After living with lower-body obesity all my life... now people tell me I look slim. Of course I also lost weight, but without the surgery, I don't think I could ever have legs like this. I had more than 5,000 cc removed. It was, of course, truly, truly much harder than upper-body liposuction... I even felt like I might collapse until the third day... but I think the reward for that pain is sweet.
Seoul was so far away that I couldn't go in often for aftercare, but while I was in Seoul, I think I went to the hospital for treatment almost every day.