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Day 9 Post op
Hey guys it's 9 days postop for me and I must say that I had very difficult few days because of diarrhea and dehydration. I have to take the antibiotic so its dehydrating me even more after having problems with diarrhea. So yesterday I was drained of my energy I could not keep any food or liquid down so I threw up and I'm starting to believe that I didn't really have a problem with compression it was just the fact that I was starting to get sick. So I saw the doctor today he took the drains out and I'm very relieved I love my results so far but this is just the beginning of my journey so I know that right now how my body look I should not get too excited until the eighth week wearing my Faja which is supertight and amazing how it makes my curves look. Hopefully I can stay committed to this. He told me that I should stop taking my antibiotics for a day or so and I am so relieved to hear this so I am just working on getting myself back to normal within 24 hours so I can get back onto my medicine because I don't play around with infections and after surgery I know that I am supposed to take my and medicine. For my plane ride I was given a thigh pillow so I can sit on and keep me from sitting on my butt implants on the plane ride home. I'm going to be in the air for three hours I have a connection but I don't have a long layover. I am ecstatic to go home but honestly I think Houston is an awesome town especially where I am I was downtown it's a beautiful city. Anybody that's going down to see Dr Cortes I do recommend staying extra few days or coming a few days earlier before surgery to check it out. unfortunately I was unable to do this and next time actually I plan on coming back just to hang out. I'm going to take a few pictures of my Faja and after that I will wait to the 11th day when I remove my butt implant stitches and take more photos and post a review. Have a great weekend
Help Me! Compression Nightmare
Hey everybody I have a little problem. I absolutely hate this compression part of recovery. I had liposuction of my flanks and abodomen 8 months ago and I have to say that right after the procedure when I saw my tiny little waist I stopped using the compression binder. And after 3 months went by I noticed that The tiny little waist I fell in love with was a little bigger and I'm still flat but I realize that I could have gotten way better results if I was using my compression binder religiously for the 3 month recovery process. So having done this BBL with butt implants and having Liposuction done again in my abdomen and flanks back area I really don't want to [RS bleep] it up this time around. I want to make all this pain worth it!! But I have to say I hate the compression suit it's so hot and humid and to wear the compression binder around my waist tight is sooooo uncomfortable and I'm top of that I have to lay on my stomach because my butt implants. It's so hard to drink any liquids and keep them down. All day yesterday I was like pretty much throwing up my food and water. I am dehydrated because I got tired of having to always throw it up I decided not to drink water. And that's stupid I need to drink water. So it's sooooo tempting to just rip off all this compression crap and just do all lymphatic massages and hope for the best results but it's hard to do that because I know so much more now and my body is just going to build up scar tissue more and more and I'm going to swell more and I will not end up with my beautiful tiny waist I have now. So I decided to post this review because I'm just trying to figure out the best way to wear my compression garments and be comfortable and survive the next 8 weeks because I have to do this 2 to 3 months and I'm already tired!!!
Butt Implants are not a joke. I did not know what I was signing myself up for when I got the procedure done. I thought it was going to be easy like my boob job but we have huge muscles in our glutes and he put them in between the muscles and he did a fantastic job but it is very difficult recovering from this I even wish I went bigger to a 500 - 550 cc implant but I don't even want to think about doing this again so I want to make it count this time around for sure and the only way I can do that is if I managed to keep my waist super tiny which will make my butt look big even though it's not very big. Does anybody have any helpful tips or can share what they did during their experience? I'm thinking that I'm going to spend more money getting aggressive massages to keep my scar tissue from building up so much. Another concern of mine is eating. I have to maintain this weight if not I will lose my amazing results. I cannot afford to lose weight!!!. I'm just praying that once I'm able to sit on my butt it will be easier for me. Open to any advise ????
Butt Implants are not a joke. I did not know what I was signing myself up for when I got the procedure done. I thought it was going to be easy like my boob job but we have huge muscles in our glutes and he put them in between the muscles and he did a fantastic job but it is very difficult recovering from this I even wish I went bigger to a 500 - 550 cc implant but I don't even want to think about doing this again so I want to make it count this time around for sure and the only way I can do that is if I managed to keep my waist super tiny which will make my butt look big even though it's not very big. Does anybody have any helpful tips or can share what they did during their experience? I'm thinking that I'm going to spend more money getting aggressive massages to keep my scar tissue from building up so much. Another concern of mine is eating. I have to maintain this weight if not I will lose my amazing results. I cannot afford to lose weight!!!. I'm just praying that once I'm able to sit on my butt it will be easier for me. Open to any advise ????
