SmartLipo: Abs & Flanks

I have been battling my belly for the past 15 years. I was very thin as a teenager but then time got away from me and bad eating habits. I have abs/flanks scheduled for tomorrow. I'm super excited! I 5think it will be a wonderful experience.

I had my SmartLipo procedure on my abs and flanks Friday. It is now the following Monday. My experience was to be expected. It wasn't quite as pain free as I thought but I had a large area worked on and my doctor also extended in to an extra section that wasn't technically a part of the areas paid for. He was able to get the fat pockets in my under-bra area which I am super excited about. He let me know that if he had enough numbing agent to get the area he would so I made sure that enough was conserved to do so. That means I tolerated a tad more pain than I otherwise would have. It was worth it! I feel very positive about my experience and my healing process. My compression garment is 2 sizes too small but it fits on and makes me feel slim and held together. I have about 16 incisions around my abdomen and they are currently just very itchy. The pain from them is gone. The sensation of my stomach skin being kind of loose and separated feels weird. I feel like my skin is going to ooze off when I fold the garment up to clean the incisions. It feels icky. I go tomorrow to see if the drain can come out. The amount of drainage that first night was incredible. It got everywhere.

My stomach skin feels like it's melting off when I take off the garment. Saw the doc today and he said it's because the skin is disconnected from the fascia. Learned that new word today. Lower abs where a ton of fat was has a gnarly bruise and some on my sides. I could predict some bruising. The procedure is considering non invasive but it sure FEELS invasive! Lol. Got stitches and drain out today. Definite relief since I returned to work today. Hard to hide a dangling body fluid drainage bag. Going to look in to lymphatic massage sometime soon.