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injected 0.07 mL x 7 (~0.5 mL) into each of my nasolabial folds. extremely swollen right now (it looks to have already peaked but hasn't decreased much). been almost 36 hours

1) when will swelling go away?
2) is two weeks post-op reasonable to look noticeably leaner in that area?
3) is drinking a lot of water the only way to reduce swelling? would cardio help?

my folds aren't bad, but my goal was to smoothen out the transition from my philtrum to zygos and get the full 360 zygo visibility from the front, which is only obscured because very slightly excessive malar fat/folds

i've also done aqualyx before just submentally and didn't get nearly as much swelling, but as soon as i injected my folds they became swollen within a few minutes

@Sayori pls thoughts? and will doing 0.1 mL x 8 (each side) just below my zygomatic arches (top portion of buccal fat pad) be too much in terms of swelling? that's an area i wouldn't mind overdissolving slightly since its an easy side profile ascension but i feel like the swelling would last a week. thx
 
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injected 0.07 mL x 7 (~0.5 mL) into each of my nasolabial folds. extremely swollen right now (it looks to have already peaked but hasn't decreased much). been almost 36 hours

1) when will swelling go away?
2) is two weeks post-op reasonable to look noticeably leaner in that area?
3) is drinking a lot of water the only way to reduce swelling? would cardio help?

my folds aren't bad, but my goal was to smoothen out the transition from my philtrum to zygos and get the full 360 zygo visibility from the front, which is only obscured because very slightly excessive malar fat/folds

i've also done aqualyx before just submentally and didn't get nearly as much swelling, but as soon as i injected my folds they became swollen within a few minutes

@Sayori pls thoughts? and will doing 0.1 mL x 8 (each side) just below my zygomatic arches (top portion of buccal fat pad) be too much in terms of swelling? that's an area i wouldn't mind overdissolving slightly since its an easy side profile ascension but i feel like the swelling would last a week. thx
3 to 5 days for major bloat to go away

Aqualyx is designed to release slowly so it will take a total of 4 to 6 weeks to fully go away but yes, each day you will be leaner
 
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3 days-2 weeks, depends on how your body response to it
 
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try ice your face drink shit loads of water, also do lots of cardio to drain the broken down fats out from the lymphatic system
 
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try ice your face drink shit loads of water, also do lots of cardio to drain the broken down fats out from the lymphatic system

this worked very well when i did UC, different treatments but still same concepts, my swelling was gone the next day, if you plan on doing Aqualyx might i suggest just getting a UC machine or atleast invest in a pump to reduce the swelling and help drain the broken down fats
 
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3 to 5 days for major bloat to go away

Aqualyx is designed to release slowly so it will take a total of 4 to 6 weeks to fully go away but yes, each day you will be leaner
im going to be out of aqualyx in a few days once i decide what to use the rest on so i might have to switch brands if i buy more dissolver

are there quick releasing fat dissolvers?

Where did you get it?
some UK facial aesthetics site idr but its semi hard to find online for a reasonable price or not sold in bulk

try ice your face drink shit loads of water, also do lots of cardio to drain the broken down fats out from the lymphatic system
this worked very well when i did UC, different treatments but still same concepts, my swelling was gone the next day, if you plan on doing Aqualyx might i suggest just getting a UC machine or atleast invest in a pump to reduce the swelling and help drain the broken down fats
did u try cardio? i always do it but have skipped the gym for these past 2 days bc ive been too embarrassed to go (mostly cuz of the folds but i did lots of injections into my face that day so everywhere is swollen).

can u do UC submentally or no because of the mandible? my plan is submentally and on nose tip, and im worried about my nose being swollen the next day. and did you do cardio the day of after UC or just icing and water? heard its a low swelling procedure but it just burns. for me even when i tried bipolar RF for my cheek fat i only had very mild swelling for 2-3 days (pretty sure it was only noticeable to me) with no protocol except water ig though no results i dont think.
 
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im going to be out of aqualyx in a few days once i decide what to use the rest on so i might have to switch brands if i buy more dissolver

are there quick releasing fat dissolvers?


some UK facial aesthetics site idr but its semi hard to find online for a reasonable price or not sold in bulk



did u try cardio? i always do it but have skipped the gym for these past 2 days bc ive been too embarrassed to go (mostly cuz of the folds but i did lots of injections into my face that day so everywhere is swollen).

can u do UC submentally or no because of the mandible? my plan is submentally and on nose tip, and im worried about my nose being swollen the next day. and did you do cardio the day of after UC or just icing and water? heard its a low swelling procedure but it just burns. for me even when i tried bipolar RF for my cheek fat i only had very mild swelling for 2-3 days (pretty sure it was only noticeable to me) with no protocol except water ig though no results i dont think.
Lipo vela the fat dissolver I recommended, is fast releasing

Lipo lab as well
 
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Lipo vela the fat dissolver I recommended, is fast releasing

Lipo lab as well
Thx. Fast releasing = less/shorter swelling too right? But u would also need more bc im guessing they would need to have lower acid concentrations compared to aqualyx since they r fast releasing?
 
