Post LBL numbness in outer thighs and lower back--how long??

waitinggame
on 9/22/11 8:31 am - Bowie, MD

Okay, apparently it is my week to complain. I'm wondering if anyone else had this weird numb, but still painful business go on with their post LBL bodies. My outer thighs where they did lipo and my entire lower back along my incision and above to my waist are numb-ish. I also have this weird swelling at the small of my back above my crack. I'm hoping it is from the position I'm lying in the recliner I'm spending a lot of time in because it is looking very odd. Trying to reserve any judgements about my appearance for a good long little while.

Okay, I'm off to try to get my boobs where they belong.

Thanks!

Denise

Check out my blog--menumealplanning.com. Tales of making meal planning managable, family fodder, and everything else under the sun.

RNY 2/3/09, LBL/BL w/Augmentation 9/16/11
Start weight: 335 Current weight: 185 Goal weight: Whatever the hell I can maintain without driving myself insane!

*6.5 lost preop

ATHiker
on 9/22/11 11:09 am - North Shore, MA

RNY on 08/10/09

Denise,

I didn't have the full LBL, but my TT extends around to mid butt cheek on each side. The front of my left thigh is dead asleep, like belongs to another person asleep. Adding in the normal numbness from boobs to pubes, it's a little disconcerting!!

My PS said it would all regenerate eventually. It just feels really weird when I shave my legs!! And God knows I haven't mustered up the nerve to bring a razor anywhere near "the area". I'll be au naturel down there for a little while, I'm afraid.

As for the lower back swelling, fluid does pool in the most dependent place. Try to keep turning like a little rotisserie chicken and keep it all moving around. Seriously, I wake up every so often and flip and turn, DH is not amused. He says it feels like a whale flopping around beside him... well, excuse me and my sore, abused, plicated abdominal muscles!!

Now get into the bathroom and massage those breasts down from under your chin!!

Best wishes,
Kim

Forever cheerful in the face of rueful odds....

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waitinggame
on 9/22/11 1:06 pm - Bowie, MD

LMAO!!! You are cracking me up. Boobs to pubes--yup, that about covers it. Well, actually to mid thigh in my case. I'm with you on going au nautrel for a while--someone could seriously lose a lip! I guess it really is just a matter of time. Sucks!

And you are lucky you are in a bed--I can't imagine getting back in bed and out of this damn recliner.

Thanks for the info and the giggle!

Eat, sleep, massage, repeat!

Denise

Check out my blog--menumealplanning.com. Tales of making meal planning managable, family fodder, and everything else under the sun.

RNY 2/3/09, LBL/BL w/Augmentation 9/16/11
Start weight: 335 Current weight: 185 Goal weight: Whatever the hell I can maintain without driving myself insane!

*6.5 lost preop

J G.
on 9/23/11 2:59 am

DS on 06/23/08

OMG! You have to massage 'em down! I didn't know that. How difficult is that?

Okay, Jenny. Deep breaths....

pauliegirl69
on 9/23/11 12:56 am - NJ

DS on 10/15/07

yep normal....I still have some numbness and its been 2 years for my LBL....

laurak712
on 9/23/11 1:06 am - New Braunfels, TX

VSG on 01/12/09

I'm 1 year post op and still have some numbness and I also still have that swelling/lump right above my crack. Dr. LoMonaco said he's gonna have to lipo it out as it's trapped fluid and if it's not gone by now, it ain't ever gonna go. So I will be having my vestigial tail, as I like to call it, taken care of soon.

Laura

Height 5' 7

waitinggame
on 9/23/11 1:53 am - Bowie, MD

I will be very interested to see if the swelling improves at the crac****ep saying I'm like the guy on the movie Shallow Hal who had the vestigial tail--that is too funny you call it that!!!

Boy this plastic surgery stuff is FUN!!

Thanks for sharing!

Check out my blog--menumealplanning.com. Tales of making meal planning managable, family fodder, and everything else under the sun.

RNY 2/3/09, LBL/BL w/Augmentation 9/16/11
Start weight: 335 Current weight: 185 Goal weight: Whatever the hell I can maintain without driving myself insane!

*6.5 lost preop

Post LBL numbness in outer thighs and lower back--how long??

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