002.  Given the choice over again...I would not. \n\nI had some internal bleeding, that had to be reopened, and spent another week in the hospital, now, I have an incision from hip to hip...and an indented scar tissue over my belly. \n\nI would opt to do it via exercise.  Be proud of your accomplishment of losing the weight.  Skin is elastic...exercise and time, will make it tight. \n\nThe risk was not worth it. \n\nGood luck.
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I totally know what you're going through. I had to take lovenox in pregnancy too and it was totally crappy. Here are a few things that made it easier for me...put a cold compress (one that's flat, like a frozen-gel compress) on the injection site for at least 3 minutes to numb the spot. (Use it for another 3 minutes after the shot too.) Avoid the area around the belly button because that's the worst. Take your time in doing the injection if it hurts and be sure that you're watching something interesting on TV so you can focus on something other than the pain. You can eventually teach your body to push through the pain and this will really come in handy when you go into labor. I found that there were a few spots on me that hurt too much to get injections so keep trying different spots on your stomach. Also, some of the injection needles are bent or dull and just hurt a lot more than others so if you have a particularly difficult one that's probably why. Lovenox really is a miracle drug even though it hurts like heck. It's the only thing that kept me from miscarrying. Take a look at this site. It might make you feel better. http://blogs.chron.com/mamadrama/archives/2006/05/every_day_is_mo_1.html You can also check out the BabyCenter lovenox message boards for moral support. You aren't alone and I promise you that one day soon it will all be worth it.\n\nGood luck to you!
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Ha! Ha! Ha! okay whats next...bellybuttons??? lmao
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I agree with kny390, first step is your doctor. He will know firstly how to appeal, and will be able to maybe contact the consultant on your behalf. \n\nBut you are really gonna have to make your doctor understand how awful and disgusted with yourself this makes you feel, so a few tears wont go a miss. Make him understand how this affects you daily, how you wont undress in front of your partner, or go swimming, however it is that affects you,  make sure he knows.\n\nI know how it feels to be overweight and have  baby flab, ive got it, but im way too afraid of surgery!  i know how it feels to see my tummy in the mirror, get undressed in the dark, hide behind baggy clothes, never be able to wear anything tight and sexy, so you go for it girl, if its causing such distress, its surely worht another try.\n\nAll the best. \n\nxxxxxxxxxxx
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i think you 're the one who needs to decide if it stays or goes.if you're happy with it then dont worry.if you think it's a turn off then do something about it.  Personally my hubby gained a little around his belly and it just gave me more to hang onto to....his personality didn't change....and hes not sloppy fat so we're good...
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I didn't have any particular title that described me until just now.  Thank you.  I'm a crevice sniffer.\n\nBut I can't reach my belly button.  How do I do that? what if it has a bad smell, like something was left in there too long.  Do I ask another crevice sniffer to check for me?  Is that proper?  and how do you know someone is a crevice sniffer without flat out asking them?
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yeah but you still didn't answer my question on weather and whether.  \ni asked you to give me a neumonic so i can remember them.  \nbut to answer you question no.  \n\ndo not remove your uterus.  get a second opinion.  if you want to gave 84 kidlets, please do not do that.  i have never used herbal stuff like that but it does not hurt to try.  give it a try first before you remove your woumb.  \n\ni am ttc and i am using fertility blend and such stuff.  so those are the only things i've tried.  and i drink herbal teas.\n\nwhy can't they remove the fibroids and not the uterus though?
