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It makes me so sad that its not covered by NHS. I have never worn a skirt in my entire life at the age of 36

I would like for you to consider that perimenopausal women starting around the age of 35 on up or mid 40s if they’re having some of these symptoms of fibromyalgia, restless legs, difficulty sleeping body pains that it can also be from and/or coincide with perimenopause and going into menopause relating to hormonal changes and estrogen deficiency. With these women, they may need hormone replacement therapy instead of a bunch of drugs thrown at them, like gabapentin or antidepressants which have significant side effects. Physicians need more training in perimenopause and menopause and how the loss of estrogen affects the structure and function of all of women’s body organs. Women are suffering during this timeframe and being gaslit by healthcare providers instead of getting to the root issues of a lot of these symptoms. If we know that lipedema has an Inflammatory and hormonal component then maybe some of this development in the later years of a woman’s life may have to do with the changes in hormones and simply replacing those hormones may significantly reduce inflammation and body pain, and help with lipidema. This should be studied. Not only that but HRT, using FDA approved bioidentical hormones, can significantly reduce heart disease, Alzheimer’s and osteoporosis as well as decrease that inflammatory component.

Does insurance cover treatment?

Can you recommend a doctor in Houston, Tx, who is a Lipedema Plastic Surgeon like yourself?

Do you know of any surgeons in Australia who follow your method?

I quit smoking and went through a 'second puberty' and gained over 100lbs in 4 months despite eating well and walking 6hrs a day. Everything she said really hit home. Even the personality change, I don't think I ever thought of that before.

I will need to have both the lipo and then skin removal.

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Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend these for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend Bioflect weave garments for the arms and legs for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend Bioflect weave garments for the arms and legs for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend Bioflect weave garments for the arms and legs for our patients before and after surgery. Compression garments help the skin heal evenly and may help prevent loose skin after liposuction. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

Just Learning About Lipedema? For many the first step in their journey is getting into a good pair of compression garments...we recommend Bioflect weave garments for the arms and legs for our patients before and after surgery. Click the links to purchase through Amazon: Compression Leggings: amzn.to/4bHhY2C Compression Garment for Arms: amzn.to/3yIGeD2

What she say? Muscle diliation..huh..i googled cant find. Wat is that. I noticed after major weight liss my legs look weird. Loose skin inner thighs but lower calves dont look smooth or flat like when i was younger or even heavier🤔

The boby sort fat

I have a question doc if you already have dense breast tissue does this increase your chances of breast cancer and will the new tissue potentially hide breast cancer in dense tissue?

I saw an obesity medicine specialist and asked him if I had this condition. His response was what was the point in diagnosing it given there is nothing you can do about it…

I'm really scared by the liposuction. Its seems like a lot. I saw a video from another doc who was saying he would pump 5-8liters of water into the leg and after would leave incisions open to drain all the fluid out afterward and he gave all this detail about nursing care needed for a week after. It really freaked me out. I congratulate this woman!

extremely helpful

Where did you have it done I’m considering having surgery too.

I have insurance Blue Cross. How long I have to went to have surgery. I'm feeling like she was. I couldn't even work my full hours anymore. My husband left me because of lipedema😢. I can'tstand for him to touch me. It hurted so much.

Thank you for sharing 💕

Thank you for sharing 💕

Doctor do you get a "mini-flood" at times when you operate?

💕 Thank you for sharing 💕

Thank you for sharing Michelle 💕

This explains a lot. As a kid I was a little chubby but not obese. I was less than 20 lbs over what I was "supposed" to weigh. But as a 7-8 year old my calves would not fit in my winter boots. My mom had to take me to the local cobbler, circa 1965, and he cut a chunk out of the back of my boots and sewed in a piece of elastic so it would go around my calf. I was always extremely active, played sports constantly bike riding and swimming and always had fat legs and lower abdomen. I hated wearing dresses because my legs looked so fat. At 14 years old I was wearing a size 12-14 5'3" and about 125 lbs. Thicker than the rest of the girls but not a huge difference. My mom had tried everything, gymnastics, dance lessons, exercise classes. No one could understand why I could never get smaller, especially in my legs. I always had fat knees. During my teens I marched in a drum & bugle corps. Marching caused my too big thighs to rub together and they would get galled. Girls that were obviously much fatter than me didn't have that problem. Why were my thighs so fat? When I was a kid also my legs would just ache at night. I would get out of my bed and lay on the cool wood floor for relief. After age 18 I began to really struggle with weight and have ever since. I'm now 67. June 25 of last year I started eating carnivore. I've lost 100 lbs and all that swelling an inflammation I had all my life is gone. I'm seeing bone and vascular structure I didn't know I had. I was adopted at birth and found both sides of my birth family. My birth mom is a stick and my 5 siblings are all normal size and weight. My birth dad passed away long ago but my 2 sisters and one of the 3 brothers are like me. One sister is not fat but thick. The other does keto, take insulin and other type 2 meds and still struggles to get her glucose under 200. She has had toes removed. One brother is worse than her. Legs removed, uncontrollable type 2, just went into a nursing home and younger than me. I can absolutely attest to the fact that the genetics come from the paternal side. I don't want/can't afford surgery at this point. I'm going to continue to eat carnivore and lose excess weight and it's working. In the past I would get smaller and the scale would agree, but it was never like this. Parts of me are becoming very lean and the fat is accumulating in pockets, like trash waiting to be taken out. Always before I was smaller but still thick and solid. Now these fat pockets are like a squishy chicken breast in a baggie. Weight loss has never been like this before, and I've lost over 100 lbs twice before this 100, and the 50-80 range too many to count. The non scale wins of carnivore are immense. I would gladly volunteer for a study if you need data, I'm the proof of everything you said and showed here. I just remembered I would stand in front of the mirror at age 15-16 and notice the bulge on the outside of my thighs right below the hip. I would take my hand and push them in and instantly looked smaller. But no amount of leg exercises or dieting ever mattered. I wanted to go in the military in the 70's but could never make the weight. I could never lose those last 12-15 lbs. Now I see why and this all makes sense now that I can see the big picture. Wow.....

The insurance Regence can cover this surgery, and what's kind cannula you usei to do this surgery ? Due to the traditional cannula takes years to healing and the cannula with laser is much better

Glad you do things the right way

But after the lipo, isn't loose skin a problem necessitating further plastic surgery?

Im sorry...i have lipedema..and no hair growth on my legs. She mentioned it in the video...is that typical?

Yes!!

So true! “I have knees”

Great Advice ❤

I’m 56 and on Medicare secondary to Chiari, EDS, and all of the bonus co-morbitities😉. From my understanding lipedema is not a covered expense by Medicare. Can you shed some light on this? Also thanks so much for being so down to earth and caring to this patient population.

Calling today to make my appointment

so happy for her

i am so happy for her

amazing information

So many woman get Breast implants because of cancer! So I would not label your topic! Why I think Breast Implants are Evil! Just saying!!!