I was awake during my BBL... here's what the experience is really like, from recovery to results

BBLs - oregon Brazilian Butt Lifts - are each the rage, particularly successful Hollywood, arsenic A-listers aplenty change their backsides surgically. 

Now, the latest process is the Awake BBL, which transfers abdominous to the buttocks, hips, and thighs portion the diligent is awake. 

Courtney B. an occupational therapist successful Boynton Beach, Florida, chose to get integrative country session Squlpt's Awake BBL process aft uncovering the process connected Instagram.

Courtney, 31, tried everything, including fad diets, sculpting garments, and CoolSculpting sessions.

Courtney yet opted for an Awake BBL erstwhile thing other seemed to work, telling FEMAIL, 'Nothing is much heartbreaking than seeing your wealth spell to discarded with failed results.' 

Courtney wanted to get escaped of her 'lower belly pooch' and 'enhance' her 'already curvy' silhouette, asking, 'Why discarded the fat?'  

'After a batch of clip and funds wasted, I began exploring options for imperishable abdominous removal and assemblage sculpting,' she said. 

Courtney ended up uncovering an advertisement for one of Squlpt's erstwhile patients, Emily, and was 'in awe of her results.' 

The Floridian ended up opting for the awake procedure, due to the fact that she wanted to debar wide anesthesia and person an easier betterment time, arsenic it allows patients to instrumentality to their mean routines faster. 

'Plus, I'm not a large instrumentality of tubes and drains,' Courtney said. 

The archetypal 2 weeks aft her procedure, Courtney was sore, and it felt similar she had done a dense workout. 

Courtney said the hardest portion of betterment was managing her compression garments, which typically person to beryllium worn for astir six weeks - adjacent portion sleeping - aft surgery. 

By the extremity of the 2nd week, she returned to enactment and could adjacent thrust herself utilizing her BBL pillow, which came with her everywhere. 

Post-surgery, immoderate of her friends ended up recognizing her assemblage successful the ads moving connected Instagram and asked astir her acquisition with Squlpt arsenic good arsenic what she thought astir her results, which she said was highly flattering. 

'What was adjacent much of a compliment is that galore would accidental that my results looked ace earthy and dissimilar galore different accepted BBLs,' Courtney said. 

'Some radical adjacent told maine I was the crushed for them scheduling consultations.' 

Dr. Daniel Suissa, based successful Miami, Florida, founded Squlpt and invented and developed the Awake BBL, which uses the patient's ain abdominous nether section anesthesia.

'Because the diligent is awake, we tin person them determination astir to scope each the areas needed,' Dr. Suissa said. 'This is cardinal to creating a BBL that's perfectly successful harmony with your assemblage and doesn't look excessively evident oregon fake.' 

Being awake besides reduces the risks associated with a BBL.

'Under wide anesthesia, your muscles are afloat relaxed, making it easier to mistakenly inject abdominous into the incorrect area,' Dr. Suissa said. 

'Because your muscles are contracting and you tin springiness america feedback, the likelihood of placing abdominous into the musculature - wherever complications tin hap - drops to astir zero.' 

Dr. Suissa told DailyMail.com that the mean property of patients has been 30 to 31 years old. 

Some patients are successful their twenties, others are moms who are done breastfeeding, and immoderate are women successful their fifties.

The terms varies depending connected the magnitude of abdominous transferred and the lipo areas - it tin beryllium astir $15,000 but depends wholly connected the patient. 

Patients are usually capable to caput location the aforesaid time and tin typically instrumentality to their table occupation successful astir 3 to 5 days, since they don't person to navigate the longer betterment that tin travel with wide anesthesia.

'More and much women privation a natural, proportionate BBL - 1 that's noticeable without creating an oversized, "pumpkin connected stilts" look - and that's wherefore they take Squlpt,' Dr. Suissa said.