The word ‘anticipation’ reminds one of the commercial depicting hungry people waiting for their super thick ketchup to start flowing. The key here is that the person waiting is hungry. If you are not hungry, you still anticipate the end, but you don’t care as much. So it is with having a fat disorder and waiting on news of any new research or medication or reason to be hopeful – we are all hungry. Let’s face it; there are too few people investigating fat disorders and these are difficult disorders to figure out – most have been around for over 100 years and many people continue to have no diagnosis and others are suffering.

So what is being done? Here is an update:

1. There is no secret treatment for Dercum’s disease. Some people have benefited from one kind of treatment or another. You can find out everything about treatment possibilities by looking at my website (http://www.lipomadoc.org), calling for an appointment at UCSD (619-543-6303) at the VA (858-552-8585) or at my new location, the Center for Advanced Medicine (760-632-9042). I am at the latter location to see patients and to make available the cyclic variations in altitude cycling altitude simulator(aka CVAC) for those patients and for continued research. Read More→