Axillary Lipo - Maryland

Thank you. I appreciate that. It's def a lil relief to be able to find doctors and research to know who is best suited for revision in diff areas.

Keep us posted on your revision- how you find your doctor and how it all goes.  We are here to support you along the way!

Thank you :) I'm doing my research. Quite scared to go to anybody at this point. I may wait till I go to LA to see the eye revision specialist to have that done out there as well. Waiting to find out a consult date on that.

So Sorry for what happened to you! It's sad that people are encouraged to only get support here for what they want to have done and not to be given the fact about the procedures they are contemplating. Now we are supporting you for getting revisions. I would recommend to look and get recommendations for surgeons who do reconstruction surgery but not from this site. I think it would be especially great to find one who does not do liposuction. Again, I'm so sorry this has happened and if you get a chance read my review and you can see I have experience with this myself (in another body part). Let us know how you make out.

I know, Jill, it's so sad she didn't get the results she wanted; it's really looks more than that though; it looks like she was disfigured. And the doc didn't even understand what he was doing because he figured women didn't wear bras and didn't want that kind of bulge and he couldn't do things evenly. Now she has to face the expense of getting that fixed. I wonder what can be done to prevent this sort of thing :(

Ugh I'm sorry for you as well then. It's very upsetting and life almost pausing for lack of knowing what to call how this kinda thing affects us. I'll def check out your review. I sure didn't expect to have folds of skin like stacked now. I'm so sick of wrapping it. It makes my back hurts and my neck hurt. It's not natural to have that wrapped tight around there. It also can push down on your breast area if not careful ( no women wants that). I was told before surgery when I asked ....that I didn't need to worry with getting g anything post op to wrap or use for compression because it's such a small area. Well that "small" area turns out it's the size if a hand print. As I mentioned, of course u go taking all that out if there you will have droop in the breast even more than before too. I knew right away it wasn't going to go well. I tried to ask at 2 weeks post op and realized there was no use. I was being made feel dumb. Showed me a pic of a lady with her arms down ..hmmm yea that's not exactly where the issue it. I didn't have it wrapped last night. I'm slacking off on it some now this week. Just a lil. I'm finding all that wrapping really isn't making any different anyway. I'm having better results in the lower half than there....and my right side of the lower half...that's not saying much lol its got issues and I'll be looking into smart lipo to smooth the right leg more or remove what he left. Far as axillary...idk if its even the axillary once it's under the arm.. that I'm quite sure will need skin taken off. How sad is that. I worked out since I was 16. I don't go on vacation without working out n have stayed within 5 pounds of my weigh all my life cept 2 kids I went to 153pounds with both and now I gotta get an area like that cut out n have a scar. It's just unreal and blows my mind. I had Tummy tuck of course cuz I'm a personal trainer and could never get my abs as flat as before. Now this. Kids can wreck your boobs and stomach but didn't expect to have this happen. Feel like I'm in a vortex nightmare... i may have to have the back behind bra matched up too, dear God I hope I don't need a scar farther out than under arm. I'll go postal.

I wonder if you can consider filing a law suit? I would also start visiting your regular doc and have her or him document the pain you are feeling so that if possible insurance could cover a revision. I think lipo is a dangerous procedure but people don't want to believe it and always get mad when I try to point that out. I went to my docs office and the nurse practitioner could see I had a bad result and she said:I guess you don't want more lipo (to smooth it out) and I said: No! So here I am with a body that is so not the body I started with; I am misshapen and it gets worse with time. I'm stunned at how I have changed in just 3 years. When I think about being with someone in a relationship I just fear having someone see my body. My breasts have increased in size to like when I was nursing a baby. It's very uncomfortable and it makes me look heavy all over. Anyway....keep us updated.

