Facts About Lipedema

1.  Lipedema is an inherited disease.

2.  The medical community defines it as rare and incurable.

3.  Six to 12 million people, predominantly women, have it.

4.  Fewer than 10 percent of medical professionals have heard of it.

5.  It is easily diagnosed through family history and clinical presentation.

6.  Early diagnosis will prevent the medical profession from doing  irreversible structural and psychological                   damage to sufferers.

7.  In America: 

     440,000 people suffer from multiple sclerosis; 

      1.5 million people suffer from lupus; 

      3.6 million people suffer from fybromyalgia; 

      2 million men have prostate cancer;  

      1.1 million Americans have AIDS; in the entire country;

      2.5 million are breast cancer survivors. 

    All of these diseases combined may number no more than the number of  people who are afflicted with lipedema.

      * yet, there is no public awareness in the United States

        * no funding for research anywhere in the United States

        * no compassion for the people who have it,

        *no accountability for the misdiagnosis  and contraindicated                                

           surgeries and  procedures inflicted upon sufferers,

         *and heretofore no one who  champions the fight against lipedema.

8.  Lipedema is widely researched and treated in Europe.