Preparing to Visit Your Doctor: A Handbook For Success
The Dercum Society has put together this printable PDF handbook to assist you with collecting data that your doctor will need to efficiently and accurately assess your health, analyze how your body collects and distributes fat, and bring you closer to an accurate diagnosis. Inside you will find weekly charts to track the increase of your body mass, weight, pain and lipoma development, as well as a simple daily food diary to track your food intake. All of this neatly organized information will prove invaluable as you go through the diagnostic process with your Doctor and your team of specialists.
If you are concerned that you may have Dercum's Disease, we encourage you to download this handbook and begin filling it out before your first visit with your doctor. As you go along, print out extra copies of the weekly and daily charts and continue to fill them out throughout the diagnostic process. Keep all of this in a notebook and be sure to bring it with you to every appointment so that the specialists you see will have all of the information necessary for them to accurately evaluate your situation.
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