Liposuction of the hips and saddle bags

That's my final decision. It's not worth it.

Maybe I'm being impatient, apparently it can take as long as 6 months to see liposuction results?!?? If I had known that, I would have saved the $$$ and the pain of doing this. You have to assume that there wasn't much change anyway if the person taking my "after" photos has to ask me what I had done. Not much, I guess.

Now we are talking about doing more, but not under general anesthesia. Just a local with the option of nitrous and oxygen. I'm not sure what I should do and kind of feel like that won't be worth it either.

Pictures speak a thousand words. Which is a shame because I'm a walking billboard for the abdominoplasty.

To see the benefit. There's definitely a change in my hips. The bruising is going away and I can see a change in my thighs. I am slightly worried about my right leg and how it looks right now.

They're still sore and I can't lay on my sides when I go to bed which has made it somewhat difficult to stay asleep at night. I'll add some newer pictures, had to replace the compression shorts, they ripped right in the middle lol

The bruising is starting to go away and the swelling is going down very slooooooooowly.

I saw Dr. Dorner and he said the fat after liposuction tends to settle at the bottom so it should continue to go down more over the next month. I'll see him again at the end of March. I'm off medicine and still wear compression shorts, I've tried to go without them but it's too uncomfortable.