An honest account of my BBL experience with Dr Jimerson (pls excuse typos - the meds make me loopy)

So as I thought, the pain meds were keeping my hunger at bay because today I ate significantly more than the previous 4 days. I didn't pig out but I definitely didn't need to force myself to eat.

Oh, the tip of my tongue goes numb every time I make any kind of meds...even an anti-biotic. Strange side-effect but then again, I'm sensitive to drugs. The hydrocodone dangerously good. I felt calm and productive the last two days. I was given oxycodone when I had my breast aug 2 years ago and those painkillers did absolutely nothing to my sense of being but hydrocodone made me feel great. That's probably one of the reasons I decided to stop taking it as soon as I could manage without it. I don't have an addictive personality and most of can probably be attributed to my fear of getting addicted to something and my drive to stay as naturally healthy as possible. I slept from the time I came back from Publix at 4pm until I wrote the previous post. I wonder if it's because of withdrawal from the painkillers. Again, I'm super sensitive to synthetic drugs so this might only apply to a few other people but I thought I'd share anyway.

I also want to take the time to thank everyone who was commented and sent me private messages. I know I haven't replied to a few people since yesterday. I promise I will get to it tomorrow! Today, I am super sleepy.

Wishing everyone a wonderful night! xoxo

Today I feel great. I always wake up in the most pain and then when I get moving it subsides. I took 1 painkiller and 1 muscle relaxant this morning at 7:30am.

I had a massage scheduled with Tiana at 8am and as I was taking the garment off for my massage, the tube for the drain stared pulling out so naturally I got worried and decided to call the office to see how detrimental it was if it accidentally came out. I called at 8am and reached the answering services, after giving a gentleman a bit if information and insisting that I wanted to speak to someone right away, he connected me to Dr J. Which I thought was pretty good, in comparison to what has happened until now. I explained to Dr J the situation, I also said that I was draining less than 20ml a day and the liquid has turned yellow. He insisted that the drain should stay in and I should do everything possible to keep it in but if it came out ACCIDENTALLY then it's ok. On that note, I waited for Tiana and between the two of us, we were able to remove the garment and leave the drain in tact.

The massage felt more sore today than the first time but I still wouldn't call it painful. I have a lot of fluid retention in my waist. However the rest of my body where I had lipo is starting to form scar tissue. These are the lumps that the girls write about. After Tiana left, I washed myself down ahhhh:) Then I used Evening Primrose Oil and massaged the scar tissue. It's possible to reduce it and even eliminate it if you massage those spots daily...I plan on doing just that. Before putting on my garment, I decided to take some pics so that's them.

I removed all dressing and overall I was happy, except for one thing. Just like the indintation on my left cheek, which I could see while the bandages were still on, I had a similar one on the right cheek. Dr J seemed to have filled in the left one and forgot about the right, even though he circled it before the op. Because I have more fat in my butt now, the indentation is a lot more visible:( I'm going to speak to Dr J about doing a small fat transfer to it under local anesthetic...I already have a donor site in mind. Hopefully he will agree because it's detracting from the overall appearance. Overall my cellulite seems worse than before the op which is disheartening but I'll give it a full 6 weeks before making conclusions.

Jill came today at 2pm and took me to Publix. I sat in the back of the SUV with the seats down, on a towel, on my knees...felt like a puppy lol. It was great to be out though! I stocked up with enough water to last me 11 days and today I looked at my supplies and realized that I only had enough left for 1 day! This means I've been drinking well over a gallon a day. Hmmm.

I also didn't take any more pain meds after the one at 7:30am. I hope this post makes more sense;) I feel good, the pain is mild even without the meds. There is only one place that feels like I'm getting tazered every time I move - that's an incision mark on my cheek. I did some research and apparently that's normal and just a nerve playing up. I'm putting anti-biotic ointment on it just in case.

I found an umbrella and decided to go for that much needed 20min walk. It was great!! I'm going to try do at least 3 of those a day and while walking I realized that the light rain is better than sun because the cooler temp will keep me from retaining even more water. This was a good test to see if I could actually go to work on day 3 and my answer is yes. I'd probably make silly mistakes because of the meds but my body could withstand it. I decided to take a photo of me in pants...I have such a huge butt...its ridiculous lol. I've done research and I understand that it will come down so I'm not freaking out. I'm giving it 6 weeks before I judge it.

Oh, I forgot to mention earlier that I have a drain and I've been draining 25mil daily until tonight, which was 20mil and today the liquid turned from red to yellow. As far as I understand this is all good signs.

Seriously, today (granted with painkillers) doesn't feel much different that how I sometimes used to kill myself at the gym. Except I would need to suffer like this for months or even years to achieve the same result...and I can't even say that it would sculpt as precisely as what's been achieved with surgery. It's truly amazing. I just really hope my butt gets smaller.