Dercum's Disease
"I was in so much pain and the other options, like Lyrica and Cymbalta, gave me serious allergic reactions. The only problem I had was that no doctor besides Dr Karen Herbst in AZ (a specialist in Dercum&#039;s Disease), understood the extreme pain of this disease. At least, not in my HMO, Kaiser Permanente here in Northern California. I had a month&#039;s worth of 25mcg fentanyl patches and for the last three weeks I have been on them, I have been able to be a &quot;Mom&quot; again and participate with the family, take care of them and join in actually living my life again. I am at a loss on how to convince the pain doctors at my Kaiser that this &quot;chronic pain&quot;  patient&#039;s quality of life is greatly improved by the use of opoids, in this case the Fentanyl patch"