Denver Liposuction Surgery

Everyone has some degree of pain after any surgery. Most patients describe the discomfort after liposuction as being stiffness and soreness. The amount and the way you deal with it are very individual. In any case, you will receive medication to control the pain.

Drs. Grossman and Capraro encourage their patients to be physically active as soon after surgery as is practical. This is particularly true of liposuction. You will be wearing various elastic garments and girdles for 3-6 weeks. These both control the amount of post-operative swelling and help to shape the new contours. You will be able to change these daily (or more often, if necessary).
Most people recover sufficiently to return to work in about 1 week or less. You will be encouraged to get back to normal physical activities and exercise immediately.  Your new shape should be a motivator to resume or begin a regimen of exercise, shaping, and toning. (refer to Exercise Program After Body Surgery.)

Suture removal is generally not required.

The sutures are usually all buried, absorbable ones and the incisions are covered with a waterproof dressing so that you can shower immediately. No baths please until full healing has occurred and bruising and swelling have resolved. The small scars will take months to soften and decolorize from red-to-pink-to-white. However, the results of the liposuction will be evident immediately and will improve over several weeks. Still, where the fat has been removed, the tissues will be firm and even somewhat swollen for weeks to months. Our staff will instruct you in the appropriate method of massaging these areas to speed the softening.

Initially, there will be enough swelling and fluid retention that you might temporarily weigh more than where you started. It’s important to keep track of your weight over the first few weeks after surgery both to gauge that the fluid dissipates and to be sure that you don’t allow yourself to gain weight while recovering by being too sedentary.