27yr, 1 Infant Son, Dreamed of a New Me!!! :-) :-) :-) Lilburn, GA

Please do diligent research before surgery. I didn't. And l regret it. Results not what I expected now seaching for a new doctor for a tummy tuck.

I went in for my follow on Monday 8/25/14 and was told I had to have my stomach drained due to too much fluid build up. I was swollen, I thought, and was just hoping for it to go down with me applying and taking my Arnica pills and gel! I can't even lie before I went to my appointment, over the weekend, my stomach was 2x the size it was before I came in on Monday. I purchased and started using arnica on Saturday and it brought it down to more than half the size. I still had to have it drained and that shocked me because if she would have seen me days before she would have been appalled! The draining was not fun at all and I hope I never have to do it again! Afterwards, I got squeezed into this extremely tiny and expensive body magic that I was told to stay in for three days -_-. Ok. I took off the garment off the next day because I had ate an apple the night before and almost died choking on it because my insides were being squeezed TOO tight! No more body magic, it's on the floor somewhere. Spanx and a binder it is! My waist and stomach has went down drastically, but I still have swelling, hard swelling on my lower abs. I use all the arnica I can and take the tablets because I refuse to get drained again it was 130cc per side of my stomach! A mess! Which I believe it's my fault, I should have called them as soon as I had swelling but I thought it was normal. So much for assuming! :-) No pics! It's not how I want it and I don't want to detour anyone from getting it! Just know I'm getting looked at from every angle even in my swelling it is very well worth it!!! ;-)

I have been dealing with a lot of swelling lately but I guess that is what you can expect from having 5 liters of fat removed. I had my top/lower abdomen done along with my love handles. I will be going back for my bra rolls. I have a follow up appointment for my fitting on 8/25/14 hope everything goes well! I can't wait to finally be done with all this swelling and re see my results like I did on the day after surgery...
-_- Smh..... in due time...