The intensive programme used when there is a real fluid and lymphatic component — not routine lipedema care, and worth understanding before somebody sells you a version of it.
Lipedema is symmetrical, essentially always. So if one leg is bigger than the other, the first job is not to explain it as lipedema — it is to rule out the things that will not wait.
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.
Tissue that stops dead above the ankle, with a normal foot underneath. It is the sign clinicians reach for first, and it is the easiest one to photograph.
They are confused constantly, they are treated differently, and one can eventually cause the other. Four questions separate them, and the first one is about your feet.
