How was your Vaser Lipo recovery?

I visited an out-of-town patient at her hotel the day after her VASER Liposelection procedure, and found nothing close to the "walking wounded" of previous technologies. Rather, she reported that she felt though she had played two games of tennis, and was walking around as if nothing had happened.

In my experience, most patients recover faster following VASER LipoSelection as compared to patients treated with conventional liposuction. They shower the day following their surgery and are asked to walk every few hours to reduce their risk for venous stasis and remain well hydrated.

In addition, all patients wear a compressive garment for six weeks to more evenly reduce swelling and encourage symmetric contraction and shaping of treated areas. Activity is gradually resumed following surgery and most patients actually return to early light physical exertion within two weeks. From there, an activity plan is individualized for them as well as appropriate dietary recommendations.

We either do Vaser LipoSelection alone or in combination with a tummy tuck or mini-tuck such as a "lipo-tummy tuck or Lipo mini-tuck". Your recovery will be dependent on how extensive your procedure is. For those undergoing Liposelection alone (eg, hip-flanks, or thighs or abdomen alone), patients have told me they might take narcotic pain medication for 2-3 days and then downgrade to over the counter pain meds. They are encouraged to do a lot of walking on the same day of surgery, definitely, a day after surgery. They are encouraged to drink a lot of fluids. They have dressings on a few days. They wear a compression garment for 3 weeks. This helps in cutting down the swelling and in the contouring after the surgery. If done in combination with a tummy tuck or mini-tuck, they might have drains for a few days. This helps in the resolution of bruising and swelling. For most part, patients have reported that they return to most of their pre-surgical activities within a week, of course, with some limitations. Most important to note that individuals recover differently. When compared to traditional liposuction, I have noted that there is less bruising, less contour irregularities and better contouring with VASER LipoSelection.

I just had Liposelection done and it was not bad at all. I had it done on underarm bra bulge and right under that on my back. It hurt a tiny bit when they gave me the shot to numb me. When they put in the saline solution some parts hurt a bit at the beginning, but nothing major. The biggest thing is being awake during this. It's weird... It feels almost like someone is carving you? It doesn't hurt but it's really odd. But you get used to it. Then when they do the fat melting part, sometimes its feels warm on some parts of your body. You also hear this electric noise in your head which it sounds that a radio is trying to get a signal. It was funny/weird... Then they suck out the fat. That was cool to see it coming out. Then after that my Doc had me sit up to see what still needed to be done. Then he did some more sucking and that was it. He left and the nurse helped squeeze additional fluid out of the 4 holes I now had. Then she put dressings on them and then helped me put on my garment. Then when I got up I felt very dizzy from the meds they gave me to calm me down and pain killers. They offered me some anti nausea meds, but I can't stand the way they make me feel so I declined. I went home and threw up just a little then feel asleep for 2 1/2 hours. Then woke up and I was leaking a lot from my dressings so I had to change those. At this point I was not really sore. Just a tiny bit. I ate dinner and threw up a bit more. Then I ate some more and was fine. Then I went back to sleep. The next day I was up doing normal things which included shopping and going out to lunch until about 3pm. Then I felt tired but still continued to do chores. I went to bed around 7:30pm. That night I was VERY sore to the point where I kept waking up and couldn't get comfortable. I have only taken Tylenol at this point, besides what they gave me right before the procedure. I didn't take any of the hard core pain meds because I wanted to "get back to normal" ASAP since I have to go back to work in a couple of days. But I kept hydrated and kept moving which helped a lot....