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Each patient recovers and heals differently. It usually takes 2-3 weeks for you to be comfortable with resuming sexual intercourse. During this recovery time, you should be closely followed by your plastic surgeon, as he will be the best judge on when to resume sexual intercourse. You might be sore when you start, and your partner should be aware.
If you have already selected a plastic surgeon for your surgery or had the liposuction already, you should ask your doctor what his/her protocol is. My recommendation would be to wait around 3 weeks which would allow for much of the discomfort to subside and the risk of bleeding and bruising to be much lower.
Unless your surgeon has advised you otherwise......sexual intercourse is OK after liposuction, if you have not had other types of procedures or sutures placed, whenever your body feels comfortable for the activity. The mons pubis area (the pubic region) is a site where there may be more swelling and bruising after abdominal liposuction due to the pooling of fluid there by gravity. It may be more tender, so just adjust your activity accordingly.
Infections after liposuction can be caused by bacteria entering the surgical site. Symptoms may include increased pain, redness, swelling, warmth, or drainage at the incision sites. Fever and general malaise can also indicate infection. Promptly contact your surgeon if you experience these...
Hello, Any wound-related issues should be addressed in your follow-up appointments with your surgeon. Sometimes people react to sutures or have a little infection but this is not the norm and needs to be addressed. To re-assure you without knowing the real story would be presumptuous...
Antibiotics: There are not good studies that confirm that giving patients a preventative antibiotic reduces the incidence of infection with liposuction. Getting an infection after local anesthesia liposuction that is not done in combination with other surgical procedures is very, very rare...
