Doc, Give Me Beautiful Legs! (Inner Knee Liposuction)

And feeling good! Wore patterned stockings to work today and the discoloration isn’t that noticeable through the pattern. You can see the most recent pics attached here.

Pain is mostly nonexistent. For whatever reason my left knee has been more swollen and bruised and more achey, and then I accidentally twisted on it when leaving my seat in a movie theater, so it’s lagging a little behind my right knee as far as recovery.

I’m still keeping my incisions covered by a bandaid (and antibiotic cream), mostly because I want to protect them from the friction of my clothing. The incisions themselves look pretty good though, although I notice now that I didn’t take any of the incisions themselves.

So I’m adding some pics from the last week or so. Still need to figure out how to edit previous posts, because it did some weird things with an emoji and other things are showing up wonky.

My pain level is pretty decent. The getting up from sitting/laying and the first several seconds after that hurt the most. Also not fun: walking on concrete. Even stepping lightly sends impacts up my legs and it’s like being kicked (medium-force) in the knees with every step. BUT, in general, I continue to feel a little better every day.

Interesting new development: yesterday I was having burning feelings, but not like on the surface, more like in the inner tissues. I assume it’s part of the healing process; I can’t remember if I had that last time. Today I’m feeling kinda itchy actually. The human body is so weird.

I should note that the faint reddish marks on the top side of my right thigh are completely unrelated to the procedure. About 4-6 prior to the surgery, I accidentally dumped boiling pasta water on myself.

And now RealSelf won’t let me add photos to the text update I posted earlier. Cool. So the photos attached to this post actually go with the post from earlier today.

A couple things I thought to add: I have been sleeping with my legs elevated on two pillows on both nights. I spent most of Wednesday and Thursday on the chaise lounge part of the couch, so my legs were straight out and either flat with my body or elevated on pillows sometimes. Today I used my standing desk at work so I stayed standing almost the entire day, because the up and down hurts. At the end of the day I noticed that my pain really wasn’t bad, but the swelling is. To be expected I guess; everything’s a trade off.