Made Cellulite WORSE! - Sarasota, FL
This is my first review on here, but I want to...
My doctor got this machine right as I was about to have lipo done on my thighs. I'm pretty lean, and only had a couple places that were particularly stubborn. He claimed his machine could zap fat, and the heating would tighten my skin and reduce cellulite.
Considering the lipo was twice the cost and so much more invasive, I thought I should give this a try. First, I should tell anyone considering this that it can be uncomfortable. I would use numbing cream at home and wrap my legs in saran wrap and leave it on right up until the treatment. This in itself is not pleasant, then, the treatment is like a rubber band snap. It's not bad the whole time, but some areas are more sensitive than others. The goal is also to get the skin as hot as possible for the tightening affect.
My primary concern for treatment was the fat at my inner knees, up my inner thighs and saddle bags. The cellulite was something I've wanted to work on forever, and it was on the back of my upper thighs and starting to show on the side of my thigh. It wasn't really bad, but visible and I figured it will only get worse, so be proactive. Btw, at the time, I was 36, 5'9" and ~130lbs.
Each treatment was probably 1.5 hours and I had 8 treatments. My doc wanted to play with his new machine, and I believe was going above and beyond what a regular practitioner would do (we were kind of friends). Perhaps he did it wrong? At the time, I felt more was better, so fine. I wanted to blast that fat and heat my skin as hot as we could get it!
Ultimately, there was absolutely NO FAT LOSS and my cellulite got WORSE! It did seem there was some tightening of my skin on my thighs, however. I wondered if the tightening also tightened the connective tissue that causes cellulite, which made it worse? Regardless, I'm out $3k and TONS of time at doc appointments and still want to get lipo and now something to reduce even more cellulite! The only silver lining is that I never got the lipo, so I still have the fat for possible transplant into my breasts to
replace my implants with.
I don't have before/after photos. We did a before in the office, but I never went back for an after.
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Community Managers here don't care about anything other than getting you to upload your photos and making a spectacle out of yourself for their own gain. I hope this is not the case, but we all know. Look at all the posts asking for your photo. CMs, people will upload when trey choose to. Stop exposing for your website's benefit!!!
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Thanks for sharing. I know you said you don't have before/after photos but would you consider posting some recent pics of your thighs/knees so we can get an idea of the cellulite? It is really helpful to anyone who is considering this treatment.