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did u try cardio? i always do it but have skipped the gym for these past 2 days bc ive been too embarrassed to go (mostly cuz of the folds but i did lots of injections into my face that day so everywhere is swollen).
i found this worked the best for me it legit speeds up the drainage process, but cardio works well to which i have tired
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can u do UC submentally or no because of the mandible? my plan is submentally and on nose tip, and im worried about my nose being swollen the next day. and did you do cardio the day of after UC or just icing and water? heard its a low swelling procedure but it just burns. for me even when i tried bipolar RF for my cheek fat i only had very mild swelling for 2-3 days (pretty sure it was only noticeable to me) with no protocol except water ig though no results i dont think.
i would only use UC on cheeks as it gets pretty tricky around bones and could lead to injury, but personally i feel aqualux is kinda a waste and the risks outweigh the rewards, and RF is more so for skin texture im not sure why you got swelling
 
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Thx. Fast releasing = less/shorter swelling too right? But u would also need more bc im guessing they would need to have lower acid concentrations compared to aqualyx since they r fast releasing?
They can have the same, but yes, they usually have less in a vial because fast releasing = more loosish skin

Lipo vela has other shit in there that helps ur skin stay nice and tight

Also, its good because you don't have to wait like a month and a half for results, all you have to do is do a couple extra sessions

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You can use one lipo vela vial for 5 sessions
 
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im going to be out of aqualyx in a few days once i decide what to use the rest on so i might have to switch brands if i buy more dissolver

are there quick releasing fat dissolvers?


some UK facial aesthetics site idr but its semi hard to find online for a reasonable price or not sold in bulk



did u try cardio? i always do it but have skipped the gym for these past 2 days bc ive been too embarrassed to go (mostly cuz of the folds but i did lots of injections into my face that day so everywhere is swollen).

can u do UC submentally or no because of the mandible? my plan is submentally and on nose tip, and im worried about my nose being swollen the next day. and did you do cardio the day of after UC or just icing and water? heard its a low swelling procedure but it just burns. for me even when i tried bipolar RF for my cheek fat i only had very mild swelling for 2-3 days (pretty sure it was only noticeable to me) with no protocol except water ig though no results i dont think.
oh cool lmk how the nasal tip injections work. I would def do that
 
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oh cool lmk how the nasal tip injections work. I would def do that
Not injections but UC. I tried injecting already didn’t do shit and it’s a tricky injection


They can have the same, but yes, they usually have less in a vial because fast releasing = more loosish skin

Lipo vela has other shit in there that helps ur skin stay nice and tight

Also, its good because you don't have to wait like a month and a half for results, all you have to do is do a couple extra sessions

NOte:
You can use one lipo vela vial for 5 sessions
Ty for the detailed response man
i found this worked the best for me it legit speeds up the drainage process, but cardio works well to which i have tired
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i would only use UC on cheeks as it gets pretty tricky around bones and could lead to injury, but personally i feel aqualux is kinda a waste and the risks outweigh the rewards, and RF is more so for skin texture im not sure why you got swelling
Thanks for writing all this out bro
 
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Not injections but UC. I tried injecting already didn’t do shit and it’s a tricky injection



Ty for the detailed response man

Thanks for writing all this out bro
I got a better respond here

Lil thread I made on why uc is so ass:
 
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update 1 (for my own logs and for future readers) (48 hours post, injected sunday):

drank 4 L of water yesterday, going to do 1 hr of cardio in a bit (first time since injecting), i would say i'm 30% less swollen than i was yesterday but its still noticeable. it's funny because i still have hollow cheeks and solid jawline angularity from the front (even with aqualyx swelling) but because my malar region is extremely bloated i look like ive gained 10 lbs. maybe this is the proof i needed that having a less bloated/leaner midface is the final step to maximizing your facial angularity i mean its the bare minimum to having defined looking zygos especially from the front.

anyway i expect the swelling to be 90% gone by friday, maybe thursday depending on how much the cardio actually helps.
 
injected 0.07 mL x 7 (~0.5 mL) into each of my nasolabial folds. extremely swollen right now (it looks to have already peaked but hasn't decreased much). been almost 36 hours

