Read about all the symptoms of Dercums Disease
Lactic acid is produced in the muscles during anaerobic (without oxygen) exercise when the body is converting glucose into energy. Dercums disease has been linked to an impairment in the lymph system’s ability to remove lactic acid, making us susceptible to severe discomfort after even minor activities like walking and stretching. Why does even low-impact […]
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Many years before I was diagnosed with Dercums, I started to develop a strange metallic taste in my mouth. A dentist told me I had Lingua Geografica or Geographic Tongue or benign migratory glossitis in English. It is a disease with no cure. I have had it for more than ten years, but it is
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In this blog post, I will share my personal history with inexplicable weight gain because my story seems to be a textbook example of Dercums Disease weight gain. Inexplicable fat indeed I started gaining weight while my son was little, and I had a significant focus on healthy food. I rode my bike every day,
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As always, I can only speak for myself, but I have read a lot about other patients, and there seems to be a pattern in how we feel pain. Lactic Acid feeling Most of my pains feel like lactic acid after a long run or workout. I use to be a runner, and the feeling
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Dercums is a chronic disease so all treatments are palliative, and there has been a number of people who thinks that compression garments give relief from pain. Swelling during the day I can only speak for myself, and I know that my bra can fit me in the morning, but during the day, it gets
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One of the really tuff symptoms on Dercums Disease is anxiety. It does feel a little different from normal anxiety – so I feel anyway. I can of course only speak for myself. I know anxiety is a big part of how Dercums influence my daily life, and I have to work on it constantly,
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Lipomas are very normal and many people live with them, without ever really noticing them. Normal lipomas do not hurt (other than occasionally) or make any difference, for people without Dercums Disease. Some people even have many lipomas, without having Dercums. Another possible reason to have many lipomas is Multiple Lipomatosis. About 1% of all
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Hi thank you for visiting my new site. If you check out the categories, you will find all about the website and the intention behind it. This site is supposed to provide information for patients and people who wonder if they might suffer from Dercums Disease.Please notice that the admin is no medical expert, but
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