What is Lidepema?
Lipedema, also known as “painful fat syndrome”, is a chronic disease that occurs mainly in women and is characterized by an excess of bilateral and symmetrical fatty tissue in the hips and upper or lower legs, combined with pain to the touch and a tendency to distal orthostatics or dependent edema.
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What are the symptoms of Lidepema?
Symptoms vary between patients, but can include:
- Symmetrical excess fat in legs; onset of symptoms during puberty, during or after pregnancy or at menopause; fat that unaffected by calorie restriction and / or exercise.
- The feet, hands and head are less affected.
- In the early stages, a slim torso contrasts excess fat in the hips, thighs, legs, and buttocks.
- In later stages, lipemic fat manifests in the chest, torso, abdomen and upper extremities and the fat becomes fibrotic, metabolic syndrome is a risk.
- The arms are affected in 80% of lipedema cases, although generally less than the legs.
- Pain in the affected tissues at rest, when walking and / or touching, the skin is easily bruised, loss of skin elasticity, acrocyanosis of the feet can be observed.
- Musculoskeletal: abnormal gait due to fat in the legs separating the legs, leading to knee, ankle, and hip injuries, ankle pronation, hypermobility, and progressive impairment of mobility if left untreated.
- Vascular: swelling worsens with orthostasis in the summer, hypothermia of the skin, and complaints of cold extremities.
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