ALmost 6 months after surgery...

Hello ladies,
I feel guilty that I have been away and have not updated my blog, but here I am! First off, yes I am still in pain from time to time (like right now--YES!). Second, yes I went to go see Dr. Salama just this past October 2013--which means I went back to Miami a year post-op.

I went back because I wanted him to lipo away the fat necrosis that were in my butt that were causing the pain.

SOMEHOW, three weeks before my flight i noticed that the fat necrosis was gone....BUT let me explain HOW---because it did not magically happened. It took more money out of my pockets and....yes, more pain!

Before I tell you about what happened when I went to Dr. Salama's office I will tell you all about the massages I paid for to help my necrosis while i waited for that dreaded one-year-post-op date.

I met this masseuse through groupon and I was honest and told him I needed "Butt Massages" since my surgery left behind an awful pain. He was very very understanding and said he would do his best to help me reduce the pain--naturally!

So I would go every Sunday (strip down) and get massaged with this hand-held massage tool. OMG a few times he would go over the nerve that was (in his opinion a sciatic nerve damage) and let me tell you that I swear he would just get that and massage it out and I felt better week by week.

Anyways, I still felt pain and I new that I didn't want to strip down and get massaged every Sunday for the rest of my life!! So I emailed the doctor and told him straight up---MY BUTT IS IN PAIN SO I WANT A FREE REVISION. Period!

After a few emails back and forth (of me be not backing down and being respectfully-blunt) he agreed that it may have been somewhat of a his fault that I had the necrosis and dents/cellulite. Mind you I never ever had dents/cellulite on my ass before so this was very depressing to now experience.


OK Now we're at the office in Miami (I took off 5 days off of work) and was in front of Dr. Salama for the 2nd time a year later! He saw for himself of the dents and he totally agreed that I had some major flattening and dents (dead cells) on both cheeks. This means that pics you all see here are all when things were still swollen and looking good!! =/

He offered to do a revision for free but that he wouldnt gurarantee the results!!!!! So i said no! You mean to tell me I'm going to put myself back in the same position again--with the stomach lipo and massages from hell for something that could end up with fat necrosis again!!! nope, I said nope.

But of course I was angry that I had flown down for nothing. So instead I asked him to lipo my outer thighs---and he did and only charged me $300 for both outer thighs!

Needles to say, this has been A HUGE ORDEAL for me and I'm only 24 years old.

In the end....

** I am 30lbs heavier than I was EVER in my life--I'm 152
**I'm in debt--butt loan for $7,200--still owe $5K
** Spent more money on lotions/butt massages
** Went through SO much pain!
** Have very visible dents/cellulite
** Belly button looks collapsed
** Have scars--small but they are there!

Unless you are very very very sure that you dont mind going through a similar experience like me, then I would honestly not recommend this surgery.

I don't want to scare anybody but it's a disservice to you all if I don't tell you MY truth.

A lot of patients deal with pain but are too embarrassed to say anything because they've already hyped up their blog and now they cant come back and say "hey, it wasn't all what you think!"

Hope this helps! I will post updated pics too

So after months of not posting anything, I would like to vent!
I am STILL IN PAIN after 11 months...and the pain level is very high. I still can't sit normally and cannot sit AT ALL on any hard surfaces..meaning floors or non-cushioned chairs.
This sucks!!!!
I called DR. Salama's office to find out what could be going on and they asked me to email him directly.
I told him about the hard lumps I am feeling and the very sore BUTT i have. He suggested that it is fat necrosis. I researched fat necrosis and it appears to be what happens when "too much fat is injected at one time and not having the proper blood supply to latch and survive." They also say it is not common if surgeon is experienced but can happen if poor surgical technique is applied.
As a reminder, I had (supposedly) 1000 cc injected in both of my cheeks...so 2,000 cc in total.
I hear that is way too much to do in my sitting. I think that is the reason why I was not able to heal properly and it's the reason why I was bitching about pain in my ass...BECAUSE I WAS experiencing fat necrosis and this is VERY VERY painful.
After emailing Dr. Salama, he said I can have the surgery to remove these hard painful lumps....but I would need an ultrasound or an MRI to see the extent of my issue.
Honestly, there is not a spot on my butt that does not hurt.
I will have to have to entire butt sucked out in order to remove what is causing me all of this pain.
I cannot believe that this is happening to me because I barely had money to pay for the first surgery but I did it thinking that it's $6,500 and I can pick up a second job to pay it off. But now with this problem...I don't know what is going to happen but all I know is that regretted this after week 1 and I STILL REGRET now after almost a year.
Please, listen to my advice:
It may seem like a great idea but honey trust me there are so many complications to worry about. I WISH I would have taken my mom's advice when she said "JUST WORK OUT AND YOU CAN SHAPE YOUR BUTT THAT WAY" but of course I am stubborn!
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and now I'm crying!