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Swelling and reading up on the science behind cs...
‘Programmed cell death’ is what CS use to reduce fat, so I read an interesting article about the science behind ‘programmed cell death’, thought I should share my thoughts here.
What I understand from the article is that there are 2 types of cell death: apoptosis and necrosis. And one of the major differences between the 2 is that necrosis will have inflammation while apoptosis have no inflammation. What this means is that when I experienced swelling or when other people had the delayed onset pain at 5-7 days, they had inflammation. So necrosis occurred instead of apoptosis, or some are necrosis? Which means those cells released the cytoplasmic contents instead of shrinking and engulfed by macrophages.
Link to article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117903/
My arms are still swollen:
Right arm:
Top: 34cm
Mid: 28cm
Near elbow: 24cm
Left arm:
Top: 32.5cm
Mid: 28cm
Near elbow: 24cm
What I understand from the article is that there are 2 types of cell death: apoptosis and necrosis. And one of the major differences between the 2 is that necrosis will have inflammation while apoptosis have no inflammation. What this means is that when I experienced swelling or when other people had the delayed onset pain at 5-7 days, they had inflammation. So necrosis occurred instead of apoptosis, or some are necrosis? Which means those cells released the cytoplasmic contents instead of shrinking and engulfed by macrophages.
Link to article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117903/
My arms are still swollen:
Right arm:
Top: 34cm
Mid: 28cm
Near elbow: 24cm
Left arm:
Top: 32.5cm
Mid: 28cm
Near elbow: 24cm
Day 5
There is a little bit of swelling, some pain when I press on the upper stomach and arms, but no pain for my back...
I read so many posts about delayed onset pain but so far not much pain!
I read so many posts about delayed onset pain but so far not much pain!
Measurements and pain level
Measurements update 1 day before cs
Right arm:
Top:33cm
Mid:28cm
Near elbow: 23cm
Left arm:
Top: 32cm
Mid 26cm
Near elbow: 23cm
Below rib (upper stomach): 72cm
Belly button waist: 74cm
Lower belly:76cm
Pain level:
Bra roll (back): 2/10 slightly uncomfortable, and got numb after 5 min, even the massage wasn't painful
Upper stomach: 5/10 painful for the first 5 min and got numb after and the massage was also painful
Arms: 8/10 it hurt really bad and did not got numb as before, the massage was really painful
Right arm:
Top:33cm
Mid:28cm
Near elbow: 23cm
Left arm:
Top: 32cm
Mid 26cm
Near elbow: 23cm
Below rib (upper stomach): 72cm
Belly button waist: 74cm
Lower belly:76cm
Pain level:
Bra roll (back): 2/10 slightly uncomfortable, and got numb after 5 min, even the massage wasn't painful
Upper stomach: 5/10 painful for the first 5 min and got numb after and the massage was also painful
Arms: 8/10 it hurt really bad and did not got numb as before, the massage was really painful
Provider Review
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Nurse Lazer body MDShe is very nice, gave me the ifi password, took pictures and measurements with tape. Then she lay me to bed, put on the gel pad, and had 2-3 tries with the suction cool advantage applicator making sure it's on correct. They only have 1 machine so it's 35 min each side.