If you’re thick from the waist down but disproportionately smaller above the waist, you might have lipedema (not lymphedema.)
Lipedema affects one in nine women. It’s almost as common as breast cancer but most people have never heard of it! In early stages it looks like being “thicc”, but in later stages it can affect mobility.
Symptoms include: bruising easily, pain when limbs have pressure applied (kids or pets crawling over your legs, getting blood pressure taken), losing weight from your face and chest but less from below the waist, and having disproportionately thicker legs/butt/hips and sometimes arms.
Women of all sizes can be affected. For a thin woman it might look like being a size 0 on top but a size 10 on the bottom. For a bigger woman like me it’s being a size 20 on top but a size 30 on the bottom. (I’m fat and have lipedema!)
Google lipedema. If you don’t have it, you know someone who does (though they probably don’t know it!)
@rexxsimba stop admiring symptoms of chronic illness