It's not my fault!!!!!!!!!
I started my lymph-edema treatment today, and my therapist is a real witch!!!! (exchange the W with a B) All she kept talking about was for me to exorcise and lose weight and my lymph-edema is due to my weight!!!!
I have gained about 110 lbs since last November, and it certainly is NOT what I am eating. I have digestive problems so I eat mostly soft foods like low fat yogurt, peanut butter and banana sandwiches and Slim Fast. Lately, I have even gained 14 lbs in one week! My primary care doc said it is most definitely due to my lymph-edema swelling out of control. My lymph specialist said it is from what I am eating and not exercising.
She said my weight is crushing my lymphatic system and that is why I have lymph-edema! I lost 120 lbs and had a panniculectomy. Last year, I looked so darn good! Then I started getting migraine headaches and was tried on a couple of meds. The one that worked was Amitriptaline. Problem is, weight gain is a side effect. I cannot take anymore meds for it because I am allergic to most pain meds and others interfere with my blood thinning med. When I lost all that weight, I was thinner all over, except for my legs. I saw my doctor and that was when I was diagnosed with Lymph-edema.
I now have lymph in both of my legs which makes it very uncomfortable to walk, and then started getting it in my arms. My lymph specialist insists that it is not only lymph edema, but fat too, and the fat is making my lymph worse. She keeps brow-beating me that it I need to lose weight, I should have kept losing weight and not stop at 283. (that was my lowest weight in a while. I was over 400 and got sick which is why I lost 120 lbs) She even told me that what happened to me,(getting sick and losing weight) was a good thing! Uh excuse me????!!!!! No one should stay sick just because they are losing weight as a result! I missed out on Christmas dinner, Thanksgiving, social gatherings. etc. And she has the gall to say that was a GOOD thing!!!!
Plus, she is only going to wrap one leg at a time! So, now I am going to walk around with a thinner leg and a huge one!!! Unfortunately, I have to stick with this @#!$itch because I am on a really long waiting list anywhere else, and I almost can't fit into clothes anymore due to my lymph.
Sorry for the long post. I am so angry to tears!!!
It is not my fault! Lymph-edema is not my fault!!!!!!
I have gained about 110 lbs since last November, and it certainly is NOT what I am eating. I have digestive problems so I eat mostly soft foods like low fat yogurt, peanut butter and banana sandwiches and Slim Fast. Lately, I have even gained 14 lbs in one week! My primary care doc said it is most definitely due to my lymph-edema swelling out of control. My lymph specialist said it is from what I am eating and not exercising.
She said my weight is crushing my lymphatic system and that is why I have lymph-edema! I lost 120 lbs and had a panniculectomy. Last year, I looked so darn good! Then I started getting migraine headaches and was tried on a couple of meds. The one that worked was Amitriptaline. Problem is, weight gain is a side effect. I cannot take anymore meds for it because I am allergic to most pain meds and others interfere with my blood thinning med. When I lost all that weight, I was thinner all over, except for my legs. I saw my doctor and that was when I was diagnosed with Lymph-edema.
I now have lymph in both of my legs which makes it very uncomfortable to walk, and then started getting it in my arms. My lymph specialist insists that it is not only lymph edema, but fat too, and the fat is making my lymph worse. She keeps brow-beating me that it I need to lose weight, I should have kept losing weight and not stop at 283. (that was my lowest weight in a while. I was over 400 and got sick which is why I lost 120 lbs) She even told me that what happened to me,(getting sick and losing weight) was a good thing! Uh excuse me????!!!!! No one should stay sick just because they are losing weight as a result! I missed out on Christmas dinner, Thanksgiving, social gatherings. etc. And she has the gall to say that was a GOOD thing!!!!
Plus, she is only going to wrap one leg at a time! So, now I am going to walk around with a thinner leg and a huge one!!! Unfortunately, I have to stick with this @#!$itch because I am on a really long waiting list anywhere else, and I almost can't fit into clothes anymore due to my lymph.
Sorry for the long post. I am so angry to tears!!!
It is not my fault! Lymph-edema is not my fault!!!!!!
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? I say, what difference does it make--I paid for a full glass,so either way I am getting jipped!!!
Please be sure to stay on those other waiting list...she sounds like a nightmare and just doesn't get it at all!!!! Ask her why if it's just the weight then why do sumo wrestlers have NORMAL legs????
I have Lipedema and Lymphedema. I also have a passion for Obesity and Health Insurance Advocacy.
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Very good point! I have also seen many people who were very heavy lose weight, and they never got lymphedema. So, if my weight is the reason, why doesn't every obese person develop it?
By the way, when you started your lymph treatment, did they wrap one leg to begin with or both? This wench of a woman I am forced to see said she didn't want to over-work my kidneys or my heart by wraping both legs at once.
And I am definately staying on the other waiting list, and I'm going to tell my primary care doc whom refered me to her. This woman is very cruel and definately unprofessional!
By the way, when you started your lymph treatment, did they wrap one leg to begin with or both? This wench of a woman I am forced to see said she didn't want to over-work my kidneys or my heart by wraping both legs at once.
And I am definately staying on the other waiting list, and I'm going to tell my primary care doc whom refered me to her. This woman is very cruel and definately unprofessional!
Do you see the glass as half empty or half full? I say, what difference does it make--I paid for a full glass,so either way I am getting jipped!!!
Both.
Up to the knees.
I was put in the hospital for a "pump" down with a compression pump...hospital just to monitor to make sure my heart wasn't overwhelmed. Maybe find a vascular surgeon to see for the LE and find a therapist they work with...someone a little more cue'd into all this....
Up to the knees.
I was put in the hospital for a "pump" down with a compression pump...hospital just to monitor to make sure my heart wasn't overwhelmed. Maybe find a vascular surgeon to see for the LE and find a therapist they work with...someone a little more cue'd into all this....
I have Lipedema and Lymphedema. I also have a passion for Obesity and Health Insurance Advocacy.
Blog: born2lbfat.com Facebook: Born2lbFat Twitter: @born2lbfat
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