While some patients may see results as early as 3 weeks after their first treatment, the most dramatic results are usually seen between 1 and 3 months following treatment. CoolSculpting works very well. There is no down time and results we see are great. The photos show real results for our patients.Thankfully the freezing was still in the area where the cuts to remove the 2 fatty lumps were and now where the stitches were made, so that I could rest on my back. I awoke a few hours later only to realize that my right arm did NOT “go to sleep” for the first time in a long time.
More then once I have heard that CoolSculpting does not work. Obviously, I am convinced that it works very well. 1 non surgical fat reducing procedure. As recommended in Prevention Magazine in March, patients seeking CoolSculpting should be evaluated in the office of a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon; unfortunately, many patients are not properly evaluated and then do not receive appropriate treatment. It then becomes a waste of money and is disappointing- patients need to seek appropriate help. Like any procedure or treatment in Plastic Surgery, patients have to be appropriate candidates. CoolSculpting only affects fat.
You should be given time to decide and NOT be pressured into setting up an appointment for your first treatment … ESPECIALLY not five minutes after a 15 minute consultation with a non-medical professional. If you ARE pressured in any way … RUN! That clinic is not concerned about you and your issues.
It started growing sometime back in the 90s and didn’t seem to be affecting me so I ignored it. The smaller fatty lump that appeared on my shoulder, by 2015, I could clearly see that it had veins that appeared to be feeding it. When the second lump started to form, it was after five long hours of housework; I suffered for three very painful days, having to strap my right arm to my body.
However, the freezing was starting to come out and the stitches were starting to ache a bit with the slightest movement of my right arm. In case you didn’t know or had forgotten, I have admitted being a ‘wuss’ before when it comes to pain, needles and stitches. Look at the money I could have saved myself if I’d have gone this ‘route’ back in 2015 instead of paying for a procedure that I now doubt even works at all.
Coolsculpting professes to be a safe procedure that “delivers precisely controlled cooling to gently and effectively target the fat cells under the skin”. Those treated stubborn fat cells are said to be crystallized or frozen making them die. Then, over time the human body’s natural process simply removes the dead fat cells and you’re said to be sculpted. 350 per lump, and that I would need to come in for a consultation to be certain. 813.60 for this procedure to be done on both lumps.
Now I see there is a mini portable fat freezing machine being made available for sale so you can use it at home and you can do the coolsculpting procedure yourself. Personally, I would recommend that you save yourself a LOT of wasted money, grief and time. If you truly need to lose the fat around your stomach and/or love handles there are easier, less costly and healthier methods to do that then coolsculpting can offer you. Please, do your own researching into this procedure before paying the ridiculous prices being asked by the salons/clinics out there offering this procedure. If you found this post to be helpful, I do hope you share it with your friends. Feel free to leave a comment.
The procedure I am referring to was called a Venus Legacy (coolsculpting), and in the end could apparently only be done on one of the lumps … the one that was between my shoulder blade and my right underarm. This procedure was done by a person claiming to be registered nurse at Pickering Physio, in Pickering, Ontario.
