Understanding lipedema
Lipedema and pregnancy: what to expect and what to arrange
Pregnancy is one of the three points at which this condition typically starts or jumps. That is worth planning around rather than worrying about.
Hormones
Understanding lipedema
Why the scale lies to you — and what to measure instead
One number, four different things inside it, measured at the worst possible resolution. Here is what a bathroom scale can and cannot tell a woman with lipedema.
Understanding lipedema
Lipedema in teenagers: what to do if it is your daughter
Puberty is when this most often starts, which makes adolescence the highest-value moment to recognise it — and the easiest one to get wrong.
Understanding lipedema
What is lipedema? A plain-language explanation
A chronic disorder of fat tissue that affects women almost exclusively — symmetrical, painful to the touch, and stubbornly unmoved by dieting. Here is what is actually happening.
Understanding lipedema
Can men get lipedema?
Almost every source describes this as a condition of women, which is accurate and leaves a small number of men with painful, disproportionate legs and no explanation at all.
Understanding lipedema
Does lipedema get worse? What actually drives progression
Yes, it is a progressive condition — and that sentence is usually delivered without the far more useful one that follows it: progression is not steady, not inevitable, and not entirely outside your influence.
Understanding lipedema
Lipedema and hormones: puberty, pregnancy, contraception, menopause
Almost every woman with lipedema can name the year it changed, and almost every one of those years was a hormonal one. What that tells us, and what it does not.