My name is Anne Henry, I am 47 years old and was diagnosed with Lipoedema in Aug 2017 around 30 years after I first noticed signs that my body wasn’t quite the same as other girls the same age. Within those 30 years I have visited my GP surgery on many, many occasions and seen lots of different GPs. When I mentioned that my legs were painful to touch and very swollen, I was always given the same standard answer “you need to lose weight and exercise more […]

I have only recently discovered that I have Lipoedema. Initially I was shocked and I didn’t want to know anything about it. I then became angry, so angry that I had believed for 40 years that I was a greedy, fat person who had created such large and ugly legs. […]