Manual Lymphatic drainage massage

[Philippe]

Has anyone tried lymphatic drainage massages on themselves for the swelling? And does it help the selling go down if done on a daily basis?

[Hidden]

Yes it helped with me. I used bio oil

[Philippe in reply to Hidden]

How did you do it? And when you stopped did it come back?

[Hidden in reply to Philippe]

I still do it sometimes before bed I’m currently 5 weeks post op, hbu? It isn’t come back but it also hasn’t disappeared all the way

[Philippe in reply to Hidden]

I am 4 weeks post op. I started trying it yesterday but it seems to be slowly coming back each time. But its only been one day so maybe it needs more time. Maybe a combination of drainage massage and icing and bio oil could be good.

[Michael123321]

For 2 weeks I made it just squeezing the edema. it worked fine but then it stopped to work. Yesterday I went to my doctor and he said that I have to do something more complicated. In particular what I am doing is:

"I put my hand all around the swelling and press it quite strong. After that, you should see that the swelling should be a bit deflated. At this time you concentrate to 1/3 or 1/2 of the swelling and with two or three fingers press it downwards while with the other hand try to lift upwords the skin that is under the swelling. Repeat this thing several times for every part of the swelling. If you see that while you are pressing in a point, another part of the swelling become bigger, you have to enlarge more the skin."

It seems that the edema is a little bit smaller but I started to do just yesterday so it could be just an impression or a case. I will let you know if it works if I remember to comment again here. In any case, I will surely update under my personal post...

[John12123 in reply to Michael123321]

Isn’t getting erections the same thing? Lol

[Michael123321 in reply to John12123]

What? With erection you don't enlarge the skin and pull the edema under it...

[Philippe in reply to Michael123321]

Did your Doctor suggest this technique? And could you please explain it better I don't get the 1/2 to 1/3 part?

[Michael123321 in reply to Philippe]

Yes, he made it to me and said that I have to do it myself. For 1/3 or 1/2 I mean that you don't have to try to put the whole swelling under the skin but concentrate on a part of it per time.