My 600lb Life is a TV series on TLC that follows a year in the life of a 500+ pound individual who will eventually receive weight loss surgery by Dr. Younan Nowzardan in Houston. I don’t know if it’s sad or not, but this show (and Fat Doctors from the Continue Reading
PetraAnn
PetraAnn was first diagnosed with Lipedema in fall 2015 after years of eating keto and exercising with no weight loss results. After diagnosis, she has gone through 8 tumescent liposuction procedures from 2016 until 2018 and on 17 December 2019 underwent an abdominoplasty to remove the remaining 3-4 liters of lippy fat and loose skin.
First liposuction treatment for lipedema – my calves
So my calves will be getting the first liposuction treatment on January 6th. I’m excited that this is finally happening and I’ll be able to reduce the size of my massive calves! In 2010, before I started lifting, my calves were around 19 inches. In the past 5 years, they’ve Continue Reading
Deciding to go the liposuction route for my lipedema
I haven’t had time to really write much in the past month, as my job has been very busy. However, at the end of November I had a consultation with the leading Lipedema liposuction surgeon in the Netherlands and he approved me for the treatment. In total, I’ll be having Continue Reading
Lipedema Diagnosis, MLD, and Health Insurances
So Monday, an envelope from my insurance company was laying in wait for me. Not surprising since I’ve recently started the manual lymph drainage massages and will be getting compression stockings in a few weeks as well. However, what I wasn’t really prepared for was what this letter said. In Continue Reading
Dr. Amron’s 3D Circumferential Multi-System Liposuction Treatment
If you’ve been diagnosed with Lipedema, you’re probably in the same place as I am. Your doctor is probably recommending lymph drain therapy and compression stockings but nobody is really talking about a way to get rid of the fat. I estimate that I’m probably carrying around about 40-50kg of Continue Reading
Substitute Doctor, Back Pain and Lipedema
Since around the first of this year (2015), back pain crept into my life for the first time. In the beginning, I had to stand quite awhile or walk quite a distance for the back pain to start up, but over the months the distance has gotten smaller and the Continue Reading
Manual Lymph Drainage Massage Therapy
When the dermatologist at the hospital diagnosed me with Lipoedema, she prescribed two things. Compression stockings to help press the fluid out of my legs, and manual lymph drainage massage therapy (MLD). So off I went to one of the local huid en oedeemtherapie clinics for an intake session. I Continue Reading
Cats, bruises, and Lipedema
A few days ago I was at my MLD (manual lymph drainage) treatment and the skin care therapist assigned to me noticed some odd bruising among all of the bruises on my right leg (it currently looks like a war zone). She asks me if I had cats? I said yes, Continue Reading
My shins hurt when I kneel on the ground
When you kneel on the ground, do you ever wonder why your shins hurt? Have you gone to Google and typed in “why do my shins hurt when I kneel?” only to find tons of information on shin splints? You’re not alone. I noticed my shins really hurting when I knelt Continue Reading
No Weight Loss in 3 Years
So from 2012 to current, I haven’t lost any weight. After I stopped working out with my personal trainer (would have loved to keep him on, but it just wasn’t in the finances since it cost about 1300 euro for 6 months) I had finally gotten my jogging distance up Continue Reading