Lexi Reed heads into 2024 without fear.
On Saturday, the weight loss influencer posted a video on Instagram to show what it was like to struggle with the rare medical condition, calciphylaxis, in the year 2022.
In a video set to Demi Lovato’s song “Skyscraper,” Reed showed her followers the reality of healing, writing in the caption, “30+ painful open sores from my thighs to my shoulders.”
Lexi Reed shared a tearful video after dropping to under 200 pounds. at Christmas: ‘The best gift of all’
“Words can’t always describe the pain I’ve been through, but the scars tell the whole story,” Reed wrote in a lengthy caption accompanying the Instagram video. “Each wound started as a hard painful knot that the doctors told me was probably just an inflamed muscle, but the pain got worse day by day as I searched for answers and refused to rest without knowing what was happening to my body.”
Reed, 32, has come a long way since her weight loss progress was derailed by calciphylaxis. It’s a rare, debilitating disease that the Mayo Clinic explains occurs when “calcium builds up in the small blood vessels of fat and skin.”
Calciphylaxis causes “blood clots, painful skin ulcers and can cause serious infections that can lead to death” – and for Reed, the often fatal disease led to 59 weeks of treatment for painful sores all over her body last year.
According to Reed’s caption in her latest post, she was told that infection is the leading cause of death in people living with calciphylaxis, “so every wound terrified me to be another statistic of this horrible disease.”
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Lexi Reed shows more scars from battle with calciphylaxis: ‘Proof I fought for my life’
“Today I am happy to say I am in remission as the wounds have closed, but I have seen it possible for Calciphylaxis to return with the limited information that is out there,” Reed’s post concluded. “However, I refuse to live in fear, I’m also grateful to still be here and not take time for granted. A reminder to always fight for your health and never take time for granted! [SIC].”
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In December 2023, Reed announced that she had lost more than 200 lbs and weighed 199 lbs. on Christmas Day after starting at 495 lbs.
“I’m back in ONEderland! That means I’ve lost 86.8 lbs. since March,” she said in an Instagram post in December.
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