Weight reduction influencer Lexi Reed has revealed that she is again within the hospital resulting from extreme abdomen and leg ache, two months after she suffered kidney failure and was put right into a medically-induced coma. 

The 31-year-old from Indiana, who shot to fame after documenting her 312-pound weight reduction, took to her Instagram Tales on Monday to share that she was being hospitalized once more. 

‘Not how I needed to spend my Monday,’ she captioned a picture of the hospital’s emergency room entrance. ‘Been in ache the final two weeks with my legs and abdomen & it’s not getting higher so right here we’re.’

Lexi’s husband, Danny Reed, was by her aspect when she vowed that she was ‘gonna get some solutions’ about her well being. 

‘Sadly, right here we go once more,’ she mentioned. ‘Mainly I’m having actually laborious knots in my abdomen which were getting worse. My legs are actually heavy they usually harm actually dangerous. And I’ve had a temperature of over 101 since Thursday that we’ve been making an attempt to maintain down with acetaminophen.’ 

She returned to Instagram Tales on Thursday to put up a snapshot of her husband in her hospital room, explaining she hoped to go dwelling this weekend.  

‘What the docs have instructed me to this point is that they imagine the painful knots/laborious spots on my legs/abdomen are calcium buildups that may be from the kidneys failing beforehand or dialysis therapies,’ she wrote. 

‘I’ll attempt to reply everybody’s questions on all these situations from this yr however I’ve been instructed many issues and I’m nonetheless studying too so please naked [sic] with me. 

Lexi added that she’s nonetheless not totally positive what’s unsuitable together with her or why she went into kidney failure within the first place.  

‘They checked for blood clots and it was unfavourable and [they] instructed me that my kidneys are nonetheless doing nicely,’ she defined. ‘I’m nonetheless looking for out what’s inflicting me not to have the ability to stroll by myself and even raise my leg however we’ve been making an attempt to determine every thing else too. 2022 has been a rollercoaster. Thanks for all of the prayers.’

The replace comes simply two weeks after Lexi celebrated being ‘formally off of dialysis’ — a remedy for kidney failure that removes waste and extra water from the blood — and being ‘port free.’  

‘Once I began my [dialysis] virtually two months in the past I used to be in full kidney failure to the purpose they have been saying I wanted a transplant in the event that they didn’t enhance,’ she wrote. ‘Nonetheless since my labs confirmed my kidneys have been really bettering the previous couple of instances my kidney physician put my [dialysis] on maintain and ran extra labs to ensure my kidney ranges stayed within the regular vary and instructed me it was time to cease the dialysis. 

‘Immediately I had my port eliminated and fortunately it harm much less to take away the port than carrying the port itself,’ she continued. ‘This has been an emotional expertise however I’m additionally so grateful for all this physique has completed for me regardless of the great and dangerous instances.’ 

‘I nonetheless have an extended option to go on this new a part of my journey with my well being, struggles, and even some unanswered questions however comfortable to nonetheless be entering into the suitable route after such a scare this yr,’ she concluded. ‘Thanks to everybody for all of the prayers and type phrases as a result of they’re serving to!’ 

Lexi was first admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) on January 20 and needed to be placed on a ventilator in a medically-induced coma resulting from unexplained kidney failure. 

Her husband, Danny, defined in an Instagram put up shared on her account on February 10 that she began getting severely sick and couldn’t preserve any meals down. 

‘She then began appearing in another way so I took her to the hospital the place they admitted her into ICU, positioned [her in] a medically induced [coma], [put her] on a ventilator, and [told] me that her organs began failing,’ he wrote.  

He recalled how docs instructed him she may not have made it if he had waited to take her to the hospital.  

Danny shared a photograph of her mendacity in a hospital mattress, related to tubes and wires, saying she was ‘at the moment [on] dialysis, can’t stroll, and dealing on restoration.’  

‘Thanks all to your prayers,’ he concluded his heartfelt put up. ‘All of them imply a lot to us and this will likely be an extended laborious battle a part of her story, however she is robust!’ 

Danny revealed on the time that they didn’t have medical insurance and have been contemplating organising a GoFundMe web page to cowl her medical bills. 

He additionally took to Instagram Tales to share a photograph and video of Lexi displaying the bruises on her arm. 

‘They mentioned if she waited one other day to take her, she might have died,’ he wrote, explaining that he was posting on her behalf as a result of she didn’t have her cellphone. 

