ms.pooh wrote:brownricemilk wrote:ms.pooh wrote:
Wow! so how are u doing now? for your height and weight good thing they consider cos i thought you must only be around 25lbs overweight from your ideal weight for you to become good candidate?
and how many liters were removed? cos i think safest is 5L only?
now quite worried if he's doing it safely.
Haha I think it's quite easy to hit the 5L-limit for my lower tummy, cos before it was very thick but in a saggy fashion (as in not very close to the organs). I think the 5L limit is more of a concern if a lot of that 5L is our blood /plasma (reddish liquid) and relatively little fat floating on top (yellow gloopy solid) bah. A good lipo should after all suck out the fat, not suck our blood mah. Besides I think most of the fluid was pumped in before they started sucking, cos I could feel some liquid flowing down my hips and onto my butt.. Let's just say comparing the before and after of my lower ab, dr nara must have taken out about 3-4 cups of solid fat? Rough estimate lah, based on the difference between my tummy before and after.
In my opinion, it should be quite safe since I felt very normal immediately after the op. Could get up and walk back to hotel and then out to dinner, didn't even feel dizzy or weak lei. A few days after that, didn't really feel much pain either, cos the area was still numb. Ya, it really just feels like I just did a million sit-ups and push-ups, sore rather than pain.
Someone in this forum once said that to lipo several parts in so few days was exhausting. Now I can understand why. It's not the process of lipo that weakens one physically, but rather the fact that it's hard to get a good night's sleep after each session, whether it's becos we're unaccustomed to the hotel bed, share a room with someone who snores very loud, or simply for fear of leakage and staining the sheets. After 2-3 sleep-deprived nights, I was simply to tired to do another session, all I wanted to do was to be able to sleep soundly for the rest of my stay in Hatyai.
For 2-3 days after arms lipo, I often feel a sharp sensation when I move my arms at certain angles, since the skin was still very separated from the muscle (I can feel a gap between the skin and muscle when i pinch n roll the flesh), but today (Day 6) the skin seems to have "glued" itself back to the muscles, so there isn't any space between, and I hardly felt the sharp pain today. When I pinch my arms, can feel the flesh is a lot firmer than after the lipo. Hurray!!
Thanks for sharing, v. inspiring! yeah please tell if Dr. Nara did not tell you to lose weight first before suction?
right now i really really cant decide where to go mah. I think Dr. Arthur in medan quite good also?plus i find his clinic look more hygienic lor.
anyone can recommend which better between the 2?
cos this will be my first time so really really scared, looks really painful.
i dun mind paying addtl $$ to see Dr. Arthur just want to make sure ill be taken good care of and will do post op care and is not hard contact?
cos i read from somewhere Dr. Nara don't do followups? tt true? can you recommend which one safer to go?
sorry too many questions. hope your doing great! thanks!
I didn't ask Dr Nara if we need to lose weight before lipo, even though I did read about it in the forum that we ought to. Well, if this helps, I did eat very healthily one month before the surgery, and religiously took my fish oil pills and vitamins and herbal shakes every day.
Haha of course I didn't lose any weight. Not surprising, since this weight has stuck with me for many many years (fat kid since Pri 3). I was mentally prepared to be rejected during the consultation (I was all ready to badger him to at least just do my chin and arms). But then dear old Dr Nara started pinching my tummy approvingly, haha, and then suggested two separate sessions to remove the bulk, and I was so happy!!
Now it's been a month since, and while I haven't been that fervent in taking care of myself (same job, same shitty boss, same crappy life in Singapore), my arms and tummy are smaller than I can ever remember. Granted they may still be big compared to standard-sized girls, but by my standards, I'm very satisfied. Many nights when I lie in bed, I'd reach down to touch my "flat" tummy, and think of my next trip back.
Just a side note about removing LIPO stitches: actually you CAN remove them yourself. The most wonderful thing that happened on my last day in Thailand was that Dr Nara had one of his nurses teach me how to remove the stitches myself at home, using those sharp pointy scissors and tweezers. I didn't even have to disinfect, since the cut would have closed and dried by Day 7 (the individual stitches look like ear piercings, I simply snipped the loop and pulled the black surgical thread out). Of course, Dettol is optional. Just be careful when you peel back the waterproof plaster, that hurt like a B*tch and left a burn (but only cos I zipped it off like a Biore Pore-Pack without thinking
) Glad I didn't have to go to GP or polyclinic, waste $$ plus surely will get lectured blah...
