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Cellulaze Back of Thighs and Outter Thighs - Maryland, MD

UPDATED FROM gem202
10 months post

Now more pics to show how gross my ass and thighs are

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$5,500
Posted that last one quick so i didnt lose it. So ill add more lovely model photos now.

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Dr. Larry Lickstein

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I had 4 surgeries done the same day. Eyes, Cellulaze, Axillary lipo and a lil lipo that was to balance out my gluts. Well that was an epic fail!!!!! Still.working on the reviews from the 4 diff things I had done at once and what kind of action I'm taking for the outcome. I'll need something done for touch up in 3 of the areas for sure. Hoping not the axillary because lift is my only choice. Crossing my fingers. I don't want scars. Speaking of such. I only notice 2 scars from cellulaze. One is 2 times the size as other side, hoping they will heal well. ( still see them very well 4 months later) The lipo surgery has been a disaster. As well as the eye. Its a nightmare trying to figure out how Im every goin to get this fixed, more lipo to add to the dent and wrecked banana roll area. Very scary after you have messed up uneven dented lipo to need to have more to fix the area that was wrecked. Im researching surgeons very carefully who are use to fixing other surgeons bad surgeries. I was disputing with Discover the $11,000 I paid for these 3 surgeries. It seems the $11,000 is way more important to this office than the $40,000 in lost income, fillers for thousands and consults fees with other surgeons and ready for my 2nd trip to LA to have follow up consults on scheduling surgeries. Im guessing this will all cost me close to 100,000 grand till I take off work another 4 weeks to heal up, pay for 2 more surgeries and travel back out there to have it done. So God bless them if they need that 11,000 that bad. I hope it helps their lives out.

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January 17, 2015
Ill add more lovely pics later. The uglies didnt all attach. Probably too deformed to post.
May 19, 2015
So I haven't seen anything new from you. Are u doing ok? What's happening lately?
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July 17, 2015

Hi there, we would love an update on your results when you have a moment. :)

UPDATED FROM gem202
10 months post

Happy Sat to some, but to some of us its pretty upsetting as most days after being hacked up

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Packing to go get revision on my eyes after they were hacked up. My scars above eyes ( upper lids) are about triple width now from stretching, because too much skin taken off. If he would have measured as I asked if he was going to in pre op...maybe i could have been saved some of this ugly outcome. Im so upset with myself for ever letting this dr touch me. I had no idea he was so unskilled. Little too late now. I should have known when i wasnt showed what my eyes would look like later that it was a mistake. I asked but he said he does it in surgery. I trusted and shouldnt have. This has cost me any kind of happy for almostba year now. Im not flying across country to see if anything can be done to fix face. Not sure, the stretch marks on upper lids tell the story of too much skin removed. For them to be stretched at 9.5 mths is probably pretty abnormal. I asked if scars would be visible. I was told no. Maybe with talented surgeons thats the case. So now on to the sick mess that makes me put the bikini back in the drawer that i would normally take. The skirts im not sure about either because the collapsed banana pushes down my leg and shows the whole way down. Its the sloppiest mess i ever saw. So inconsistent, makes no sense. All the cannula stop and start marks are sickening. Now i had cellulaze done... he said back of legs for that. Sides of legs were ok. Yet now look at them. He created a mess from hell after he did cellulaze to fix and smooth. Why bother doing cellulaze if are going to ruin my face and hips/glut/outer thighs. This is nuts!!!!! Insane. Im trying to pack for a trip he caused and i dont even know what i can wear. Jeans show the meased up butt too. Uneven gluts and one falling into my leg. Seriously watch out for the hackers and id never ever get two procedures done by a dr. I had 4. At least if i had one and he ruined that area id know not to do another with him and maybe id still be able to be fixed and feel attractive. I cant and wont date, maybe i never will be able to again. He took me from a good 6-7 and made me a 4...if that with this ugly deformed body i hide. How does one darte as a 6-7 ...a guy thats an 8 sometimes.... maybe even 9.... then shes ruined and hides ugly gross body then this person who made a living because she was a 7....now hides and wants to still be that 7 but is a 4 and now has to date...if ever ...sloppy fat guys who have no clue about taking care of themselves, who probably gave guts and look horrible at the beach too .......alll because of a careless, wreckless, neglectful mess. One afternoon to completely ruin a womens life and how she thought of herself and what she saw in the mirror, from looking at the V S cat to Venus swimsuits. Now the thought of putting one on makes her sick in the gut and depression sinks in yet again. Not sure how this is allowed to happen. But i will say if it cant be fixed. I will tattoo his name on my lower back with an arrow. Fkn yes i will. Then ppl wont need to wonder what happened. Then i wont feel them wondering. Then i will be able to deal. Now ill share my gross pics that made me change my mind when packing. The lipo area should have had more time spent on it as well. To be certain what was going to go on. Beware of sloppy looking situations. Takes somebody with pride to understand ones who take pride in their body and beware of God syndrome. The ones that brush off what you ask ... such as "are you going to measure my eyes" before you cut them. It was my right to know how i was going to be cut. I knew the precise wasnt here and should have darted, but i was assured it would be fin . Guess what, none of this is fine.

