#lipedema and hormones

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Pregnancy is the one time nobody questions a changing body. For lipedema, that makes it the perfect camouflage, and the reason so many women miss it.

Nobody warns you what menopause does to lipedema. It's the hormonal wave that arrives with the least warning, and it changes the rules.

That predictable flare before your period isn't in your head. Menstruation is an inflammatory process, and your lipedema tissue feels every shift.

Your lipedema flares for no reason you can see. Nine times out of ten, something behind the scenes is quietly pulling the strings.