Arm liposuction: upper arm + forearm + side chest
The surgery cost was expensive, just as rumored. People say I look slim on the outside, but when they see my upper arms, my body type is more like, “You have more fat there than expected.” When I raise my arms, the upper-arm fat sags (seems worse with age), and confidently walking around in sleeveless tops has been my lifelong wish, so I decided to do it.
1. You consult with the counseling manager. They show many surgical cases and explain the effects, etc. Before that, they measure InBody. 2. You go into the director’s office. The director looks at your condition and says what areas need to be added. (A characteristic of this hospital seems to be that the director has a line they draw, and they add the areas needed to achieve that line.) 3. Side chest was added to the basic upper arm package (scapular area + accessory breast). The forearm was an individual choice, but.. I figured if I was going through the trouble anyway, I should add it, so I did.
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Maybe I thought liposuction would be easy, but the surgical process is painful and also makes you feel shame(?). (You have to be completely naked) They take a lot of photos too, (that was one reason I wanted a female doctor..) They slather red antiseptic all over the whole body, and that was the biggest shock of my life.. (Somehow felt like I had become an animal.) All kinds of aftereffects after general anesthesia: dizziness, vomiting, (though it varies by person), etc... wow... it took easily more than 2 weeks to recover.
The line is already visible from the first day. I had less bruising than I expected. You just endure the recovery period by looking at the line.. This place is apparently known for making quite a few holes, but because I had doubts about whether the line would come out pretty with fewer holes, I compromised on that. I’m still only 1 month post-op, so of course there are surgical scars. -------
I thought I would probably be stressed about my upper-arm fat sagging as I got older, and hoping it would improve through exercise was impossible due to mental stamina + physical strength + real-life issues, etc. So I had the surgery, but even though I braced myself, once it became reality, it was definitely one of the most painful moments.
The process of my body recovering was no joke either. They say that among liposuction areas, after the face, the next least painful surgery is the arms, but then what on earth are the other areas like... We use our arms more than we think in daily life. The inconvenience is not ordinary. As my body recovered, I experienced all kinds of different pains(?): pain like being cut with a knife, itchiness like bugs crawling, a bruised feeling like I had been beaten, and so on. I think I endured that for about 1 month. ---------
After 1 month passed, I started to feel like it became somewhat livable. When I wake up, it’s still hard because of the hard lumps + the knife-cutting pain, but it has improved enough that it doesn’t interfere with daily life, and from this point, it feels like the swelling is going down better too.
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Since it’s not an ordinary surgery, I do think choosing the hospital well is important. As I got on the operating table, I felt deeply that this is a major surgery among major surgeries. It was like I felt grateful that I came back alive.
After that, maybe humans are creatures of forgetfulness.. Seeing myself pleased while looking at my thinner arms, honestly.. hahahaha
In my case, if I were told to do it again, I couldn’t, but I did it because I didn’t know, and it’s true that after doing it, my satisfaction is high.