screenshot is from her most recent TikTok where she's shopping for surgery supplies
My guess is the first surgery will happen, there will be major complications, and the rest get "delayed" indefinitely because of the risk.
It’s dark to think about, but there is a fair chance she won’t. Complications at her size are expected.
She was worried about being bed bound before the surgery. If Anna isn't moving around for long periods of time after surgery, how will she not prevent being bed bound.
Also, I assume they will make her wait 3-6 months in between the surgeries. They wait that long for patients who are healthy and need these surgeries, for someone who has a lot of "mysterious" co-morbidities like Anna, I can't imagine they would work on a faster time line.
I hope she's okay, this seems like trying to find another quick fix after her last one didn't pan out.
This surgeon's in Texas, right? IIRC, Dr Now from My 600lb Life works out of there because it's borderline impossible to sue for medical malpractice unless the surgeon fucks up egregiously, like they leave a scalpel in you or something. I feel like Anna's seeing this guy because no one in Cali (or any other state) would risk their license.
Surgeons actually in Los Angeles
Huh, that's interesting. I hope he has awesome liability insurance O.O
The surgeon is the bloke linked to total lipidema care on TikTok
I also have lipedema (although not nearly as bad), and have done extensive research on these procedures. Unfortunately, in the surgery groups on Facebook, I've read over a dozen women who had the lipedema fat surgeries some years ago and were later horrified to see their lipedema move to different areas of their bodies when they eventually reverted to the old high calorie, sugar, and carb habits again and gained weight back. Like their stomachs.
You can make things worse if you aren't fully committed to diet, no booze, and compression garments (the real kind).
Also, this: "Lipedema and obesity experts are finding that post-surgical growth of lipedema tissue can affect a staggering 30% of patients, so ultimately patients are more likely to have a recurrence of lipedema fat if treated prior to addressing their obesity."
This does not bode well for Anna. Unless she super surprisingly makes and maintains pretty big lifestyle changes.
I do not have lipedema but I was morbidly obese, lost 200lbs and had my excess skin and fat removed surgically.
What you’ve read about fat displacement after lipo is true. My surgeon told me once you remove fat cells from one area of your body, they do not grow there again and the fat accumulates elsewhere.
I think it’s really wrong of doctors to not explain this AND explain that lifestyle changes but be made and continued for life if anyone wants to successfully maintain their results.
What I can see is that there’s at least six months between rounds of surgery, but 2-4 weeks if they’re being really aggressive and with that they run the risk of problems every time they slice n dice
This can happen with liposuction of regular fat too. When people gain weight, fat bulges usually show up in other parts of the body.
Happened to my friend. She had lipo and a tummy tuck. Now any wright gain is in her butt and thighs.
I wonder what happens if someone has 360 lipo? lol.
She's going to struggle so much when she's in recovery. Her wounds won't heal quickly because of her poor diet and she'll need at least 2 people to help her get out of bed. I've got a feeling that this could well become very detrimental for her and the possibility of becoming bed bound is very real.
Not with that attitude I have it on good authority they have a fatapault to project her onto the crapper, getting her off is a whole other battle
This is only the beginning of surgeries she’ll have after choosing this route. I think she’s making a huge mistake that will require more and more surgeries over years.
Yupp it will require multiple surgeries.
Not only that. IF they remove as much as she insists they will ("my body cannot burn any of this fat remaining on my body") then she's going to be left will a tremendous amount of loose skin - more surgeries there. Then there's the breast life, tummy tuck, butt lift, etc. Those aren't for vanity - it's just so she can look somewhat 'normal'. And that's only if nothing else goes wrong during all of these complicated procedures.
Nah they generally do the loose skin op at the same time they do lipo, but you’re right assuming she makes the lifestyle changes necessary to recover effectively then they’re gonna have clean up surgeries
This is only when someone is having skin removal AND lipo. You can have lipo without skin removal and skin removal without lipo.
Yeah but Lipo particularly where they remove a lot of fat will create a lot of loose skin.
Probably not the way that you are imagining in your mind. Yes, there is a void where the fat was but it's not typically enough fat to warrant skin tightening.
For example, I have had my excess skin removed (no lipo) and a face lift, when fat transfer to my face and lips. In order to harvest the fat, the surgeon liposuctioned my knees and took WAY MORE fat than she needed to use, to give my legs a more tapered effect. She took a considerable amount and there is absolutely no loose skin on my knees.
