What should I do if I still look fat after liposuction?
i did liposuction about 6mths ago... but i still look fat even if i exercise regularly... is there something else i can do? should i do another liposuction again?
Answers (2)
This is an unusual situation after a liposuction procedure. The best results of liposuction come in properly selected patients with reasonable expectations who take the result from surgery and magnify it by proper diet and exercise leading to losing an additional 10-15 lbs after the surgery.
There are many doctors who don't do very well at letting the patient know if they are a good candidate or what kind of result they could expect to achieve. This sets the patient up for an expectation mismatch where the result falls below what the patient expected.
It might be that you have as good a result as your body would allow. It may also be that your surgeon was conservative and might be able to take more out. At 6 months postop, you are basically seeing the full result you will get.
The only two patients I have personally had who asked this question had actually gained weight since surgery so certainly the result was not optimal. So you might check to be sure that this hasn't happened.
Liposuction is all about technique and patient expectations
It would be interesting to see some pre- and post-operative photos, and to learn what your expectations of the result of your liposuction procedure were - before you had the surgery.
It may be that your surgeon undertreated your contour abnormalities. Surgical results will vary based on your own tissues, the skill of the surgeon and the modality of liposuction that was used.
It might also be the case that your own expectations of the surgical result with liposuction were not realistic. You may have a great surgical result, but it does not meet your own expectations for what a 'great' result is.
This is tricky business. Hopefully the plastic surgeon that treated you spent some time assessing your expectations for the procedure, and informed you if those expectations were realistic or not.
Keep up the diet and exercise for another 6 months, and then consider revisiting your plastic surgeon again and ask him your question, 'What should I do if I still look fat after liposuction?'
Most Kindly,
Scott C. Sattler MD FACS
Seattle Plastic Surgery
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