Many patients experience volume loss, sagging, or ptosis due to rapid weight loss, and this is especially prevalent with the rise in popularity of GLP-1 medications. Weight loss and changes in the butt are not new phenomena, but this has become more common with the rise of GLP medications such as semaglutide and tirzepatide.
The concept behind this is that when people lose weight rapidly, it can result in significant skin changes, especially in areas that tend to have a large volume of fatty tissue, the butt. While some people have a little bit more muscle tissue in their buttocks, the majority of people will lose a significant amount of buttocks volume, resulting in excess skin as a result of weight loss from GLP-1 medications.
While patients who have lost weight should feel great about their transformation, however, it is only natural to want your butt to look as good as the rest of your new body. This is where the treatment of butt has really evolved and become an issue in the aesthetic world, creating a phenomenon known as “Ozempic Butt.”
How do we treat an Ozempic Butt?
It really depends on the overall outcome. Everybody’s body responds a little bit differently to weight loss. This largely has to do with how much fat is in the butt itself, how much fat you use in a specific area during your weight loss journey, and, probably even more importantly, how the skin responds to that weight loss.
Without a doubt, the more weight that you lose, the more likely you are to have loose skin or a saggy butt, and the degree of volume loss and skin laxity is going to be the main determining factor as to whether you’re a good BBL or a butt lift candidate.
There is one other major question to answer when determining your eligibility to treat “Ozempic Butt”: Do you have any residual fat?
Weight loss programs or GLP medications can get you to a healthy spot, but they will not make you overly skinny. Many patients will get to a healthy weight and then turn to liposuction or body sculpting to achieve the finishing touches of shaping and sculpting their contour. When people get to a healthy weight, they can use any remaining residual fat to augment their buttocks to treat “Ozempic Butt.”
However, some patients don’t have any residual fat, or they have such a significant amount of skin laxity that minimally invasive treatments such as Renuvion, Quantum, Sofwave, or Evoke aren’t going to be enough to lift and tighten any excess skin.
It is important that the skin is tightened, lifted, and the buttocks have taken optimal form. So, when trying to decide what is the best treatment for your Ozempic Butt, it really depends on a couple of factors:
- How much weight did you lose?
- Do you have residual areas of fatty tissue that need to be liposculpted?
- How much skin laxity do you have in your buttocks?
So in summary, if patients have some residual areas of tissue, they have just mild to maybe moderate skin laxity, a butt lift with some skin tightening with Renuvion, Quantum, Sofwave, or Evoke is a great option for them.
And for patients who have lost significantly more weight, don’t have any residual areas of fatty tissue in their flanks, abdomen, arms that need lipo-sculpting, and have a lot of excess skin laxity, then a surgical butt lift is going to be a better option because we’re able to remove a significant amount of skin. This will ultimately lift the buttocks, remove that skin, and improve the overall shape of the butt to contour them. Once this is done, we can combine that with an auto-augmentation where we use that skin to give them a better shape to their overall butt.
In the end, there are multiple great options for treating “Ozempic Butt,” and our team at Austin Plastic Surgeon can help you determine which method for treating this condition is best suited to your unique situation.