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    I had a consultation today for SmartLipo on my arms. I'm looking at about $3200 to get my arms fixed, plus living expenses for about a week when I'll be stuck wearing an unsexy compression garment. I want to save up about a thousand in cash and put the rest on Care Credit... I'm reluctant to run up more debt, but honestly I think I'll make more money when my arms are fixed. They offered to schedule me for next week, and it was tempting but I'm not going to have the money by then. I hope I can pull it together ASAP though, because now that the weather's getting nice I want to run around in cute damn tank tops for the first time in my life!

    Just going to the consultation felt awesome. I'm freaked out and terrified about the drugs and anaesthesia, but I hope it'll be worth it. He'll put me to sleep for the procedure, which REALLY freaks me out. It's not general anaesthesia (no tubes down the throat or paralysis), but I will be asleep and that terrifies me. I'm also concerned because he was talking about giving me Vicodin for afterward and I can't take Vicodin. 90% of the drugs out there (especially painkillers) make me really sick. The last time I took Vicodin I puked and dry-heaved nonstop for two days off ONE pill. The doc did offer to give me Phenergen, but I'm afraid to take that because I'm scared I might be poisoned or something if I don't puke up the drug. I hate how my body is so sensitive to shit like that.

    So I'm concerned, but excited too. I hope I can do this. It's scary but the thought of finally having slim pretty arms and looking sexy in little strappy dresses...! Maybe FINALLY this summer!

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    Bad reactions to vicodin are real, especially if you have Asian or Native American ancestry. (Assuming in that, that it's the hydrocodone and not the acetominophen giving you trouble.) Have you tried asking for a painkiller that you know works for you?

    Also: I know it's really easy to be browbeaten by doctors... gods know I've had my share of that... but make no bones about the fact that you're allergic to vicodin. Puking once is a stomach reaction; puking for two days is fucking serious.
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    P.S.: I'm kind of hesitant to ask this: I have an arm flab problem too, and I'm wondering if mine is the same or different. Would you be willing to post 'before' pictures?
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    Yek, I'm so excited and happy for you! I know how much you were wanting to do this and I'm glad that it's going to happen! Yippee! Agreed, B&A pics pwees!

    And yeah, I'm paying for my laser hair removal via Care Credit. No problem thus far, it's interest-free for 1 year for me.


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    That rules! You've been contemplating for so long, I bet you'll feel just exhilarated afterwards! Keep us abreast of the timeframe, please!
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    Congrats
    I was given perc and I knew I had a bad reaction to it. It also made me puke before for a long time. I was given phenergen and that helped for about 3 days. Then became ineffective. I went on muscle relaxers and reg. ibuprofen. That's because mine was mostly muscle pain. I'm not sure what type of pain you'll be having
    Also vicodin made me sick, darvocet didn't. Not sure why. Also, maybe tylenol with codeine maybe? Not sure what else is out there.
    Either way, best of luck..make that money, get the procedure, and rake in the money

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    Quote Originally Posted by thechaosfairy
    Have you tried asking for a painkiller that you know works for you?
    I don't know that there is one! I took Valium when I had my IUD inserted several years ago and I was okay. I was fucked up and stoned for a long time, but I guess that's normal. Pretty much everything makes me sick though. Hell, right now I'm taking prenatal vitamins for my hair and nails, and THEY make me queasy for an hour every day. The Phenergen would help that, I'm sure, but I'm worried that my body rejects Vicodin and other drugs because of an allergy or something, and if I didn't throw it up then it would do even more damage. (Phenergen is one of the drugs I can take, my mom used to give it to me in my teens when I puked up everything else. I have a cat tummy, LOL!)

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    Also, maybe tylenol with codeine maybe?
    I can't take codeine either. I know, it's lame. Opiates make me hallucinate.

    I will definitely post before and after pics. I'm still not 100% sure I'm going to go with this guy. There's a doctor in L.A. who's only about $200 more, and he doesn't put you to sleep. He invites you to bring in your iPod or just chat with him and the staff during the procedure. I feel a lot better about that. K may be going down to L.A. soon anyway, so maybe I might come along and see that doctor. I still have to think about it.

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    wow, I've been reading a lot about smartlipo, so it's good to finally meet someone that's doing it.

    By the way, will the doctor do suction as well or let the liquid metabolize itself?

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    Apparently he has a canula with a laser on it. The laser heats and liquifies the fat, and also irritates the underside of the skin into forming collagen so it tightens around the space where the fat used to be. I think he sucks some of it out but he recommended I buy two of the compression garment so I can rotate them for washing, since I'll be oozing fat and leaking for several days. He said it's a couple of days until most people go back to work, probably a week to ten days before I can ditch the garment and go back to work, two weeks until I'm totally normal and look sexy in a tank top. After two weeks he wants me to come back for a checkup and see if any touchups might be necessary.

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    I asked that because it seems that some doctors liquify and suck the fat out, some do not do suction. Obviously, arms need less taken out so maybe it's different, but I've read about a lot unhappy people that did not get suction with their smartlipo. Like these:

    http://messageboards.makemeheal.com/...ic.php?t=76446
    http://messageboards.makemeheal.com/...ic.php?t=75777

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    Thank you. I'll ask about that if I call to schedule the appointment.

    I really kinda want to go to the doctor in L.A. I'm leaning that way more than this guy, and I don't know exactly why but there it is. If K gets this show in L.A. that he might be getting, I might go with him for a couple of weeks, see our old friends, hit the Korean spa, and go get my SmartLipo there.

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    What's wrong with your arms? I wanna see!
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    I like them large and cut. Sort of like strawberries.

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    I have genetic flab that doesn't go away. Even when I was skinny and bony I had big flabby arms and I've never been able to wear anything sleeveless. Weights and exercise don't help. When I was a young teenager my mom picked on me about how my arms look like "ham hocks" and I've hated them ever since, so it'll help my confidence tremendously when I get them taken care of.

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    wtf is a ham hock?
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    I like them large and cut. Sort of like strawberries.

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    Go for it! Give us pictures too!

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    i have never heard of a "ham cock" either....do you have any pictures of your arms so you could show us?

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    lol...."ham cock"

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    A ham hock (not cock, LOL) is the lower part of the pig's leg, used often in Southern cooking. It's very pale white (like me, haha) with a skinny little bottom and a big flabby top. My arms look like that. I have nice muscle tone on the top of my biceps but the underside of each arm has a big lump of jiggly flab that just hangs there. Weights just make my arms look bigger because the muscle builds up but the fat doesn't go away. All the women in my family have it and there's no way to fix it except lipo. It doesn't bother anyone as much as it bothers me, but it REALLY bugs me and makes me feel fat and gross all over, so I want it fixed.

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    I'm all over excited for you!

    let me know when you decide to do it and i'll have to think up a "woohooo" treat that wont upset your painkiller addled stomach! Sigh. Makes me want my stomach and thighs done...

    It must be terribly exciting though, i'm happy for you!
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