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Lipedema is most often diagnosed in women following puberty, during pregnancy or around menopause. One patient, who was diagnosed at 20, is Caroline, a media designer. She made a virtue out of necessity by founding a blog straightaway called Lipedema fashion where she and other lipedema patients share their stories and discuss wearing compression therapy in their everyday…

I have secondary lymphedema in my left leg due to cervical cancer treatment in 2007. I had a radical hysterectomy, with the removal of 36 lymph nodes, followed by six weeks of chemo, 35 rounds of radiation, and four sessions of brachytherapy.  My lymphedema presented in March 2016, nine years after being treated for cervical…