4 weeks post op! - I still have a ton of swelling in my back and lower stomach - Bal Harbour, FL

4-15

Woohoo!! I paid off my surgery with Dr.Salzhauer a few days ago. I am so excited and nervous! I've never had any kind of surgery before ( well I guess, I had my wisdom teeth taken out...).
Like a lot of you, I've always wished I could just take fat from where I didn't want it and just move it to my hips and butt! Ugh, I've wanted this for so long. I was so stoked when I found you could actually do this!!!

I carry most my weight in my inner thighs and love handles/belly as you can see in my pics. I've always despised how boxy my thighs are. They just don't have any curves to em! I lift heavy weights and that's helped alot. My body used to be way more mushy and shapeless. Deadlifts and squats have helped out my butt a lot. ( they used to be even MORE flat, lol). You can see in my pictures how my butt will look ok in some pics and horribly flat in others. It depends if I'm flex my muscles or not. My hips, though, ain't nothing I can do to make those fill out!! I have 'dents' where there is little to no fat on my hips. That's why I'm getting the bbl + hip fat grafting.
My stats:
Age: 25
I'm 5'4 , 123-127 lbs. I'm usually somewhere between those numbers.
chest/Right below the boobs-33 inches
Thinnest part of my Waist- 28 inches
Widest part around my butt/hips- 36 inches
Widest part of my inner thigh( right) 20.5 inches
Widest part of my inner thigh (left) 21 inches
I want a big ole upside down heart shape bubble!! Pow! I want nice projection but a sweet slope from my lower back to my butt cheeks.
Originally, Azurin, was going to be my doctor but the dates he had available did not work for me and I wouldn't have been able to do the bbl for another year. Sucks, cuz I loved what I saw!! He can sculpt like crazy!! I saw what he did to Zizi, miamimom and gipsy! Sign me up!!
Dr.Salzhauer was my next in line. I saw soflomints' results and a few other ladies on MMH who had really great results! No drains and he had the date I wanted.

Dr.Ghurani and Dr.Salama were also in the running but I didn't want to deal with the complications of drains. Otherwise, the results they gave were fantastic! I've been browsing realself since november so I saw plenty of ladies with banging results that had me drooling, lol!
Dr.Jimmerson gave some seriously hot results but it would have been easier to have the surgery done in Florida as I have someone close who knows the area and can take care of me. He was also really expensive for only including less areas to lipo and additional for hip fat grafting.

Help!
For the vet's who've had their bbls done with their INNER thighs lipo'd, did you get any irregularities? How did your skin retract? Did you notice a big difference? Was it worth it?
I want the doctor to suck all the fat out of my inner thighs but I know it's one of the more dangerous areas to lipo due to the delicate skin there. (Sucks!!! The one place I want smaller the most!!) I'm terrified my inner thighs will get botched or something. I'm only 25!! I don't want to have the thighs of a 60 years old this young!! I'll probably ask Dr.Salz to go extra gentle on the thighs even though I so badly want the fat sucked clean off my inner thighs!
While I think I have pretty elastic skin, I do have some stretch marks on my inner thighs having been heavier in my teens. They've faded out but I've read that stretch marks can mean the skin may not retract as well especially in that area.

It's not worth ending up with botched thighs and then having to spend 30K or more in revisions to correct it. I've researched and seen way too many cases of damaged skin/botched lipo cases of the inner thigh. As much as I hate my inner thighs, I would hate them more if they came out saggy and lumpy.

So far, Dr. Salzhauer has me down for :

full back
full abdomen
love handles
anterior(top) thighs
inner thigh
inner knees
Fat grafting to the hips and butt

I'd do the posterior(back) thighs as well but I've heard there's waaaaay too much risk of creating extra creases and/or a droopy butt( heeeelll naaaw!!!) So I won't touch that!!

I was told gain 5-10 lbs so the doctor has extra fat to work with. I stopped working out about two weeks ago. I've been working on stretching to keep myself flexible. My butt isn't very jiggly because of weight lifting. They're pretty firm. I'm worried my skin will be too tight to get a lot of fat underneath my skin. I know fat cells get bigger versus multiplying so I'm not too concerned with gaining a ton of weight.

April 30th is my day! Eeek, I'm only two weeks away! I gotta start ordering all my supplies!!! I got my flight set up and I just need to book a place on air bnb for the trip. Anyway, I'm writing this review to help out anyone else who's thinking about getting a bbl. Trying to pay it forward since all the people who've previously written reviews on realself and mmh have helped me a ton!