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..

This happened to me as well. I had lipo a year ago on my belly and 'flanks' and those areas have fat again in them (not as much) and they look deformed. Wrinkled sagging skin. My doc said I was a good candidate. When I went back he asked if I had gained weight. I had (some bad habits from bad times)but I had no idea that I would gain fat in previously slender areas (upper arms, neck, outer and inner thighs, breasts). I feel my whole shape as changed as well and it really caused me depression.

I agree, I don't think doctors understand what is happening, they get caught up in the 3 and 6 month follow ups (which are probably usually good) and if there is a problem they blame the client for gaining weight. If I had really known I would gain weight in every other place I may not have done it (I was worried at the time because I had an injury and gained a lot of fat~for me~ and I thought I wouldn't be able to lose it because of my injury; and older age/hormones). I think that there needs to be studies done on this at the same level as medicine type medical procedures. Just because it is cosmetic does not mean these problems should be unaccounted for; plus doctors should be more accountable.

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

On which part of ur body lipo was one?

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

good luck cindy. my lipo was on my thighs banana roll and knees. They took way way too much fat. So I will cross my fingers that it doesn't happen as bad to you. Then I had to have abdomen done (tons of fat stockpiled right there immediately after surgery. Weight just shifted. I didn't have time to eat enough for my slim abdomen to become ponchy with now muffin tops. Anyway, that fat was injected back into my legs to help so it was after that 2nd lipo which included my back also to get fat to cause the problems that I am having now. Your bodies hormones just change and it will definitely cause you some changes. I was immediately hungrier so I agree with doctors that if you eat more you will gain but before that I maintained my exact weight plus or minus 2 pounds since my 20's and I am 45.
good luck.. think proteins and veggies.
you can do it..

Yes, and it looks worse than ever.

I am afraid it just gets worse. At least that happened for me. I lost curves and it seemed that the weight continued to go away in the areas that I had the procedure and began to accumulate to other areas; specifically the back, upper arms, breasts, and abdomen obvious disproportion. After I had fat transfers back into the affected areas about 70 percent of the grafts survived which helped carry some of the burden of this 'new' fat that appears I caused myself. (yeah, right.) But it didn't get better skin became more lax and ridges and deformities became more apparent. Anyway, that is only my opinion of my own outcome. i hope this helps.

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