The beginning may sound a little familiar. You become an adult, get a job, get married, have children, next thing you know you start putting on a few pounds – every year. Before you know it you’re 45 lbs overweight. You think to yourself, how did this happen, I have to do something. That’s what happened to me. So I decided to research the best way for me to lose weight. After some research I decided on one of the diet plans where you get to eat 6 meals a day (because I really hate being hungry). You purchase pre-packaged food from them. The food was not very tasty, but I stuck it out for 4 months and lost 30 lbs. At that time I thought I really need to get off this for a while, I’ll come back to it later and lose the rest of the weight. But after I got off their prepared food, no matter how hard I tried, I started putting the weight back on. A year and a half later, and 15 pounds heavier, I decided to tackle the problem again. A few medical issues had crept into my life and I needed to be more serious about losing the weight and keeping it off. I realized this time going on a diet with prepacked special foods was useless, because as soon as I started eating real food again I would start putting the weight back on. I needed a lifelong solution. That’s when I found Chesapeake Weight Loss. I was convinced when I watched the Medical Weight Loss Seminar video on their website. It explained a lot about the program. You can go to their website and check it out yourself: http://www.chesapeakeweightloss.org/ I can’t say enough about the staff and program at Chesapeake Weight Loss. They have a Medical Weight Loss program that was perfect for me. Everyone who works there was non-judgmental, extremely helpful and understanding. The program teaches you how to eat real food and lose weight. No more expensive, bad tasting prepackaged foods. The program is presented in steps – you learn what you should be doing a little bit at a time, so it is not overwhelming. You keep making small changes and they add up to a big result. And it was all about finding the right solution for me. As an example, I don’t care for fish very much, never have. I was expecting them to say you have to eat a lot of fish, it’s part of the plan. Instead they pointed out the vitamins I was missing by not eating fish (so I take a supplement) and we worked with the items I like to eat. I liked that it was structured with steps to keep me moving forward, but flexible enough to adjust to my needs. I liked that they not only weighted me, they measured me often – seeing the results of my efforts in numbers was a real morale booster and kept me on track. Now that I have reached my goal weight I’m excited to explore Chesapeake Weight Loss Aesthetics. It sounds like body sculpting may be my next/final step in having the body I want. Stay tuned for my next story…
The Cynosure Icon platform uses “Max G “ IPL (intense pulsed light) and the 1540 true laser to treat brown spots, small red vessels and skin texture/wrinkles in one treatment session. The procedure is called “Three For Me,” referring to the three benefits. This procedure does involve some pain and downtime but topical anesthesia cream is very helpful.
Xeomin intramuscular injections into superficial facial muscles are safe on anti platelet medicine (like aspirin) because the needle holes are quite small and direct pressure can easily be applied to any bleeding. Please don’t stop your medication without discussion with the prescribing physician. To minimize bruising you can go to a facility that uses a special light or ultrasound to vein map and mark out your face ahead of the tox. You can also do a valsalva maneuver ( hold breath and use core muscles to push blood to face) while laying back to mark facial veins. You’ve been through a lot and need some self care like tox, so good for you for getting back to it!
The Emsella High Frequency Energy penetrates only a short distance into the body, so would not be expected to reach the jaw. Titanium is also minimally responsive to this type of energy. The manufacturer does recommend “no metal in the body” but many doctors would still use the Emsella “off label,” for you because of the above mitigating information. Of course, any pain should result in cessation of treatment.
Vanquish ME should not be used directly over skin grafts or significant scars, but perineal area surgery should be unaffected.
Obviously there are no studies of this exact situation, but the nature of the treatment modality should make interaction with a tiny bit of steel or titanium in the breast very unlikely.
