Is it possible to get a BBL with VP Shunt and HIV?

Dear Plucky624489,
it is hard to tell for sure without an examination. Generally speaking, all chronic conditions should be well controlled prior to surgery and you will need to get a clearance. If you are considering surgery, I would suggest you consult a board-certified plastic surgeon. Only after a thorough examination, you will get more information and recommendations.
Daniel Barrett, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

You need a medical clearance and a map of your VP shunt so that it does not get compromised during the liposuction. HIV not a contraindication for surgery as long as your CD counts are good. Please consider a virtual consultation prior to proceeding.

Neither condition should prevent you from having a BBL if you get cleared and everything is stable. in other words your viral count needs to be extremely low without any symptoms of the disease. The surgeon also needs to be comfortable doing the procedure on someone with a VP shunt. some plastic surgeons made discriminate an opt not to do surgery and patients would certain viral illnesses. it is actually considered discrimination to do so but some surgeons still do. I don’t think most surgeons are too concerned about someone who has HIV but hepatitis C for example is highly contagious and some surgeons worry about exposure.

The surgeon needs to know exactly where your VP shunt goes so that the catheter is not injured during liposuction.

My best guess is the VP shunt has a radio peg marker and can be detected on a single x-ray.

You can also ask your neurosurgeon for a copy of the opera report or communicate with the plastic surgeon of where the shunt enters the abdomen.

I recommend all patients considering this procedure have multiple in person consultations to help find the most talented and experienced provider. During consultations you’ll get to discuss firsthand how each provider feels about your HIV status and having a VP shunt.

Delivering consistent high-quality results with both Liposuction and fat transfer is more difficult than most people believe.

The results are permanent and irreversible.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of finding the most experienced and talented providers for these procedures.

Do so by having multiple in person consultations at which time you should ask providers to show their entire collection of before and after pictures including the top results, average results and less than results.

An experienced provider should have no difficulty showing you 50 or more sets of before and after pictures. Highly experienced surgeons will have 100s or possibly thousands.

Seeing a handful of select pictures which in reality are the best results of the providers career is insufficient to get a clear understanding of what average results from that provider will look like.

You also need to get an accurate assessment to understand your individual candidacy for the procedure.

Some people a good candidate for this and should expect great results while others simply are not good candidates for a multitude of reasons and are not gonna have good results no matter who does the procedure.

Quality information requires thorough detailed in person consultations.

To differentiate the skill and experience among different providers you need to have a comparison and for that reason patients would be wise to schedule as many consultations as possible.

Read all the reviews on various physician review websites and avoid providers for any significant number of justified negative reviews.

The absence of justified negative reviews is more important and more telling than an abundance of positive reviews.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD