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Hi,
I am scheduled for Macrolane in the next couple of weeks. I can let you know what it feels and looks like if you would like. I have got to try something so I have already paid a deposit so I hope it goes well. I do feel confident. I am going to get 150 CC's in the outer leg area. I have heard about lumps too. I have to schedule my flight and book my appt.

thana, please, please accept yourself as you are. You still have a fighting chance.. Exercise with weights and you will be great. Please, don't ever do it. Even the best case scenario.. you look good today. Come 2 or 3 or 5 years from now. You won't. It changes skin elasticity, and you don't gain weight in that area at least I haven't but everywhere else odd. Please. Go live your life and give yourself a chance.
Take Care

Hi Pitsy,
Thanks for sharing your story. I am grateful that you are able to share. So many of us are going through this and it truly helps to know that we are not alone. I totally understand. Having had the best stomach that I was so proud of and a nice back and arms and chest to now end up with rolls on my back and large alongated breasts a muffin top no definition on my stomach anymore I cannot believe folks in the business of helping you to achieve 'a better you' could really do this to people. I wish i could afford a billboard sign I would photograph my before and after and scream these are the 'real' photos that they don't show you. The people that you are seeing in the ads I know without a shadow of a doubt haven't let a liposuction or Smartlipo machine near them! And the ones that have are still hardened with a ton of swelling haven't had the weight gain return with or without eating the same and show no pictures of a true after case. You were a difficult case. And don't believe your husband. I know it is probably one of the hardest things for you but try everyday to at least find one decent thing left that you like and focus on that. I have had so much devastation that on some days I am lucky to get a toenail to love. Lol. Again, thanks for your story. Hang in there.

you are not alone. That same thing happened to me. I went in at 121 and about 3 days later was 124 all of this 'new' weight immediately accumulated on my stomach and lower back. I had hips, outer thigh, banana roll and knees. I used to be able to eat. I returned to get the fat taken from abdomen to help even out the divots in my legs and only some of the fat survived. all through this I watch weight creep up eating less and less. Guess where all of the fat goes??? upper arms, breasts, and back. I got to 140lb right after that surgery and couldn't take the weight off. No one would believe what was happening. I had to do something so now I live on a protein diet only. eggs in the morning, roast beef rolled into cheese for lunch and piece of chicken or steak in a salad for dinner. that is my life and only thing that has helped me stabilize and get down to 130. The minute i try to have a normal sandwich and maybe a yogurt.. The weight gain starts. I have surrendered. Surrendered to the fact that i have to live with cobblestoned appearance legs, a divoted tummy with loose skin and rolls on my back that I never ever had and that people don't have. and now, that I can't even enjoy foods that I used to. I wish there was more 'real' info out there about the devastating consequences of liposuction/smartlipo, etc. It is so sad.

i too look like you.. I had to have liposuction of the abdomen to get fat to put back into my thigh area after a botched smartlipo procedure. The doctor said that I would have irregularity and I did. Just as yours. I am now 2 and 1/2 yrs post op. the only suggestion other ps's say now is that I need a tummy tuck. I am sorry for you. Maybe having more lipo to even the areas out may help. I wasn't willing to allow any more liposuction on my body any more. It really doesn't look to bad. Maybe fat transfers for you.