Lipedema is a chronic, painful fat disorder that affects millions of women and is routinely mistaken for obesity and takes around ten years to diagnose, leaving sufferers in needless pain and often badly out of pocket. Amy Wilkinson draws on The Roxbury Institute and Advanced Lipedema Treatment's experts endocrinologist Dr Karen Herbst, whose research helped one patient finally recognize her own condition, and dermatologic surgeon and TRI Medical Director Dr David Amron, a lipedema expert who argues that every teenage girl should be screened for it.
Real the Women's Health feature in print and via Apple News: “This Condition Is Often Mistaken for Obesity. But Diet, Exercise, and Medication Won’t Fix It.”
