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Sorry about my really long first post I'm a literature freak so I tend to be really descriptive when I'm explaining myself. LOL I'll try to keep it straight to the point from now on... I hate reading blabbing essays too!! Also I'm going to post before pictures. Can you guys let me know what you think?
xoxo
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I keep changing my mind!!!
I'm really having un unbelievably emotionally hard time with my decision making. I keep reading things that are making my head want to explode. I read good reviews of Salama and I think OKAY I'M GOING FOR IT than I read bad reviews and I think SCREW THAT...... I'm even so far as thinking maybe I should just stay with Dr. Jugenburg... he'll do a nice and safe and petite booty for me that I'll be "alright" with.... But I don't want that! a want a sexy round SALAMABOOTY I' really am team Salama but I'm just so extremely scared of getting burnt or deformed it's almost crippling. I havent been sleeping properly this past week and every night including last night I'm have ass dreams. No joke ladies. Sometimes I think ahhh [RS bleep] IT I'll just stop eating and become really skinny that way I won't even want an ass.... I'll just take my money and buy a jeep haha. :(
Has anyone else had this back and forth with themselves about their decision to go with Salama?
Has anyone else had this back and forth with themselves about their decision to go with Salama?
Hello RealSelf community! I decided to start...
Hello RealSelf community!
I decided to start sharing my experiences as I've found so much helpful information from you guys and I hope that I can maybe provide some enlightenment to you all as well as I go through my journey!
So to start, I'm getting a Brazillian Butt Lift procedure on Oct 31 2014 with Dr. Salama in Aventura Florida and quite frankly it's been a rocky couple of weeks as I've been getting closer to the date.
I first went for a consultation with Dr. Martin Jugenburg here in Toronto as he had a lot of publicity and his website was very bright and informative and reassuring in a sense. When I walked into the office which is located in a very Ritzy downtown hotel, I was feeling very confident in him already as it was absolutely immaculate, the receptionists were flawless and very nice and I instantly felt welcome. After about an hour wait, I finally met with his head nurse to which I forget her name. We spoke about my personal life, decision to do the operation and she spoke about how popular and amazing Dr. J was at the procedure I requested. Initially I wanted to do Buttock Implants with Brazillian Butt lift, not JUST the bbl. So the head nurse left to get the Dr. and about 15 minutes later Dr. J comes in and we meet. At first glance, he's handsome and very warm. We get right to business. I get partially undressed and he snaps photos and I show him my areas of concern; I wanted my upper back and flanks and lower back lipo'd. He told me that I didnt have any upper back fat at all regardless of my personal opinion, theres nothing there to lipo. He also enlightened me that my right leg was a good amount longer than my left so my spine was on an angle which I found kind of cool that he saw that in not even 5 minutes and I've never noticed it my whole 21 years of life! So after all the photo taking we went over my wish photos and he went on to explain to me that according to the shape of my actual butt cheek and muscle that my wish pictures were "highly unlikely" and that he would "try his best". At that point I started to lose a lot of confidence in him. YES, I agree that a plastic surgeon is certainly respectable if he can be realistic with you but I don't think my wish pictures were in any way unacheivable through plastic surgery ESPECIALLY through a combination of Implant and BBL. I wasn't looking for any sort of Nicki Minaj and the fact that he said he'd "try his best: really made me feel like I'd be wasting a ton of money on an ATTEMPT instead of a highly skilled artist with a scalpel and a pocket full of my thousands of dollars. Furthermore, we began going through prices, he started showing me all sorts of different brands and shapes of implants and going over what size I wanted and what the best shape would be for me, I wasnt exactly sure, so he recommended one to me and I said alright Doc, I leave it in your hands. He then printed me up a hefty $16,000 bill and sent his head nurse back in. I explained to the head nurse of my concerns that he basically told me that my expectations were unrealistic and how shocked I was with the overall price. She then went on to the computer which she didnt seem to know how to use very well and pulled up a roster of past clients. She did not have any butt implant examples to show me which led me to beleive he didnt do much of then.... It was mainly BBL photos. To my shock I was not impressed with ANY of the After photos I was shown. The few on his website are literally THE BEST examples he's done and frankly they arent even all that impressive. There are maybe 2 on the website that you can see a reasonable change in shape and actual body sculpting. The rest of his before and after photos were very very dissappointing. He did not appear to be aggressive or skilled with his lipo technique and the shapes of the womans bottoms were not changed a whole lot their bottoms simply just had a bit more volume. Anyhow, my bill included 2 garments, 2 massages, 2 silicone implants and lipo of the lower back and flanks and one night at the Royal York Hotel which his office is located in. The head nurse basically reassured me that he was a great amazing fanatastic surgeon blah blah blah and he'd do a great job and gave me her card to contact her for when I was ready to book my surgery date. SO GREAT. To be frank, if I had felt exceptionally confident in his skills I would have been fine to pay the 16, 000 especially to stay comfortable in my hometown but I just felt in a sense brushed off and pretty silly for even making the consultation. Even if he had said, "your expectations are a little unrealistic for YOUR specific shape, but I can make you look like ex A or ex B or I will make you look absolutely fantastic and you will love your new body" or SOMETHING along those lines I would have stuck with him. But he did not. He came off extremely incapable and I was not prepared to spend my entire savings for mediocre results.
