
Doctors told me I was 'just fat' - my serious medical condition was missed
As soon as I got my lipoedema diagnosis last year, tears rolled down my cheeks.
For years, doctors told me that I was ‘just fat’.
But finally a medical professional had confirmed my disproportionately large legs were a medical condition – an extremely painful chronic disease that causes fibrotic fat to accumulate in the lower part of the body, over which the patient has very little to zero control.
It was the validation I’d waited nearly 30 years to receive.
When I was 12 years old, I began