Finally a Slim Belly! Manhasset, NY

First, I am a 26 year old female who has always been healthy but since high school, I always had a few extra pounds around my stomach/love handle area. When I was 16, I was diagnosed with PCOS and I am insulin resistant (Type 2 Diabetes if you will) and have been on my medication since which has helped lose the pounds that were there. Even at my smallest, I still had a dislike for my midsection. I work out about 5x a week, trainers included and it would not get any smaller. A change in my medicine caused a weight gain of about 10 lbs. and no matter how much I worked out and dieted even harder it would not budge. I started doing extensive research on SmartLipo as I did not want to go the traditional route with the extreme bruising and not being able to get back to my normal activities. I spoke with a few family members who had taken the traditional route of lipo. I went to Dr. Breitbart for my consultation and his office staff was very welcoming and friendly. He described the procedure in detail, including post op details. I barely had any questions because he covered it all!

I finally decided to go for it and booked my date on 4/23/14 and I was so excited. I was prescribed Valium because I chose local anesthetic rather than the sedation. I took 1 pill on my way to his office and another when I got there as directed. He brought me in, marked me up and I was on the table! He started with me laying on my stomach and started my love handles. I have a high pain tolerance, so if you do not I would recommend the sedation because the injections do burn a little bit for a few seconds. After the local was injected, he started with the laser portion and then the suctioning, felt a little odd, but no pain. They stitched the 2 incision sites (so small) and had me lay on my back to start the stomach. I thought the stomach hurt a little more but I guess that depends on the person, they said more people complain about the love handles. Before long, the nurses wrapped me in my garment and I was on my way home! I had no pain as the local was still wearing off but I did have drainage, some through my belly button incision and the back (right on top of the butt area) from where he did my love handles. I took a little nap and my boyfriend took care of me the rest of the night. I was back to work the next day (I was teaching kindergarten) and really had no pain until my drive home (which took about an hour and a half with traffic), so I took a pain pill and all was good to go. I even went to dinner with a friend that night. I stuck with wearing leggings and a long cardigan with a tank top the rest of the week to work for comfort purposes.

My first week went very well. I only took the pain medication the night of surgery just to help with sleep) and the next day on my way home from work because I had been sitting in traffic for a while. I was wearing the binder 24/7 and now that the swelling was starting to decrease, the binder was becoming too loose so I ordered the Flexees by Maidenform (like a Spanx garment, but much more comfortable-on Amazon) which the doctor approved when I went for my 1 week post-op visit. Sitting throughout the week was a little weird, not painful but just a little hard to get comfortable but really no pain at all. I saw such a drastic improvement within the first day and first week! I was so happy and I'm not even close to my final result yet! I continued wearing the Flexees garment full time for the next month and a half then part time just to work and off at night as instructed. I kept wearing it a little longer just for security LOL I was just so used to it, and it works under all clothes without any indication of a garment.

Pre-op pictures before procedure (day of surgery)