Dercum's Disease Research Paper

Dercum’s Disease

Imagine waking up, with painful bumps on your body, questioning how and why this was happening to you, the feeling of your skin clutching with pain from globs of fatty tumors forming beneath your skin. Robbing your energy and strength. This is a rare condition called Dercum’s Disease. This abnormal disease is characterized by multiple, fatty lipomas that occur primarily in postmenopausal, obese women in their middle age. Although 20 times more common in women than in men, 16 percent were reported from men. This can occur even if you’re not obese. Dercum Disease has no cure and with time it tends to progress to a state of severe and painful fatty lipomas. In addition Dercum’s disease is Autosomal Dominant.
In the United States, this disease is rare because it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans. About 6,800 such diseases fit the criterion, according to the National Institutes of Health. Although this disease and it’s in the rare list it affect 30 million Americans all together. Although there isn’t a cure for Dercum’s Disease doctors and scientists have found way to make everything all less painful, like using medication to help reduce the pain. So by using various analgesics have been tried with limited effectiveness. Injections of corticosteroids have also been used to treat individuals with Dercum’s disease. In addition other medications called corticosteroids, dysfunction to help break down adipose tissue metabolism. Lastly depending on the person, options can include weight reduction, surgery for the most painful lipomas, and medications to control pain. Liposuction has been used in some cases. Liposuction improves the quality-of-life slightly in Dercum's disease. Nonetheless, the causality is unclear and the improvement is not big enough to warrant operation. This disease is always hold mysterious secrets on why and what dercum’s disease really
My husband Carl is a recessive carrier; this condition is when your nerve cells in your brain start to break over time. I am a heterozygous dominant and I’ve just turned 39 still suffering from this disorder. I would still have kids, because the risk of of us passing it on to our kids is a 50/50 chance. I am willing to risk this because it happens or it doesn’t. I would not have them tested because I believe it good to live life without stressing out that your child might die at the age of 50, because eventually everyone dies, just some younger than others. It’s the way of life. I would talk to them when they got to the age of understanding adult situations. That it’s their choice if they want to get tested, so if he/she wanted kids of their own. People should get tested if they have a higher risk than me, you shouldn’t worry too much if you it’s lower than my risk because you’re more likely of having healthy children with normal