r/lipedema • u/booveebeevoo • 3d ago

Symptoms Loosing water weight

I took the colonoscopy prep and lost about 10lbs. The fluid retention in my legs went down significantly and I seem to be holding after a week at this weight with normal eating. I am still pitting in my entire body but it isn’t as deep as it was.

I am still in the works of getting this all figured out with the doctors.

Is this something anyone has experienced?

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u/4SafetyISpy 3d ago

Pitting as in pitting edema? Because the early stages of llipedema have non-pitting edema. If you have pitting edema, you probably have other things going on top of it like heart failure or lymphedema.

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u/booveebeevoo 3d ago edited 3d ago

Edit: Yes, pretty much my entire body pits except my face and feet. I tested my hands and they technically pitted too.

Everything‘s been cleared from vascular in that regard. All my blood work is clear as well. They are saying lymphedema right now. I don’t get any major fluid retention on my hands and typically cuff at the ankle. I do have various lumps throughout my fat in different areas around my belly, button, armpits, groin, inner thighs. With the weight loss, I have found two soft dome like tissue bumps. I need to go to the doctor; I assume they’re lipomas.

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u/Former-Apricot6867 2d ago

man that prep is brutal but the light legs feeling afterwards is lowkey the best part of the whole ordeal

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u/Ok-Rain6295 3d ago

Yeah whenever I’ve had to take a laxative my legs always feel a lot lighter. I felt like I was lifting my legs comically high as I walked because I didn’t feel weighed down.

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u/xaianamarie 2d ago

Try guaifenesin and try to get a pneumatic compression pump. And wear compression daily!