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I had the surgery back in January and have lost 231lbs.  I would do it all over again the pain and discomfort are worth it and now that pain and discomfort are gone just a bad memory.  The cost was about 32,000 for the surgeon and 15,000 for the hospital stay.  I was only in the hospital for 3 days!  The only weird thing was that my butt hurt all the time (after I started losing weight) I asked my doctor about it and he said it was a normal complaint after surgery…lol.  Oh well, things have gone well except I caused myself to have a hernia I unloaded about 1,500lbs of cottonseed off of a trailer into the barn I also moved about 500lbs of patio stones.  It was too much too soon (only four months) I just felt so great I had to get out and go to work.  The hernia will have to be fixed but because of were its at I can wait until I have a tummy tuck in about 18 months.  I’m now working on the farm again just careful with the heavy loads.  I take vitamins (prenatal lol), B-12, and green tea extract (my own idea on the green tea).  I took potassium for several months until my lab work came back as normal so the doc took me off the potassium.  I had one side effect from the incision itself.  During the surgery the incision is very near the diaphragm so when I would stand I would get sever hic-ups which would take my breath away and usually cause me to throw up.  That lasted for about a month and a half.  My doctor said that it wasn’t too common but some patients did suffer with the hic-ups.  They gradually went away when everything healed up nicely.  I now walk a mile every day and during the summer I would swim for at least an hour each day if not more.  I have had a little hair loss (I had stopped taking my vitamins) but that’s over with (I’m taking my vitamins like a good boy).  It was worth the money, pain, and time I now have my life back.  I still have 170lbs to go but I feel great and it was worth it.  Just do your research and find a good surgeon.
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I have one myself, several years now.  Occured sometime after lung transpalnt surgery.  My doctor has told me that it is only a problem if it strangulates my intestines, otherwise don't worry.  Since you are also worried about your appearance, you may want to look into surgical repair, that's the only way to remove one.  A good surgeon can do this with minimal scar and can even hide the scar in your belly button.
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I gained almost 30 lbs after my hysto. and most of that is in the belly area.  I thought at first it was simply the "Swelly Belly" one gets after an abdominal hysto... but it didn't go away.
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Why are you playing with or pressing your belly button to begin with?!?...So you cannot blame us if we are thinking the way we are!....Were you cleaning your belly button?  If so, then I can understand.  There are nerve endings there almost like the bottoms of some folks feet.  Some are ticklish there and some are not!
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Yes it hurts.  Not horribly, but it does.  It also takes a long time to heal (expect at least 6 months) because it gets hit, rubbed and jostled a lot.  It's prone to infection while it's healing and, in my experience, an infected belly button is more painful than the piercing.  \n\nI don't know what your state's laws are about body piercing but a lot of reputable shops won't pierce anyone under 16.  I think you should wait a couple of years, personally.
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You have a permanent corset piercing? I thought they only did temporary ones. I think they are gorgeous.\nI'd say navel. It doesn't hurt at all (not that you seem to care about that)--but if your stomach isn't reasonably flat it won't heal well. I took mine out--it never healed after 3 years because my skin folds over at my navel.\nI hear that nipples hurt A LOT--my friend said it was like having her breasts slammed in a car door.  But they do look kinda cool pierced.
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I feel this sensitive issue, says a lot about you in nature. I have heard that the belly button is an area of the body linked to your little finger. Would I be right in saying.. that when u drink a cup of tea - ur pinky goes up in the air? Cos if so.. it is ur belly button connecting to your finger.. saying... mmm yess.. Im going to love this cup of tea. What this tells me about you in nature is that you love to have  A HUGE DINNER!!
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Okay so I'm looking into this myself I'm in a double d not a tripple but it kills my back too and hauling around my son doesn't help at all.  From what I've heard there are some possible negative things about it, like possibly not being able to produce milk if you're wanting to breast feed again.  Also, you can lose feeling in your nipples I guess, and there are plenty of other things that they warn you about that I can't really remember, but that comes with any surgery.  I think that your comfort is really important though, anything that will make you feel better and give you some more energy to take care of your little one's better would probably be great for you, regaurdless of wether or not you might have to just do the bottle for your next child, you being happy will make them happier.  I do think that you should do some very good research on who you have do it though, only pick the best and look around and give it as much time as you need and don't rush into it.  I know that there are different after affects for different people, it just depends on what they need to do to you and how they need to go about doing it.  I think you only lose sensation in the nipples if they move the nipple up as well and make the actual nipple smaller.  Anyway, I have to run it's late here, but I hope that I helped you out a little.  Good luck I hope it all works out.  Danielle
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I don't think the two things are related. The bellybutton has to be from something else, maybe you got poked with something while you were sleeping?  I had my gallbladder out with the laproscopic surgery 12 years ago and it was really, really easy.  I felt great right afterwards, almost no pain.  My only regret was that I waited too long to have the surgery because I was afraid and suffered alot of painful attacks! Good luck to you.