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My pain complaint list- 12 days smart lipo
1.)- i cannot sleep on my sides. I have to cushion my side and back in order to lay down. Right now im using bed coverings.
2.) the pain of my skin tightning is unbearable. I have to take a perc. In order to sleep through this type of tightness. I've finally started using a maximum strength hot/cold cream for the soreness.
3. Getting massaged on my back/ sides thus far feels like torture. The skin is so tight and tender. My bf has been doing 5 minute massages to help prepare me for a professional lympathic massage I am getting on the 30th.
4.) the gentlest touch can feel like someone is squeezing you with with 2 bricks. The sites that were lypo'd flanks & back are sore to the touch.
5.) sleeping with or without the compression garmet is extremely painful. I tried 1 night to sleep without medicine and literally felt like i was being tortured. I didnt fall asleep until 4am. I had to take an anxiety pill to finally go to sleep. I had run out of percs.
6.) its really upsetting to me that i have to put my self through so much pain just so I can have hips and abs. I'm not regretting this, because trust me child birth really F-d up my shape. But it just makes me so sad that women have to go through so much pain in order to keep up with their bodies.
2.) the pain of my skin tightning is unbearable. I have to take a perc. In order to sleep through this type of tightness. I've finally started using a maximum strength hot/cold cream for the soreness.
3. Getting massaged on my back/ sides thus far feels like torture. The skin is so tight and tender. My bf has been doing 5 minute massages to help prepare me for a professional lympathic massage I am getting on the 30th.
4.) the gentlest touch can feel like someone is squeezing you with with 2 bricks. The sites that were lypo'd flanks & back are sore to the touch.
5.) sleeping with or without the compression garmet is extremely painful. I tried 1 night to sleep without medicine and literally felt like i was being tortured. I didnt fall asleep until 4am. I had to take an anxiety pill to finally go to sleep. I had run out of percs.
6.) its really upsetting to me that i have to put my self through so much pain just so I can have hips and abs. I'm not regretting this, because trust me child birth really F-d up my shape. But it just makes me so sad that women have to go through so much pain in order to keep up with their bodies.
Tired of hurting-12 days post
I certainly would not want to discourage anyone from getting this procedure if they deemed it important to them. But I think the way Dr's and cosmetic business advertises smart lipo is just false advertisement im terms of the recovery.
I am still in so much pain at almost 2 weeks post. I have had 2 children, and the recovery of child birth in comparison to getting smart lipo is a breeze.
Again, everybody is different and has a different pain threshold. Mine is obviously low. I am just going to list out the pain issues I'm dealing with at this stage. I think its so important that if you have this procedure you know the hardest part is not the procedure itself, but after when your body starts to heal.
I am still in so much pain at almost 2 weeks post. I have had 2 children, and the recovery of child birth in comparison to getting smart lipo is a breeze.
Again, everybody is different and has a different pain threshold. Mine is obviously low. I am just going to list out the pain issues I'm dealing with at this stage. I think its so important that if you have this procedure you know the hardest part is not the procedure itself, but after when your body starts to heal.
On the Fence : post op day 4- more pain, discomfort, hidden results
So, yesterday I bit the bullet and went out and about.
I had to because my kids had to get to thier nana's. Anyway the car ride was like the ride from hell. I felt every bumb, every swerve, every curve. I finally couldnt stand it anymore and told my bf i would drive.
Even though i was sitting as stiff as a board, i could stomach being in the drivers side- not the passenger.
I didnt feel better until we were sitting down at a resturant.
But every laugh, turn, movement I could feel. I really think the post care on a scale of 1-10 is at 7/8 for pain. I know everyone is different but i really could not imagine doing this procedure again unless it was my last option and i was still completely miserable with the way I looked.
Speaking of the way i look im not comfortable exposing all in my pics. My body is still so swollen. Honestly my mind is playing tricks on me about whether i truly see results or not.
I can see results in my flanks and i can see where my figure has been defined, but my abs upper and lower are puffy and still look undefined. I've had 2 kids, so was fully aware that the outcome would not be perfection, but having to think of getting a TT, while I'm healing from all this lipo is just not fun.
I've also read where it takes weeks to months to see final results but i am preparing for the worst, which would be to have to get a 2nd procedure. I honestly do not think I could have the audacity to get the lipo combined with the TT. I think that would have just been too much for me and I expressed that to the Dr. I worked with. He did not try to pressure me into getting both and i respect that.
But now as i start to evaluate my results, i know that i probably will not be satisfied with even a smaller mommy pooch that i now have. And my understanding is that only a TT can correct this.
I will post a before/after that clearly shows my shape has been deeply changed by the lipo even 4 days out. But for the cost of this procedure, i cant help wishing the results were even more dramatic.
I had to because my kids had to get to thier nana's. Anyway the car ride was like the ride from hell. I felt every bumb, every swerve, every curve. I finally couldnt stand it anymore and told my bf i would drive.
Even though i was sitting as stiff as a board, i could stomach being in the drivers side- not the passenger.
I didnt feel better until we were sitting down at a resturant.
But every laugh, turn, movement I could feel. I really think the post care on a scale of 1-10 is at 7/8 for pain. I know everyone is different but i really could not imagine doing this procedure again unless it was my last option and i was still completely miserable with the way I looked.
Speaking of the way i look im not comfortable exposing all in my pics. My body is still so swollen. Honestly my mind is playing tricks on me about whether i truly see results or not.
I can see results in my flanks and i can see where my figure has been defined, but my abs upper and lower are puffy and still look undefined. I've had 2 kids, so was fully aware that the outcome would not be perfection, but having to think of getting a TT, while I'm healing from all this lipo is just not fun.
I've also read where it takes weeks to months to see final results but i am preparing for the worst, which would be to have to get a 2nd procedure. I honestly do not think I could have the audacity to get the lipo combined with the TT. I think that would have just been too much for me and I expressed that to the Dr. I worked with. He did not try to pressure me into getting both and i respect that.
But now as i start to evaluate my results, i know that i probably will not be satisfied with even a smaller mommy pooch that i now have. And my understanding is that only a TT can correct this.
I will post a before/after that clearly shows my shape has been deeply changed by the lipo even 4 days out. But for the cost of this procedure, i cant help wishing the results were even more dramatic.