Risks
Injection lipolysis is a non-invasive method and therefore much less risky than liposuction. Risks and side effects are relatively rare, but the treating physician should always inform his patients about it in peace. Frequent and sometimes even desirable side effects in the sense of an inflammatory reaction are redness, swelling or itching in the area of the injection site.
In some cases, the symptoms may be more severe than usual or persist for a longer period of time. If the needle accidentally hits a small vessel, bruising may occur. In rare cases, the patient may experience temporary circulatory problems and dizziness after the injection.
As with any operation, infections cannot be ruled out 100%, but are very rare in clean work. In rare cases, irregular dissolution of fatty tissue may also occur, but this is not to be expected from an experienced practitioner. Approximately 5% of patients do not respond to the active substance or only respond to it to a lesser extent, so that the effect may be weaker than hoped for or, in rare cases, may not occur at all.
Pain
The treatment itself is considered to be painless, as the injections are very thin and the procedure with an experienced practitioner usually takes less than an hour. Since each person is differently sensitive to pain, the treatment can also be carried out under local anaesthesia, however, a syringe of similar thickness or thickness is used to inject the local anaesthetic as for the injection of the active ingredient for lipolysis itself. The pain that occurs also depends on the location of the injection site, so the face is generally better supplied with nerves than, for example, the thighs or hips, so that treatment there can be somewhat more unpleasant.
In general, however, patients describe the pain as quite tolerable. After a few hours, however, painful swelling and reddening at the injection site often occurs. This inflammatory reaction is desired, but in some cases it can last for several days or weeks and is described by some patients as very unpleasant, depending on its severity.
