u/CicadaCarving

(4 weeks po, di, no nips, yes auxiliary lipo)

helloooo so to others who got the auxiliary liposuction your armpits as a plus sized person, do you feel like everything settled eventually pretty well? Ive got a decent amount of back fat which of course didn’t all the way get removed, so I can’t help feeling like there’s a bit of a weirdly sharp transition from where my shoulder blades are to my armpits where fat got removed. I ASSUME thisll settle out in the way that the consensus seems to be that you don’t know the true final look of ur results for up to a year, but I wanted to hear from other bigger folks who also had lipo and how that felt or looked after healing for a while

sorry this isn’t exactly a question like the title says but please share away

(DI, no nips, 3 weeks PO - live far enough away + healing on track enough that I didn’t have a 3 week follow-up, they just told me to take off the steri strips at home.)

Hey y’all, as you may know Dr Ramineni’s instructions say to go directly into scar care after the steri strips are off, and to me it sounded like they were saying to jump directly into scar tape. I also double checked w the surgeons assistant Dr Leemaster and she said to follow the instructions as per post op packet. That said, I feel like a lot of posts I see here on Reddit say that 3 weeks PO is much too early to start taping, so I’ve felt skittish about jumping right in.

If you were a patient of Dr Ramineni or someone who prescribed similar, what did you all do? If you followed the instructions directly and started taping right away, how did that turn out for you? In the meantime (last couple of days) since the strips came off I’ve been putting aquaphor on the incision sites and wearing a tank top under the compression, and padding with gauze where it’s sensitive.

edit: for reference, here’s all the instructions say regarding steri strips—

• Keep steri-strips on, allow to fall off on their own in 2 to 3 weeks. Oozing and some bleeding through the steri-strips can occur. You may pad the incisions with gauze for comfort.
• After steri-strips are removed, for optimal scar healing use silicone strips over incisions (you can order these from amazon or pick up at a local drug store). You can alternatively use vitamin-e lotion, tea tree oil, or cocoa butter.