My Journey with Back of Head Augmentation in Korea

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I've just come out of jogak and I'm having lunch now.
All up the whole procedure from consultation to surgery took 3 hrs.
I went in at 9am and came out at 12pm.
I went with local and not general anesthesia.

They first ask you to wash face then get changed.
Then they lie you down and draw lines on your head so doctor knows where to inject local anesthesia.

The doc then cuts and shaves a small
area where he'll be making the 5cm incision to open up your scalp.

He then scapes and separates the scalp from the bone area where he'll be injecting the bone cement, ( very intimidating the scraping part). All the while sucking up your blood and applying some sort of wash into your scalp.

After the prep work is done, he'll then inject the PMMA and mold it to hopefully your liking.

He then continues to wash your incision sight with some sort of antiseptic fluid.
After that he stitches you up and staples the incision sight as well.Places a head cast or band for compression.

You'll then rest in a room for half hr and then the doc with give you a prescription to buy some antibiotics and painkillers.

I think you'll need to see him a few more times before staples are removed but, I'm flying back early.

I don't know how the pain will be after the local anesthesia wears off...I guess I'll find out soon..
 
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Alittle towards the edges and up on the incision sight where he kept pumping antiseptic solution into it.
I was gonna put my hand up for more anesthesia because, I was starting to feel pain and my heart rate went up..
It kind of scared me.

Also the Doc said," you cannot do sports like wrestling / boxing or any full contact sport"because, the bone cement is not glued on. It acts like a suction cup and is not fully bonded or fused together like we thought.

So guys be careful as it could come off your bone and then you'd be stressing until it's fixed up again.
 
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For me the pain part is getting unbearable.
Local anesthesia has worn off and I've taken 2 tablets of the prescribed painkiller and I can still feel the pain..
It's torcher for me.
I won't be able to sleep tonight and perhaps even the next 2 nights.
So I don't know if you guys still want to go through with it or not.
 
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Fleong said:
Alittle towards the edges and up on the incision sight where he kept pumping antiseptic solution into it.
I was gonna put my hand up for more anesthesia because, I was starting to feel pain and my heart rate went up..
It kind of scared me.

Also the Doc said," you cannot do sports like wrestling / boxing or any full contact sport"because, the bone cement is not glued on. It acts like a suction cup and is not fully bonded or fused together like we thought.

So guys be careful as it could come off your bone and then you'd be stressing until it's fixed up again.
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thank you for your feedback! This is a question I asked the forum on the previous page as well as Dr Song but haven’t heard back. One of my goals is to be able to do things like swimming, wearing a helmet when for ziplining or at a car race track. Seems like if you put on something tight (like a helmet), it will move the bone cement around.

the pain you’re feeling might be that your head skin is tight, and your body is trying to cope with it. Hope you feel better soon!

curious: did you walk around with the cast showing, or did you put on a hat or beanie?
 
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LOTR2Towers said:
thank you for your feedback! This is a question I asked the forum on the previous page as well as Dr Song but haven’t heard back. One of my goals is to be able to do things like swimming, wearing a helmet when for ziplining or at a car race track. Seems like if you put on something tight (like a helmet), it will move the bone cement around.

the pain you’re feeling might be that your head skin is tight, and your body is trying to cope with it. Hope you feel better soon!

curious: did you walk around with the cast showing, or did you put on a hat or beanie?
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If wearing a helmet might move the bone cement then wouldn't that do the same if you sleep on your back every night because of the pressure? I don't think it would move with something like that so easily
 
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mlydzz said:
If wearing a helmet might move the bone cement then wouldn't that do the same if you sleep on your back every night because of the pressure? I don't think it would move with something like that so easily
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when sleeping, you’re lying on it vs putting on a racing helmet which is a pretty tight fit, and it’s pushing the bone down. I’m not an expert so was wondering if that would be an issue. Not bonded suggests it could somewhat move around?
 
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Hi all, I don't think putting on a helmet is a problem

It's more towards rigorous sports like wrestling where you will be thrown on your head and then pressed onto the ground and trying to free your head while it's pinned down will put alot of stress on the PMMA filler that's suctioned on your actual bone.

And I put a beanie on but, you can tell that there's something underneath the beanie as it looks very bulky.
 
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LOTR2Towers said:
thank you for your feedback! This is a question I asked the forum on the previous page as well as Dr Song but haven’t heard back. One of my goals is to be able to do things like swimming, wearing a helmet when for ziplining or at a car race track. Seems like if you put on something tight (like a helmet), it will move the bone cement around.

the pain you’re feeling might be that your head skin is tight, and your body is trying to cope with it. Hope you feel better soon!

curious: did you walk around with the cast showing, or did you put on a hat or beanie?
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Nah man, is not true wearing a helmet or anything else is not a problem at all. Been 1 month since I had the surgery and Dr. Song already told me that I can go to gym/swimming etc but not boxing a full contract sports. Don’t spread false informations if you’re not sure about it.
 
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Kurdo said:
Nah man, is not true wearing a helmet or anything else is not a problem at all. Been 1 month since I had the surgery and Dr. Song already told me that I can go to gym/swimming etc but not boxing a full contract sports. Don’t spread false informations if you’re not sure about it.
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i didn’t spread anything. Literally said “I’m not an expert and was wondering...” I’m simply looking to understand what we can and cannot do. For example, I box at the gym with punch bags, is that allowed? It’s not boxing with another person so it seems okay? At the gym, you might be doing bench presses which would be similar to sleeping. If you’ve ever put on a racing helmet, it is pretty tight and you have to finagle it on (unlike a bike helmet), hence my question.

Was also going off of what Fleong said about the material not bonding to the head bone but instead kind of sits on top. So I’m speculating that with force, it might be movable (again, not an expert and not spreading false info). That’s what Fleong alluded to based on my interpretation.
 
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