38 Years Old, No Kids, Just Wanted a Bigger Butt! - Beverly Hills, CA

Just hit 5 weeks post op yesterday. I've lost quite a bit of my initial size, but I'm sure it was all swelling. I asked Dr Hughes the other day how much was injected into my buttocks and hips, thinking 800cc were injected into my butt. I found out the total amount was 800... So I'm really feeling like I wasted my money. I've been looking at all these before and after pics of his and other doctors patients... and I feel like I could have accomplished this in the gym on my own.

I've been extremely depressed lately. Mostly because I had high expectations of what my after results were going to be, especially because I had a larger butt pre-op. I wanted so much more... But really, Dr Hughes didn't have much to work with initially. My cellulite seems much worse now, but I think it's because I haven't been to the gym in 5 weeks.

I have burning pains in my lower back. I've literally spent the last 5 weeks in sweats and on my stomach. I did wake up on my back last night, and I honestly didn't even care. I figured with my results being so minimal anyway, it didn't matter anymore. I've done everything to the letter that Dr Hughes told me to do. I have breast implants as well, which are 550 cc. So I figure that my implant size is approximately what remains in my butt... Which is a little more than a handful.

I'm trying to stay positive, I have a week left to resume normal activities...

I still don't blame Dr Hughes. He did an amazing job with what he had to work with. I just wish I would have realized exactly how much fat I didn't have BEFORE I decided to drop $11k.

I don't think I discussed very thoroughly my ideal size with him prior to surgery like I should have. He never promised me huge results, but honestly that's what I wanted.

I'll post pics next week, when I'm at 6 weeks. My butt has gotten softer, but still doesn't jiggle like my old butt did... I hope at least that returns. It was my favorite part of my butt...

Here it is ladies. A few days late but three weeks post. The more the swelling goes down the more cellulite shows back up!!! Why can't they figure out how to photoshop that in real life!!!! Lol

So ladies... I did exactly what I said I wouldn't do..and I took measurements. But only on my butt... I'm looking at 42" at the largest part. That's a 4" increase from my pre-surgery measurement.

I've been feeling really down lately, but today I'm feeling a lot better. I keep in daily contact with my fellow bbl inspiration, @valdezg1214. Her positivity and thoughtful words have kept me going and helped to change my outlook! I can only hope you ladies find someone as special as she is during your recovery.

I've been doing some driving and getting my hair done. I bought a bbl pillow (if you type just that, you'll see the site it bought it from) it's basically some padded type of styrofoam and in my opinion a waste of $99. It hurts my legs and just flat out isn't comfortable. It raises you up high enough (well for me it did, those with a little more junk might have trouble) but it's hard and the edges really dig into sensitive parts that may have been lipo'd. I ended up rolling up a king size pillow and wrapping an ace bandage around it. Works just the same and isn't expensive.

I'm going to purchase some compression wear today. Hopefully I can find something with no butt compression... If not, I'll end up cutting the butt out of the garments.
I thought about ordering a faja, but Dr Hughes said spanx is just fine. So I'm going with that. He hasn't let me down thus far.

I've also started using vitamin E oil on my inscision areas. My tend to turn really purple initially... One thing I didn't mention is that I am in a long distance relationship...and I don't plan on telling him about my procedure. He will be here in three weeks to see me so I'm doing what I can to minimize the appearance of the scars. I bought Mederma initially, but I didn't really like it. I think I've seen faster results with the vitamin E oil. I also bought some Argon oil yesterday and am going to add that to the mix.

I'll take more photos later today ladies.