For years I’ve been eating a keto diet, but since I’ve started my liposuction this year, I’ve fallen off the band wagon. I’ve just gotten so bloody tired of tracking, weighing, measuring, writing down and recording every gram of food that goes into my mouth that I wanted to eat normally 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.
Lipedema Isn’t Cosmetic and My Ankle is Proof
A lot of people (*cough* insurance companies) seem to think that lipedema is cosmetic. It isn’t, it causes real pain and real problems with your body. Today I went to pick up my roller blades from the podiatrist’s office since I commissioned her to make a custom pair of inlays Continue Reading
Tumescent Liposuction Muscle Matters
Did you know that in tumescent liposuction muscle matters? That’s right, muscles MATTER. I found out the hard way. If you’ve been following my right thigh liposuction journey, you’ll have read that this surgery was much more painful than the left. There was a lot more post op pain as Continue Reading
Day 5 After Right Thigh Liposuction
Day 5 after right thigh liposuction once again has been the WORST day for pain. I woke up Monday morning HURTING and my right thigh had finally decided to swell up some. Not as big as the left thigh was on day 5, but much more painful. Second Manual Lymph Continue Reading
Right Thigh Liposuction Day 2 Post Surgery
Today is the right thigh liposuction day 2 post surgery. Really, things haven’t gotten any easier pain wise. I really don’t know what’s different, maybe the heat and humidity (and lack of air conditioning in the Netherlands) has something to do with it? Heat makes the blood vessels expand and that Continue Reading
Right Thigh Lipedema Liposuction Day 1 Post Op
Yesterday I had my right thigh lipedema liposuction done with a whopping 7 liters sucked out. You can read more about that here. Honestly, aside from the pain when I had to get up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night (pain from moving) I slept Continue Reading
Liposuction for Lipedema on Right Thigh
The following post is personal, very personal about liposuction on my right thigh. Not only am I sharing what it is like to go through tumescent liposuction for lipedema, but I’m sharing the pain, my body, and my experience as there is very little current experiences from women going through Continue Reading
Compression Stocking Problems – Left Thigh Stocking is Too Big!
Note: The stocking in the photo is the cheap thrombosis stocking given by my surgeon post op. It is not the day time garment I had been wearing. Well, it’s been a little over a month now since the liposuction on my left thigh has been done. There’s still swelling in Continue Reading
Left Thigh Liposuction: Days 10-21 Post Op
While both my surgeon and myself are a little disappointed that my left thigh swelled up back to its normal size during week 1 post op, there are little changes happening that shows that recovery really is happening. Instead of making a post for every day, I’m going to detail Continue Reading
Left Thigh Liposuction – 1 Week Post Op
Yesterday, my husband drove me down to Tilburg for a 1 week post op check up on my left thigh. This is the miserable thing about where I live in the Netherlands vs. where my surgeon is located. It really doesn’t matter if I do the post op follow-up in Continue Reading