Bodytite treatment day

Quite excited have a packed Saturday, then my treatment in the afternoon. No anxiety, I am confident of a good result. Dr Hicks has good hands and is a natural.

Eat my big bowl if porridge as I instruct my patients to do.

Help to set up, sign my consent form, it feels very odd being in the other chair.

Lying on the couch looking at the ceiling, it occurs to me that I had never laid on this couch before and it was quite comfy!

At least there was no light shining in my eyes, the tubes cast a pleasant glow, can see a few black clouds outside, wish the sun would come out.

Expect to feel the cleaning fluid to be very cold, as everyone normally jumps. Surprise it isn’t too bad at all. I don’t feel the first injection at all OR the anaesthetic! Second one just about felt it but didn’t hurt.

In goes the anaesthetic fluid. Expecting a lot of pain tense myself and ……….. nothing ! Bit of tugging for sure and occasional sensation of being stabbed with a needle but only for a second.

Belly starts to go numb feel as I have in the past when had a dental injection before a filling. Very strange sensation when fluid goes in, not unpleasant or painful, just very odd.

Dr Hicks squeezes a bit of my fat with one hand, can’t feel it at all — quite surprised even though I shouldn’t be, of all people.

I have chosen the biggest Bodytite catheter for myself as want to feel the worst it can be. Somebody once said “A sadist is someone who is kind to a masachist”

As I see the Bodytite cannula my body tenses up and I feel a fleeting sense of terror. Ruth is standing by trying to distract me.

” What am I doing here?” I mutter to myself. “Why oh why did I have to do this.” a flashback of me at the top of the Oblivion ride at Alton Towers comes to mind. I am threatening to kill my brother in law for dragging me up there, my sister in law is shouting for her mum, I am thinking that I am going to be smashed to pieces, my wife is praying.

STOP IT! JUST STOP IT! I shake myself out of the negative thought pattern and it all goes away….

Here it goes………nothing! I can feel the Bodytite cannula in my belly but it does not hurt!!!!! No heat just a grating sensation but nothing really. Apparently I am exceptionally fibrous.

I can feel a tugging on my entry wound but nothing else.

“OW !” Feels like a sharp needle being poked in, then back to nothing again.

“Are you ok?” asks Ruth looking concerned at my face being screwed up in pain.

“That hurt, but it’s gone now.” I reply in surprise, as Dr Hicks starts again after a momentary pause.

“How does it feel.” she asks. I think for a minute.

“Like being stood on by a 2 year old, certainly not as bad as a shiatsu massage I once had in Tunisia.”

“What is it out of 10?”

“Mostly 0.5 with very occasional and fleeting 8′s.” I reply thinking that it really is easier than sit ups!

Suction starts and thick yellow fat starts to blob out.

I feel quite relaxed and almost doze off, occasional tugging brings me back.

“Right that’s done.” announces Dr Hicks. I I yawn and have a grab of some skin.

“A bit more off here do you think?” I remark grabbing a fold. Weird!!! It feels like I am holding a piece of foam. My brain knows it’s part of me but cannot detect the sensation of me grabbing it!

I lie back down, a bit more shiatsu and it’s all over.

1730hrs

“Well that wasn’t so bad, I was expecting a lot worse.” I remark. There is over a litre of bright yellow stuff in a canister with which I develop a morbid fascination, making a mental note, never to eat chocolate again or chips or crisps…….

WOW! Belly is gone!

I get cleaned up pads on and garment with some heaving and shoving. Call the wife.

Text messages arrive from friends and patients.

Getting in the car is interesting but uneventful. Get home, no pain just the sensation of a numb belly which I decide I just don’t like. I would rather have pain and be able to feel my skin..

I remember the sensation of sherbet on my tongue and it feels as if it has been injected in to my belly.

Decide best to lie down to reduce leaking. Plastic sheet on bed followed by incontinence pads. I take 2 paracetamol. This is more than adequate to make me quite comfortable and settle any niggles.

Suitably pampered I feel this wasn’t so bad. Don’t feel hungry but the smell of chicken curry changes all that.

Doze off watching Michael Corleone being insulted by a senator.

Have a dream about fish and chips???

The cost of Bodytite Liposuction has been reduced at Zenith Cosmetic clinics in Nottingham until December. Bodytite patients will save £500 off Bodytite treatment until end of Dec 2010 for treatments booked with Dr Hicks

This is a very limited time offer and people looking to save on the cost of Bodytite treatment are urged to contact Zenith on 01159 596 999

Why Choice Zenith for Bodytite

Zenith Cosmetic Clinics is one of UK’s leading Bodytite clinics just to the west of the city centre of Nottingham.  With 11 treatment rooms a training wing and ample parking for patients and visitors.

BodyTite is the latest advanced treatment, ideal for patients wishing to remove stubborn areas of fat, tighten loose skin body and reduce cellulite in the UK. Bodytite is a radical improvement on other liposuction systems because it delivers up to 40% more skin tightening than any other methods of liposuction.

Zenith is always at the forefront of procedures making sure that staffs are using the best techniques. The clinic prides itself in using the most innovative treatments that cause minimal downtime for patients using procedures that are clinically proven to give the best results.