Liposuction: Stories

you are not alone. That same thing happened to me. I went in at 121 and about 3 days later was 124 all of this 'new' weight immediately accumulated on my stomach and lower back. I had hips, outer thigh, banana roll and knees. I used to be able to eat. I returned to get the fat taken from abdomen to help even out the divots in my legs and only some of the fat survived. all through this I watch weight creep up eating less and less. Guess where all of the fat goes??? upper arms, breasts, and back. I got to 140lb right after that surgery and couldn't take the weight off. No one would believe what was happening. I had to do something so now I live on a protein diet only. eggs in the morning, roast beef rolled into cheese for lunch and piece of chicken or steak in a salad for dinner. that is my life and only thing that has helped me stabilize and get down to 130. The minute i try to have a normal sandwich and maybe a yogurt.. The weight gain starts. I have surrendered. Surrendered to the fact that i have to live with cobblestoned appearance legs, a divoted tummy with loose skin and rolls on my back that I never ever had and that people don't have. and now, that I can't even enjoy foods that I used to. I wish there was more 'real' info out there about the devastating consequences of liposuction/smartlipo, etc. It is so sad.

Thanks, I know is not normal. I cannot eat like I used to without blowing up on my upper part of my body like my breasts, stomach, arms and back, it's depressing.

I've been to other liposuction surgeons and all of them say it has nothing to do with liposuction that is has to do with my age but I tell them when I did my liposuction I was a lot younger and started gaining the weight right after my liposuction surgery and then they don't want to take the subject anymore :/

I talked to one doctor though that I explained my situation and HE HAS BEEN THE ONLY THAT HAS LISTENED TO ME.. at first he said exactly the same thing as other doctors told me that the older we get the harder is to lose weight but I explained to this doctor that as soon as had my liposuction I started gaining the weight.

This doctor seemed somewhat to believed me and was intrigued and asked me other questions. I told him how I don't eat as much as I used to and can't enjoy the foods that I used to. He said it was a weird case and then I told him how I found this research that seems to come to the conclusion that when people do liposuction on the bottom part of their body (outter thighs, inner thighs, buttocks, hips, etc) the "deeper fat" (can't remember the professional word for it, sorry)seems to miss the "upper fat" that was taken out and that's when the problem comes of weight gain.

This doctor kind of agreed with this explaining it in more professional words. The sad part is that more research has not been done on this problem.

I'M NOT TRYING TO SCARE PEOPLE TO HAVE LIPOSUCTION SURGERY BECAUSE IF IT WASN'T FOR THE WEIGHT GAIN, I WOULD BE REALLY HAPPY WITH IT.

I JUST WOULD LIKE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW TO BE CAREFUL ON HOW MUCH FAT THEY TAKE OUT.

Wow, Tigger, I'm so sorry for what you've been through. :( You may also want to post on the Doctor Q&A Forum for some professional opinions on your situation. Gaining that much weight after lipo is definitely not normal! :(