The pain was so severe Ginger Harvey wanted to die.

Hundreds of fatty tumors — known as lipomas — riddled her entire body, pressing on her nerves, causing searing, excruciating pain.

Harvey’s doctors were baffled — the cause of the painful growths was a mystery. The only prescribed treatment was twice-monthly surgeries to remove the lumps from her arms, legs and torso. But the lipomas, which ranged in size from a pea to a golf ball, rapidly returned. As they grew, they ripped and tore at her nerves like a hot, jagged knife cutting her from the inside.

After years of suffering, in constant pain without a definitive diagnosis, Harvey was in despair.

Her surgeon, Dr. Dan Wesche, injected her with a local anesthesia for a two-hour routine removal of some of the growths. But after numerous operations her body had become accustomed to the numbing drugs and they wore off within minutes. She says the scalpel became like a dagger as the surgeon removed the tumors. Read Full Story...