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Ok - going through a depressed moment :-( I...
Ok - going through a depressed moment :-(
I slept without my garment last night and all the swelling came back :-(
I have a good demon on my shoulder saying "[RS bleep] relax - you have 6 weeks until you can see the real results." The bad demand is saying "Haaa haaa [RS bleep] your fat ass is still gonna have a tire belly! Not even lipo can save you that [RS bleep] is reabsorbing fatty." The bad demon sounds just like Eddie Murphy.
Crying self to sleep. I feel like the nutty professor. I bet someone going through this wrote that movie!!!
Bottomup's review helped me soooooooooo much! I didn't even make it through all the comments! The value of READING rather than photo trolling is amazing. But I still feel sad. What a rollercoaster! This is why I say take 3 weeks off! 2 is ok IF your job surrounds you with supportive people AND you have people to support you. I'm single and relocated from the people who fully support me soooo... It's 4:41am. I see my masseuse at 12p. She has had a lot of lipo patients over the years so she helps me make it through this regarding swelling and the healing, pain, etc.
When I lay down my garment bulges at the bottom of the belly. Uhhh thats the area that needs to go! SOOO I rolled my foam and put it there on top of the cardboard. I guess its time for a smaller garment, but my butt needs to remain. So I'm getting a custom garment like BottomUp (who looks amazing to me by the way! Please compliment her if you like what you see. I personally LOVE IT)! I used to sell garments and those aren't working for me because despite what I see in the mirror...MY WAIST WENT FROM 31 TO 29 INCHES ALREADY!!!
The butt looked small with my back swelling, this is why I say to read BottomUps review. She had the same issue at week 2. By week 4....OOOh La LA
I slept without my garment last night and all the swelling came back :-(
I have a good demon on my shoulder saying "[RS bleep] relax - you have 6 weeks until you can see the real results." The bad demand is saying "Haaa haaa [RS bleep] your fat ass is still gonna have a tire belly! Not even lipo can save you that [RS bleep] is reabsorbing fatty." The bad demon sounds just like Eddie Murphy.
Crying self to sleep. I feel like the nutty professor. I bet someone going through this wrote that movie!!!
Bottomup's review helped me soooooooooo much! I didn't even make it through all the comments! The value of READING rather than photo trolling is amazing. But I still feel sad. What a rollercoaster! This is why I say take 3 weeks off! 2 is ok IF your job surrounds you with supportive people AND you have people to support you. I'm single and relocated from the people who fully support me soooo... It's 4:41am. I see my masseuse at 12p. She has had a lot of lipo patients over the years so she helps me make it through this regarding swelling and the healing, pain, etc.
When I lay down my garment bulges at the bottom of the belly. Uhhh thats the area that needs to go! SOOO I rolled my foam and put it there on top of the cardboard. I guess its time for a smaller garment, but my butt needs to remain. So I'm getting a custom garment like BottomUp (who looks amazing to me by the way! Please compliment her if you like what you see. I personally LOVE IT)! I used to sell garments and those aren't working for me because despite what I see in the mirror...MY WAIST WENT FROM 31 TO 29 INCHES ALREADY!!!
The butt looked small with my back swelling, this is why I say to read BottomUps review. She had the same issue at week 2. By week 4....OOOh La LA
Hi again you guys! I just got back from my massage...
Hi again you guys! I just got back from my massage. My masseuse said that my swelling has now "localized" meaning there are areas so minimal swelling and other areas have a lot. That means I need a new garment and she did recommend a custom garment.
The swelling has "traveled" to my upper back right behind my breast and lower abdomen. As you can see in my before photos, those areas were where most of my fat was.
She began working on my sides today. I saw on BottomUp's review and another lady who commented on hers (forgot her name, sorry) that the sides were a pain in the butt when trying to stretch so I need that worked out now rather than later. Once upon a time I couldn't even stand up straight due to tightness in my abdomen which is now actually softening up with each massage so I think its ok to move on to other areas. She also began working on my left thigh. Ironically there is little to no tightness in my right thigh, but now that the bruising is in the final stage on my left, I could feel the hardness in the left. And boy was is hard.
Right now the left thigh literally feels like it was once a whole TIGHT puzzle that is now all broken up. CREEPY! She explained that lipo results in scabs beneath the outer layer of skin. Makes a ton of sense now!
I had her massage my entire stomach too and guess what! Some of the lumps in my upper abdomen are actually muscles! I HAVE MUSCLES IN MY ABS? Go Lipo!
I took more photos this morning after my shower. I will post them. They are skin photos. Honestly though, after the massage and her moving things around the lumps already look different. I couldn't make this happen on my own though, thats why she's a paid masseuse.
