Living with it
Dry brushing, wraps, ice baths: what is worth doing
A triage of everything that circulates in lipedema videos, sorted into three piles: worth doing, harmless if you enjoy it, and actively bad for this tissue.
Mental health
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.
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.
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.
Mind and body
The part of lipedema nobody treats
It is not a soft topic bolted on to a medical library. Elevated depression and anxiety are in the clinical guidelines for this condition, and so is an instruction to clinicians about how to speak to you.
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.
Food and inflammation
Should I even try to lose weight if I have lipedema?
The answer is a qualified yes, and the qualification is the whole point: you are pursuing something specific and measurable, not chasing legs that were never going to change.