27 Years Old, Just Trying to Finally Have the Body of my Dreams. Miami, FL

I think you are wise to switch. I also switched doctors after feeling more and more uneasy about Ortega. I am getting a tummy tuck, and too many of the Ortega TT's had complications afterwards and no follow up support from the doctor. I need a doctor who cares about me by name and wants the best for me, not just a number in an assembly line. I was willing to lose my deposit to feel like I am in safer hands. Good for you, too! I wish you the best :)

It's great you are going with your gut feelings. I just scheduled with Dr. Alvarez for May 10th. I'm going through his private practice and had a phone consult Monday. He spent at least 45 minutes answering my questions and really takes pride in his work and patient safety. You'll be fine. Keep us posted.

Ditto, I have been watching also and truly feel the same. I will be changing from Ortega this Monday the 21st. I hope I can keep my same date. Did they give you a hard time?

Me too Liz told me the same thing I need to speak with him b4 I do anything Seriously I hope I get good frikin results I'm not going back so I need this once and that's it So we need to take our pics that we would like to look like and let him know "There is no round two So I need to get it right the first time around I asked Liz and she told me Ortega is more seasoned and does a great job better than Alverez I'm really looking forward to my outcome

. So when I first met dr. Ortega last Tuesday he asked me what I wanted I said I want my waist and as far as you can get it and my butt as big as you can get it he said okay so he give you this paper to read and he says most people that do this procedure are unhappy with the results because they go in with unrealistic expectations so he said with that being said if you have a nice shape under that you have good results if you don't have a nice shape under that your results will be better than what you have but he can't make you look like a picture there's only a certain amount of fat that can be removed from somebody's body during a BBL you can't just take all of the fact he said so I'm going to take as much as I can and then I'll put it in you told me don't worry you're going to have a nice waist and a nice hips and butt so I kind of felt uncertain at that moment but I said okay I'm going to trust you so I went into surgery the first day out of surgery I wasn't too impressed but I was completely swollen and I'm on day 6 now and I'm finally starting to see my shape come together I'm going to get some pictures together when I'm feeling a little bit better I think I just took the surgery a lot harder than I thought I underestimated it because I see people on the site and they make it seem so easy and for them it might be for me it definitely wasn't and he says the more fat that they removed the more painful the recovery is so I think you have good results with him I was 57 200 pounds and I mean he's so busy it's hard to even get a word in with him cuz he comes and he says he's got to say and then he goes right into surgery so you didn't give you a lot of time to show him pictures and explain what you want I also asked about aggressive lipo and he said all that is is that they work faster and harder that doesn't mean you're going to get any better results he told me just trust me I'm going to do the best that I can do to give you what you want I said okay I'll be posting pictures soon so you can get an idea