My surgeon says the dips and lumps are “normal”. I Had liposuctionon my waist, upper and lower abdomen along with bra fat back area My umblicous area seems protruding and feels harder than any other area. I’m afraid I have devoloped fibrosis. I have been looking at possible treatments to reduce the lumpiness after lipo. Corticosteroids injections is one that keeps popping up. What’s the mechanism of steroid injection and is it even a treatment for lipo fibrosis?
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This is a complicated scenario because of the previous scar tissue that the first round of liposuction creates. Skin tightening is a challenging limitation of liposuction and other types of interventions such as JPlasma. You can only anticipate some very minimal improvement, especially in...
Personally I’m not a big fan of high definition Liposuction.
Your midline was treated much more aggressively basically removing all the fat so that area is going to have much more inflammation, more scar tissue and take longer to heal.
I’m not convinced that lymphatic massage makes things bet...
Thank you for your question.
It appears that you may be a candidate for an abdominoplasty. While liposuction does a great job of removing the excess fat from the body, you will still have areas of excess skin. An abdominoplasty would remove the excess skin from the abdomen, create a more...