8 days postop with pics
Hey guys it is my eighth day postop and I'm sorry I did not keep you posted on how the week went . I was just miserable until now.so I feel a lot better today and I am finally going to be posting some pictures. I am very happy with my results I don't know how much the swelling will go down but I've done lymphatic massage and hopefully my hips and my butt swelling does not go down so much from what it is now. Because I am absolutely in love with the projection from my hips and butt. I have been using a compression suit until yesterday I decided to just wear the foam binder with a back support waste cincher Because it has been difficult to sleep at night and get thru normal day to day like eating because it's so tight and it's really humid down here in Texas. And on Saturday the doctor will put me in a new Faja so I thought wearing a waist cincher untill tomorrow wouldn't be a big deal.
I think that the pain was starting to become tolerable by day 5 and I completely stop taking painkillers day 6 and started doing lymphatic massages day 7. My doctor I need to be in a compression suit and continue lymphatic massage for 6 to 8 weeks minimum to keep my shape and also the scar tissue from building up. The butt implants still haven't settled but they arent feeling tight like they did the first few days. I can tell that my butt muscles around the implants have relaxed a little bit and it's made a tremendous difference in my comfort with walking. I still waddle little bit when I walk but it doesn't hurt like it was before. Oh and I forgot to tell you day 4 and 5 for some reason I started getting diarrhea issues I think it's because I was taking the painkillers and they recommended we take stool softeners twice a day because of constipation and it may have been too much for me so I have stop taking stool softener since I got better. the pressures of the compression suit . Wednesday which was day 5 I also had a follow-up with my doctor he said everything looked good my stitches look good I think that they are very discreet where he placed them. The drains have not been a pain in my butt but I must say that I hate how it looks underclothes and I pretty much taped them down so when I'm walking it doesn't move around and I worry about having an open wound with the drains coming out of me of getting an infection so I also wanted to cover them up for that reason. Saturday, which is tomorrow, he is going to take them out and I fly home later that night. I have heard that plane rides are the worst out of the whole recovery because of the different altitudes I will expect to swell up and I just hope I will be able to get some compression socks to keep the circulation going from preventing blood clots and since I have butt implants I really can't sit on my butt until the third week so they will be giving me a cushion to put under my thighs which will help me sit down but it's a three hour flight and every hour I'll probably need to get up and that's not so bad. The lymphatic massage is also supposed to help with my trip back home so I'll be doing another tomorrow morning before I leave. I really would like to get an opinion on how helpful it's been for other women. I find it relaxing but I've heard girls found it very painful so I makes me wonder if the lady that has been giving me the massages was actually worth the $90 each session. I did not notice a ton of drainage but did I feel better immediately afterward but she told me to expect to feel more sore when I wake up and I do. She told me I need to get 10 sessions and I think that's normal because my girlfriend had the bbl and that's what she did to help with the lumps in the hard spots after getting the Lipo from this procedure.
I think that the pain was starting to become tolerable by day 5 and I completely stop taking painkillers day 6 and started doing lymphatic massages day 7. My doctor I need to be in a compression suit and continue lymphatic massage for 6 to 8 weeks minimum to keep my shape and also the scar tissue from building up. The butt implants still haven't settled but they arent feeling tight like they did the first few days. I can tell that my butt muscles around the implants have relaxed a little bit and it's made a tremendous difference in my comfort with walking. I still waddle little bit when I walk but it doesn't hurt like it was before. Oh and I forgot to tell you day 4 and 5 for some reason I started getting diarrhea issues I think it's because I was taking the painkillers and they recommended we take stool softeners twice a day because of constipation and it may have been too much for me so I have stop taking stool softener since I got better. the pressures of the compression suit . Wednesday which was day 5 I also had a follow-up with my doctor he said everything looked good my stitches look good I think that they are very discreet where he placed them. The drains have not been a pain in my butt but I must say that I hate how it looks underclothes and I pretty much taped them down so when I'm walking it doesn't move around and I worry about having an open wound with the drains coming out of me of getting an infection so I also wanted to cover them up for that reason. Saturday, which is tomorrow, he is going to take them out and I fly home later that night. I have heard that plane rides are the worst out of the whole recovery because of the different altitudes I will expect to swell up and I just hope I will be able to get some compression socks to keep the circulation going from preventing blood clots and since I have butt implants I really can't sit on my butt until the third week so they will be giving me a cushion to put under my thighs which will help me sit down but it's a three hour flight and every hour I'll probably need to get up and that's not so bad. The lymphatic massage is also supposed to help with my trip back home so I'll be doing another tomorrow morning before I leave. I really would like to get an opinion on how helpful it's been for other women. I find it relaxing but I've heard girls found it very painful so I makes me wonder if the lady that has been giving me the massages was actually worth the $90 each session. I did not notice a ton of drainage but did I feel better immediately afterward but she told me to expect to feel more sore when I wake up and I do. She told me I need to get 10 sessions and I think that's normal because my girlfriend had the bbl and that's what she did to help with the lumps in the hard spots after getting the Lipo from this procedure.
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Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
12721 Swamill Rd., The Woodlands, Texas