Does liposuction usually require an overnight stay?

Thank you for submitting your question! Based on the information you provided, undergoing liposuction to the bra bulge, arms, thighs does not typically require overnight stay for observation. It would be completely reasonable to go home on the same day, as long as you have a caregiver that can assist you at home for at least the first couple of days after your surgery. The length of time and level of care that a patient requires after surgery is different for everyone. There may be other extenuating circumstances with your case that would cause your surgeon to recommend an overnight stay. Feel free to reach back out to your surgeon to review this plan of care, if you wish. Good luck and thank you for reaching out!

It depends on the type of liposuction performed and the extent of the correction you require. In my practice, we typically perform liposuction using local anesthesia and micro-cannulas that remove the fat and sculpt the area at the same time. Our patients usually have just a few days of downtime after treatment. I recommend scheduling a second consultation with a board-certified physician with expertise in this method of body contouring for further information and treatment recommendations.

in my practice we make everyone do overnight stay, as liposuction can cause lightheaded-ness, dizziness, and pain that should be watched in first 24 hours. my patients also get hormonal optimization before and after the procedure to help in healing as well.

You need a formal evaluation by an expert in body shaping and contouring to determine what is best.  Traditional liposuction awake and smart liposuction are old methods and do very poorly for tightening skin or significant skin tightening or contouring.  Small problem areas can be improved slightly by these methods.  The best in body contouring not only removes fat with energy devices like VASER ultrasound but also internally heat the skin with radio-frequency devices such as J PLASMA/RENUVION, InMode BodyTite, ThermiRF to heat the under surface of the skin and tighten it at the same time as fat removal. These combinations are called 4D HIDEF VASER contouring and can only be done by a well . trained body contouring specialist. At the same time fat should be harvested, PRP and stem cells added and injected into muscles or indentations/cellulite to get body shaping and contouring.  This is known as a Brazilian butt lift when you inject the fat to the buttock for contouring and lifting, but fat can also be used in areas such as the chest/breast, arms/shoulders, calves and face.  Cellulite should also be treated with cellfina, sculptra, subcision and/or fillers such as bellafill, renuva synthetic fat, or sculptra.  If skin is very loose before surgery then it will need to be removed such as lower abdominal skin (tummy tuck/abdominoplasty), breast skin (breast lift), arm skin (brachioplasty).  Overall you need a full assessment, but simple liposuction alone will not tighten skin and needs a combination of various methods -- fat removal, skin tightening, defining, fat grafting, skin removal -- to get the best in body contouring and body sculpting.  Dr. Emer.