*BREATH*
I was so dissappointed with my Dr. Jugenburg consultation that I immediately phoned Dr. Salama's office and inquired about prices and told them to email me all of the information. A few days later my Surgery date was booked and my depost was paid. I chose Dr. Salama because from reading reviews here on RealSelf of his work and watching Youtube videos of him and a woman's experience with him I felt 100% confident that he would be the perfect fit even IF I had to fly to Florida. My bill amounted to 2 Silicone Implants, 2 Massages, 2 garments, and Lipo of the upper back, abdomen and flanks for $11,500. I figured if I was going to pay $16,000 I might as well get a trip to Florida including airfare, housing and shopping in total PLUS with a fantasticly reviewed surgeon whose done this surgery hundreds of times. I was on cloud 9. :)
So now, as it gets closer to the surgery date I'm getting more meticulous with my research, watching video after video of butt implant surgeries and reading review after review of women who have had both BBL and BBL +Implants surgeries with Dr. S and other Doctors. I initially made my decision to do BBL +Implants based on a Youtube Video I watched of one of Dr. S's girls. In the video she looked AMAZING and she even so much as shook her booty for us to see that even with the implants her booty moved. My thought process was that I was willing to take the chance with the implants because I feel like I would be so disappointed if my ass got a lot smaller and eventually went away; I wanted PERMANENCE.
However, after researching more and more I decided yesterday that I no longer want to take the chance with the implants. I'm no longer a hundred percent sure I want a BIGGG JUICY booty, I just want a nice round shape that pokes out in my skirts and looks good in my yoga pants. I'm a huge fitness fanatic and work out to look good, feel good, when I'm bored, full of energy, etc. It's my life. And I imagine doing high knees or burpees, and feeling my big fat ass jump and jiggle. HAHA :) I think it would LOOK amazing but feel so annoying so I'm comfortable with just having fat transfer, and even comfortable with the thought of it getting smaller. :)
So as well as deciding I no longer want to do Implants, I'm seriously having doubts about choosing Dr. S because of all of the burn victims he's had. After reading the reviews of 150mmlover and 76lovejoy I'm actually experiencing feelings of terror. I just imagine if it was me.... If I spent thousands of dollars on a procedure just to end up deformed and spending thousands more on recovering from all of these burns (skin grafting surgery, creams, ointments) and than still having to realize that your body will NEVER be the same.... I would just be absolutely devastated. I really want to stay with Salama because from the good reviews, his work just simply trumps any other BBL's on here but I just really really am terrified of being burnt or becoming deformed in anyway.
What are your thoughts ladies? From what I read you all always know what to say. I would love some words of wisdom.
xoxo,
Sapphyra Rose
I decided to start sharing my experiences as I've found so much helpful information from you guys and I hope that I can maybe provide some enlightenment to you all as well as I go through my journey!
So to start, I'm getting a Brazillian Butt Lift procedure on Oct 31 2014 with Dr. Salama in Aventura Florida and quite frankly it's been a rocky couple of weeks as I've been getting closer to the date.
