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Data from our First Look Report sheds light on the common symptoms experienced by those with Lipedema. Here's what we've found:

- Easy bruising: 50% report "very severe" bruising in the last 30 days
- Leg heaviness: 65% have experienced this in the past month
- Sensitivity to touch: Affects 42% of respondents
- Swelling: Reported by 39%

These findings highlight the importance of conducting further research to fully understand the impact of these symptoms. Want to learn more? Check out the full report and share your experiences with us! bit.ly/41liRJk

Managing lipedema is a unique challenge for each individual, but shared knowledge can lead to better outcomes. What have you prioritized to help manage your Lipedema?

Visit https://www.lipedema.org/ to learn more about ways to help yourself and others. ❤️

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Managing Lymphedema - Insights and Strategies | LymphCast E55 Welcome to Episode 55 of LymphCast! In this episode, we explore effective strategies for managing lymphedema with our panel of experts and share inspiring pa...

Lipedema is considered a self management condition. Meaning it is up to the patient to manage their Lipedema/health.

Managing a chronic and progressive condition is challenging; the upside is you become the expert on your body (your own best resource).

The downside is you feel like a Guinea pig.

Self management is meant to have the patient manage their symptoms and treatments, checking in with a medical professional as needed (typically annually) to ensure things run smoothly.

But with Lipedema most medical professionals don’t know what Lipedema is, or worse, don’t believe us.

Over the years we have discovered we can all present with different symptoms and we can all respond differently to treatments tried. What works for one Lipedema patient may not work for another. Which amps up the challenge of living with a chronic/progressive illness.

My best advice is to start a journal (better yet a binder) for tracking your self management “experiments”.

Not only will it help you keep track of what your symptoms are, what treatments you have tried, and how your body responded, but also becomes something you take to your Dr. appointments.

For we also learn how to become our own best advocate. Standing up for ourselves and weeding out those who do not serve us well on our health journey.

JUNE IS LIPEDEMA AWARENESS MONTH - Spreading awareness is not only about reaching those who have the condition and may not know, but it is also for educating medical professionals and hopefully guiding research, and more.

Lipedema is best served when medical professionals and patients can come together and share experiences/knowledge to move the treatments forward and hopefully one day find a cure.

Knowledgeable medical professionals and researchers give us hope, and that is a huge help when living with a chronic condition.

My two patients of 15+ years, Edith H & Karen K.. it is a privilege of a lifetime taking care of them medically! Always a pleasure to see them in my office!

When you shift the focus from weight loss to fat loss, it creates a chain effect of positive health benefits for life.

Our primary goal with the Cornerstone Wellness program is to focus on maintaining lean body mass, while just losing fat. The health benefits of losing weight this way will last for life!

The OMA has partnered with the Obesity Action Coalition and the Found Weight Loss Program to launch the OMA and OAC Obesity Medicine Scholarship Program!

Funded by Found, the scholarship will award a $5,000 scholarship to two physicians to cover ABOM registration fees, a one-year membership to the OMA, registration for OMA's Annual Conference and the Review Course for the ABOM Exam in April, and a travel stipend.

Learn more and apply now at https://prn.to/3ONzqcy

Start spreading the news… March is

Zepbound May Significantly Reduce Blood Pressure, Study Finds A new subgroup analysis shows that Eli Lilly's Zepbound can lower blood pressure when taken at any dose.

We have made some updates to our Lipedema vs. Obesity graphic to better capture some of the nuances around where participants in the Lipedema Foundation Registry and other research studies report commonly finding Lipedema tissue and textures in their body.

Check out our Patient Self-Advocacy Guide to view this resource and more: https://bit.ly/3ONLVWA

Exciting news in the field of weight management.. ✅ new meds in the pipeline - 15-25% + weight loss 🩺💊

Joel Wellness Clinic Board certified in Obesity Medicine & Internal Medicine

Joel Wellness Clinic Board certified in Obesity Medicine & Internal Medicine

To my friends and patients battling this disease….
Lot of wisdom pearls from Obesity Medicine Association Fall 2023 conference 👏🏻
Lot of exciting news about new antiobesity meds ✅

Courtesy: OMA, Dr Lee Kaplan, Dr B Tchang

Joel Wellness Clinic Board certified in Obesity Medicine & Internal Medicine

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I will be doing more videos on weight loss, diet, lipedema etc shortly

The “NOW STEPS” TO Dietary Discipline. Binju Joel MD First steps to start a healthy diet and lifestyle

Very true and needs to be treated just like any other disease is treated - with diet, exercise and medications!

BIG NEWS coming from the Lipedema World Congress in Germany! Our team is so excited to announce our new Research Roadmap, which includes input from more than 60 global stakeholders - researchers, people with Lipedema, surgeons, physicians, therapists, and funders.

We look forward to sharing the Roadmap with you soon! Keep an eye on our social channels to learn more.

Please attend, Dr Jonathan Burg from Cornerstone Wellness speaking on Permanent Fat Loss at our Livonia location. Free for anyone who is interested 🩺

Truly… music is always good for the body!

I love music, all the music (well not all, but a lot).

I like songs that make me feel empowered, I like songs that have been through it with me over the years, I like songs that remind me of special people, and I LOVE waking up singing ♥️

So, if you set an alarm, do you use music to wake up to? What song?

Or is this message about a wake up call? What would that song be?

Music makes me move my body, and that is what Lipedema Fitness is all about. Joyful Movement to help ease our symptoms and slow our progression.

Music is powerful. So what are you listening (and moving) to?

For those concerned about the risk of cancer associated with GLP-1s

Does ( ) increase risk ?

Authors undertook this systematic review to look at the safety of semaglutide focussing on different cancers.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2023.102834

Lipedema Foundation Registry — Lipedema Foundation Lipedema Foundation Registry

Happy fourth of July
Land of the free.. Home of the brave

My oldest patient Arnetta J, 102 YEARS OLD,
born in 1921..In Tennessee,
my patient for 15 years..
Still going good..saw her today