Contour MD products featured on “The Doctors”

ContourMD products featured on The Doctors! Watch the video above. Please like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. Fast forward to 4:15 to see the ContourMD garments feature.

Living with Lymphedema and Lipedema

Here we can see Sarah on The Doctors show, who had a delayed diagnosis of lymphedema and lipedema.

She wants people to understand that lipedema and lymphedema (especially lipedema) cause excess weight and obesity. Here obesity isn’t from a poor lifestyle; it’s from a medical condition that she was born with. Even if her obesity was from her lifestyle, that doesn’t mean that people affected by obesity shouldn’t have dignity, care, and respect. It shouldn’t impact the healthcare they receive, and it shouldn’t impact how they work.

Even plastic surgeons who treat this condition are only now learning more about it and the best way to treat it. Lipedema often goes hand to hand with lymphedema. It’s a problem with the lymphatic system; the valves are not correctly draining the fluids, especially from the lower extremities from the legs, which are treated differently.

You can’t always tell it at first glance, but it doesn’t make sense why you have all this excess weight in your arms in your legs, and it doesn’t match up to other parts of your body.

It’s been ten years since Sarah lived with this, and she has always wanted to speak out about it. Her insurance battle is enormous, and she’s working on her Masters in health fighting because of everything she’s earned through insurance.

Dr. Jay Grant Zale, Plastic Surgeon, and professor at UCLA, an expert in lymphedema and lipedema, has agreed to see her in consultation and discuss what options are available to Sarah.

ContourMD heard her story and wanted to help by providing over $3000 in medical compression garments to help improve her condition.