A patient mails us:
I suffer from persistent overweight and painful lipedema with skin lesions on both legs. I have type 2 diabetes since 2011, which occurred just after the knee joint prosthesis surgery that was followed by a wound healing disorder. In addition, I suffer from untreated polyneuropathy.
Her basic problems seem to be diabetes and obesity, both would suggest losing weight. For weight loss restoring the hormonal balance with bioidentical hormones (Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, BHRT) after a complete analysis of the hormonal status would be useful. The polyneuropathy is a consequence of diabetes and can usually be improved by treatment with alpha lipoic acid. For the treatment of lipedema a liposuction is suitable. A therapy with autologous stem cells from adipose tissue would possibly make sense too.
Planning of the individual therapy requires a medical examination as part of a consultation appointment, comprehensive anamnesis and additional medical tests.
DDr. Heinrich, MD