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Revision Surgery Tomorrow! 8 months post op!

Lexigirl, my therapist and all that I have read about lymphatic massage say that is a light rhythmic massage with circular strokes and some pumping techniques. Light strokes circular toward the heart and down toward your lymph nodes in your thighs. It. Shouldn't be painful or with
Much pressure at all. I'd find a different therapist and try it out!

Try the lymph drainage massage to help release the toxins and get things moving. I think they really do help. Maybe a 3 day cleanse?? I'm baffled if sodium is low and drinking water! If nothing else works, time and patience. I'm sorry you are having to deal with it but it really does get better!

Hey teachfish, it seems you have a ton of swelling. I would take a look at your diet and cut out sodium almost completely. You really have to watch all foods unless they are fresh meats and produce. I had a low sodium can of soup and couldn't believe the sodium in it so I didn't buy it. I would also up your water intake. If you aren't drinking a gallon of water per day then fill one up and start tracking it and make sure you drink the entire thing. Stay away from caffeine as much as possible, drink some green tea and eat natural foods that are known to be diuretics. If you are feeling up to it, try a lymphatic drainage massage of your abdomen also. I have had 2 so far and they really do help. A lymphatic massage is a very light massage, so there is no real pressure and it really breaks things up and gets it moving. Keep your chin up though, things get better and better as time goes by even though it doesn't seem like it now! I'm almost 12 weeks post op and loving it now, but at 3 weeks I was hating life!

The overhead exercises are bad because your core is engaged doing those exercises as well as the bench exercises. Lying down and getting up repeatedly is like doing a sit up or crunch! Nothing wring with doing them on an incline bench just not a flat bench!

I went back to the gym a little past 3 weeks post op and it felt wonderful!! Just start out slow with low weights, keep to circuit machines with seats that have backs on them to keep your core from being engaged and listen to your body. If it hurts, pulls, etc too much then scale it back. No overhead exercises like lat pulldowns or shoulder presses, and definitely no lying down on bench exercises! I'm 11 weeks post op now and have been working out since week 4 post op and with my trainer since week 6.