Lipedema and Nodules?

Liberty email is a diagnosis of exclusion and there are no definitive, solid tests or guidelines for confirming the diagnosis. Making the diagnosis is there for subjective. Depending on people’s perspective determine and diagnosis is often utilized for individuals who just have fat on their extremities. The condition is poorly understood, but generally involves a gradual change in fat distribution often with increasing subcutaneous fat layers, especially in the lower extremities with age.
Liposuction can be moderately helpful to debulk and reduce the size of the extremities but often doesn’t always give aesthetically great looking results. Painful nodules are not associated with having lipodystrophy or lymphedema. I suggest getting a work up for the pain from nodules to confirm what their ideology is. These may represent which can be tender to palpation. There are other conditions they can leave people with multiple nodules as well.
Generally speaking, Liposuction is not a good treatment for removing individual manuals, but a lot depends on their ideology. Standard treatment for lipomas is direct excision.
Consult with your primary care, doctor, local dermatologist, or plastic surgeons in your community.
Best,
Mats Hagstrom, MD