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UPDATED FROM gem202
2 months post

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I think cellulaze for me was a hood choice. I still feel the skin is quite.. lose feeling so at almost 8 weeks I still prefer it always compressed. Im.sure this will reattach in time. I would not recommend going without it even though you are told at a few weeks you can. I just doubt how that skin would heal and adhere again. I specially when working out wear layers of compression it still swells too. Outside today instill see black and blue areas. Not concerned about that really I figure a lil self tanner or sunshine will mask that during summer. I wish the cellulaze would have been dobe or been done the same on my outter right leg. It's worse than before big time. I think from lipo. Idk. But seems cellulaze wasn't done there. I will need thst job finished as I paid for that to be done as well. The lipo lil touch up areas in wanted done are a bit of a disaster, specially on right glut, thigh, upper hamstring and outter thigh. Hoping visiting a few lipo specialists that of course do cellulaze as well will have some helpful answers for me. Yes cellulaze works for old lipo ripped up skin. 20 yrs ago when it first came out in jumped on that wagon and tried lipo. Prob wasn't a great idea. I'm a fitness lover and I think it ruined my skin. In 1990 women weren't muscular legs and lifted and had meaty legs. I have always had more of a fit build. Back then it wasn't as widely accepted to have the fit toned hard legs with yhe IT band line running down the leg.. Now it def is and I love it...just wanted the cellulaze to fix the old lipo track wreckage. I think it did, now I'd love to try it on inner thighs to smooth a lil..I can see old cannula marks and front of thigh in a few places. Gosh to turn back the clock in a few places and do over. I'd go to LA and shop for surgeons to start with...no offense to other places I know there are some great ones down south as well..... i just need three things fixed that prob should have been done by 3 diff surgeons to begin with.. hard lessons learned I have requested my medical records for over a month now to take to other surgeons...I'm told it may take an attorney to get them. Sad its come to this.