Again thank you. This site def helps and shows us different surgeons to consider...if only I had heard of it before mine... ugh

I'm a trainer and if I can help you from here in any way please let me know. I so feel everything you are saying. I think you should look into that as well if you haven't already. I have 3 different things going on and yes, I have already spoken to an attorney and getting my ducks in a row. I'll be going to specialist around me for info on the eyes, axillary, and the dent in the back of my leg and unfinished there. Course I'm afraid to get more done to contour...so thought about coolscupt because it's less invasive, but that's not goin to contour really I doubt. I'll need cellulaze too where he dI'd right area. It's pretty rough looking. I was to have it done on back of thighs n outter but obv thar isn't usually done sa me time as lipo so he didn't do...but course didn't tell me that....it on my paper though for pre op. I wear lil to nothing at times for my modeling job.....so believe me....i feel ya on the "omg you wrecked my body!!" I knew at some point I'd need a breast lift, mostly because I have 23 yr old implants. Now I never get a complaint in the boob area...in fact guys like natural better. Lol. ;) You can't tell I have implants at all. If i exchange them I need a lift...so it's in my future. I was borderline not liking them myself just bidding my time to do it in like 5 yrs. As you said..scars n things like that..dating...hmm just not what we want...nor if you nude model. So yo have scars there I'm not thrilled. Now with this extra skin under arms n he dI'd actual axillary and across top of chest it seems cause I noticed right away I looked like dug in under the actual axillary where the wrap went. I freaked first time I saw it. Makes boobs look flat up sac look now....sooooo now I feel like I have to on top of all of this..think about that scar lift. Sure is hurting my income this year....I'm like..do I do it now when I have yo do my eyes over and I'm in LA and cant fly home for 2 plus weeks anyway...oh n do I take somebody with me n pay for them too..cuz i cant pick up luggage in either case or stay alone. It's just completely ruined my life right now all this I never miss the gym...course I had off 5 weeks bit some cardio for week 3 and after...but at week 6 I missed 6 days cuz i just couldn't focus n deal. Sucks. I have messed around to see if doing a lift would help axillary area...I asked on here as well....in my opinion it probably wont..it just pulls that skin line up and it's still there :( that horizontal line is there for the duration. He ran that lipo front to back n there it is. So I may do the lift n tell the surgeon at that eval or if totally sure it won't work with a few opinions maybe I'll do it first and hope the scar is under my pit. My daughter's wedding is mid August. I really wanted a dress with a cute neck line that straps came in a tad from across shoulders....then saw the pit skin n said no can't so that one...so had to get a long instead.. blah. I'd guess getting skin lift will have me a mess for awhile after too so either way I'm screwed.

Yes I agree and understand as well. The truth is, fat is important and it can't be sculpted and shouldn't be melted (as if it is just butter in our bodies) or frozen. The whole lipo thing is a horrible lie. I see people here that have gotten their whole bodies done at once, they talk about how great it is at 3 months and they disappear. I just can't imagine what happened to their arms, faces, backs,necks, breasts..any area that wasn't touched will balloon out. It's a travesty.

Yes I thought a lil but would be ok. Was I dumb. Funny you say that, because I think the reason I needed cellulaze is from lipo many years ago. It ruined my skin. I'm a fit person, I rarely ..I mean rarely ever drink. Don't remember the last time..I dont smoke. I eat pretty well too. Most of the time I cook at home. So it never made sense my legs...I'm sure it was because it ruined the tissue. It was a aggressive back then.

Guess you can see i have two accounts lol. I mix the darn things up because I respond and see it after that i was logged on the other one. I just got the call from LA as to when to fly out that way for a consult. looks like 2 weeks. I want to get out there and figure things out before my daughters wedding in August. Plus Im a gemini bday so I thought i would try and enjoy it out there a lil in June. I could use a lil fun.

It's aggressive now; that's what people don't realize; it's just an aggressive procedure if you think about it.

Well yes it is because now it melts. I know of a surgeon that says the old damaged the tissue but the new melting cases scar tissue to more tissue than the old did. I had the ultrasonic done.

I'd be interested to know who that surgeon is; it would be good to have docs come out and speak the truth about lipo and all the gimmicky procedures they come out with.

He still does the old kind though. He's on here he's the one I told u does a great Tummy Tuck. Dr. Markman. I was very happy with mine. Still am.

I disagree with you completely, Sundogcoyote.  Everyone is supported here.  Plenty of people choose not to go through with any surgery or with any revisions and they get support.  

Awe I totally took her comment as meaning only support here on real self and hard to get the real facts out there in the world. Not that we don't get them on here...maybe I'm wrong but I think that's how she meant it. If i had heard the negative before surgery on other site or from truthful info fro. The surgeon....i wouldn't have a disfigured under arm that now needs a scar under my arm forever to fix.

