Did you gain weight after liposuction?

My doc told me I wouldn't lose weight. Lipo was for contour. I have lost a few pounds but my shape is so much nicer.

i read your post. Same thing is happening to me. How far post op are you and have you had a secondary lipo now to remove the fat from the belly and waist? My entire shape change as well as getting deformities all over the legs.

I had lipo almost 8 months ago. I just left my docs office because ALL OF MY AREAS ARE BACK. I have gained TWO POUNDS since surgery and he blamed it on that. I have been reading and I saw that if you have weight gain it goes everywhere never usually back to the treated areas. I think doctors can be clueless..

Ugh I had Lipo 2 years ago and since the surgery I have been gaining weight non stop I am now at 200 pounds I have never weighed this much not even during my pregnancy's

My doctor told me I would have to change my diet! No mayo and fats! I had lipo a week ago and change my diet. Wow, after reading this now I am going to eat less. I refuse to put the weight back on after all the money I paid. amen

Yes, and it looks worse than ever.

I had liposuction of love handles, inner and outer thighs and inside knees. They took off about 10 pounds and stopped after they punctured my lung. I have a large bulge at my waist where they stopped. I nearly bled to death in a motel and gasped for air all night light with a collapsed lung. I gained the 10 pounds back plus another 5 pounds. I always had a youthful slim upper body with long neck and great facial bones and nice athletic arms. Always had a very slim midriff and little or no stomach. My thighs were the worst of it. Now, I have monster fat upper arms that nothing fits. Huge ugly droopy breasts, a thick neck and a fat face. Yes, my hips and thighs are the same, but my upper belly is huge. Nobody told me I would look like a freak if I gained the weight back. I have scar tissue everywhere and dead areas with no feeling. They said I was very fibrous and a difficult case. I wished I had never heard of liposuction. Didn't help my marriage one bit and my husband thinks I have lost my looks. Do not do it. I could have dieted the weight down.

Hi Pitsy,
Thanks for sharing your story. I am grateful that you are able to share. So many of us are going through this and it truly helps to know that we are not alone. I totally understand. Having had the best stomach that I was so proud of and a nice back and arms and chest to now end up with rolls on my back and large alongated breasts a muffin top no definition on my stomach anymore I cannot believe folks in the business of helping you to achieve 'a better you' could really do this to people. I wish i could afford a billboard sign I would photograph my before and after and scream these are the 'real' photos that they don't show you. The people that you are seeing in the ads I know without a shadow of a doubt haven't let a liposuction or Smartlipo machine near them! And the ones that have are still hardened with a ton of swelling haven't had the weight gain return with or without eating the same and show no pictures of a true after case. You were a difficult case. And don't believe your husband. I know it is probably one of the hardest things for you but try everyday to at least find one decent thing left that you like and focus on that. I have had so much devastation that on some days I am lucky to get a toenail to love. Lol. Again, thanks for your story. Hang in there.

OMG Pitsy that is so terrible.  You poor thing!  Thanks for sharing your story, it sounds like you have been through a lot.  Did you have a good doctor that did the liposuction?  

Thank You so much for sharing your story Pitsy and i am sorry you had to go trough something like that. Its terrible!
My mom had her lipo done more than 4 years ago. She used to have a proportioned curve body, she was not slim but she had nice curves and great legs. She decided to have a full body lipo and breast lift. The day she came from the hospital she was in a lot of pain which it was normal for the type of procedure she got done. We went back to the clinic ( which it was supposed to be one of the best clinics in the city and the doctor was supposed to be one of the best and most reliable ones) to finish up her breast precedure. I hear my mom screaming like never before, she fainted multiple times and she bled a lot. she was in excrutiating pain. They didn't use anesthesia on her for some reason. Few weeks after her lipo the doctor killed himself. The police had a lot of charges against him after he killed different women with the lipo. Again, he was a licensed surgeont, condiser to be one of the best in the city and yet a murder ( this happened in one of the most popular and trusted places for lipos) my mom's breast are full of scar. She gained so much weight you can never imagine she had a lipo or anything. her legs is what scares me the most. She has such a big upper body, huge stomach, big arms... and skinny legs!!!! she still have the waist though, that's the only good thing she have left after such a horrible experience. Before the surgery she used to gain the weight everywhere on her body , but now it seems to be everywhere except her legs. My mom got into a very bad depression after she realized what she did to her body, she is not the same person anymore. The worst thing is that after seeing what happened to my mom i still think sometimes about getting the lipo done, and when i think about the reasons why, all it comes to my mind is because i want to be closer to the false image of beauty and perfection the media sells. Almost all my counsins had it done and most of them are unhappy with the results. maybe i just need to realize that beauty can be less traumatic for the body and accept myself the way i am.

