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What is Lipedema?

A painful fat disease that's not our fault!

Lipedema News

Lipedema,  a painful fat disease, isn’t known by the greater medical community.  This is why we add it to this category whenever Lipedema makes it into the news.

WHO is going to recognize lipedema!

Posted on May 15, 2018 by PetraAnn
Posted In Lipedema NewsTagged In WHO, World Health Organization

The WHO has just recognize Lipedema as an illness (Code EF02.2 in the ICD11)! Why is this important? Governments, health insurances and tax offices (to deduct self paid surgery, compression stockings, etc) have consistently referenced the fact that not even WHO (the world health organization) has recognized lipedema.  So now Continue Reading

Somebody Told Her She Has Lipedema and Now She’s Upset

Posted on April 2, 2018 by PetraAnn
Posted In Lipedema News, Lipedema ProblemsTagged In lymphedema

Some stranger on Facebook told her she has lipedema, and it turns out that stranger was right.  And now she’s upset because she was OK with how her legs looked. This is the last few paragraphs of the article: I’m sure she was trying to be helpful, to provide the Continue Reading

Liposuction for Lipedema IS Surgery

Posted on September 30, 2017 by PetraAnn
Posted In Lipedema News, UncategorizedTagged In complications, extreme complications, fat embolism, risk, surgery

Liposuction for lipedema is surgery, never forget that.  As more and more of us find the money (or get insurance to pay) for the procedure, I think we get excited and forget that no matter what there are still risks. Granted, in 2017 most of the world has moved to Continue Reading

Mayo Clinic Discovers Then Forgets Lipedema

Posted on August 13, 2017 by PetraAnn
Posted In Lipedema NewsTagged In Dr Wright, Mayo Clinic

Every week I do a search for news on lipedema.  The Daily Mail over in the UK seems to love to cover it, I think it’s been covered there 3 or 4 times so far this year (2017).  It occasionally pops up in local US news publications as well whenever Continue Reading

Lipedema Causing Limbs to Explode!

Posted on July 2, 2017 by PetraAnn
Posted In Lipedema NewsTagged In Kim Kardashian, lipedema news

I saw the articles about Kim Kardashian having lipedema, what I didn’t see was that the National Enquirer claimed that her “lower limbs could explode in a bloated mass of fat.” Now that I’ve caught my breath from laughing (how many hundreds of us would be limbless if this were Continue Reading

Dr. Thomas Wright Talks Lipedema on Fox2Now St Louis

Posted on January 29, 2017 by PetraAnn
Dr. Thomas Wright Talks Lipedema on Fox2Now St Louis
Posted In Lipedema NewsTagged In Dr Wright, lipedema video, News, news segment

On 24 January 2017 Fox2Now in St Louis hosted Dr. Thomas Wright and a patient to talk about lipedema. This segment talks about lipedema, the diagnosis as well as the treatment after.  The patient that Dr. Thomas Wright does mention that there are conservative treatments, but of course he came Continue Reading

Instagram Star with 70 Inch Butt Diagnosed with Lipedema

Posted on December 15, 2016January 21, 2017 by PetraAnn
Instagram Star with 70 Inch Butt Diagnosed with Lipedema
Posted In Lipedema NewsTagged In Raylynn, The Doctors, TV Show

On the tv show The Doctors, lipedema has once again come up.  This time it’s with someone who’s big behind has made her a star on Instagram, Raylynn. This isn’t the first time I’ve run into Raylynn on the internet.  I came across her picture elsewhere, where people were less kind Continue Reading

What is Lipedema?

A painful fat disease that's not our fault!

A Painful Fat Disease called Lipedema

Lipedema Lady by Beverley Carron

If you asked me what Lipedema was before the spring of 2015, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you much about it.

I wouldn’t have been able to tell you that it was the reason unexplained bruises showed up on my shins, calves, thighs, hips, butt and sometimes my upper arms… Read More about “A Painful Fat Disease called Lipedema”…

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