“Love yourself you deserve it.”
How would your friends describe you?
Kind, genorous, outgoing, patient, passionate. A very warm and loving person. I’m a kid at heart.
When did you first suspect you had Lipoedema?
I actually wasn’t aware I had Lipoedema. It was because of a caring Manual Lymphatic Drainage therapist that took passion in her work to educate me that I first became aware that I could have this condition.
Can you describe what symptoms Lipoedema presented for you and how these may have changed overtime from your first awareness / diagnosis?
When I first found out, I knew my legs were large and very heavy. Even as a young girl, my legs were heavy to walk in. Even though I was a twig, my feet and legs were heavy, and with the change of weather I would get aches and pains. I was told that was growing pains. Over time it was easy to think that I was gradually putting on weight, but if I knew about it before hand, early intervention would have made a big difference. Being at stage four now, having known earlier would have made the world of a difference on the social aspect of life, mental health, all of that. It all gets compromised as you go on to the later stages.
