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33 Year Old, 2 Kids, Looking for my Old Body! Raleigh, NC
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Married with 2 kids, finally done having babies...
QueenOfLipoDecember 20, 2014
$5,000
Married with 2 kids, finally done having babies and completely ready to get my body back! I have surgery scheduled in 2 weeks! I'm nervous and excited all at the same time! I picked up my prescriptions today just to have them ahead of time. I will upload pictures as soon as I get brave enough to show you all what I'm running from! Lol
UPDATED FROM QueenOfLipo
9 days pre
Counting down, minor set back
QueenOfLipoDecember 27, 2014
I OFFICIALLY have 10 days left before my procedure and I'm excited. The bad part is that I went to get a massage and now have a pinched nerve that I'm dealing with. Spent all night in the emergency room. My Dr said that it's ok to take the meds that they have me, so hopefully I'll be back to normal by the time my surgery comes. I've been trying to watch what I eat to get ready for this journey. I'm really excited and nervous. I have read that people use artica oil or something to help with healing. Anybody know what that is? Any good results from it? 10 days and counting....!!!! Wow!! I'm having my hips, arms and bra fat taken away..... I am so freaking tired to this extra fat that exercise won't help at all. This is the beginning of a new journey!
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December 29, 2014
It's called Arnica, and it's homeopathic, so there's no proof that it does anything. However, some people who believe feel that it helps them :). The other thing that they talk about is bromelain, which has more evidence for it, but still not a lot. Both would be taken after, not before. I used neither of them of any of my surgeries so I cannot say whether they worked from personal experience.
That's terrible, about the pinched nerve! I hope that goes away, because it's going to be very uncomfortable in a CG!!!
January 1, 2015
Thanks! I have gotten better...not in pain like I was and can now walk again! Thank God! I'm so nervous, counting down until my surgery!!!
January 2, 2015
So glad to hear that the pinched nerve pain is gone! You'll have enough on your plate, LOL! Another four days :):):).
January 4, 2015
Excited to see your results I'm hoping to go to her in February
UPDATED FROM QueenOfLipo
Day of treatment
Today is the day!
QueenOfLipoJanuary 6, 2015
I am so nervous and have barely slept all night!! My Dr called me last night to check in on me to see if I had any questions. I so cannot believe that I'm doing this. I'm emotional which I never get. I'm excited to be comfortable in a tank top again and not feel like an umpa lupa. Lol
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Congratulations that you finally get to do this for yourself. And also for being done having babies ;). I waited exactly long enough to finish breastfeeding and dry up the milk before having my mommy makeover!
And don't forget, the more you have going on now, the more extreme the difference afterward ;). You don't ever have to be embarrassed around us! We are right there with you!
Anyway, are you feeling prepared now, or do you only have your prescriptions ready? :)
I never drink any alcohol so I have no experience with that and if there are any side effects. I don't know what oil that is either. (I'm just full of helpful advice today!) The best part about any surgery is the results, as far as I'm concerned ;). But I actually had a really good time during the surgery. They gave me an anti-anxiety medication and played music and I sang through the whole procedure. And the pain post-lipo just doesn't last that long for most people. For a few, it drags on, but for most of us the worst is over in a few days, and then it's just soreness. Some people even manage to keep the pain totally bearable with their meds by not falling behind! I never do that, but my pain was negligible. Some burning once the lidocaine wore off (I didn't take meds until I started feeling pain,) then about 8-10 hours of discomfort after the meds kicked in. (Discomfort, not pain.) I never had to take meds again after that. Getting my wisdom teeth out was way worse! Oh, and the TT was way worse, too :).
All that said, some of it depends on how much you're doing. The more fat you have removed, and the more areas you do at once, the more discomfort you'll be in. But it's still nothing like a TT with muscle repair.