My mother had lipo on her abdomen and back and doesn't really have any loose skin at all in those areas.
Probably not the way that you are imagining in your mind. Yes, there is a void where the fat was but it's not typically enough fat to warrant skin tightening.
For example, I have had my excess skin removed (no lipo) and a face lift, when fat transfer to my face and lips. In order to harvest the fat, the surgeon liposuctioned my knees and took WAY MORE fat than she needed to use, to give my legs a more tapered effect. She took a considerable amount and there is absolutely no loose skin on my knees.
My mother had lipo on her abdomen and back and doesn't really have any loose skin at all in those areas.
Probably not the way that you are imagining in your mind. Yes, there is a void where the fat was but it's not typically enough fat to warrant skin tightening.
For example, I have had my excess skin removed (no lipo) and a face lift, when fat transfer to my face and lips. In order to harvest the fat, the surgeon liposuctioned my knees and took WAY MORE fat than she needed to use, to give my legs a more tapered effect. She took a considerable amount and there is absolutely no loose skin on my knees.
My mother had lipo on her abdomen and back and doesn't really have any loose skin at all in those areas.
Probably not the way that you are imagining in your mind. Yes, there is a void where the fat was but it's not typically enough fat to warrant skin tightening.
For example, I have had my excess skin removed (no lipo) and a face lift, when fat transfer to my face and lips. In order to harvest the fat, the surgeon liposuctioned my knees and took WAY MORE fat than she needed to use, to give my legs a more tapered effect. She took a considerable amount and there is absolutely no loose skin on my knees.
My mother had lipo on her abdomen and back and doesn't really have any loose skin at all in those areas.
I can’t say it’s ever really something I’ve looked into with any rigidity like I would research a school assignment or something like that
That's fine.
Many people are misinformed about things like this because they don't need or having had first hand experience with the procedures themselves.
I actually have had cosmetic surgery before to remove moles cos I’m a pasty gweilou and the Australian sun is harsh plus my grandfather had three melanomas
I haven't heard her say anything about skin surgery being done at the same time, nor was there anything on the doctor's website about it. I would think doing that would be extremely dangerous due to extended time under anesthesia, as well as being too much of a shock to the patient. I also don't understand how they would do skin surgery when swelling from the lipo will have already begun.
Yeah I’m not an expert I’m not a doctoral thankfully I can’t handle blood and guts
I think you can only have 10 lbs of fat removed at one time, so the body doesn't go into shock.
So like just in Anna's legs, 4 surgeries isn't going to be enough.... and if she keeps gaining like she has in the last couple of months, she'll be out pacing the surgeons before her SponCon 4 surgeries are finished.
I realize her doc has some special procedure he's going to use, but for doctors who use tested procedures - would both legs be done at once? Seems like a lot to recover from - and you can hobble to the bathroom, etc if one leg is out of commission. A lot harder, especially at her weight, if both legs had the procedure.
If she had fully lost the weight and made the lifestyle changes, this would be 100% worth it, maybe with a different more qualified doctor though. But the amount they are removing she can regain in 2-4 months with her current lifestyle. I see no upside to this for her whatsoever. She might be on the path to disability.
exaaaaactly. she is always doing things out of order bc she will do literally anything to avoid addressing her overeating/drinking (and whatever emotional/addiction issues are behind that)
this will be just like the run lab arc: putting herself in all sorts of physical danger to chase a result that will vanish immediately bc she isn't working on the root problem.
So that’s at most 20 L of fat removed she has a lot more that she’s got left to lose.
This is all the same shit that Allison Jacobs had done in a brand partnership with this guy. She went back-and-forth to LA four times.
Is she counting each surgical procedure as a surgery, because it seems like they are doing a little bit on both legs at the same time. So its like 8 cuts, minimum.
I 'm glad she is getting help, but why not either get WL surgery, and try to lose like another "100" lbs before she starts getting liposuction. Its just going to look so odd when her legs are 20 lbs smaller but her stomach and arms are the same size. Plus she's been gaining pretty rapidly, she's just going to put all this weight back on if she doesn't address the actually issue first. Its like putting a bandaid on a bullet hole.
I just can't imagine putting yourself through all this and not at least trying inpatient help first, or WL surgery. They aren't going to just remove the lipedema they will remove health fat too.
It’s hard enough for a healthy person to rebound and recover from four surgeries. How in the world will she survive this?