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Ready for a New Me! Upper and Lower Abs - Vedas Medspa in The Woodlands, TX

UPDATED FROM TimeForANewMe
6 months post

Not Happy At All....

TimeForANewMe
$3,600
So I went to my 6th month checkup. They weighed me, I weighted 155. I believe the day of the surgery I weight about 153. The chart said 145, which I know is wrong. They took my pictures and had the doctor look at them. You really have to look hard to see the small shadow area that has formed over the top ab area. Nothing noticeable to me unless you're studying them looking for differences. The only real difference I see is from the side on my lower abs. It still looks aweful and her telling me it is just loose skin and that I should do the Venus freeze. She says it looks great and theres a huge improvement.
What I see is no improvement, its embarrassing. I look mutilated. Not only do I have a the issue where my upper stomach looks like someone wearing pants too tight, but its not even. One flank at the back is kind of flat, the other side looks like it hasn't been touched. So when I wear a dress, I have a lump on my right side, but it is kind of smooth on the left. Now I have a strange kind of paranoia about clothes. Looking straight down at my stomach, one side is flatter than the other. In my waist I have a bulge at the upper area where she did the flanks. She says that no one is symmetrical so that doesn't matter. They went on to say I'm unhappy with the results because I've gained weight and my hormones are out of balance. I didn't pay the extra $1000 for the venus freeze and everyone should do that. I have too much loose skin to start with and I actually need a tummy tuck. If she does anything to it, it will only get worse....yet this is an improvement. All of this is said after I have paid her all the money, now I should have had a tummy tuck. They actually got pretty defensive with me and basically telling me it was my fault this didn't turn out to my satisfaction. At this point I became furious. I told her I had only gained a few pounds since the surgery and that the wait there was wrong. I don't remember being weighed before the surgery and I told her that. She said "You were drugged, you couldn't remember anything." I wanted to tell I sure remember yall arguing the whole time I was in there. That's why I had to take a second dose of meds because they had little affect. She said that they had to weigh me to give me the right dose of pain meds....maybe that's why I had pain in so many places.
But regardless, its done. I wish I hadn't waisted my time and certainly my money. I would advise people to not go there, not if you actually want to see the results of you money. If it doesn't go well, they will just say its your skin and you were warned that we can't do anything about how your skin reacts.

TimeForANewMe's provider

Chaitali Nangrani, MD

Chaitali Nangrani, MD

Board Certified Family Physician

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April 1, 2014
I am so sorry this has happened to you. I know that we all go in have faith in our doctor and a vision of what they tell us they can do and what we would like to look like and try to mesh the two together. They say it may take a year for selling and all to go away but I am not so sure when at 6 months the difference is minimal. I think I can see some improvement on you sides and some on the laterals on the two month but did not see anything more recent. Good Luck!
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June 10, 2016
They should have told you from the beginning you needed a tummy tuck! Lipo is not going to tighten skin. You need to make sure you put reviews everywhere about this Dr. and place of business. You are the third person I have read about with bad results. Thank you so much for your honesty!!!
June 21, 2017
Sorry this happened to you after all the money you paid to this Dr, few other patients on this site had similar experiences. I spoke with couple PS offices around the Woodlands and Sona Medspa about cool sculpting but they all made me feel like they only wanted my money. I ended up getting smart lipo from Dr Perlman in Spring off Cypresswood, if you still need a TT I would highly recommend him. I have spoken to several women who have had this procedure while in his waiting room just chit chatting and they all have been very satisfied with his work.
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August 3, 2019
Sorry you had such a bad experience. It's a disgrace how some physicians try to blame the patients because they didn't do what they promised. The NERVE!! Good luck to you dear
UPDATED FROM TimeForANewMe
2 months post

Well...

TimeForANewMe
Most of the numbness has gone and the firmness and lumps are gone as well. But, I'm not exactly happy...I'll let yall judge.

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UPDATED FROM TimeForANewMe
21 days post

3 weeks

TimeForANewMe
Nothing has really changed. The bumps still hurt and the indentions are getting deeper. Skin is still numb, I feel a few pin sticks every once in a while and I get excited because I think its waking up. But no, nothing yet. My flanks still hurt very much and a firm roll like the one on my lower abs has formed over my right flank. Maybe its the healing process. I'll add a new pics. I think my upper abs have changed from the way they were originally. I still swell a lot by the end of the day. It may just be in my head, wanting this to have worked well, I think I can tell a difference from before the surgery. I just don't know if they are good differences. Its still early, we shall see :)
I will be talking to a doctor today about Cryolipolysis on my back bra fat (the area I originally wanted done). I will be both happy and disappointed if my results from that are better than the smart lipo. I will likely do a separate review for it.

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November 8, 2013
I had the procedure on the same day at the same place you did. I just posted my update too. I think our results are similar. I still have a small lump, but I have been going for Venus freeze treatments and they help with this A LOT! I don't have the numbness or tingling you have, everything else other than the lump is very normal. Thanks for your updates, it helps me also judge how I am progressing! (I only had upper and lower abs though, no flanks :(
November 8, 2013
Thanks for your updates! The dr. suggested I do the Venus Freeze treatments. But, she is 45 mins. without traffic north of where I live, but an additional 35 mins. from where I work. So it is practically impossible. I have a home cavitation/ rf machine that I may try and see if it will help resolve some of it. You look a lot more bruised than I was, perhaps that will help tighten your skin. I only had tightening where I had bruising like yours, which is not a good thing as you can see in my pics. I am a little disappointed so far, especially since I can't fit in my jeans without the compression suit. My flanks are still VERY sore, like I just had them done and those lumps are quite painful as well. I'm glad the numbness isn't just me. Do you have the firm rolls like I described? You can see from my side pic below my belly button what I'm talking about.
December 5, 2013
Sorry I never responded, no I do not have the firm rolls, just the lumps in the abdomen. They are significantly better after Venus Freeze, but I still have them. I'm not even sure the Venus freeze really did anything for me and I'm not sure if the surgery was beneficial yet, how do you feel about it now?
December 5, 2013
The firmness has started to soften now, and that roll on my stomach has gone down. I still have the numbness though on my stomach. My hard lumps have gone away now. To be honest, I'm not exactly happy. My lower abs have changed a lot, but my upper looks exactly the same. Which mean, My upper stomach pouch sticks out more than the lower and looks funny to me. Now that the roll has gone down on my stomach, the skin is much looser and hangs down again. All in all, I'm very disappointed at this point and I don't think I would ever let anyone see my stomach like this. My flanks still hurt a lot and swells up by the end of the day and when I workout. I have also gained about a pants size and 10 lbs, neither of which will budge no matter what I do. I'm almost at the 2 month mark, which is when the Dr. said I would see the max results. I really hope not! I am going to try and be more optomistic but its hard to when I went from just being embarrassed to let others see me, to being even embarrassed to look at myself.
December 6, 2013
Wow, I am so sorry your results are SO bad! That's awful! I'm not thrilled either, but I can't say I am worse than I was to begin with, I just don't see much difference. I have a small lump left and I didn't do flanks (she wanted to charge me $2k more for flanks! and I had already paid $3,300!) I had read that a tummy tuck was he only thing I would be happy with, and now I wish I believe what I had read instead of wasting $3,300!