I'm sorry you disagree with me completely Jill. But my point wasn't about people's decisions not to get a procedure and having support here, it is about people offering "support" in a different way, such as offering facts, that is where the problems happen. People get angry. However, I have seen a few times people who got angry, go ahead and get a procedure (mostly lipo) and then later are asking doctors what can be done about their bad (sometimes horrible) results. This after a huge pile-on top of people (i.e. bullying) who are trying to be supportive by telling the OP that there are some real problems with that procedure.

That showed up in the wrong place- I should know better being the CM ;)

You could be right- I might have read it wrong. If I did read it wrong I apologize, Sundogcoyote.

Just out of curiosity, did you read reviews here before your procedure? Specifically the "not worth it" rated reviews? Part of why this site exists is for people to be able to find real information and personal experiences.

Jill, RS has grown a lot since I got my procedure. But what I did was do a search for the procedure and every search brought me to RS and I clicked on the links. I saw that some people said: not worth it, but more people said: worth it. And doctors were offering it (with 4 star ratings) and in the Q&A section, doctors were dismissive of people's problems, blaming the problems on them, saying they were probably not eating right or exercising. So I figured okay, I'll listen to my doctor and go ahead with it. However, my results are bad and have led to permanent contour issues (the exact opposite of what lipo is supposed to correct). I had one doc who advertises here on RS tell me that my results are great (!) and yet they are not; I've had other professionals admit they are not. And so I believe the message is not clearly presented. And because the bad outcomes are permanent and sometimes horrid (skin adherence is very painful), I think it's important to be supportive of people by offering this viewpoint so that people doing searches see that side of it.

No sadly I never saw this site till after :( Don't recall seeing it until my research after. I read lots and lots of reviews on cellulaze, but don't think if I saw this site it registered what it really was. That I could ask .. wish I had known about it.

It's hard because you see and read the opposing as well. Sucks. I'm not really a gambler...i don't like to take chances. I did with cellulaze because I figured it neither worked or it didn't. Idk why I wasn't seeing a bunch of negative about eyes before my surgery. I just saw the before and after of fresh looking bright eyes. Makes me sick now.

I had a revision eye specislist tell me straight up what was wrong with my eyes cuz the surgeon was a rug handed surgeon he jacked up my left ehe and how it's pulled away from the skull bone. In my terms so idk..I think some are honest, but of course they will protect their own. It's life n how it is

Thank you. Im still figuring it all out

Well I hope whoever you had for got a much better results I'm not liking the unnatural lines running under my arms. This surgeon obv didn't contour as im told is important and I got extremely black n blue. I mean purple and waa a lil scary cuz worried about blood clots as bad as it was. Now I see he just ripped front to back n didn't use a small enough cannula to really countour. I don't think there is any way to get my skin to go back up in the arm pit Area and stay there now. I wrapped most of the time for almost 7 weeks. Had to have it off tonight for most of the pm. Not sure it mattered much really. Apparently I'm told that area needs contoured and not just lipoed. I'll be looking into a lift.. maybe even breast lift so I can try to avoid a bigger scar under arms. Wasnt in my plan for many years to do that. I can't say for legal reasons at this point who it was. My higher issue is my eyes that are hollowin out more n more. I think I will be able to hold a pencil under the one by tomorrow am. :( I don't get it...i think he pulled a tendon or something n it's getting tighter as healing...idk I'm not a surgeon..but something is def wrong here. This was in Bmore area

Yea was just looking at then once again going wtf. Now I see why eyes are to go out to the orbital rim...so u don't have a gully u could lay a pencil in. Lol I almost feel like laughing at this eye surgery anymore.. who does this??! I work on a cam for work and it so unattractive the dark rings now under my eyes and how deep they are and the orbital bone all along the bottom showing now. Oh but not worries they say...it will get better with time..........orrrr it very well could get worse and sink in more as I have found. I don't usually look at ppl and see their eye bone under their skin. Lol. Maybe he was trying to make me into an alien..hmm perhaps

Oh so u weren't near bmore? How are u thinking it went so far and was smart lipo done with a smaller cannula? I just realized tonight o have a dent in the tissue on my one leg too that I could sit on half a tennis ball n not notice it. You can feel how it goes in. Guess that why seems I have a ledye above it ..idk .. thank god its not super visible