I still love you Dra. Disla!! 13 weeks PO with pictures.

Ok so after stalking this board for 3 months I finally decided to make a post and pull the trigger on my surgery. I will be going to DR on 5/27-6/4 for BA and liposuction of my stomach with Dra. Walkiris Robles. This is something that I have always wanted to do and am finally going to go through with it. What's weird is I'm not nervous about the procedures. I am more nervous about going to a foreign country by myself. The only thing comforting me is seeing everyone else's great reviews and awesome post op pics. Is anyone else planning to see. Dra. Robles around Memorial Day??

In almost a month I'll be traveling to DR for surgery. I've been taking Vitamin C (1x a day), Folic Acid (1x a day), Vitamin B (2x a day) and , Iron (Elemental Iron 65mg 2x a day) for a month now and am planning to go for my physical this weekend, hopefully everything is good for surger

After reading the boards and everyone else's experience with Dra. Robles I really want to go with her, but the communication with her assistant Raquel Medina is not the best. She is really making me reconsider if Dra. Robles is who I should have surgery with and I am really close to looking for a new doctor. Raquel flat out refuses to answer questions, is extremely evasive and short when she does answer questions, and refuses to tell me what recovery house I'll be staying out after surgery! Like HELLO lady I don't think it's unreasonable to want to know exactly where I will be staying for 7 days in a foreign country that I am not familiar with! I'm really not sure what to do.

I previously decided to have surgery with Dra. Walkiris Robles in the Dominican Republic. However, Raquel, Dra. Robles assistant, started giving me a hard time by not answering my questions, being evasive, and very short. I started feeling uneasy as having my surgery with Dra. Robles. This is not to say anything negative about the doctor, I do not know the doctor, and I never communicated with her! Not once! In that time frame I started communicating with Domini and she told me about Dra. Disla. I immediately clicked with Dra. Disla and decided to schedule my surgery with her.

I do not speak Spanish; I went to DR with my best friend who is trilingual and fluent in Spanish. He helped me tremendously! We arrived in DR on Monday, May 27th around 11:30 and were greeted by Juan from Bambino Taxi.
**If you need a car service while in DR I highly recommend Juan! He is prompt, friendly, has extremely fair rates ($35 from the airport to the city, you cannot find someone same price or less), and he’s really cute (lol) bambinotaxi.com. His cell is (809) 780-9635, he has whats app so you can text for free. He also can help you with a nurse and cook, just let him know. He waited with me inside the clinic during my consult and I left my bags in his car, you can trust him he is a good guy!**

We went directly to CIPLA to meet with Dra. Disla who was at lunch when we arrived (it was 12:30 pm). When the doctor came back from lunch she had bought lunch for my friend and I! She got us something to drink and fed us immediately upon meeting her! Right away I just loved her. I had my consultation with her, which lasted about 2 hours. We talked about everything and she was very thorough and down to earth. I then went for my testing (EKG, blood, X-ray), paid, and then returned to my hotel. I stayed at the Dominican Fiesta Hotel, which is around 15 minutes from CIPLA.

The next day I went to CIPLA at 6:00 am filled out paperwork and was given a room to wait in until the doctor arrived. The doctor came in around 8:00 and marked me up. I took my blue pill and then was wheeled into the OR. I did wake up during surgery. I was scared about this too, but honestly it wasn’t that bad. I could feel a little when she was doing my implants but it is nothing to be scared about. The doctor removed 660cc of fat from my stomach, flanks, and back, she also inject 150cc of fat into each butt cheek (I did not want a BBL and did not have much fat to give for one, which is why it is such a small number. So please don’t say that the doctor can’t do a BBL, she can and you can request pictures of her work from her if you want), I also got 460cc cohesive gel high profile round textured implants with an areola incision. My surgery was 4 hours long. Dra. Disla told me that I would not get much attention at CIPLA and that the nurses would not give me any more medicine after my first dose and if I wanted I could go back to my hotel. Another thing I loved about the doctor, she does not include medicine in her package. She said the medicine at CIPLA is no good and there is no FDA to regulate what they give you. She said that some doctors buy the medicine cheap from CIPLA and then charge their patients a lot for the medicine, which isn’t any good. She gave me a prescription for medicine and told me to go to a pharmacy and that it is better medicine then I would receive at CIPLA. I opted to leave CIPLA and return to my hotel. So, around 5 hours after surgery I got dressed and headed back to my hotel, which was the best decision, I could have made. While the nurses at CIPLA were extremely nice to me, it didn’t strike me as exactly the cleanest room. Also, Dra. Disla checked on me twice in my room at CIPLA. While in DR I spoke to Dra. Disla every day through whats app, she called my hotel twice to check on me, and I had 3 post op face-to-face visits. Dra. Disla has a woman, Senia, who comes to her office and gives the ultrasound lymphatic massages. I had 5 while I was in DR (2 in her office and 3 at my hotel with Navy, she’s the best). I went home on Tuesday, June 4 and have been doing really well in my recovery. The doctor has called me and also emailed me to check up on me.

Honestly, I could not be happier with Dra. Disla. She is a sweet heart and really knows what she’s doing. I was never rushed and treated as if I was just $. She genuinely cared about how I was doing and my best interest. I would recommend her to anyone! Here are some pictures. Please remember I am only 2 weeks post op and still swollen (I gained 20 lbs after surgery in water!!!! I am now only up 5 pounds from my pre surgery weight). I am in the process of requesting the pre surgery pictures Dra. Disla took and will post those when I receive them.