It's a condition that affects only women and despite being common, is often missed.As consultant vascular surgeon Constantinos Kyriakides, of The Private Clinic and Bath and London NHS trust, explains: 'Lipoedema was first discovered in the Forties, but there has been so little research into ...
there's little interest in it from the medical profession.From the first time she noticed her ankles swelling in her mid-30s, it took more than eight years for Louise to get a correct diagnosis.'When I went back to my GP last October, he said it looked like a build up of lymphatic...