Before you have surgery to lift your arms and legs, your health is checked. At the hospital, the necessary blood tests are done the day before the surgery. With the help of the anesthesiologist, it is decided if there is anything that could stop the surgery from happening.

On the day of surgery, you will meet with your plastic surgeon and he or she will draw where the surgery will be done. Before and after surgery, your arms and legs are photographed so that they can be compared. In this interview, the patient gets answers to the questions he or she wants to ask.

Arm and leg lifting surgery is done while the patient is asleep. During the surgery, the patient is asleep.

The job takes about four to five hours. If the patient’s arms and legs are going to be done, this time may change.

How the arm lift surgery will be done depends on how the patient’s arms look. If the sagging begins under the armpit and ends under the biceps, the length of the cut area may be shorter. If the sagging starts at the armpit and goes all the way to the elbow, the cut area has to be as long as the elbow.

During surgery, the amount of extra skin is measured and cut off. With an aesthetically pleasing suture, the arm is sewn up to the chosen spot.

Like arm lift surgery, leg lift surgery is based on how much the legs have sagged. It starts in the area of the groin. If the extra skin goes all the way to the knee, so does the size of the incision.

After lifting your arms and legs, a special corset will be brought to your room.

After surgery, it is normal to feel cold and shake. In about an hour, it will be over.

About 4 hours after the surgery, you will be able to eat and drink water. Once you have eaten, private nurses will help you walk. When you first get out of bed, you might feel dizzy or faint. You should try walking again after a short break. After arm and leg lifting surgery or any other surgery, it is important to walk to lower the risk of an embolism and get blood flowing normally again.

After surgery to lift your arms and legs, you should drink lots of water and eat well.

More after, dirty blood and edema fluids will be drained from your arms and legs through drains. Three days after surgery, these drains are taken out.

For surgery to lift your arms and legs, you only need to stay in the hospital for one night. Depending on what the doctor thinks, this time could go up to two days.