Meet this 30-year-old patient who first heard of her Lipoedema through a lucky coincidence. While seeing her gynaecologist for a birth control issue, her specialist was familiar with Lipoedema... read more →
Meet Sarah, a 27-year-old patient who first heard of Lipoedema on Instagram in 2020, and found descriptions of the symptoms to be eerily close to what she had been... read more →
Meet Jessica, a 35-year-old wildlife biologist from Geelong, Victoria. Jessica believes most women that have Lipoedema, always know that something isn’t right. However, she says... read more →
Meet Veronika, a 39-year-old Lipoedema patient hailing from the Czech Republic, whose surgical journey started in her hometown of Prague and took her all the way to Gold Coast, Australia.... read more →
Meet Kelly, a 48-year-old patient from Sydney. Kelly says she first heard about Lipoedema in 2017, through ‘pure frustration’ after feeling ‘at her wits end’... read more →
Meet Sophie, a 22 year-old patient from Queensland. Sophie says she first learned about Lipoedema from social media. While watching a video of another young woman describe her symptoms... read more →
Misty is a sixty-one-year-old retired nurse who was first made aware of her changing legs in her early teens. After her mother poked her legs and told her she was... read more →
Leisa says she only became aware of Lipoedema for the first time five years ago, once she was diagnosed. She says it was a relief in a way to... read more →
Elise is a thirty-four-year-old patient from Canberra. She says she first suspected she may have Lipoedema after friend shared an article on Facebook in 2017, and several friends commented that they... read more →
Meet Sally, a thirty-five-year-old patient from Queensland. Sally says she was told by countless doctors for years that she was ‘just fat’ and needed to ‘eat less and exercise... read more →
This fifty-six-year-old patient from Queensland underwent Lipoedema-Extraction surgery in April 2021. 6.2 Litres of diseased fat was removed from the patient’s lower legs by Dr Lekich using a Lymph Sparing... read more →
This 61 year old patient says her Lipoedema journey began when she was a teenager. Although a very active teen, her ‘pear’ shape never changed - thin at the top... read more →
Delena is a fifty-year-old patient from Queensland. Delena underwent her first surgery with Dr Lekich in December 2020, with 7.5 Litres of diseased fat being removed from her lower legs, which... read more →
Kerrie believes she may have had Lipoedema, without knowing, as early as thirty years ago. For over twenty years doctors told her to simply ‘lose weight’. Most recently it... read more →
Joanne is a retired teacher from Canberra who has struggled with Lipoedema since puberty, with pain and tenderness in her legs. It has since worsened during menopause causing rapid... read more →
Meet Trudy, a 59 year old patient who is 8 months post-surgery. Our patient wants other women to know that even with surgery at almost 60 years of... read more →
This 25-year-old patient has had significant burden with mobility and recently gave birth to her first child. Surgery was staged as a day surgery case with a minimally invasive,... read more →