Liposuction - Experiences

LegacyUser

Hello,

I am seriously considering getting liposuction on my bum and thighs. I am slim but have large thighs which rub together when I walk giving me friction burns. I'm not interested in liposuction for the weight loss but for the removal of a stubborn area of fat.

Has anyone else here had liposuction? If so, what were your results like? Were you happy?
Would you recommend where you had the procedure done?

Also, if anyone has had Smartlipo, I'd also be interested in hearing about that.

I'm not interested in people's opinions on it, but experiences of it.

Thanks

legoman

Are you willing to listen to positive opinions of Lipo and your situation?

LegacyUser

Yes, I jsut don't want to hear 'Lose some weight', 'Join a gym', 'Don't be so conceited', etc.

I know there's a lot of haters out there.

MagicMarker

Lose some weight.

Cuddlesworth

Lipocurious wrote: »

Yes, I jsut don't want to hear 'Lose some weight', 'Join a gym', 'Don't be so conceited', etc.

I know there's a lot of haters out there.

I don't know much about lipo but I am aware of the problems of specific weight problems in certain body areas. In your case the thighs.

The problem with getting the liposuction is that you have not addressed the reasons for the fat deposits in the first place, so keeping the same lifestyle after the surgery will lead to similar deposits in a number of years.

If you do choose the operation you will still need to diet and go to the gym to stop a repeated process.

dudara

Magic Marker Consider yourself warned. Please post helpful comments only please.

dudara

How Strange

Lipocurious wrote: »

Yes, I jsut don't want to hear 'Lose some weight', 'Join a gym', 'Don't be so conceited', etc.
I know there's a lot of haters out there.

I don't think people who say go to the gym are haters but are infact realistic. You are taking away the problem temporarily. Do you really think that you won't get big thighs again in the future?

As a big thighed fairly slim girl myself I can say exercise and diet are the only ways to control your body shape.

In my opinion lipo is the lazy, expensive way out.

DublinWriter

How Strange wrote: »

In my opinion lipo is the lazy, expensive way out.

Some people suffer from 'difficult' areas of localised fat, in particular women and cellulite around the thighs and buttocks. Such areas can be almost impossible to shift with diet and exercise alone.

Diet and exercise doesn't get rid of, or 'kill' fat-cells.

OP - you might also research a technique called Liposculpture. This is less invasive and traumatic than Liposuction and involves injecting troublesome areas with a solution that breaks down fat cells under a local anesthetic.

How Strange

DublinWriter wrote: »

Some people suffer from 'difficult' areas of localised fat, in particular women and cellulite around the thighs and buttocks. Such areas can be almost impossible to shift with diet and exercise alone.
Diet and exercise doesn't get rid of, or 'kill' fat-cells.

I've been doing alot of exercise for about five or six months - walking,running, trekking, cycling, I've also cut out alot of sugar and alcohol out of my diet. and one thing I've noticed recently is my cellulite has almost gone! That's the truth.
I was looking in the mirror at the weekend and was amazed to see how much better my a*se and thighs look. So it can be done.

There are lots of options for non cosmetic ways of reducing fatty build up. I've been under the knife for health reasons; it is painful and imo shouldn't be considered lightly for cosmetic reasons.

dudara

I'm going to ask all posters here to honour the OP's request and stick to providing experiences of lipo rather than opinions on it. Please heed this warning.

OP, in return, I ask you to consider that any surgery under general anaesthetic is not to be taken lightly. Please make every effort to investigate non-surgical procedures. Exercise and diet should be looked at prior to going down this path.

LegacyUser

From my own experience as a man:

A girl I used to go with got smartlipo. The results, where there were any, were supposed to be evident within I think 2 months. In her case, it didn't work.

What she was left with tho, was two round red scars about 5mm in diameter, like bull'seyes right in the middle of each buttock which when visible, said "look what's been tried and failed!"

Call me sensitive, but from a certain position, during a certain activity, I found these very offputting.

VERY!

I remember a few years ago a doctor in the US got into bother for telling an overweight patient who said she "couldn't lose weight" that plenty of people with the same excuse went into concentration camps in the 40's and were amazed by the results. (She was a Jewish survivor - he was struck off). But look for the grain of truth: your body is just an energy equation: eat less, exercise more!

Now I know it's a pain to be told this, but at least if excercise doesn't work it won't leave any scars!

LegacyUser

Dont do it OP. I got lipo on my stomach and thighs. Ive got 'corned beef' looking skin afterwards and my shape is distorted now. As in, my torso looks bumpy and misshapen.

My stomach is flatter now so that's good but it doesnt look well naked.

I know what you mean by the inner thighs thing - my surgeon wouldn't operate there cos he said my skin was too thin and it would end up drooping. So now my outer thighs are a better shape but I still have the chaffing on the inside.

I would strongly advise against it. It really doesnt make much of a difference to your shape and its bloody expensive.

Overheal

I would see what your doctor thinks of this idea..

Wibbs

Zombie post, raised from the grave. I'm locking this. If anyone wants to start another thread be my guest.