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I had based lipo in my arms on November 5th with...
I had based lipo in my arms on November 5th with Dr. Clark Zimmerman of PurelyYou. I thought what the heck, since I am planning on at some point getting an arm lift done and thought it might be smart to go ahead and have vaser lipo done to remove more of the fat first circumferentially. I wanted to also see if there might be a decent result without doing the arm lift after all. I had regular tumescent lipo in my arms in 2004, but the doctor at the time only lipoed the bottom part of my arms and didn't touch the upper part one bit. I was pretty disappointed as I have a lot of fat in my upper arms including my upper outer shoulder area. For whatever reason the other doctor wouldn't touch that?! He also lipoed only one elbow and left a huge rounded fatty elbow on the other. It was something I wanted to get corrected since then.I found Dr. z online and found that he had pretty good reviews.
Dr. Z is super nice and takes his time with you in getting to know you. He has amazing bedside manner and you really feel "at home" with him. However, when I had the lipo performed (just for starters), vaser has turned out to be the most PAINFUL THING I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED! I'm rearing two weeks out and it still feels as sore as yesterday. I cannot even bend my right arm back as my muscle literally POPS OUT of my armpit as it is soooo tight from this and soooo painful! Its like knives stabbing you and someone also pounding your arms with a hammer.
My breast reduction has nothing on vaser lipo...seriously! It is no joke!!!
But what REALLY SUCKS is that I never want to go through this again, but I'm going to have to because Dr. Z did a great job on the right arm, but the left looks almost the same and everyone that has looked at my arms (3 different people) has said it is blatantly obvious that the left elbow, bottom part of the arm and upper front are much bigger and fattier compared to the right. I am so disappointed because I can FEEL THE DIFFERENCE and it drives me crazy! I also had mentioned to Dr. Z about the elbow when he was marking me and he got irritated and said "now I know why you take adderall."...Sure enough he didn't listen me and to what I was trying to show him because he thought I was just being OCD and it didn't get corrected. Plus my left arm (which is where the elbow is so large): was basically left the same minus pretty nice definition in my deltoid area that the other doctor didn't even touch.
I have been giving myself as deep of a lyphmatic massage as I can handle, dry brushing for the lymph, and also using an endermologie skin suction device that attaches to my vacuum cleaner to "vacuum roll" my skin. It looks like nothing even happened on the outside, but on the inside it's still horrific pain!
When I went for my immediate follow-up he said I would probably see it match up, but I know that will not be the case because you can literally feel the muscle on my right arm in three places where there is still a significant fat layers on the other in 3 places on the left arm.
I do understand arms are harder than the abdomen or back go get an even result, but everyday it shows to be more and more uneven and is so depressing that I will have to go through this pain again in a few months. :(. I just can't have my arms look so different as its embarrassing and annoying for starters.
I'm just really really upset and sad that this pain hardly improves at all day by day and my arms are completely different, sadly meaning I will have to experience this again. I just hope when I go back in a few weeks Dr. Z is honest with the obvious difference and agrees to fix it, or else I'm going to be SOL and finding another doctor to fix this mess and even this out once and for all.
Just keeping hope up that he will do the right thing and I will be able to write a glowing review that he dida great job at the end of the day! Prayers please!
Note: I will post pics soon. I'm using my tablet and need to upload from my phone.
Dr. Z is super nice and takes his time with you in getting to know you. He has amazing bedside manner and you really feel "at home" with him. However, when I had the lipo performed (just for starters), vaser has turned out to be the most PAINFUL THING I HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED! I'm rearing two weeks out and it still feels as sore as yesterday. I cannot even bend my right arm back as my muscle literally POPS OUT of my armpit as it is soooo tight from this and soooo painful! Its like knives stabbing you and someone also pounding your arms with a hammer.
My breast reduction has nothing on vaser lipo...seriously! It is no joke!!!
But what REALLY SUCKS is that I never want to go through this again, but I'm going to have to because Dr. Z did a great job on the right arm, but the left looks almost the same and everyone that has looked at my arms (3 different people) has said it is blatantly obvious that the left elbow, bottom part of the arm and upper front are much bigger and fattier compared to the right. I am so disappointed because I can FEEL THE DIFFERENCE and it drives me crazy! I also had mentioned to Dr. Z about the elbow when he was marking me and he got irritated and said "now I know why you take adderall."...Sure enough he didn't listen me and to what I was trying to show him because he thought I was just being OCD and it didn't get corrected. Plus my left arm (which is where the elbow is so large): was basically left the same minus pretty nice definition in my deltoid area that the other doctor didn't even touch.
I have been giving myself as deep of a lyphmatic massage as I can handle, dry brushing for the lymph, and also using an endermologie skin suction device that attaches to my vacuum cleaner to "vacuum roll" my skin. It looks like nothing even happened on the outside, but on the inside it's still horrific pain!
When I went for my immediate follow-up he said I would probably see it match up, but I know that will not be the case because you can literally feel the muscle on my right arm in three places where there is still a significant fat layers on the other in 3 places on the left arm.
I do understand arms are harder than the abdomen or back go get an even result, but everyday it shows to be more and more uneven and is so depressing that I will have to go through this pain again in a few months. :(. I just can't have my arms look so different as its embarrassing and annoying for starters.
I'm just really really upset and sad that this pain hardly improves at all day by day and my arms are completely different, sadly meaning I will have to experience this again. I just hope when I go back in a few weeks Dr. Z is honest with the obvious difference and agrees to fix it, or else I'm going to be SOL and finding another doctor to fix this mess and even this out once and for all.
Just keeping hope up that he will do the right thing and I will be able to write a glowing review that he dida great job at the end of the day! Prayers please!
Note: I will post pics soon. I'm using my tablet and need to upload from my phone.
1 Day Post Op Pics Vaser in Arms
1 Day Post Op Pics Vaser in Arms
12 Days Post Op
Complete Uneveness in Arms Becomes More Apparent. The Left Arm is Huge Compared to the Right.
Provider Review
Dr. Clark Zimmerman
Dr. Zimmerman is extremely nice and has the most amazing bedside manner. He is overall a lovely person. I feel bad that I am very disappointed at this point, but I will update this review when he hopefully does a retouch on my vastly uneven arms (although I might add Vaser is SOOO painful and I don't want to go through this again at all)! I want so badly to be able to review him positively since he is just so nice and caring. My right arm looks awesome except for a small fat pad he missed on the top rigth next to the armpit area I really wanted gone, but my left arm looks almost the same and everyone can tell (not just me) how much bigger it is compared to the right. I am not happy with my result at this point(just want them to be even) but am trusting Dr.Z will be honest and that it will be corrected in the next two months. Frankly, It HAS to be!