I first went for a consultation with Dr. Martin Jugenburg here in Toronto as he had a lot of publicity and his website was very bright and informative and reassuring in a sense. When I walked into the office which is located in a very Ritzy downtown hotel, I was feeling very confident in him already as it was absolutely immaculate, the receptionists were flawless and very nice and I instantly felt welcome. After about an hour wait, I finally met with his head nurse to which I forget her name. We spoke about my personal life, decision to do the operation and she spoke about how popular and amazing Dr. J was at the procedure I requested. Initially I wanted to do Buttock Implants with Brazillian Butt lift, not JUST the bbl. So the head nurse left to get the Dr. and about 15 minutes later Dr. J comes in and we meet. At first glance, he's handsome and very warm. We get right to business. I get partially undressed and he snaps photos and I show him my areas of concern; I wanted my upper back and flanks and lower back lipo'd. He told me that I didnt have any upper back fat at all regardless of my personal opinion, theres nothing there to lipo. He also enlightened me that my right leg was a good amount longer than my left so my spine was on an angle which I found kind of cool that he saw that in not even 5 minutes and I've never noticed it my whole 21 years of life! So after all the photo taking we went over my wish photos and he went on to explain to me that according to the shape of my actual butt cheek and muscle that my wish pictures were "highly unlikely" and that he would "try his best". At that point I started to lose a lot of confidence in him. YES, I agree that a plastic surgeon is certainly respectable if he can be realistic with you but I don't think my wish pictures were in any way unacheivable through plastic surgery ESPECIALLY through a combination of Implant and BBL. I wasn't looking for any sort of Nicki Minaj and the fact that he said he'd "try his best: really made me feel like I'd be wasting a ton of money on an ATTEMPT instead of a highly skilled artist with a scalpel and a pocket full of my thousands of dollars. Furthermore, we began going through prices, he started showing me all sorts of different brands and shapes of implants and going over what size I wanted and what the best shape would be for me, I wasnt exactly sure, so he recommended one to me and I said alright Doc, I leave it in your hands. He then printed me up a hefty $16,000 bill and sent his head nurse back in. I explained to the head nurse of my concerns that he basically told me that my expectations were unrealistic and how shocked I was with the overall price. She then went on to the computer which she didnt seem to know how to use very well and pulled up a roster of past clients. She did not have any butt implant examples to show me which led me to beleive he didnt do much of then.... It was mainly BBL photos. To my shock I was not impressed with ANY of the After photos I was shown. The few on his website are literally THE BEST examples he's done and frankly they arent even all that impressive. There are maybe 2 on the website that you can see a reasonable change in shape and actual body sculpting. The rest of his before and after photos were very very dissappointing. He did not appear to be aggressive or skilled with his lipo technique and the shapes of the womans bottoms were not changed a whole lot their bottoms simply just had a bit more volume. Anyhow, my bill included 2 garments, 2 massages, 2 silicone implants and lipo of the lower back and flanks and one night at the Royal York Hotel which his office is located in. The head nurse basically reassured me that he was a great amazing fanatastic surgeon blah blah blah and he'd do a great job and gave me her card to contact her for when I was ready to book my surgery date. SO GREAT. To be frank, if I had felt exceptionally confident in his skills I would have been fine to pay the 16, 000 especially to stay comfortable in my hometown but I just felt in a sense brushed off and pretty silly for even making the consultation. Even if he had said, "your expectations are a little unrealistic for YOUR specific shape, but I can make you look like ex A or ex B or I will make you look absolutely fantastic and you will love your new body" or SOMETHING along those lines I would have stuck with him. But he did not. He came off extremely incapable and I was not prepared to spend my entire savings for mediocre results.
*BREATH*
I was so dissappointed with my Dr. Jugenburg consultation that I immediately phoned Dr. Salama's office and inquired about prices and told them to email me all of the information. A few days later my Surgery date was booked and my depost was paid. I chose Dr. Salama because from reading reviews here on RealSelf of his work and watching Youtube videos of him and a woman's experience with him I felt 100% confident that he would be the perfect fit even IF I had to fly to Florida. My bill amounted to 2 Silicone Implants, 2 Massages, 2 garments, and Lipo of the upper back, abdomen and flanks for $11,500. I figured if I was going to pay $16,000 I might as well get a trip to Florida including airfare, housing and shopping in total PLUS with a fantasticly reviewed surgeon whose done this surgery hundreds of times. I was on cloud 9. :)
So now, as it gets closer to the surgery date I'm getting more meticulous with my research, watching video after video of butt implant surgeries and reading review after review of women who have had both BBL and BBL +Implants surgeries with Dr. S and other Doctors. I initially made my decision to do BBL +Implants based on a Youtube Video I watched of one of Dr. S's girls. In the video she looked AMAZING and she even so much as shook her booty for us to see that even with the implants her booty moved. My thought process was that I was willing to take the chance with the implants because I feel like I would be so disappointed if my ass got a lot smaller and eventually went away; I wanted PERMANENCE.
However, after researching more and more I decided yesterday that I no longer want to take the chance with the implants. I'm no longer a hundred percent sure I want a BIGGG JUICY booty, I just want a nice round shape that pokes out in my skirts and looks good in my yoga pants. I'm a huge fitness fanatic and work out to look good, feel good, when I'm bored, full of energy, etc. It's my life. And I imagine doing high knees or burpees, and feeling my big fat ass jump and jiggle. HAHA :) I think it would LOOK amazing but feel so annoying so I'm comfortable with just having fat transfer, and even comfortable with the thought of it getting smaller. :)
So as well as deciding I no longer want to do Implants, I'm seriously having doubts about choosing Dr. S because of all of the burn victims he's had. After reading the reviews of 150mmlover and 76lovejoy I'm actually experiencing feelings of terror. I just imagine if it was me.... If I spent thousands of dollars on a procedure just to end up deformed and spending thousands more on recovering from all of these burns (skin grafting surgery, creams, ointments) and than still having to realize that your body will NEVER be the same.... I would just be absolutely devastated. I really want to stay with Salama because from the good reviews, his work just simply trumps any other BBL's on here but I just really really am terrified of being burnt or becoming deformed in anyway.
What are your thoughts ladies? From what I read you all always know what to say. I would love some words of wisdom.
xoxo,
Sapphyra Rose
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Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
2700 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Florida