1) when will swelling go away?
2) is two weeks post-op reasonable to look noticeably leaner in that area?
3) is drinking a lot of water the only way to reduce swelling? would cardio help?

my folds aren't bad, but my goal was to smoothen out the transition from my philtrum to zygos and get the full 360 zygo visibility from the front, which is only obscured because very slightly excessive malar fat/folds

i've also done aqualyx before just submentally and didn't get nearly as much swelling, but as soon as i injected my folds they became swollen within a few minutes

@Sayori pls thoughts? and will doing 0.1 mL x 8 (each side) just below my zygomatic arches (top portion of buccal fat pad) be too much in terms of swelling? that's an area i wouldn't mind overdissolving slightly since its an easy side profile ascension but i feel like the swelling would last a week. thx
you injected yourself with pure fat cells. it never will go away
 
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injected 0.07 mL x 7 (~0.5 mL) into each of my nasolabial folds. extremely swollen right now (it looks to have already peaked but hasn't decreased much). been almost 36 hours

1) when will swelling go away?
2) is two weeks post-op reasonable to look noticeably leaner in that area?
3) is drinking a lot of water the only way to reduce swelling? would cardio help?

my folds aren't bad, but my goal was to smoothen out the transition from my philtrum to zygos and get the full 360 zygo visibility from the front, which is only obscured because very slightly excessive malar fat/folds

i've also done aqualyx before just submentally and didn't get nearly as much swelling, but as soon as i injected my folds they became swollen within a few minutes

@Sayori pls thoughts? and will doing 0.1 mL x 8 (each side) just below my zygomatic arches (top portion of buccal fat pad) be too much in terms of swelling? that's an area i wouldn't mind overdissolving slightly since its an easy side profile ascension but i feel like the swelling would last a week. thx
Took around 4.5 weeks for me
 
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@Sayori

two questions since i feel like like these things might be prolonging my swelling:

1. should i pause/lower my dose of diuretics (eplerenone)?
2. should i pause HGH (recently upped my dose to 4 IUs from 3 IUs and have a bit more water retention. didn't notice until i looked at the scale and thought all the puffiness was just swelling)?

and if i ended up accidentally injecting into a muscle and not the fat could the swelling take longer to go away? its weird because my entire malar fat pads are swollen even though i only injected part of them. does this just mean it spread to my entire fat pad? i wouldn't mind this because i guess the entire thing is raised a bit tho i centered my injects along the vertical peak of the fold but im just curious

i also forgot to mention that literally within minutes after pinning the area got swollen thats why im thinking i mightve gone too deep unless this is normal?
 
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@Sayori

two questions since i feel like like these things might be prolonging my swelling:

1. should i pause/lower my dose of diuretics (eplerenone)?
2. should i pause HGH (recently upped my dose to 4 IUs from 3 IUs and have a bit more water retention. didn't notice until i looked at the scale and thought all the puffiness was just swelling)?

and if i ended up accidentally injecting into a muscle and not the fat could the swelling take longer to go away? its weird because my entire malar fat pads are swollen even though i only injected part of them. does this just mean it spread to my entire fat pad? i wouldn't mind this because i guess the entire thing is raised a bit tho i centered my injects along the vertical peak of the fold but im just curious

i also forgot to mention that literally within minutes after pinning the area got swollen thats why im thinking i mightve gone too deep unless this is normal?
Nga why the fuck are u using diuretics that slows the healing and makes the aqualyx slightlyless effective:Cryge:

Wait 3 days, pm me if the swelling isnt gone
 
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Nga why the fuck are u using diuretics that slows the healing and makes the aqualyx slightlyless effective:Cryge:

Wait 3 days, pm me if the swelling isnt gone
because ive always been on them because im on cycle not for aqualyx

okay ill wait 3 days, but should i pause or lower GH or does it not matter? i feel like carrying that excess water bc of GH makes it harder/slower to flush out the fat debris
 
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because ive always been on them because im on cycle not for aqualyx

okay ill wait 3 days, but should i pause or lower GH or does it not matter? i feel like carrying that excess water bc of GH makes it harder/slower to flush out the fat debris
Its fine just hop of the eperenone( forgot how to spell it ) for now
 
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update 2 (again for my own logs and for future readers. 72 hours, post):

swelling is looking better than yesterday (probably 20% better) but still swollen (30-40% better since day 1). feel hard lumps where i injected, so i guess its hardened and now just needs to be expelled, if that's even how it works. minor slightly yellow bruise (same spot where i bled a lot) on one side i dont mind ive had my both of my entire cheeks bruised from my subcision attempts before, just hoping it goes away before i see my gf next week so i dont have to explain my autism (she still believes im NT more or less). usually does within a week.

