Manual lymphatic drainage

In part one, we talked about taking our time, preparing properly, and understanding the decisions involved when considering lipedema surgery.

In part two, we move into some practical side of recovery, talking about manual lymphatic drainage, talking about compression, self-management, preparing and budgeting for assistance while having our surgery, whether you're doing this away from home or domestically.

Um, it's a lot.

It's a lot, but Tanja brings both her professional experience working with lipedema patients in Germany and her own personal lived experience.

We're going to pause our conversation with Tanya here, but there is so much more practical information to come and the answer to Kerry's very important question in part two.

We will continue the conversation around recovery, manual lymphatic drainage, compression, self-management, and how best to support our bodies before and after lipoedema surgery.

Please make sure to follow along and we look forward to seeing you in part two.

Thank you for joining us

So you want to tell us a little bit more about it?

Yeah, basically over the summer, I started seeing a new MLD therapist who was a man.

And going into that situation, I was a little nervous just because I typically, anyone that I've ever gotten a massage from has been female.

So just a little nervous, but I thought he comes pretty highly recommended.

So that was the start of like a series of a lot of red flags, a lot of really uncomfortable moments, a lot of very unprofessional moments that went on for, I'm sorry to say, like at least 10 sessions.

Took me that long to finally call it.

So let's back up for just a second, just in case we have listeners that maybe they're new to Lipoedema and they're like, what in the world is MLD? Do you want to kind of explain what MLD is and how it is? Yes.

Kind of a vulnerable spot that you're in.

It's lymphatic drainage of your brain.

And also let's review lymphatic massage.

When you look at lymphatic massage, sometimes you have to be very, very careful because when individuals go to get a massage, they want somebody to dig in deep.

They're saying, doc, I want you to press in on that point.

Very, very tough.

Go in there and dig it out.

They'll tell me that they asked their lymphatic massage therapist to do that.

But I always tell them, you have to be very careful.