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This needs to be coordinated with your pain management doctor and your plastic surgeon. You need to comply with the guidelines provided by your plastic surgeon's office.Kenneth Hughes, MD, ABPS Board Certified Plastic SurgeonLos Angeles, CA
If you are otherwise healthy, you should be fine to get a BBL. The only concern would be pain control since you have a history of dependency and take suboxone. Make sure you have a good plan and remember your overall healthy is more important. You don't want to put yourself at risk for a relapse.
there are a few different issues. You're probably aware of most of them. The anesthesiologist should definitely know. If your surgeon a Places sufficient amounts of tumescent solution during the surgery then you will not have pain in the recovery room. From there on ibuprofen is most likely sufficient. You can also bump up your dose of Suboxone for postoperative pain control. It's important all physicians involved will recognize that opiates will not work while taking Suboxone. This means using local anesthetics to their maximum. Best, Mats Hagstrom MD
The great thing about this surgery is that the transformation that occurs in a couple of hours in the operating room trumps any period of time in the gym. Having said that, lunges, squats, and other exercises that cause hypertrophy of the gluteus muscles will help the result. Squats and lu...
Having the BBL done a second time is an option as long you have enough fat to be transferred. You have to consider not only which areas will have perhaps the best fat, but also you have to consider which donor sites will have the fewest problems afterward with the liposuction. In general, the a...
The softening of your butt more likely represents the swelling resolving. It takes 3 months to see the final result and confidently say that what you have at that point is what you'll keep. As for exercise, surgeons often have different opinions so it's probably best if you discuss this with...
Dear Maylow, I understand your concern and your discoloration will probably disappear with time. However, without a proper assessment it would be difficult to determine what is wrong. It is best that you visit your plastic surgeon for further assessment. Only after thorough examination you...
Thank you so much for share with us your concern and photos. I’m really sorry to read that you are unsatisfied with one of your result but right now you are in a healing process, it's normal to have this kind of pain, you need to be patient and do the post-op care that your s...
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