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June 13, 2014
I can definitely see the unevenness you mentioned and the flatness of the auxiliary areas. It looks as though you have three separate shapes there, the muscle from lifting, then this big flat space before your implants, that must make your breasts look low. I hope you can get that fixed with an implant exchange. I don't know what you can do for your butt, other than fat grafting. The PS has made your butt the same width as your legs and you seem to have three under bottom creases where he's taken too much out like the glutes run into your thighs. I hope you can get a good solution!
June 13, 2014
Thank u. Been researching and seeing surgeons. To fix it all im guessing more eye surgery...cuz the one is still much smaller....fat grafting..yes..already had it looked at in LA..sure lil lipo in area as well..as for axillary..more lipo needed..sides are a lot diff..he didnt even get what he took out the same. I think that should be done way before skin removal...cuz i dont want more swelling to stretch scar. I have chances to date famous fitness ppl...fitness is a huge passion of mine....n now i have all these shitty issues worse than before n just spent 1000s on fillers...u add under eyes then another area looks stupid. Fillers are still not natural...n not the tissue he stripped out of my face the whole way around my eyes. So i have a hell of road ahead of me. I have a huge guy in the fitness industry in LA ....well we went to dinner when i was there...how could i ever date him after my dug out hamstring area .... n the emotional stress i deal with with the face..was day i had filler done...n wasnt black n blue yet..next day i was a swollen black n blue mess. Great trip..blah
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June 15, 2014
I'm confused and I did read the whole thing. How many procedures did you have by how many doctors? Did you have revision work recently? Did anything get corrected? I hope you find someone yo correct this. In the right hands, it shouldn't be too hard.
July 11, 2014
It was cellulaze, lipo..to kinda adjust the two sides....which as you can see... are worse than before. Now im so worried ppl will see it..i see it in my capris, my workout pants. I never had that worry before. One side of my pants sits lower cuz of it. Its so unreal. Oh and eye lift and under arm lipo. I wasnt told that was too much at once for a Dr to handle...but clearly it was for this one. My family thinks he just hurried to get done..since it was 3 pm till i was ever started that day. Sad for me isnt it??!!
June 26, 2014
I had both cellulaze and smart lipo with a doctor in MD too. Cellulaze was done 1 1/2 ago and a took a while to see the results but I'm happy with it. Just wish I had done all of my back thigh. Since I liked the doctor I recently went back for smart lipo on inner thighs. They are a mess. I have a huge dip in the middle of right thigh and a smaller one on left. The top of my right thigh doesn't even look like it was done and was never sensitive after the procedure. It's like instead of doing that area, it was taken out of the area right below it. I'm so stressed out about how I'm going to fix it. Oh, and I have the same issue now as you now that the banana rolls were worked on. Would not surprise me if we had same doctor.
July 11, 2014
Ugh.. could very well be. This one obv needs some more teachings... im not sure he understands a womens body. Helllooooo!!!!
July 16, 2014
Message me, i def dont want to go check with the surgeon that messed u up if it wasnt the same one.
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July 12, 2014
did you consult with dr aaron rollins in beverly hills? he is TOP notch...and they will do a free consult via pics sent email and over the phone. he is truly a genius and also incredibly down to earth... worth a shot to atleast get his opinion. hope this helps in some way. i'm so sorry for your bad experience ) :
July 13, 2014
No i was not aware of Dr. Rollins, ill def look into that. Thank you so much!!
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July 13, 2014
he was just on goo day sacremento yesterday... i flew from florida to cali to use him...after seeing lumpy bumpy results on some of the real self reviews i was terrified to do anything local and did a ton of research...dr rollins is the best in the country in my opinion...give him a google....
July 16, 2014
Thank you. Glad things went well for you. Ill be checkin his site
July 23, 2014
Keep me and us posted. I dont trust many now.
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August 11, 2014
Would you recommend cellulaze? I have had tumescent lipo 18 years ago and i had thick thighs and wanted them thin.like models because that was the fad,the in thing at that time. I can empathize with you back then muscular fit toned legs or thick were sneered upon. Now i got my legs back but feel skin is saggy b my knees,i want to revise them with smart-lipo but have cellulite so i was wondering your thoughts? should i do both or 1?
August 12, 2014
Some of your issues could be from the lipo...as u know. Not sure it works as good on front of legs, knees or inner. I had one surgeon in LA tell me hes not sold on it because he doesnt know how it will be a year from now. I see in some ways it helped, but on what i thought was a good day a month ago i had a skirt on in a shoe store... the low floor mirrors made me quite depressed. Skin kinda looked as it was jus draped over my legs ... n weird lookin when i knelt down. So jury may still be out. I hear horror stories of that too. Ask me in 2 mths
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August 12, 2014
So are you talking about smart-lipo or cellulaze? I hope in 2 months your cellulaze results are a success.