You Won’t Go Wrong with Dr Amaka.

Great to hear. I am consulting with her in March and am excited. Please post before and after. Would love to see your results and cheer you on. If you don't mind my asking what was the cost of your procedure? You pain afterwards? How are you now? What made you choose her? I wanted someone locally and learned of her through a Dr. I follow out of Atlanta.

I forgot to answer your other questions. Pain: she does a lot to keep you comfortable. I have a high pain tolerance. I went in expecting to feel like I had been in a bad car accident or had been beaten with a baseball bat, that was pretty accurate. So it was no worse than I expected. Get a basic walker to help u get around for the first week, it helps a lot. Expect to be short of breath for the first week at least. She will inject your abdominal muscles with a long term pain reliever and it helps for like the first 3-4 days. I’m sure without that it would have been much worse. The pain from the liposuction kind of surprised me at how long that lasted, about 5 months but to be fair I contracted Covid 3 months post op and that I believe set my recovery back a bit. I felt more inflamed while having Covid than I did in the weeks prior. The lingering pain from lipo just felt like my back was bruised, tolerable, nothing I even needed to take Tylenol for, just annoying. I am a hairdresser and I returned to work in 3 weeks. I wasn’t running a full schedule and I took a mid day break to go lay down and rest for a couple of hours for the first 2 weeks back to work. That all worked out just fine. Today I am up to full activity level. I’ve just started being able to wear blue jeans again in the last month but they are very loose. I have one pair that is a tighter fit and they still bother me to wear the entire day and cause my abdomen to swell if I do wear them for a long time, so I just don’t. The tightness of the waistband hurts. I didn’t really expect that. I wore loose fitting dresses for about the first 2 months they gradually went into stretchy pants. (They look good on me now too). So it has taken me a while to get back into wearing loose jeans. I don’t have any pain now except for the occasional twinge from scar tissue being formed. I had never had any surgery this extensive before so I was a little surprised by how much of my abdomen is numb. That’s weird but after a while u don’t even think about it anymore until u suddenly realize u have regained some feeling in areas u didn’t before. But for the most part, I can’t feel much between my belly button and my pubic bone. I can tell u getting that waist snatched up is the most amazing feeling ever. I have been a yo-yo dieter nearly all of my life and even at my lowest weight I was never firm like this. So when u feel that tightness in ur abdomen and it’s uncomfortable or u can’t take a deep breath just remember how much tighter those abdominal muscles are. Now that mine aren’t that tight anymore I kinda miss that soreness. The entire process physically and mentally is “a lot” but it is sooooooo worth it all!!!

Thank you so much for updating and responding. I appreciate all your information and transparency. I had my consult with her. I truly enjoyed meeting her and her staff. However, I was very disappointed and depressed when I left. I realized I was wanting a full body makeover. The price was out of my range at that time and I was not totally satisfied with what she was telling me about my results. However, what it did do was light a fire under me to loose more weight. I love the fact that she uses all the lastest techniques. That the procedure is drainless. That she uses the exparel. I am still digesting the cost. I agree with you about getting what we pay for. I realized I could get some thing done thru my insurance such as a breast reduction and that would take off some of the cost. I love the fact that she is local to me. So she is still my number 1 choice. I just want to get on the road to healthier and possibly be able to get my work done by the end of summer. By the way, you look great. I will keep following you here. I would love to stay connected. Our body types look the same. So I can identify when you say the magnitude of work you wanted to have done. Thanks for the suggestions. I also agree that if you had Covid, that definitely may be some of the reason for extensive pain. Looking forward to seeing you progress. Looks amazing already.

May I ask your age and what procedures you had done? Thanks in advance...I'm looking for a Nashvlle Dr. to do TT, BLw/A, flank liposuction and fat transfer to breasts and butt. That's a lot, too! But I think if I'm going to have something done I might as well go all the way!

this is such a helpful review thank you