Ultrasound Assisted Liposuction Flanks and Breast - Nova Scotia, NS

It is an hour until my procedure, and I'm really nervous. I'm 25 yrs old, and have been thinking about doing this ever since I grew these hips. I have been very skinny in the past and still had this problem, and my mother and sister both have these hips too. It is pretty obviously a genetic thing. It makes pants, skirts, and dresses look revolting and this fat needs to go!

I'm getting flank lipo and a breast reduction lipo on the left side to make them more even. The breast lipo I am a little worried about, however I have been told that it should yield a good result.


I will try to post more after the surgery. Although my flanks look okay from the front, the back view is what I really want to change.

Today is day one after the surgery, which went really well. Since I had requested to be under local anesthesia only, I was a bit worried about pain. The doc performed ultrasound assisted liposuction, and so the pain was almost none (about as painful as someone pressing on your skin) although the ultrasound part was really strange. The machine makes a noise that sounds like nails on a chalkboard, which you can feel inside your jaw. Luckily that part only lasted a few minutes.

After I had been sewn up, I stood up and walked out of the OR, feeling shaky but otherwise totally fine. Before I put on the compression garment I got to see myself in the mirror, and aside from a bit of swelling, I could see that it looked awesome.

Night time was fine, I woke up three times or so and took the extra strength tylenol I had been told to take once every four hours. At 2 am I took the garment off for a brief time since it was kind of uncomfortable.

Today has been incredibly tiring. I went to class in the morning, and all of my energy was sapped within the hour. Fortunately I only had one class, so I came home and have been lying in bed ever since. The pain is mild on the tylenol, but the compression garment is causing me to have indigestion which exacerbates everything. My flank area feels much worse than my breast, but even my flanks just feel like really tender bruises, like I fell on the ice or something.

I will post more pictures once the swelling goes down more.

This pic is from about 15 hours after surgery, and you can already see the huge difference from the front and side. The backside is hard for me to take a picture of but you can see a bit of difference. The breast looks the same as pre-surgery due to swelling, so not much to see.