Flexitouch Pump and nausa

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Budsy
Budsy Member Posts: 10
edited June 2014 in Lymphedema

Hello ladies, thanks for all your encouraging words when I was so down the last time I posted (is that even a word).  I am doing better.  After fighting with my insurance for about a year and a half they finally approved my Flexitouch pump.  They will pay for 80% and I have to pay the other 20%.  I have had it for almost a week.  I do two one hour sessions a day (arm and trunk).  It takes me forever to get into the thing.  I always end up swearing and frustrated.  Even in the DVD the lady looks frustrated.  My husband helps me with the evening one.  My son is totally freaked out by it and won't come near me.  Good time for him to do his homework.  It seems to be helping, my measurements are a little less and my arm and hand feel lighter.  I can see my veins in my wrist again.  My problem is that I get very dizzy and nausea after a treatment.  I have been taking nausea medicine before each treatment.  I have talked to the nurses at the company who makes it and they have suggested only doing half a treatment at a time.  They also said it may be because the machine is pushing out all the toxins.  If that is the case then the nausea should lessen.  Has this happened to anyone?

Buds

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  • kira66715
    kira66715 Member Posts: 4,681
    edited March 2009

    Buds,

      I've never used a pump, but my LE therapist told me that when they go to re-certify at the Vodder school, all the therapists get lots of massages and some do get nauseated.

      I don't know the reason why.

      Do you have any positional vertigo? Some people get dizzy when their head is in certain positions. Also, I imagine there are all sorts of fluid shifts in your body with the pump.

      Hope it's just a process of getting used to it.

    Kira 

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  • Binney4
    Binney4 Member Posts: 8,609
    edited March 2009

    That's interesting, Kira -- the therapists get nauseated?! I don't know why either, but I'll go see if I can find out. I do know it's not uncommon with hands-on therapy either, but it usually improves over time. Odd, huh? I'll let you know if I find out anything, or hopefully someone will happen along with an explanation.

    Hugs!
    Binney

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  • BarbyAnn
    BarbyAnn Member Posts: 2
    edited March 2014


    When i was receiving LE treatments for trunkel lymphedema from a LANA therapist i needed to sit in the waiting area for about 30 minute before I felt well enough to drive home. Yes, I experienced nausea, light headedness, and abdominal cramping following each treatment. Now that I am only giving myself treatments with the Flexitouch pump I still experience similar symptoms. I don't know why or if there is anything I could do to avoid these feelings. Anyone out there have the answers? 

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