29 Years Old, One Child, Brazilian Buttlift - Miami, FL

So my first review I left all the good notes... because I really like dr mendieta and don't have anything negative to say about him. However... I would like to go into the dire reality of the experience so people know what to do that I neglected. Sometimes there are unforeseen circumstances that can be someones demise..... Usually small details that could have been prevented. Also, maybe give his office a little advice I feel could have made my experience much better... (better for other patients in the future), and believe me after the experience I went through I am simply being real and trying to help others with this review. It has been a few years since I had the brazilian done... My butt still looks great.... it really does. I'm not downing that. I had a really really REALLY hard time with recovery though. You probably wonder why it took so long for me to give another update.... well I was kind of traumatized by the entire experience... so today was the day I felt okay to open up about it. The doctor did a wonderful job on my butt and giving me a tiny waist... he is a very nice skilled man, but************** he was way "too rough" on me, which I found strange because he had the "gentle hands award" sitting in his front office... believe me there was absolutely nothing gentle about the surgery accept for the awesome convo you have with him about it before you get it done. I nearly died after the surgery... This is no exaggeration.(maybe that wasn't his fault? Maybe I am just fragile? Maybe one of the nurses were rough?? idk I was unconscious... I don't want to insult the doctor though because I respect his work.) This surgery is no joke... I just didn't say before because I like dr mendieta and feel he is a wonderful caring doctor. I do however feel there were so many things that could have been handled better and more professionally. I lost soooooooooooo much blood............ You must take iron for 3 months before having this procedure. I didn't because my boyfriend was going to pay for it so I was trying to have it done as quickly as possible before he changed his mind. They lipo you from your neck to your thighs. I have droopy skin on my upper abdomen that looks like an old person, under my breasts. I was also very upset (I already had breast implants and was very happy to have ZERO scarring from he gentle job the doctor did before on my breasts)... well the doctor actually liposuctioned my breast tissue.... never would I have imagined he would have done this... he did not ask me before doing the procedure and I still have huge scars from it. Now people think they are breast implant scars, but they are not. He should have just taken more from my thighs or arms... why the breasts? I don't care if they thought it was a better type of fat. what if I wanted my implants removed? I am very upset about this. He offered to carve my abs out. It sounded cool to me. but he got a little carve crazy. My stomach looks muscly but "uneven" and I have unexplainable pain in my abdomen I've gone to several doctors for. Even got a GI and they can't find whatever is wrong. Also.... where the drains were a vain was stuck when the ladies pulled it out the long vein was attached. They were freaking out and said "oh [RS bleep], what do we do?" The other nurse said "cut it..." they took scissors and cut my effing vain. I feel maybe this is contributing to the pain in my abdomen. It freaks me out to think about it. I was so weak from the surgery I couldn't respond to tell them no, or to tuck it back in. My mom watched me for a few days but not long enough. She complained to the office I was bleeding a lot... (I was actually bleeding to death). They thought she meant the drains... she meant the bed was covered in blood like a serial killer had chopped me up. Well my mom left and I couldn't lift my body up to eat or go pee or get meds. I had to call room service to help me sit up and was using a walker. I had a follow up... I had a person that worked at the hotel help me walk to the taxi. I climbed in literally because I couldn't sit. I had to lay down in excruciating pain. Well I was outside the office and couldn't figure out why they wouldn't open the doors. I was out of breath knocking on windows to get someones attention. Then I blacked out and passed out on the ground from lack of blood. I wasn't laying there for very long because one of the nurses happened to be in her car and saw me pass out. She had them bring me inside. They were panicking because they didn't want other patients to see me. They said "let's put her in the back so The other patients don't get scared." They walked me to another little building... it was very creepy feeling. I actually thought I was going to die. I could barely walk... I had thought feeling this way was normal, but the nurses let me know it was not. So I was laying on a bed in the other building now. The nurses were nice... They gave me an IV... but I think it was a very bad id to give me saline which diluted my the little blood I had... I NEEDED a blood transfusion, badly. I feel they should have called an ambulance and made sure I got the proper treatment rather than taking it into their own hands. Anyway, when they put me on the IV I immediately passed out and became dizzy and nauseated and saw a white light. After a few hours of laying there? I asked the nurse how I looked because I felt like my life was ebbing away. With a terrified face and hesitant voice replied "you look greeeeeaaaat....... oh yeah, you look much better..." I could tell she was lying and nervous (even though I appreciated that she was polite), so I shuffled to the bathroom and when I looked in the mirror there was no color in my skin "at all" I looked like I had beed bled dry like a slaughtered animal. Like my face was "literally like a sheet of paper" I looked dead. They were very nice at that point.... I told them before I had the surgery please be gentle with me... they laughed like I was joking and apparently decided to beat my ass while I was under anesthesia. It really f**ked me up for a while. Luckily while I was in the regular room before they decided to hide me, a lady who was a patient saw me and decided to pay for me to get a nurse... thank God. The nurse was kind of rude, but she took care of me. I had an allergic reaction to the antibiotics and the nurse didn't understand... My muscles were flexing so hard... which was terrible to experience while my body was already banged up from surgery. She should have also called an ambulance or taken me to a hospital to help with the reaction I was experiencing from the medication... seriously what is wrong with people? It was a terrible brutalizing experience. I was in excruciating pain for at least 3 months after the surgery and called their office to ask for medicine after I came back from miami to home... I couldn't get up to walk. I was like an elderly woman for at least 3 months having trouble walking. After the surgery one of my teeth started