Kaisa Lee 🤗

Imagine normal fat tissue that becomes “metabolically sick and diseased”.

It is no longer smooth, structured, metabolically active/energy storing and does not respond to exercise or weight loss.

Instead, it becomes inflamed, restructured, fibrotic/thickened, growing into lumps (ranging in size from a pea to a baseball) interwoven with strangled blood vessels, nerves and lymphatic vessels (aka “murder fat”).

It’s extremely painful and causes widespread immune activation, constant inflammation, vascular strain, microclots, cell necrosis, nervous system dysregulation, etc etc....resulting in widespread downstream health effects.

When you try to exercise past a threshold, you end up inflaming the tissue further and depriving it of blood flow and oxygen, resulting in a deep, burning pain so severe you can barely place a foot on the floor.

Imagine pushing it aside while diagnosis pile up and then waiting a year to see the world’s leading specialist/endocrinologist on the under-recognized disease.

Imagine she uses specialized thermal imaging and ultra detailed ultrasound and exclaims “Wow, wow, wow - look at this!” shaking her head multiple times during your scans.

A respected doctor who sees thousands of patients around the world tells you -

“I’ve never seen anything quite like what is happening in your body. There is no doubt you have a complex, unique connective tissue disorder combined with severe immune dysregulation, diseased/fibrotic fat, and concerning vascular implications. It is not supposed to look like that.”

“There is no doubt you have Dercum’s Disease.”

One more piece to the insanely complex health puzzle that took a healthy, 107 lb, muscular, active 33 year old female and broke every system in her body.

#dercumsdisease

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