For years, Christina had lived with lipedema — and with legs that felt increasingly heavy, painful and hard to the touch.
Bruises appeared too easily. Small hard nodules could be felt beneath the skin. And despite everything she tried, the problem seemed to keep taking more from her life.
She stopped wanting to wear shorts. She hid her legs under loose clothes. Eventually, she became so uncomfortable with her own body that she would turn off the bedroom light before changing in front of her husband.
And like so many women with lipedema, one question kept bothering her:
Why could her legs keep feeling heavier, more painful and harder over the years — even when she was doing everything she thought she was supposed to do?
That was the question at the center of a revealing conversation withlipedema specialist Dr. Karol Green.






