12/03/2026
After the POV episode aired, I had a lot of viewers reaching out to me regarding surgery.
Let’s put this out there: surgery should not be your first option.
The reason is simple — there is no point having surgery if, both before and after, you are not living the lipedema lifestyle.
Why?
Because there is no cure for lipedema.
Until the day you close your eyes forever, you will need to keep doing everything necessary to stop it from progressing and to avoid regrowth.
So if someone thinks surgery will get rid of it forever, you are very wrong.
You still need to:
• Eat an anti-inflammatory diet
• Drink the appropriate amount of water
• Wear flat-knit compression
• Have MLD treatments (maybe not as frequently as before surgery, but they still go hand-in-hand with compression)
• Keep moving so your lymphatic system keeps flowing
Another question I have been asked over and over again is:
“Where did you have your surgery?”
I chose to travel all the way from Australia to Spain to have my condition treated medically, not cosmetically.
I never cared about the aesthetic of my legs — I wanted to improve my mobility.
So I had my surgery with LipiMedical.
However, for those in Malta, there is also a very good surgeon performing the same surgery with an excellent team around him — Dr Hamza, who was recently one of the speakers at the last Lipedema Congress held in Rome.
Also please consider getting properly medically diagnosed before jumping into any conclusions.
For those who think surgery is an easy walk in the park — the photos shown here are from my surgery and the recovery process.
12 months on:
• I still feel numbness and sensitivity to touch in my skin
• I still wear my compression — if I don’t, I swell up
• I still have MLD (not weekly like the 3 years prior to surgery, but now every 3 weeks)
• I still do my leg pumps for 1 hour daily
• I still step on my vibration plate
• I still follow the same nutrition as before
Nothing changed except my mobility.
