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 well and I couldn’t figure out what was different between the left and right thigh.
My Personal Trainer Hit the Nail on the Head – Tumescent Liposuction Muscle Matters
If you’ve ever been to a gym, you’ve probably seen people sitting or standing around weight rooms. When you lift heavy, rest in between sets becomes very important, so chances are they’re waiting a few minutes until their next set. My training is no different and out of my 60 minute training time I’m spending about 25 minutes resting.
So that leaves a lot of time for chitchat with my trainer and we discuss all sorts of things. At some point after my surgery I was talking about how the pain was still pretty intense and the bruises were a lot worse than the last surgery. My trainer asked if maybe the surgeon bruised the muscle.
Son of a bitch…he might be right! Between the left thigh and right thigh 2 things happened. Good weather developed in the Netherlands and I took that time to put some serious kilometers on my bicycle. Cycling builds your quads and hamstrings.
I also started building up my time and flights climbed on a stair mill (it’s literally a treadmill made out of stairs). I think I was up to about 15 flights in 5 minutes by the time surgery rolled around. Once again, stair climbing builds the hamstrings and glutes. So this means that the surgeon more than likely kept hitting my muscles.
At my post op check up with my surgeon, I asked if maybe him hitting my muscles was the reason everything was so much more painful…
Increased Muscle Growth is Probably the Reason Everything Hurts so Much More
When I asked him that question, he kind of got this look on his face and he said my trainer hit the nail on the head.
In a nutshell, when we get liposuction (anyone, not just those of us with lipedema), the surgeon is literally operating blind. As it stands, my surgeon fully admits he’s not used to working on women who have an intense fitness program that is meant to make gains (that’s lifter talk for putting on muscle mass). So when he did my right thigh, he wasn’t expecting such an increase in muscle growth and since I didn’t know that in tumescent liposuction muscle matters, I didn’t mention it to him that I had been doing A LOT of cycling and stair climbing as part of my fitness routine.
Oops.
Not Exercising is NOT an Excuse
Of course, now I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma. My next surgery will be my butt, and I do quite a bit of exercise that involves the glutes. I could avoid doing any exercise surrounding my glutes, but then that will just end up as an excuse.
So now 3 weeks post op, I’m ready for the stair climber, heavier straight leg deadlifts and possibly adding in some hip thrusts back into my routine. I guess my surgeon will just have to be a little more careful.
PetraAnn
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