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I woke up during botched Turkey tummy tuck op – I’m traumatised after seeing the lipo tube in my stomach, says Brit mum
Cennet Lo has lived through months of hell after her botched surgery led to two bouts of sepsis
A MUM has been left traumatised after waking up during her botched Turkey tummy tuck and unbelievably seeing the lipo tube in her stomach.
Despite the surgery being several months ago, Cennet Lo is still in Turkey after facing near-fatal infections from her procedures.
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Mum-of-one Cennet Lo went under the knife within hours of getting off her plane in Turkey with plans to have a tummy tuck, liposuction and Brazilian butt lift.
But the 28-year-old has been left traumatised from the ordeal after she regained consciousness during the invasive procedure.
Cennet said she went into the theatre in tears as the doctors gave her general anaesthetic - despite her telling them she no longer wanted the surgery.
Once she was under, the mum recalls horrifically waking up and witnessing her own operation.
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Cennet told "I remember waking up and putting my head up and seeing liposuction being performed on my stomach and then they put me back to sleep."
If this wasn't traumatic enough, Cennet says she was recovering for a week or two post-op before her painful symptoms became worse that eventually led to developing sepsis - twice.
She went to hospital in the UK twice and even flew back to Turkey before being told her Turkish surgeon should do the corrective work.
Cennet explained the nightmare experience: "I felt dizzy all the time. I just didn't feel myself at all.
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"I was scared to go to sleep because I actually thought I was going to die.
"There were certain nights I was saying I was falling off to sleep and waking back up and saying, don't go to sleep."
Cennet travelled back to Turkey in late May with her fiancee.
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Since the initial surgery, she's undergone four more major operations to heal her wound and rid her body of infection - none of which have been successful yet.
The mum even developed sepsis twice, and described how she's "very lucky to be alive."
In Cennet's second bout of the life-threatening medical emergency, she was taken into surgery to close the open wound.
But she woke up to the horror sight that she had been given a "whole new tummy tuck" without any form of consultation.
Cennet claims that when her fiancee questioned this irrational decision, they responded: "Why is she asking me silly questions?"
In another incident, Cennet explained one debridement procedure for her horrific wound that was done completely without pain relief - meaning medical staff had to pin her down.
She said: "He started cutting at my stomach with no local anaesthetic, no pain relief, no nothing.
"They had to hold my legs down, I had a woman holding my shoulders down."
But Cennet is still living through her nightmare as she is still in Turkey - and despite each operation attempting to heal the initial wound, it continues to reopen, she told
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With Cennet's son still being nearly 3,000 miles away in the UK, she says the mental impact has been challenging as well as the physical.
spoke to Dr Bulent Sacak, a representative of plastic surgeons in Turkey, who said the "overall quality of plastic surgeons in Turkey is high" but surgery-seekers need to "pick the right doctors."
Risks of plastic surgery overseas
OVERSEAS surgeons are not subject to the same rules, regulations and training as doctors in the UK.
That means you can't guarantee the safety of the equipment or material they are using.
Unsterile equipment dramatically increases your risk of infection, which could lead to necrotising fasciitis (flesh-eating bugs), sepsis or even death.
On top of that, if you are opting for fillers or injections anywhere on the body there is no way of knowing if doctors are using dangerous substances.
Cosmetic surgeons have warned against cut-price surgery as there is a real risk you will be injected with "unsafe substances".
Prof Ash Mosahebi, honorary secretary of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons’ (BAAPS), said most patients either opt for cheap injections or implants to boost their bum.
"If they are having injections then god knows what they are being injected with, if it is safe, or if it is sterile," he told The Sun Online.
"Oil, for example, does make it look bigger for a few days but then it deflates and it’s likely infection like sepsis can kick in.
"I know of silicone oil being used, which shouldn’t be used for medical purposes.
"I’ve heard of cement but I haven’t seen it myself, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s things like that.
"Most of the time the injections end up having a lot of bacteria in them as well because they aren’t sterile."
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