How can I make my calves smaller?

Have you gone for the muscle reduction surgery yet? I just joined this forum after someone recommended on reddit. I want to do lipo and calf reduction ( through severing the nerve).
Due to pandemic all my plans is changed. Hoping that everything will end soon so i can decide again if i will do or not with dr park
 
Due to pandemic all my plans is changed. Hoping that everything will end soon so i can decide again if i will do or not with dr park
Thanks for your quick response! I need to thoroughly go through this forum so I dont ask ppl repetitive questions. I’ve made up my mind to do it this year. Im sick to death of my Greek calves. I used to have gorgeous legs but I find the muscle is getting bigger and the fat is getting more Greek ( which means straight to the ankles lol) I also have a lot of spider veins snd water retention so I need to address this first. I’m in Australia.... I’m hoping to find someone that also wants to go to Korea to get something done so I’m not alone.
‘Una Faccia, Una Razza’ as they say
 
Thanks for your quick response! I need to thoroughly go through this forum so I dont ask ppl repetitive questions. I’ve made up my mind to do it this year. Im sick to death of my Greek calves. I used to have gorgeous legs but I find the muscle is getting bigger and the fat is getting more Greek ( which means straight to the ankles lol) I also have a lot of spider veins snd water retention so I need to address this first. I’m in Australia.... I’m hoping to find someone that also wants to go to Korea to get something done so I’m not alone.
‘Una Faccia, Una Razza’ as they say
Are you italian right, we’ll see how it’ll change everything due to pandemic because its not easy to travel in asia now
 
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Hi everyone, thank you for sharing your journeys!! Does anyone know if massaging calves every day could possibly help decrease muscle size a little bit? I might start and see. I just wouldn’t want the opposite to happen.

of course I would love to do the surgery but I’m not mentally or financially ready for that.

I just hope I can find small things I can do daily that may help reduce calves size. Or any new beauty aid devices for calf reduction?
 
I actually logged onto here after wanting this surgery myself for a very long time. So I went to my doctor and talked about the issue, and then got to an orthopedic specialist and here's what I've found out so far.
1. nearly all the symptoms everyone is describing here are similar to heart failure. In fact this type of surgery is not as 'safe' as everyone claims. When you stand up straight, blood goes to your legs. Your calves are part of making the blood go back up to your heart. This happens because of a few factors, one being the muscle itself. So when you cut that muscle away, you're pushing your heart towards heart failure. Thats why you need to keep your legs higher (the blood isn't going back to your heart by the muscle) and that's why you compress after surgery.
2. There are barely scientific articles about it!!! In fact, most articles are written by the handful of surgeons who perform these surgeries and almost none make it to big journals - with reason! The side effects aren't described nearly enough. Varicose veins are rarely mentioned, nerve damage, depression of a muscle, regeneration of muscle,...
3. A lack of following up the patients, so no data is available on how this surgery holds up long-term. There's barely data about side effects, long term complications and we also don't know how this can affect other conditions.

I know first hand that having big calves is uncomfortable. I don't wear any dresses that come above my knee, it makes me super insecure. Part of it is genetic and part (for me at least) is because I have genu recurvatum caused by bad posture. Women who tend to push their pelvis forward and knees backward have this. And if you too have Genu recurvatum there's a chance you might want to look into that - as it could provide some answers.
However I just cannot let people just undergo a surgery like this without knowing what they're getting themselves into.
If you get pregnant, there's a higher risk of developing hemorrhoids
You're also going to have a higher risk of varicose veins

If you're trying to go a natural route here's what I can advise
-Weight loss. Most women with calf issues have excess weight and it goes to your calves
-Swimming!!!! The best way to tone down without gaining much muscle is swimming
-Acceptance: although its hard to believe, sometimes its important to accept yourself for who you are
 
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I actually logged onto here after wanting this surgery myself for a very long time. So I went to my doctor and talked about the issue, and then got to an orthopedic specialist and here's what I've found out so far.
1. nearly all the symptoms everyone is describing here are similar to heart failure. In fact this type of surgery is not as 'safe' as everyone claims. When you stand up straight, blood goes to your legs. Your calves are part of making the blood go back up to your heart. This happens because of a few factors, one being the muscle itself. So when you cut that muscle away, you're pushing your heart towards heart failure. Thats why you need to keep your legs higher (the blood isn't going back to your heart by the muscle) and that's why you compress after surgery.
2. There are barely scientific articles about it!!! In fact, most articles are written by the handful of surgeons who perform these surgeries and almost none make it to big journals - with reason! The side effects aren't described nearly enough. Varicose veins are rarely mentioned, nerve damage, depression of a muscle, regeneration of muscle,...
3. A lack of following up the patients, so no data is available on how this surgery holds up long-term. There's barely data about side effects, long term complications and we also don't know how this can affect other conditions.

I know first hand that having big calves is uncomfortable. I don't wear any dresses that come above my knee, it makes me super insecure. Part of it is genetic and part (for me at least) is because I have genu recurvatum caused by bad posture. Women who tend to push their pelvis forward and knees backward have this. And if you too have Genu recurvatum there's a chance you might want to look into that - as it could provide some answers.
However I just cannot let people just undergo a surgery like this without knowing what they're getting themselves into.
If you get pregnant, there's a higher risk of developing hemorrhoids
You're also going to have a higher risk of varicose veins

If you're trying to go a natural route here's what I can advise
-Weight loss. Most women with calf issues have excess weight and it goes to your calves
-Swimming!!!! The best way to tone down without gaining much muscle is swimming
-Acceptance: although its hard to believe, sometimes its important to accept yourself for who you are
Can you please elaborate a bit more about the bad posture and how it correlates to the calf muscles? I find this interesting and feel like I vaguely have heard this somewhere before.
 
Its like physics. In normal posture every part of your body is being pulled down by gravity. It pulls on your bones. Your muscles are the ones holding things back. When you have good posture everything is in balance, so the muscles are balanced.
So say for example I have bad posture. If your back muscles are weak and you tilt your pelvis forward there will be an imbalance of power. Your muscles will start to compensate ->my lower back muscles are weak, and I tend to push my stomach forward. My legs will start to go into a genu recurvatum to carry my weight.
The issue is that because of this, there's more power on your calves and they hypertrophy (become bigger and bulkier) so that they can carry you.
Another thing you'll notice clearly is that some women will have very poor muscles at the back of their legs. The quadriceps muscles at the front of your leg will look defined but the back muscles (knee flexors) won't be as prominent/developed.

Sometimes people have bad posture but with very little effect on their calves, because they're thin, their weight isn't big enough for the muscle to start going into hypertrophy. But if they get pregnant for example, there's even more weight going on your legs so they'll get bigger eventually.

So possible solutions may be seeing if you have any underlying condition that affects the knee joint. But also looking at your posture because imbalances are going to lead to more pressure on your calves. So weak (lower) back muscles could be the issue, pushing stomach forward could be an issue, weight could be an issue,...
 
Have you gone for the muscle reduction surgery yet? I just joined this forum after someone recommended on reddit. I want to do lipo and calf reduction ( through severing the nerve).
Hello. Sorry for late reply. I didnt do anything yet. Because of the pandemic everything changed but i will still go to dr park in korea if ever