thana, please, please accept yourself as you are. You still have a fighting chance.. Exercise with weights and you will be great. Please, don't ever do it. Even the best case scenario.. you look good today. Come 2 or 3 or 5 years from now. You won't. It changes skin elasticity, and you don't gain weight in that area at least I haven't but everywhere else odd. Please. Go live your life and give yourself a chance.
Take Care

yes i will do my best exercising and loving myself the way i am. Thank You!

I had the most recognized plastic surgeon in Indianapolis. Fabulous facility with all the bells and whistles and a price tag to go along with all of it. I could haved lived with my thighs, I cannot live with the stranger in the mirror. I am no longer recognizable and my waist and hip measurements are identical. I look like a human tube sock. My arms are like Popeye's and my neck...it had to go up 4 inches at least. My face...it is somebody else for sure. If you could still recognize the old face, it would be a blessing at this point. However, I am totally a different person. I hate the me I now am and losing weight is tough. I cannot believe I look this different at the same pre-lipo weight. The body fights back when we abuse it. I would like to have the cannula and that surgeon for about 30 minutes. Bless all of you who learned the hard way. Tell your friends and family not to damage their bodies this way. They just don't blast through fat cells, they get into nerves and everything else inside your bodies. They are reckless and money hungry and we are victims of women whose pictures are all photoshoped in magazines and movies. Don't let men set the standards for us women. They sure don't get the beating women get as they age or gain weight. Who do they think they are? I still have my mind and my aqua eyes and the rest we'll just have to work on in 2012.

Pitsy I wish I had the right words to tell you... Eventhough I did not have the lipo done I kind of understand your frustration a little since after my pregnancy my body changed a lot even being at the same pre pregnancy weight, and ofcourse because of my mom's experience. Like you said we are victims of the false hollywood beauty standars. It seems like you believe in God, I do too, and you know what I constantly ask him? To please let me win over the pressure media and consecuently men puts over women looks. Its very sad for me to see myself and other plp depressed and mad because we feel so far away from such an irrealistic beauty concept. More and more teens are becoming anorexic n worse ending their lives due to the same pressure. Join my prayer and lets be happy with who we are and accept the way we look without thinking much of the mistakes from the past. I know very heavy women that feel so good about themselves, so confident that I envy them for that.we have to put out there the best of ourselves, by accepting ourselves with our flaws and start paying more attention on becoming more and more beautiful within us. It might not be easy to free ourselves from the wrong idea of beauty but once we do I am sure it will be so worth it! :)

Sorry to hear about your stories, it's hard to even think about what you are going through. It is really sad to hear about more stories like mine and even worse. I too fell into a big depression and didn't like myself either afterwards, I also didn't recognize myself in the mirror.

My breasts are huge and saggy too, my arms are huge and also saggy, my flat stomach is completely gone and gained a 6 month old fetus-like fat on my stomach and can't get rid off it unless I starve and my face blewed up like a ballon and hate it.

People who knew me before stare at me and say "what happened to you? you've changed a lot!"

I can't believe surgeons are not aware of these possible results. They only tell you not to gain weight but the truth is that the weight comes back on its own and it CHANGES YOUR WHOLE LIFE FOREVER !

I went back to several surgeons for consultation for my weight gain and to see what was going on with my body but they ALL TOLD ME that it was my age, that the body doesn't react the same to weight loss as when we are younger. Even though I told them I was eating less and exercising more, I wasn't able to lose the weight, they just changed the topic and said goodbye :/ (so, I'm not sure whether they just want to cover something they know or they just simply don't know ?? kind of frustrating since they are the surgeons !!!

The reason why I started to write about my story is so others hear about it and be more informed when making these type of decisions.

We can at least help others be more informed or serve as a support group and know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy !!

PLEASE WRITE YOUR STORY, THIS HAS TO CHANGE !! Lets help others be more informed.

I wish you all the best and hope we can all find acceptance with ourselves.