If, in spite of sports and good nutrition, the legs are always thicker, there may be a lipedema is a fat distribution disorder. A Affected person tells of her daily battle with the morbid fat.
Every Morning, pulls on Christine Kaiser your compression stockings. The handle is now Routine, and still, each Time Overcoming. The Emperor has suffered for five years on lipedema, an incurable fat distribution disorder. In the legs of the 50-Year-old collects more fat tissue.
Sports and diets are not helping the fat get rid of
In the case of a lipedema the fatty tissue under the skin of the legs constantly. Sometimes also arms and buttocks are affected, while other parts of the body retain their original proportions. With an unhealthy diet or lack of exercise has nothing to do.
All the more frustrating is the disease for those who do a lot of Sport, go on a diet after the other to try and the abnormal fat tissue, however, not get rid of.
Once Slim ill
In the case of Christine Kaiser, the disease appears to be particularly cynical to Kaiser engines for years, performance sports, and played Volleyball. Earlier you tried desperately to gain weight. In her slim Phase, she weighed only 58 kilos at a height of 1.78 meters.
“This is not healthy”, you know. Nevertheless, it fell to her at the time, extremely hard to get a couple of extra pounds on the scale. It cost Overcome. “As an athlete, you realize each of the more kilos.” With the help of Doctors she worked her way up to 70 kilos. 
private Christine Kaiser founded a non-profit organization, to lipedema patients to help. She suffers from it.
Per week, a Kilo more
After a surgery on the spine, the sudden change came: the Emperor has increased in 20 weeks, 20 pounds, instead of dress size 40 at once 48, but only on the buttocks and the legs. Your physiotherapist is to make you aware, that behind the physical changes of the lipedema stuck.
From the onset of the disease to the correct diagnosis 18 months pass. For a long time. Nevertheless, Kaiser says today: “I was lucky.” On average it took patients 15 years to Doctors, the diagnosis of lipedema. “Then there are knee and hip broken, and many have, in addition, a diet-induced obesity,” says Kaiser.
Eight to ten percent of the female population affected
Although it is estimated more than three million women in Germany to a lipedema suffering, little is known about the disease. The predisposition to lipedema seems to be the most Affected already, from birth to present in the body and inherited.
Usually, the disease breaks out, then a change in the hormonal balance – for instance, after puberty, menopause or pregnancy, explains Falk-Christian Heck, Director of the LipoClinic in Mühlheim. A dramatic mental event can be the trigger, such as the death of a beloved Person, or a rape. Men could get no lipedema, the predisposition, but also from her mother to her daughters, explains stern.
Therapy in lipedema: liposuction can help
In his specialty clinic he performs per year, more than 800 liposuction in lipedema patients, the so-called liposuction. Cost: up to 6000 euros. The health insurance companies pay only in exceptional cases. Curable a lipedema is not. Liposuction can restore at least “a picture of the healing,” says stern. The patient can inherit the lipedema, but would lose the optical characteristics of the disease and have no more pain.
However, it is not helped with liposuction to all patients permanently, says Franz-Josef Schingale, Medical Director of the Lympho-Opt clinic, Pommelsbrunn-Hohenstadt. Of 100 of his patients, 38 had increased three years after surgery the weight back on, they were again in need of compression stockings. “Today, we know that ten percent of the fat cells each year,” says Schingale. “What was removed, can grow back.”
Conservative therapy instead of SURGERY
For Christine Kaiser, surgery was not initially out of the question. She tried to keep the lipedema with conservative methods in chess – and an optimistic attitude to life. Compression stockings and regular lymphatic drainage can adhesions in the tissues loosen and relieve the pain. Yoga, Chi-Gong and Traditional Chinese medicine helped her to think positively and to accept the disease.
“You broke into a phase of life in which I have to be inclined to want to make it all right,” she says today. “I have too much orientated to the criticism of other people. In the meantime, I’ve learned to stand by me, even with thick legs.“
Comments like “fat people should be left no Fast Food” frustration
This is not easy. Many lipedema patients seen in the everyday prejudices faced. In the Restaurant, strange people comment on the wild your food choice. “Fat people should not a Fast-Food meal,” as it was called.
While many be Concerned, life is probably healthier than most of the people throw them in the Restaurant the evil eye, just because you treat yourself to, for once, a piece of Pizza. The Emperor eats low carb, still doing a lot of sports. This can prevent extra body fat, but the lipedema disappear. “I have already removed everywhere on the body fat,” says Kaiser, “but in the Places where the lipedema is responsible for, it is only possible with liposuction.”
“Now the Operation is not necessary for life”
Today, five years after the outbreak of the disease, has decided to Emperor but for a liposuction. Not because they want to get rid of the thick legs. But because they got the diagnosis of breast cancer. The cancer responds to Estrogens in fat tissue. Therefore, an anti-hormone therapy is for the treatment of breast cancer only after a liposuction possible.
“I’ve always said, as long as I come with the disease, no SURGERY needed. Now, it is but necessary to life.“ Emperor has placed a request for reimbursement from your insurance company. He was rejected.
Lipedema-a patient Christine Kaiser built with Martina Schrader, the non-profit organization, Lily’s Voice Europe. With volunteers, they offer patients advice and Coaching on the topic of lipedema. Support you Concerned about problems with health insurance and pensions and holding offices lectures and seminars in medical and congresses.