turning black... I thought maybe I suddenly had a cavity. which was weird because my teeth were all white before. Also I had trouble walking my left hip was popped out of place and my left ear felt "broken" and would click or hurt really bad if I laid on it. Anyway, it turns out my left front tooth is "broken".... I went to a dentist. Luckily I don't need it replaced immediately, but I will have to get it fixed eventually. I was really happy with the way my butt looked after surgery so I didn't post this, but in good conscience feel I should update and let people know this is a dangerous procedure. after about 4 months I was in the car and turned my body and somehow my hip popped back into place and I screamed from the pain... but I could kind of walk normal again. It's been 4 years I think and I still have pain shooting down my leg. Not sciatica... but like a stabbing pain in the fat area of my thigh were I was lipo'd. This is my right leg. I was very limber before the surgery splits all 3 ways, now I can barely straighten my right leg. It makes me cry when I think of the pain I went through. I gained weight purposely to have the surgery done... and also did not exercise after the surgery because you can't for 6 months or you can lose the fat or it can migrate. Some of the fat did migrate to my thighs, they are huge now on top where the fat moved down. Well.... the hit of the trauma my body experienced plus the downtime... I have had a very difficult time losing that weight or should I say... I am still struggling to lose it. I was running 2 miles a day before I had the surgery... now I feel fat and gross and am having trouble motivating myself to exercise. If I could go back in time maybe I would have kept exercising and eating right and just gotten a butt implant. Idk.... anyway, I do love my butt, but I paid a big price for it, and it wasn't just the money. I am not dissing doctor mendieta, I do think he is incredible at what he does. I feel he needs to be more gentle, or whoever hurt me or dropped me on the floor or on that awful metal table.... needs to be more gentle. I am permanently messed up from the unnecessary roughness. Idk if it was the doctor that hurt me unintentially or if one of his nurses is secretly sadistic and abusing patients under anesthesia (I suspect the hispanic woman because the others were really nice to me and I remember her putting the diaper on me "over my clothes" which was humiliating when I went into the hotel... everyone was laughing at me and thought I was handicapped. I felt devastated and had no control, such a bad feeling....). Or if they accidentally dropped me or what... my leg got twisted pretty badly. it makes me cry when I think about it. I highly reccommend they do something to make that table less hard because it can cause injury to the patients as it did to me.... I call it the table of death. Don't put diapers on people "over their clothes" it is demeaning and humiliating. People took photos of me like this when I was vulnerable and if they had put it on underneath I wouldn't be put in a position like this. This is a no brainer. Also... if someone is in the kind of pain I was in (I had an unusually difficult procedure). After I went home they should have prescribed me more demerol for a week... I was in terrible pain for a few months after that... but I desperately needed an escape from the trauma my body was experiencing. I feel like if they had just given me a week supply I could have stretched it out and really eased the suffering. It was inhumane... I feel the doctor should be more gentle to his patients and live up to the award... and if it was not him that was so rough his staff should be held accountable for how they treat patients when no one is looking. "someone" hurt me. Again... this is not a diss to dr mendieta. He is a wonderful doctor. but this isn't like getting breast implants. oh yeah. I forgot to mention I had to be hospitalized for 2 weeks after I flew back home because I kept passing out and felt like I was dying. Well they ran a bunch of tests and said "my blood platelets were dangerously low" but at that point didn't want to do a blood transfusion. It should have been done when it was first an issue and not made to wait and go through that. To build up my iron I would eat rare steaks and take a lot of iron pills everyday, this helped. It took several months for me to start feeling kind of normal again. Dr Mendieta is in fact a great doctor... but please take care of your health before you have this procedure. Pay for the Blood transfusion option they have... (it's a few thousand extra but it's absolutely worth it and may save your life!!!!!), take iron for at least 3 or 4 months daily to build up your supply first. Also pay extra and have a nurse watch you for 5 days. Stay for the alotted time they recommend. These are all extra expenses and super expensive, but your health is worth it. I rushed to get the surgery because I didn't think I could pay it by myself... big mistake. This is something you want to be healthy and prepared for. Don't let this discourage you from seeing dr mendieta. I know it's a horror story, however, he did make my butt look gorgeous and gave me the tiny waist I wanted. All the things that happened to me were risks associated with the surgery. I took the risk because I wanted it so badly. Just please be responsible and fork out the extra cash for the nurse and the blood transfusion as well as taking iron for 3-4 months before the surgery otherwise you could be putting yourself at risk like I did.

I have been exercising on and off since I had my child but still gaining weight, discouraged. It seems my genetics were just meant to be chubby in the middle at my age. I could fool people with flattering clothes and spanx… but I felt horrible with my clothes off even though I'm small. I was clearly disproportionate. Having had a cute petite figure most of my life, this was difficult to deal with emotionally. Anyway, to make a long story short… I'd been wanting a brazilian buttlift for nearly 5 years because I felt it would fix my problem… fat stomach and no a small sloppy butt lol. So I saw Dr Mendieta thinking I'd have to get a tummy tuck as well after the brazilian buttlift. I don't know how but he sculpted my body so well that my abs show out and look amazing. No need for an extra tuck!! My body looks amazing and I just had surgery a week or 2 ago. He is truly an "artist". I am so grateful I saw him. However, this is a major surgery and is not for sissies………… I had breast implants before, this was much more painful. I had a harder recovery than most people, but I probably should have been in a little better shape before I had it. I am doing well now because I had a nurse watch me and his office took excellent care of me. As with any surgery there is always risk… but with dr mendieta you are in as good hands as you are going to get! I want to say more but am still in pain from surgery(even though I look great)… time for a nap lol. I will post more later