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Under Local Anesthesia, is the Tumescent Fluid Injection Painful?

Enzo1226
I am going to have tumescent lipo under local NOT general! So I am wanting to know if the actual injections of the tumescent fluid is painful or do the 1st shots numb you from everything? Thank you so much I haven't been able to get an answer on this

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