Will a Lower Body lift help with very heavy thighs?

My surgeon recomends I do a lbl (allll the way around) and says that will help with outer thighs and the Viser Lipo will take care of inner thighs. I am conserned as I pull up on my Love Handles that it will not reduce my thighs enough. Can anyone tell me if and how it has worked for them?

will you do lipo there too?  My LBL didnt do too much for my thighs at all, but my outter thighs were pretty ok overall

I am EXTREMELY bottom heavy and while it did help it didn't help to a HUGE degree.  What is it about your thighs that you think/want it to correct?

He will do Viser Lipo on my thighs but just wasnt sure that would take care of the extra skin. I suppose I should just trust he knows what hes doing but its hard to wrap my mind around it I guess. I have very heavy thighs with the extra skin and Im sure theres still quite a bit of fat that has settled there. In a size 16 jeans they are tight in the thighs. He stresses that I shouldnt be looking for perfection rather a HUGE improvement. Im not looking for perfection but I do want my thighs to be improved too.

I have posted a preop pic of the lower portion for the lift. I understand how it will get rid of the mid section as they are actually cutting off there but dont understand how pulling up the thighs will take care of that.

It will help some but you will likely still have heavy thighs. I had an LBL & then later a MTL and my thighs are still on the bigger side. Don't get me wrong, they are much better than what they were but I've just come to accept that I am destined to have bigger thighs. It's possible that maybe in a few year I might want to go in for some lipo on my thighs to see if that can help even more but not sure it's worth the additional money. Right now I'm going to try running and see if that will help slim down the thighs and calfs some more.

Sonya

I carried the majority of my weight in my butt and upper thighs so that's where the worst of my loose skin was. I had an LBL in April and I've noticed the most improvement in my tummy, then my outer thighs/hips and the least in my butt, though it is better than it was.

Before the LBL I had a roll of skin/fat/tissue on my upper, outer thigh that was kind of pointy (a lot like how your butt looks right now - hope I'm not offending). After the LBL the pointy area was rounded nicely. I still have larger thighs but the shape is better.

Ok, they aren't just cutting off skin from your belly, they are cutting it off all the way around. My PS took at least 9" off my back, tapering it down to proly 6-7" off my side and then 4" off my belly (I had already had a TT that was screwed up by another PS and he fixed it). They pull everything up - mons, hips, butt, and pull some down and anchor it to muscle facia (that tough semi-clear tissue that covers the muscle - I'm sure you've seen it on meats and chicken) and sometimes the bone.

My skin is very tight over the hip bones, I couldn't pinch it up if I tried. It's because it's now supporting the weight of my upper thighs. My lower thighs - between the knee and upper thigh, still have dimples and saggy skin and my inner thighs havne't improved at all, but he told me they wouldn't.

I would say that you will still have large thighs compared to the rest of you, but they will be more shapely and smaller than what you have now.

One thing you should ask, is he going to do the lipo as a separate surgery and let you heal before he does the LBL? I've seen that discussed here and I believe it's better to do it separately but maybe you should start another thread and ask others who have had lipo what they think.

Thank you so much for your posts! I find them very helpful and do not be affraid of offendig LOL I find it very informitive. I didnt realize about the anchoring aspect and the tention that could be on my hips. When this heals does it still cause pain there on your hips where you cant pinch it up?

No, it doesn't hurt, never did. It just feels funny because it's so tight.