Anything and Everything you want to know about Garments/Fajas

Hey girls! I thought since I was so confused over the Garment/Faja thing that I would start a thread to help the newbies and those that just had their surgery sort through all of this craziness with Garments. Please share your own experiences with what garment your doctor used and style number/brand if you know it, did your garment have panties and bra attached, did you doc cut butt holes (hee hee I said butthole) out of it or make the sewn in ones larger, did you purchase your garments before you went to surgery, was your doc okay with the garment you purchased on your own, how long did you wear the garment, did you get your garment altered later, what brand/style do/did you prefer for stage 1 (right after surgery), stage 2 (a few weeks after surgery), and possibly stage 3, what websites did you find were the cheapest, etc. etc.