The Glojour Journal
Guides and news about aesthetic treatments and treatment abroad, in plain words.
For most people, stopping isn't required, but telling your doctors is. Under guidance published in 2024 by five medical societies, people at low risk can keep taking their GLP-1 medicine before planned surgery, and your surgeon and anaesthetist make the final call with you.
Oct 29, 20263 min read
recoveryA surgical scar takes 12 to 18 months or longer to mature, and the NHS says fading can take up to 2 years or more: most scars end up paler and flatter, but none disappears completely.
how-glojour-worksTake your full health history and your own questions to a first consultation. On Glojour, a consultation request is a written first message to one verified doctor: it is not a booking, and the form says it is not a medical appointment.
mythsAbout 1 kg: in one surgeon's series of 301 procedures, mostly in people who were not obese, the average weight loss after lower body liposuction was 2.2 lb, measured three months or more after surgery. Liposuction is not a weight-loss treatment; it takes fat from chosen areas to change their shape.
recoveryTwo to eight weeks after surgery the transplanted hairs fall out, which is normal; new hair usually starts to appear after about four months, and the NHS puts the full result at 10 to 18 months.
mythsClascoterone is a scalp solution that grew significantly more hair than a placebo solution in two trials with 1,465 men, but it is not approved for hair loss yet: the company plans to file with the FDA in early 2027.
guideUnder-eye filler's harm is usually short-lived: in four FDA trials 40% to 71% of people bruised and 42% to 85% had swelling, mostly gone within one to two weeks, while the serious harm, filler entering a blood vessel, is rare but can permanently damage sight.
recoveryAbout two thirds of the swelling goes down in the first month and 95% by six months, one small study found, but the tip takes longest and surgeons place the final result at about a year.
questionsAsk who will operate and how you can check them, what exactly they plan for your nose and why, what can go wrong and what happens then, and who looks after you once you are home.
articlesAesthetic medicine may not begin in a clinic — it begins in mirrors and photographs. A reflection on beauty, identity, and the human urge to change.
recoveryIllustrativeSwelling and bruising are expected. The week-three slump is not — and almost everyone gets it.
guideIllustrativeA good consultation starts with good questions. Nine things to get clear on before you decide.