u/porefavora

Hi everyone,

I'm a 35F 1 month post-op chin liposuction, do my massages daily and wear the compression garment at night. I have two main concerns:

1. My skin along my jaw line does not seem taut or retracted yet, can anyone share their expected time frame on when this occurs? I know swelling is intermittent in this process but it looks like loose skin and I never had poor skin quality or tissue laxity before this. I know there have been several posts about this, but if you look closely many respondents are bots with 1 single comment paraphrasing another response and therefore it's hard to gauge the amount of people with similar experiences.
2. I have firm, spongy-like soft tissue swelling under my chin. It first showed up ~2 weeks post-op and it hasn't gotten away, and only intermittently "shrinks" after massage and compression overnight but becomes just as firm and large throughout the following 12 hours and seems like an endless cycle that hasn't improved. I'm worried this is early fibrosis or will turn into more permanent fibrosis. Has anyone had this issue, and how did you resolve it? Posts I've seen only list a few focal lumps and bumps that are easily massaged away.

Thank you!