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Flou -> RE: Non-surgical Liposuction (6/5/2007 11:37:16 AM)
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Hi I had Smartlipo done 4 weeks ago. I am a late 30's male and had it done to one area, my chest. I am a bit overweight but with a little less than a 27 BMI, I currently workout 4-5 days a week including an hour of cardio and weight work. As I have lifted weights for a while I don’t think my BMI is totally accurate as I have a lot of developed muscle.
The operation for me was not painful at all; it was kind of nice to be awake to see what was going on. The surgery took a bit over 3 hours, they also used a small canola to suction a bit of fat out afterwards but it didn’t look like very much to me. I felt a bit groggy afterward and was in no condition to drive or go back to work. I really didn’t feel any pain that night, I have had 2 knee surgeries and this was cake. Second day I had decent swelling but still little pain. I went back to work on the third day but in hind sight it would have been best to take a couple more days off as I was a bit uncomfortable and didn’t feel great at work. My chest was sore, almost like getting punched their, this lasted for about 3ish weeks. I workout a lot so Im pretty used to sore so it was nothing to hard to deal with. The compression garment was uncomfortable and having to wear it for 4 weeks has probably been the worse thing for me. Sleeping with it was a pain. I had little bruising other than a one inch spot for about a week, the incisions are tiny and mine were all healed in about 4 days.
My chest does feel a lot different, a bit numb at times and a couple small harder spots, rest of chest feels very liquid. I went back to the gym after two weeks, mainly just cardio and legs and felt fine. It felt a little bit loose in cardio but not enough to warrant stopping.
As far as results my Dr was very upfront that it takes 6-8 weeks for the swelling to go down and that the full results would take around 6-8 months. At the 4 week point I still have a decent amount of swelling and they are still close to the same size as pre surgery. The shape does seem to have flattened out a little but not too much. I was measured by my personal trainer last week and my chest was down 1.5 inches from pre surgery so I think I have had some change just not a lot yet.
My main reason I picked this surgery was because I felt it was safe and I would have little downtime. I was willing to accept less results because this was such a new surgery and the alternatives I just could not handle. Worse case for me was it didn’t work and I wasted some money, $4,000 for me but I felt that risk was much better for me than being out a longer period from liposuction and having the increased risk of complication or death (I have a friend of a friend who died from stomach lipo because of an infection a couple years ago) and I wanted to minimize this risk. I went in thinking if I can get half the results my doctor is talking about I will be very happy.
I wanted to make this post because there is almost no other info out there on the surgery other than the promotional stuff and I wanted to share my case. I will try to update this so others considering the surgery can have a first hand account.
Feel free to ask questions and I will try to answer them as best as I can.
Flou
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