As you know if you’ve been reading my posts (sorry about not really keeping things up to date!), I’ve been having some serious back pain. This pain started showing up in spring 2015 and slowly seemed to get better through my liposuction procedures as the weight came off my body. Continue Reading
Lipedema Problems
Somebody Told Her She Has Lipedema and Now She’s Upset
Some stranger on Facebook told her she has lipedema, and it turns out that stranger was right. And now she’s upset because she was OK with how her legs looked. This is the last few paragraphs of the article: I’m sure she was trying to be helpful, to provide the Continue Reading
Getting Liposuction on My Stomach – A Complicated Issue
Way back when I did my consultation with my surgeon last year (fall 2015), he was very up front when it came to my stomach. It’s big, it contains a lot of fat, and it’s risky business. Apparently, he really doesn’t like doing liposuction on stomachs because there’s a much Continue Reading
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
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
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
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