Articles

What we wish someone had explained the first time. Written to be read on a phone, in Arabic or English, without a medical dictionary.

Dimpled skin on the thighs is not a diagnosis. It is present in most adult women, including thin ones. Lipedema is something else entirely, and mistaking one for the other sends women to the wrong aisle for years.

3 January 20267 min read

Symptoms and diagnosis

Do I have lipedema? The twelve signs, one at a time

You cannot diagnose yourself from a website — but you can find out whether what you are seeing is the pattern a doctor would recognise, and that is what turns "I feel enormous" into a sentence a clinician can act on.

29 December 202511 min read

Cellulite or lipedema? They are not the same thing

Do I have lipedema? The twelve signs, one at a time