Thanks. That does make sense. And it’s reassuring.
Well, for most of the day I’m working from home and could wear pretty much anything below the waist. I don’t own any support hose, but could try on a pair of pantyhose and see if it helps.
I don’t have anything to ask, but I’m rooting for you! I’m glad to see your pain is at least low enough that you can get back to working out. Seems like it might be as painful as lipo but a ton less risky.
I wonder how well this would work on my upper arms. I am reading about it. I am a very fat person who has actually muscular arms, but the bigness of my muscles is then made to look like utter ridiculousness couples with my arm flaps.
I guess I do have a question…how old are you? Do they expect someone at your age to have elastic enough skin for everything to tighten back up?
Only the first day was so bad that I don’t think I could have worked out. (Well, the first day after, I guess.) That was when I walked and my belly jiggled and each jiggle was really painful. Now it’s mostly just that I don’t want to wear my shorts because they are tight around the waist, and that’s going to hurt.
I’m about 60, and on hormone replacement therapy, which has been good for the elasticity of my skin. I am expecting my skin to be tight enough. I hope that’s not unrealistic. One of the reasons I went ahead with it is that I felt like my window for this sort of thing is not too long.
I get a lot of ads for this now and I’m a little confused by the marketing and FAQs.
To give some perspective, I’m a 40s man and I get a lot of the “dad bod” targeted marketing, but my “dad bod” is probably a little leaner and more muscular than most in my age range. Technically I am considered “overweight” by BMI, but no one I know irl considers me fat and people ask me if I “workout every day” and/or spend hours in the gym. I’m nowhere close to looking like a bodybuilder or “ripped.”
The marketing seems to say that a candidate should be already at their goal weight and this just kills off stubborn fat, yet most of the examples I see use obese patients. I’m genuinely intrigued if this is something I could use to sort of get an extra level of lean appearance once I’m in a little better shape (and the cost) or the ideal patient is really someone in the middle of the conflicting marketing materials (like not “fat” but not ideal weight either).
Well, about one month out. I still have a little neuropathy, which is annoying. But it’s a lot better than it was, and i expect it to have healed in time to tempt me to try another round.
I think there is a little less fat on my belly than there was. I can’t say the results are fabulous, but if the belly fat continues to reduce for another couple weeks, and the nerves heal, I’ll be happy to have done this.
Well, it may be mostly obese people who are annoyed by their bulges. It doesn’t reduce your weight, so in that sense, your should be at your goal weight. Not everyone’s goal is “slim”. If you basically like your body, but have a spot with more fat than you want, you might like the results. If you are just generally heavier than you want, and the weight is spread around, it’s probably not going to help you.
About three months out. The neuropathy has healed. Nothing has felt sore or swollen since the very start. But weirdly, the areas that were treated look slightly dark in the right light, as if they are still bruised internally. They are also visible as slightly sunken as compared to surrounding skin. Yes, there’s certainly less subcutaneous fat there. Annoyingly, it highlights my “love handles”, which aren’t large, but used to be totally inconspicuous, and now stand out compared to the lower adjacent belly flesh.
No problems with sagging skin, or anything like that. I’ve lost a couple of pounds (probably because I tried to eat less, especially right after the treatment) and i don’t thing the dudes are actually fatter, just more visible. But who knows.
I prepaid for a second treatment (refundable, discount for doing it, because people are more likely to follow through of it’s the “default”) and I’m debating what i want to do. I’m wondering if it would make sense to treat the love handles instead of a second treatment on the treated area. It just decide this is good enough.
My pants fit better, and I’m reasonably satisfied with having done this.
I had my follow-up, and looked at before and after photos. Oh yeah, that roll of fat that isn’t there any more used to be really uncomfortable in hot weather. I’m pretty happy with the results.
Apparently, “pigmentation” is a rare side effect. My guess is that just-barely-visible pigmentation, which is what i think i have, is more common than ugly obvious pigmentation. The doctor thinks what i see might just be a better view of my blood vessels, so we agreed that next time I’m staring at it, I’ll squeeze the flesh and see if the color goes away.
But even if it is pigmentation, that’s not inherently dangerous or anything, and no one seems to be able to see this bluish color except me, so it’s hardly a major cosmetic problem. And… other than me and doctors, no one looks at my belly under good lighting.
I’m not doing any more on the sides of the belly, because there’s not much far left there to remove, and removing it would make my shape even odder. But i am doing another round below the belly button. And after that’s done, I’ll talk with the doctor about the love handles.
I had the second belly treatment yesterday. This is what I expected it to be like the first time. Yeah, my belly feels sore and bruised, but I don’t have this overwhelming sense that I’ve been damaged that I had the first time. Maybe it’s because this was only one treatment, and not three.
Also, I took this advice:
And yeah, it’s a little uncomfortable in the heat, but it really holds everything in place. No pain from bouncing this time. I actually bought support panties (that go up to my boobs) from Spanx, so it’s just on my torso, no hose. Thanks so much for the tip. It helps a lot. Really, it’s just sore when I touch it this time.
I’m a little nervous that the “massage” wasn’t rough enough. But I guess I’ll find out how it goes.
Well, to my relief, everything tightened up nicely. No problems with baggy skin. I Guess the fat reduction isn’t really that extreme. But I was a little worried, and it worked great. And it’s nice not to have that roll of fat collecting sweat and getting rashy.
I got almost no additional reduction from the second round. But i realize I’m quite happy with the result, overall.
After nearly a year out, how do you look and feel?
About the same as a year ago. I just posted that last comment because I saw my thread had been linked.
It wasn’t an earth shattering change or anything. And the dermatologist who did it said that she was disappointed it hadn’t done more, but she didn’t think I would benefit from additional treatments. I’m sure you get more “bang” from liposuction. But I wasn’t willing to risk that (I’m still not) and despite the scare stories about people who end up with unsightly lumps of fat (kind of a fatty scar tissue) the risks of this procedure seem pretty low. If you are one of the very unlucky people who gets one of those lumps, you can either live with what seems to be a cosmetic problem worse that you started with, or you can get it surgically repaired. Which, you know, I might still not have been willing to do. But the odds are pretty good.
Hmmm…It’s tempting. I’ve been thinking about cool sculpture for a little while but don’t know anyone who has had it done so I can pick their brain. Thanks for your posts, they’re helping me to make up my mind.
Pretty good decision, mrAru at one time in the 2010s worked for the Snoopy insurance company in medical claims, and he said a couple things really stuck in his head - the first was women who had an addiction to wearing high heels and ultra pointy toes having serious foot issues tended to have to get their feet redone because they would go back to wearing the nasty shoes that got them the problem in the first place and the postoperative issues people had with plastic surgery. He had one lady that had her torso worked upon [suck the fat out of the stomach and inject it into her tits and then effectively draw a line around the waist and cut skin, then stitch everything back together, then one has to wear whole torso ‘spanx’ equivalent compression clothing because you have to hold the skin to the muscle so it reattaches itself] that didn’t wear the compression garment and the skin more or less shifted and it had to be peeled up and reset in place. Absolute yikes at even thinking about that!
Ewwww
Yeah, this is a much less risky option.