You'll need to have some blood tests done and send the results to Hanse-Klinik around 10-14 days before your surgery.
I ended up being late sending my results as my first set of tests had some problems and I had to repeat them at the request of my GP surgery. The results were available to my GP within 2 days but it took me a few days to get the information because they wanted me to speak to someone about my one abnormal result.
You will either be able to get your GP to request these (the list is a fairly standard pre-operation set of blood tests) or have to find a private clinic such as BUPA, where I heard it can cost up to £200. If you have any care for your lipodema from a lymphodema nurse or consultant then they may be able to help you with getting the blood tests too.
Make sure you sort out how you are getting these around a month in advance, to ensure you get the results in time.
I was lucky that because I had recommendations to have surgery at Hanse from my NHS consultant, I was able to get these blood tests done via my GP surgery, but I did have to put in some extra work to get the actual results printed out so I could scan them back in to send to Hanse.
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