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How painful is Tumescent liposuction if done under general anesthesia? Is it really a lot worse than doing it with local? I'm getting it done in 3 days (Friday morning and I have to go back to work on Monday).
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Pain, Tumescent Liposuction with Sedation Vs. General Anesthesia
Whenever dust is thrown up in the air to confuse matters, it is always best to "clear the air", define the terminology and make sure we are all addressing the same question.
TUMESCENT LIPOSUCTION is nothing but the universally performed pre-liposuction infiltration of the fat to be suctioned with a dilute solution of a local anesthetic (lidocaine, marcaine etc) and Adrenaline (Epinephrine) which increases the accuracy of fat removal, largely reduces blood losses AND increases...
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No problem with pain but your back to work a bit early
Tumescent liposuction has an anesthetic in it which helps to minimize pain after surgery. General anesthesia will provide a controlled environment and short term amnesia surrounding the event. the combination will make this a very pleasant experience for you. If pain is controlled during surgery it does not escalate after.
Pain after liposuction varies with the areas being done but most people describe the sensation as soreness like after a vigorous work out.
I maintain a compressive...
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Liposuction under general anaesthesia
Even if you are having procedure under general anaesthetic, using tumescence technique helps reduce postoperatvie pain and the recovery is much more comfortable.
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No pain during tumnescent liposuction and general anesthesia
To give the simple answer, there is no pain when surgery is done under genral anesthesia. You are asleep for the whole procedure and have amnesia of the event.. If tumnescent fluid is placed in your tissues, as it is nearly universally in liposuction cases, some remains after the liposuction is done and that will give you about 2.5 hours of pain relief after you wake up. Then any discomfort is easily controlled by oral pain medications, iced compresses to the areas treated...
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There is very little pain with tumescent anesthesia
There is very little pain with tumescent anesthesia. The local anesthetic in the injected fluid eliminates most discomfort. There is usually no reason to have liposuction done under general anesthesia. This only increases the chances of complications and makes the recovery longer.
I have performed tumescent local anesthesia on thousands of patients who have gone back to work in two or three days, without difficulty.
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Tumescent liposuction with general anesthesia is like doing a C-Section in order to deliver normally
The whole reason that tumescent liposuction was invented by a dermatologist was to avoid the risks of general anesthesia. Believe me, if you get it done this way you are losing all the good parts of tumescent (less pain, less bruising, less recovery time) and getting all the bad stuff of general anesthesia.
General anesthesia has problems with death rates just from the process, so why in the world would you want to do that when you can have the safest form, tumescent, done by a...
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Tumescent liposuction pain post-operatively
The word tumescnt means to make firm with fluid, With tumescent liposuction, a fluid is instilled intot he areas to be liposuctioned. The fluid contains lidocaine, an anesthetic, and epinethrine, which has two effects: less pain over about 18 or so hours, and it constricts the blood vessels. The latter prolongs the anesthetic effect and reduced the bleeding during the procedure, thus also reducing the post-op bruising,
Pure tumescent liposuction can eliminate a general...
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Tumescent Liposuction under local anesthesia is almost painless!
Since there is very little discomfort at all with tumescent liposuction under local anesthesia and you get better results with faster recovery, why would anyone ever let themselves be talked into general anesthesia with all its risks and problems! Our patients are comfortable, get to watch 3D movies or listen to soothing music and get up and walk out afterwards as if nothing happened except they got a new fabulous body and are back to work in only 2 days and exercising in 1 week. If you...
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Tumescent Lipo
The pain should be similar in 4-6 hours after the procedure. Take pain medication and you should be comfortable. Thank you for your question and good luck with everything.
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Pure tumescent liposuction is not performed under general
Pure tumescent liposuction, by definition, is performed under only local anesthesia. General anesthesia has risks, and downtime and recovery may be increased. The size of the cannulas used, the number of areas being treated, and the amount of fat removed all can affect downtime. As I only perform liposuction using local anesthesia, patients WALK out of the room following the procedure and can resume daily activities in 1-3 days, and aerobic activities by 1 week. ...
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