“Plastic Surgeons, What’s The Most Ridiculous Surgery You’ve Performed?”

Not a surgeon

But why is diastasis recti surgery for women with badly seperated muscle not covered by health insurance?

My poor wife spent years doing arbitrary physical therapy for endless back issues, ending up bed ridden a couple weeks a year like clockwork. EVENTUALLY, we saw a doc who explained there was a huge separation in her tummy from kids that all the strength training in the world wouldn't repair - and likely was making her back problems worse with endless overworked muscles dpong this therapy regiment to make up for the missing core.

I was blown away with the ONLY MUSCLE DAMAGE that causes literal disability, in the entire world that ISNT COVERED BY ANY INSURANCE EVER - is this one. Had to go to a plastic surgeon and have, effectively, a tummy tuck performed with the muscle damage stitched back together.

The USA doesn't give a darn about women.

Ask every gd person screaming we need more babies, women should have children - when, exactly, they'll advocate for this to be 100% covered by insurance.

GFY until you do.

Obligatory…oh no wait, I AM an actual surgeon!

I would never get a “nonsurgical” or “liquid” rhinoplasty. Most of the time that’s just filler injected into the nose. There is a risk of filler in this location causing you to go blind.

In general I would never get any facial fillers. They tend to look worse over time and migrate.

And then of course what everyone else said about BBLs. Why risk your life to look like you have a full diaper under your shorts?

I used to be a hair transplant technician. An Asian man and his Asian girlfriend came in because he had no underarm hair as Asians are less hairy. She wanted him to look more "manly". The Dr. said the only realistic hair for underarm hair would be pubes. If it was hair from his head, it would grow really long and he would have to trim it. The Dr. asked her to leave the room (she was really pushy) because he had to check the "donor area". He asked the dude if he really wanted it. He said no, it was his GF that was the one who wanted it done. She came back in the room and the Dr. told them that the donor area was not sufficient. That was the Dr's kind way of refusing to perform the surgery.

My cousin almost got a BBL last year. The clinic told her she wouldn’t be able to sit for weeks, and that fat could literally enter her bloodstream and end her if it moved.

She canceled everything that same day. It’s wild how normalized such a risky surgery has become.

Office Manager for a Plastic Surgeon here.
Had a phone call several months ago where this woman was interested in a Brazilian butt Lift (they typically call it "gut-to-butt" where you transfer fat from your abdomen, thighs and arms and inject into the buttocks) and wanted to take her sister's fat and have it injected in her butt because she was "too skinny" for the procedure. I said no.

Not a plastic surgeon, but a friend of mine once told me that her mom took her to a plastic surgeon and asked if they could "fix" her nose because it was prominent. She was 8 years old.

Long Story Short.

Thin girl with F Bra size comes in wanting to be MM.

I told her to think about it and come back after the consultation.

She came back an hour later still wanting the procedure.

I told her to wait 5 days before coming back.... she did not come back.

As an OR tech back in the 80s, I witnessed a general surgeon give a 20 yr old girl breast implants that were way too big. Her skin was so tight at the end it was painful to look at. I bet she had to have them removed a short time later. Before she was put to sleep I overheard the patient tell a nurse that she was getting the surgery so she'd get better tips at her waitressing job at the disco.

Shadowed a plastic surgery resident. Some guy wanted the "ab sculpting lipo", he was pushing 400lbs. There is no physical way to go about that. Consultation lasted about 5 minutes.

Whatever Lauren Sanchez has had done. she looks like a clown, the stabby kind.

Board certified plastic surgeons really aren’t going to do whatever random surgery the patient requests. They can potentially lose their license or face prison for playing mr potato head with the human body. You might get some interesting stories from a surgeon who’s done reconstructive work on someone with catastrophic injuries like severe burns.

BBLs carry a surprisingly high mortality rate and the recovery is brutal.

Hmm, I would never have an operation to change height - for example, leg lengthening.

Because this is one of the most traumatic and painful operations, with long recovery, risks of complications, and all for the sake of aesthetic or social conformity. The operation involves bone fracture, their stretching with the help of devices and months - or even years - of pain and rehabilitation. At the same time, the result may be unstable, and expectations may be inflated.

For me, it would be too high a price for trying to meet external standards. I’d rather work on accepting myself and finding an environment where growth doesn’t matter.

I’m not a surgeon, but I work in surgery and tbh I would basically not get anything done unless it’s medically necessary or going to significantly improve my quality of life after exhausting all other options (like to relieve pain, make breathing easier, etc).

Not a surgeon, but my husband is an ICU nurse and sees men with penile implant infections all the time. He says the guys (and their SO’s) regret them in later years since they’re in and out of the hospital all the time.

I am a nurse practitioner first of all, but my MD colleague had a patient who demanded repeatedly to let her get lap-band surgery (ie refer her to GI surgeon).

She was "only" about 40lbs overweight, had refused a trial of diet and exercise, was in her 60s, and already had a progressive neurological disorder.

Long story short: the surgery that she demanded on getting went horribly. (after it was finally approved by her insurance). The surgeon repaired a hernia (that he found during the surgery) using mesh, the mesh didn't fit right, and she had to have surgery have surgery to get it fixed. Then the lap band somehow got dislodged from where it was supposed to be and she had to have surgery to get that removed in the end.

Long story shorter: just try diet and exercise and don't be a lazy person who is demanding and unreasonable...it is safer for you than surgery and/or diet pills.

I have an uncle who lives down in Florida I see every Christmas, and he always has a hilarious set of new stories for us. My favorite is about the nearly 40 year old woman who still wanted to find Mr. Right. She wanted to be memorable, and had an idea. She had C cup breasts and wanted both a breast reduction AND a breast implant. She wanted the left breast to be a full DD, since the majority of people are right handed, and her right breast to be a "nice, perky B" cup. She explained that no matter the man she would have a breast for him and was therefor broadening her potential husband pool. Maybe it was the "dangerous, desperate look in her eyes" or how she was going to pay in full in cash prior, but he did it and she was ecstatic with the results. At the final check up post operation she b***hed about how she had to make her own bras from two others.

Obligatory not a surgeon, but I recently saw a post about “hunter eye” surgery that had gone wrong and looked terrible. Basically it’s trending with incel types that alpha men should have smaller eyes that slant upwards so they look like hunters and not prey, so they’re getting this surgery to alter the slant of their eyes AND DECREASE THE VOLUME OF THEIR EYEBALLS to get smaller eyes. It’s exactly as horrific as it sounds and there are some incredibly questionable results from it.

Some of them looked okay after but it’s a crazy reason to let someone ~~suck the juice from your eyeballs~~ (eta correction) slice through the conjunctiva, slice through the outer corner of the eye, and remove a portion of eye socket (either side and/or underneath the eye) from around the eye.

The reason I thought that decompression involved the eyeball is because in the pics I saw the man was actively bleeding from his eyeballs. :).

360 lifts and abdominoplasty, basically anything that involves removing large amounts of skin and tissue. It's even worse if they combine it with liposuction.

Edit: To the people getting defensive in the replies, I gave this answer because I think the complications are serious enough to warrant very careful consideration from people that do need it. Just because a surgery can improve a person's quality of life doesn't mean we should ignore the potential risks.

I was a receptionist once and glanced at a file. There was a couple that wanted to remove thier areolae.