My sides are currently SOFT! They were tight as a rubber-band before going to her. You can see the stiffness of them in my photos. I think once this softens for good and my butt "drops" I will have more of an hour glass figure. Not like Mendietta can achieve, but close enough considering I paid 50% of what he charges. SALAMA IS THE MAN!!! If you go look at EnjoySelf's review, at 2 weeks she was "boxy" but her later photos show much more softness on the curves. I can't wait to see myself 4 weeks from now!!!
I'll upload photos of my bruises and skin later on. I need to order a custom garment, eat, and put on my garment first!
The swelling has "traveled" to my upper back right behind my breast and lower abdomen. As you can see in my before photos, those areas were where most of my fat was.
She began working on my sides today. I saw on BottomUp's review and another lady who commented on hers (forgot her name, sorry) that the sides were a pain in the butt when trying to stretch so I need that worked out now rather than later. Once upon a time I couldn't even stand up straight due to tightness in my abdomen which is now actually softening up with each massage so I think its ok to move on to other areas. She also began working on my left thigh. Ironically there is little to no tightness in my right thigh, but now that the bruising is in the final stage on my left, I could feel the hardness in the left. And boy was is hard.
Right now the left thigh literally feels like it was once a whole TIGHT puzzle that is now all broken up. CREEPY! She explained that lipo results in scabs beneath the outer layer of skin. Makes a ton of sense now!
I had her massage my entire stomach too and guess what! Some of the lumps in my upper abdomen are actually muscles! I HAVE MUSCLES IN MY ABS? Go Lipo!
I took more photos this morning after my shower. I will post them. They are skin photos. Honestly though, after the massage and her moving things around the lumps already look different. I couldn't make this happen on my own though, thats why she's a paid masseuse.
My sides are currently SOFT! They were tight as a rubber-band before going to her. You can see the stiffness of them in my photos. I think once this softens for good and my butt "drops" I will have more of an hour glass figure. Not like Mendietta can achieve, but close enough considering I paid 50% of what he charges. SALAMA IS THE MAN!!! If you go look at EnjoySelf's review, at 2 weeks she was "boxy" but her later photos show much more softness on the curves. I can't wait to see myself 4 weeks from now!!!
I'll upload photos of my bruises and skin later on. I need to order a custom garment, eat, and put on my garment first!
I took these photos on my 2 week anniversary....
I took these photos on my 2 week anniversary. Which my phone so they aren't as clear as I hoped, but I wanted to show the "texture" of my stomach after the process. Honestly, the best way to do this is probably for me to snap a picture when I'm all oiled up so that the camera actually captures it. Its nothing that would show through a shirt, but you FEEL it when massaging. You see it too, but its not hideous at the 2 week mark. I mean I would cry if it looked like this forever, but its part of the healing process!
In one of them, if you look at my hip on the left of the photo you can see one of the scars. It looks like a little dot. Its still hard as a scar like this would be at 2 weeks. I'm not freaking out about any scars so far. I put vitamin e oil on them 2x a day under a bandaid to make sure the oil is on the wound and not soaking into my garment.
In one of them, if you look at my hip on the left of the photo you can see one of the scars. It looks like a little dot. Its still hard as a scar like this would be at 2 weeks. I'm not freaking out about any scars so far. I put vitamin e oil on them 2x a day under a bandaid to make sure the oil is on the wound and not soaking into my garment.
Provider Review
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
2700 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Florida
- Don't say my name. Discretion is a must, thats why my heads chopped off of my photos. - Salama is THEE BOMB! Even with me having a nervous breakdown about my butt being too big, he still maintains his sense of humor. When I saw him after, he said, "So are you still freaking out?" LOL. Anyway, I am good now. He inserted 1100ccs which I was only expected 600-700 (I didn't tell him this) so to counter it he gave me a smaller garment that actually compressed the butt. WORKED LIKE A CHARM! I love my ASS! It has not shrunk at all since Day 8 post-op when I put on the smaller garment, its only gotten softer and my body is shaped just like it is with the garment on! Kinda cool! If I hadn't compressed it, I am sure it would have shrunk more. To the point! SALAMA and his staff are GREAT! I am accustomed to 5 star arrangements, so I would say they are 3.5-4star far as setting, etc. However his work is that of 5 star and my advice is to BOOK SOON with him. I expect him to be one of the most expensive BBL surgeons in the country VERY SOON. I saw at least 5 ladies in there who had recently undergone surgery recently and I think he will only get more popular. He can only do so much, so simple economics says his price will go up!