Liposuction Before And After

Liposuction before and after - before liposuction

        Your doctor will give you some advices about what you have to do in order to prepare for the surgery. If you are smoking, it will be better to stop doing this, because smoking will increase your surgery risks, you may suffer an infection and you can slow your recovery process. If you want to treat an amount of areas you will be asked to stay in the hospital overnight. You are not allowed to eat or drink for at least six hours before the operation. Local anesthesia will be an option if you are having fixed only a small area of the body, meaning that the area will be numb but you will be awake. You may take a sedative for relaxation during the operation.

        Before the operation you may have to do some tests such as: checking your heart rate and blood pressure, checking your urine. Your surgeon will check on you and will give you to sign a blank consent. This will confirm your surgeon that you are aware of the risks, advantages and some possible alternatives to the operation and you are giving your permission to go on with the surgery. The specialist will mark on your body the areas which you want to fix. It may be taken some photographs of you before the surgery so as to compare the results of the operation after with the before pictures.

Liposuction before and after - after liposuction

        After the surgery it will be a period of recovery. Your doctor will give you some instructions which you have to follow after the surgery. You are allowed to take sedatives if you can not put up with the pain, because in the recovery period you will experience some discomfort caused by swelling. You will have to wear garments compression for about three weeks after the surgery. It is forbidden to do a lot of effort for about a month.

        But it is recommended by the doctor to walk and to do some easy exercises. If your liposuction surgery covered an amount of areas and not only one, you will need to take a ten days vacation from work. The changes of your body will not be noticed immediately, it may take some time before you can see some changes to your body. Exists the possibility that you will not be satisfied with your look after the surgery.

        Liposuction surgery is generally a very safe procedure, but you need to be aware of the possible side effects and complications. There are some temporary side effects after the operation such as: bruising, swelling, scars, swollen ankles. The complications happen during or after the surgery. Most patients don't have the bad luck to experience this kind of complications. A very important complication is the unexpected reaction to the anesthesia. Some patients are allergic to the anesthetic solution.

        Other complications may be the excessive bleeding and infection. The antibiotics are good for preventing the infection. There are also some very rare complications like: uneven results, and this will lead to another liposuction surgery, pulmonary embolism and this can be fatal (fat getting inside the blood vessels and affecting the lungs), damage at the internal orgasm and this also need surgery for repairing the damage, numbness and this can lasts for months.

        These complications differ from patient to patient, so is better that you discuss this with your specialist and he will explain you in which measure these complications can apply on you.