another note: did subcision + skin booster injections the night before, though not near on my malar region just on the rest of my cheeks. that also might be making the swelling worse worse overall since i (accidentally) injected 3 mL of polynucleotide (wanted to only 2 mL but wasnt paying attention, though i usually do 2.5 mL so abt the same ig) across 40 different pricks. the skin is also looking quite a bit smoother as i probably went from 8-10 minor pits (all very shallow) when i stretched my skin to 2-4 now (product is 90% absorbed by now so not residual volume), which i will probably finish off this weekend once i heal. ive done this treatment multiple times in the past on these scars but i didnt get the hang of subcision until this round so these are probably my best results 4 days post-op. ofc because i cut scar tissue that might make them look better temporarily bc of the additional swelling though i have high hopes for this round

expectations: now that the aqualyx/fat cels have actually hardened and the swelling is starting to go down i think i'll be mostly normal by friday or saturday. maybe not completely normal until monday because of the sheer amount of pins/volume i injected of shit that weekend
 
update 3 (96 hours post):

a lot less swollen compared to yesterday. around 70-80% fully healed compared to day 1 (and only 30-40% compared to yesterday). i expect to only look slightly puffy tomorrow and a full resolution by saturday. a 4-6 day timeline is about my average for 100% external recovery for facial injections, so fairly expected. cardio may help hard to say but drinking 4 L water daily is important.

now i regret not doing my zygo arches in the same session since i already had to live these past 4 days swollen as shit. maybe its better to wait until i cut down a bit more because i already have the ridge its just that the line is not prominent at all, but i doubt i'll even see results that increase my rating more than 0.1/10 for this session where im actually improving a very minor flaw vs improving a halo i would already have more or less when im a bit leaner (so maybe +0.05/10). i'll probably just save the remaining amount just pin the remaining 1.5 mL during summer if i even need to

anyways enough rambling. i probably wont update again unless i get stuck with minor swelling or some shit for more than a few days, probably will note the results on here if i remember (but doubt i'll have any promising updates even if i do get botched since the results online of people injecting whole or half vials are pretty dogshit but they're all fat as shit so the dissolver can only reduce so much)
 
update 4 (9 days post):

swelling is mostly gone everywhere (like 90-93%). i have a little swelling left on both sides, mostly on my left because i guess there has always been slightly more fat there.

in terms of results, despite the minor swelling, the right side now feels (yes feels, that way i can definitively tell) like it has more or less no ridge along the fold border (it was already barely there before now i can barely feel it despite the minor swelling). left has a bit more swelling so there is a slight ridge i would say it feels about the same as pre op on that side (despite the swelling). sad that residual swelling could take 2 weeks to fully go away, but i dont mind the results seem decent. i expect them to be maybe 50% less raised after i debloat from GH (and see my 1 month cutting result as well) and the swelling goes away, so basically invisible.

good results for jawline actually looks sharp (less saggy) from the front now but need another treatment for my entire submental (was only treating the top of the area before) + hyoid training if its not cope so i can further improve my submental-cervical angle and have ideal visibility regardless of my head position.

people are going to say this is cope that im seeing any results this quick but its like im injecting multiples of what others inject per fat cell. like obviously if you inject a relatively high dose on little fat cells, you are going to get a higher percentage of your total adipocytes getting destroyed, but even then by magnitude its a relatively small amount compared to someone who is obese or not lean, so it won't take nearly as long to drain them out.

amounts injected: 0.07 mL x 7 points (~0.5 mL) per fold (~1 mL total), 2 mL total split evenly around jawline from gonion to gonion
 
im going to be out of aqualyx in a few days once i decide what to use the rest on so i might have to switch brands if i buy more dissolver

are there quick releasing fat dissolvers?


some UK facial aesthetics site idr but its semi hard to find online for a reasonable price or not sold in bulk



did u try cardio? i always do it but have skipped the gym for these past 2 days bc ive been too embarrassed to go (mostly cuz of the folds but i did lots of injections into my face that day so everywhere is swollen).

can u do UC submentally or no because of the mandible? my plan is submentally and on nose tip, and im worried about my nose being swollen the next day. and did you do cardio the day of after UC or just icing and water? heard its a low swelling procedure but it just burns. for me even when i tried bipolar RF for my cheek fat i only had very mild swelling for 2-3 days (pretty sure it was only noticeable to me) with no protocol except water ig though no results i dont think.
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