Treatment and surgery
What lipedema surgery costs in Egypt and the Gulf
No specific figures, on purpose — prices in this region move too fast for an article to be honest about them. What does not go stale is how to read a quote.
Egypt and the Gulf
Care and clinicians
Finding a doctor who knows lipedema in Egypt and the Gulf
The hardest part is often not the treatment but being believed. Which specialist to ask for, how to arrive prepared, and what to do when you are told to just lose weight.
Living with it
Compression garments for lipedema: a practical guide
The single most recommended conservative treatment, and the one most often bought wrong. Flat-knit versus circular, getting measured properly, and surviving it in a Gulf summer.
Living with it
Flying and long journeys with lipedema
Four hours of immobility in a low-pressure cabin is a bad combination for any legs, and a worse one for these. Most of the fix happens before you board.
Mind and body
Getting dressed when your top and bottom are different sizes
Not a styling article. A practical one about a genuine daily problem that most women with this condition spend real time and money on.
Food and inflammation
Salt, water and why drinking less makes swelling worse
Half of this is intuitive and half of it is exactly backwards, which is why so many women are doing one of the two things that helps and one that does not.
Food and inflammation
Anti-inflammatory eating, from our own kitchen
Most anti-inflammatory advice assumes a supermarket you do not shop in. The good news is that the traditional kitchen here is already most of the way there.
Mind and body
Explaining lipedema to people who keep commenting
You should not have to justify your own body to people who love you. You will probably have to anyway, so here are the words, at three different lengths.
Care and clinicians
When a doctor tells you to just lose weight
Most women with this condition have had at least one appointment that ended in advice about food. Here are the specific sentences that change the direction of that conversation.
Care and clinicians
Getting a lipedema diagnosis: what the appointment is actually like
Lipedema is diagnosed by history and examination, which means the quality of the diagnosis depends heavily on what you bring into the room. Here is how to make that count.
Living with it
Wearing compression when it is 45 degrees outside
The cruel arithmetic of this condition in our climate: heat dilates vessels and worsens swelling, so summer is when you need compression most and can bear it least. There are real answers, and "just push through" is not one of them.