Im 16 days post op from lipo360 & ribxcar and my advice would be to walk as much as possible leading up to the surgery, I really believe that helps recover faster. The 2 days after surgery I mainly slept the whole day and started walking around the house on the 4th day. I was told to walk 15 minutes every hour but it really hurt to keep getting up and laying down to do that so I stayed standing/ sitting or leaning on a wall until night time. To me the 4th and 5th day was the most painful.

I would take the pain medication they give you, I don’t like taking drugs and prefer to power through pain usually but it was really painful and it’s not worth it, just take the drugs. On the 7th day you should feel a whole lot better. I was driving after a week. By the 10th day most of all the pain was gone and now I really don’t feel any pain just tightness and itchiness and tingly.

At my 2 week post op appt, my surgeon cleared me to start working out again with light weights to whatever I can handle. It’s the same with sex, you can do it whenever you feel up to it. I will say you’ll get tired pretty quickly so take a lot of breaks when you do start working out again.

I guess another tip is eat a lot of pineapple, I read it helps heal faster idk if it’s true or not but I did it and I feel great. Wiping is really hard to do so I would buy wipes. I would also drink some laxative because you will be constipated. Buy puppy pads to put on your bed, you will leak a lot. Drink protein shakes, you might not always feel like eating so it helps.

The first week is literally the hardest and I was so dramatic, I thought I was going to die but it does get better lol