All of these physicians were either uninterested or untrained – I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had to write down lipoedema for them because they have never heard of it or assume I am mispronouncing lymphoedema.
Dress in your finest Lorna Jane (good luck finding anything below the waist that fits, including shoes that will lace up) and quote Michelle Bridges about BMI and calories in, calories out all you like, it won’t make a scrap of difference, you’ll just regret more money wasted on the hope that one day, with hard work and self-deprivation, you might look “normal”.
Swimming helps with pain, circulation & cardio – if you’re brave enough to wear a swimsuit as your thighs gently swing and slosh like a fat-shaming pendulum as other swimmers stare at the space where your ankles should be. Swimming feels great but it won’t burn lipoedema fat. Nothing does.
I was expected to be in a wheelchair by the time I was 50 at the rate my lipoedema was advancing. Family tree research shows a gt gt grandmother’s obituary disclosed the last two decades of her life was spent as a bedridden invalid suffering from “rheumatic gout” who nevertheless maintained a cheerful disposition and comfort from her Bible.
Screw that!
Imagine a future where our daughters don’t have to suffer the physical and emotional limits and lost opportunities from lipoedema – and a public health service that can proudly states it budgets the tax dollars it is employed to manage in a way that not only provides corrective surgery to those taxpayers and citizens unable to self fund corrective surgery and preventative healthcare (such as lymphatic massage, orthopoedic footwear & compression garments), but is capitalising on a massive women’s health issue that will train medical community to lead research and advance the medical field.
Women are currently flying from Australia, South Africa and other nations to access corrective surgery for lipoedema in the UK, Germany & the US. There is no reason why Australia, who was once on track to be the “clever country” shouldn’t be leading the world in the field of lipoedema treatment and attracting those overseas patients to the benefit of the Australian economy whilst improving the economic opportunities and quality of life for Aussie sufferers and health providers trained to specialise.
(Bit of funding to CSIRO wouldn’t go astray either, while we’re at it).
This isn’t welfare giveaway for fatties unable to put down the Nutella jar. (Let me nip that right in the bud before you start, Miranda Devine.)
It’s an opportunity for Australian women and its healthcare “industry” that has positive outcomes for sufferers, healthcare providers and the economy.
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