‘Her getting again to well being has been our high precedence,’ he added. 

A number of days later, Lexi gave her followers an replace on her well being, saying she had lastly left the hospital to get well at dwelling after spending virtually a month within the ICU. 

‘I’m again dwelling and able to overcome the subsequent a part of this a part of my story. Glad to be alive when it wasn’t seeming to be not doable and I used to be unresponsive within the trauma room. Thanks to everybody for the love,’ she wrote on Instagram on February 12.

On the identical day, Danny shared a screenshot of her GoFundMe web page — titled ‘Help Lexi Reed in her Medical Bills‘ — on her Instagram. The purpose of the net fundraiser was $200,000, although it has since been modified to $100,000. 

A lot of individuals left feedback asking why an influencer with a big following would want monetary help, assuming she had a excessive ‘web value’ and will afford healthcare, Insider reported. The feedback on the put up have been ultimately disabled. 

‘Individuals appear to suppose I’m some form of millionaire simply because the web says so, however we’re removed from that,’ Lexi instructed the outlet, insisting they’re not wealthy as a result of she has over one million followers. 

The web site AllFamousBirthday has estimated that her web value is $1.5 million, however she claimed that quantity is inaccurate.  

‘Individuals on the web are studying that I’ve every kind of cash, which is insane to me, as a result of I clearly don’t,’ she mentioned. ‘Our home isn’t even paid off and we solely drive one automobile so I’m not fairly positive why individuals are so fast to imagine something as of late.’

Lexi’s Instagram feed is a mixture of gymnasium selfies, motivational quotes, and before-and-after photographs of herself. She claimed she not often takes model offers, which is how influencers earn a living.  

In keeping with Insider, solely considered one of her posts from the previous yr gave the impression to be a paid sponsorship with a model. 

Indiana doesn’t have a state regulation requiring residents to have medical insurance, and whereas Lexi admitted to the outlet that she might need been in a position to afford it, she didn’t suppose she wanted it. 

She mentioned that previous to her hospitalization, she hadn’t been recognized with a situation and infrequently went to the physician. 

Lexi, who was in a wheelchair and present process dialysis three days every week on the time, instructed Insider that she and her husband have been counting on their financial savings as a result of she couldn’t work, saying their family revenue dropped following her hospitalization. 

The couple has obtained greater than $70,000 to go in direction of her medical payments. 

She added that docs nonetheless didn’t know what induced her organ failure, however they didn’t suppose it was associated to her weight reduction. Speedy weight reduction and weight acquire can each contribute to kidney failure, in accordance to the Journal of Renal Diet.

Lexi and Danny discovered on-line fame in 2016 after their weight reduction story went viral. 

The couple, who mentioned ‘I do’ in 2015, weighed a mixed 765 kilos and gorged on a complete of 8,000 energy a day earlier than making a New 12 months’s decision to reduce weight. 

They traded quick meals for home-cooked meals and began going to the gymnasium 5 to 6 instances every week. In two years, Lexi went from 485 kilos to 173 kilos, whereas Danny dropped 95 kilos from his 208-pound body.  

‘We didn’t have a meal plan, surgical procedure, private coach, however what we did have was one another and the motivation inside to work laborious each single day,’ she wrote in an inspiring Instagram put up in 2017. 

Lexi famous that they’d no concept that six months into their decision they might turn into a ‘utterly completely different couple.’

‘We might have misplaced the burden however we’ve grown nearer collectively. Pound by pound, step-by-step, day-to-day — we’ve remodeled our lives and molded our our bodies into the individuals we’ve at all times needed to be,’ she shared.

Lexi ended the put up with a tribute to her husband, explaining that Danny has at all times liked and supported her it doesn’t matter what her weight.

In 2018, she underwent a nine-hour surgical procedure to take away seven kilos of extra pores and skin from her physique with the intention of getting extra eliminated sooner or later.  

For the previous eight years, Lexi has been chronicling the ups and downs of her weight reduction journey on her Instagram web page, which has been a supply of inspiration for hundreds of thousands. 

In September, she shared side-by-side photographs of herself at her heaviest and now, explaining she gained again a few of the weight she had misplaced in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.  

‘I’m nonetheless comfortable to be alive after fearing I’d miss 30 and I’ll by no means return to the place I used to be,’ she wrote. ‘Begin right this moment!’

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