Hi Everyone!
How am I doing? I'm healing. And I'll tell ya healing from this surgery has been tough. Liposuction is a tough thing to get over. Well at least it has been in my case. Every body is different, and my body has never liked giving up things. So when the dr told me that she had a tough time finding any fat on me, and when she found it she had a very difficult time in getting it out. And so I am still in large amounts of pain, ugh!
It is 20 days out from my surgery today, and every location that she did liposuction on is still tender to the touch. The muscles underneath all those areas are also very tense and crampy. I am trying to do lots of physical therapy in my recovery. It is relatively simple, a few different arms lifts and stretches mainly, and I am also doing lots of massage to the liposuctioned areas which apparently helps to smooth the skin. Both of those things super hurt though.
So overall, at this point, I am not a fan of liposuction, even though I love the effects. I had fat removed from the backs of my arms, from my back wear the bra fat tends to bulge a bit for some people, my lower back, which I didn't even know had any fat, and then she contoured my abdomen area, which included the sides of my torso, my upper stomach, and around the sides of my lower abdomen, which gave me a cute little feminine lower abdomen pooch.
It interesting as my dr mentioned to me prior to the surgery that it was really much more of a liposuction surgery than breast enhancement. Notice I haven't even mentioned that yet? So yeah the liposuction was a large part of this surgery.
Okay, so the breast enhancement process.... When I first saw my boobs on the day after the surgery, they were huge. The surgery had caused lots of swelling. I was well informed that this would happen, but it was still pretty shocking. Which was a good thing as I was very aware right then that they were too big for my liking. I was kind of hoping that would happen, as opposed to the opposite, me falling in love with having huge boobs. So, I was happy that I didn't like them that large.
Since that time the swelling has reduced and I am much happier. However, we are still in a wait and see time period. My breasts will not reach their final size until about 3 to 6 months after the surgery. What is most likely going to happen is that they are going to get a bit smaller as my body slowly absorbs some of the transferred fat. My dr said that most patients retain at least 80% of the transferred fat, but some retain much more.
Wow, sorry for writing so much. I didn't anticipate that when I sat down this morning. Hmmm.....
The TLDR version, liposuction is very hard to recover from, my swelling is mostly gone, and I am enjoying the current size of my breasts.
I hope everyone out there has had a lovely holiday time and New Years. My best to you all.
