37 Y/o , 5'5", 170# Wife and Mom. Time for Something for Me! - Miami, FL

I'm post op day three and I'm loving my results. I didn't want a huge butt! Just wanted better form and curve. I'm still swollen so I'm looking for my waist to shrink even more. If I lose a Lil volume in my butt that's ok too. But I feel I'll end up with exactly what I wanted. Dr. Tachmes is awesome. I'm very sore and bruised in my thighs as u can see, but it was Definately worth it all!

Felt better for most of the day today. Pain had lessened, although it's still pretty intense. Still taking percocet as prescribed. I walked around more in my room and ate standing. When I took off garment later in the day to shower I noticed massive bruising to to my inner thighs. I believe this is where my doctor had done the most massive liposuction. They are very dark, tight, and numb feeling. I'm told by my nurse that it will go away slowly overt several weeks. My ankles and feet are starting to swell also, I guess an indication that i need to stay in bed more. I've had a serious time trying to sleep which really sucks. I realize my body need sleep to rest. I believe I'm going to have to take an ambien because I can't do another sleepless night. Pleased with results so fat, meant to take pics after garment was taken off but just wanted to get it back on quickly over the swollen areas. I'll try pics tomorrow.

I tell you what, I'm grateful that I found this site prior to surgery because I knew what to expect. Surgery went well. The staff at Dr.Tachnes's office were great as usual. As I said before I'm kind of a muscular chick (underneath the fat) but nurse said that they could tell I was in shape by the quality of the fat in so many words. I believe she said he was able to extract around 1300cc of fat cells to use and they were only able to inject 550cc because that's all my frame would hold. To be honest I'm very happy with that amount because I wanted lift and shape, not a huge butt. I think this size is going to be perfect for me and my goal! I'm happy, but yesterday was rough!

Woke up from anesthesia a little scared and shaky (I'd read about the shakes). The nurse comforted me and let me know everything went great. Thank God hotel was only a few blocks away because I basically crawled into the back of a Taxi van and was on my knees bent over the back seat until I got to the hotel. My hotel stay wasn't a good experience (and I'm not a complainer) but at least they tried to do what they could to make up for the problems. After getting to hotel the draining started! Omg, they weren't kidding when they said there'd be alot of drainage. Soaked through lots of pads very frequently. It isn't that bad except for the fact that you have to change them so frequently which sucks because of the already tight as Heck garment you are wearing! The amount freaked out my best friend (who has been an awesome nurse for me). By the way, if u are considering trying to do this alone, think again! There was no way I could have done that!

The pain is actually bearable. Yeah I hurt as expected, but for me having this surgery done is nothing that's not definately worth the pain. I've been taking one percocet as prescribed. It made me sick a bit with the first dose. I didn't get nauseated, but get very lightheaded and hat flashy, etc. I hope to be off the prescription stuff by tomorrow.

Trying to get out of bed for first 6 hours or so sucked because I felt so lightheaded each time I had to lay back down. Once I finally could get up, I peed in a cup next to the bed with the aid of my best friend because I couldn't make it to the bathroom. Sorry I know that's gross but I hope that helps someone in the future in that predicament. After that, I gradually was able to move about without nearly passing out.

For whatever reason, I couldn't sleep well. Didn't get to sleep until almost 6am. My back really hurts when I lay on my stomach, but this is my chronic backache escalated, not related to surgery I don't think. Plus I've had trouble sleeping for about the past week. I hope to sleep better tonight.

This is post op day one and I feel better, not worse overall. Can't wait to get in the shower which I'll do later this afternoon. Want to wait full 24 hours.

I can see my shape has improved alot. I know I'm swollen as Heck, but I'm excited to see results in a couple weeks, it has to get better from here.

Glad I did this! I'll post pics later.