I've decided to finally tell my story. My whole story. Last year around February I started feeling really shitty. So my mom took me to our local doctor. My doctor had no clue what might be wrong, but he tooke a blood sample and urine sample too. When they got the tests back my doctor though it could be lyme disease, arthritis, lupus, etc. There was so many options. He prescribed Aleve for me to take for the pain, it hardly helpled. I felt like an old woman, my joints hurt so bad. Then he took more blood. After the second set of blood tests came back Dr, Harper still couldn't figure it out. It deffinately wasn't lyme disease though. My doctor reffered me to a joint specialist or rheumatoligist at Cooperstown hospital. His name was Dr. Raddatz. When I first went to see him he was very nice. He took more blood, and he ordered an ankle x-ray. My ankle most deffinately wasn't broken, but it hurt so bad. After seeing Dr. Raddatz for about 3 or 4 months I had been through. A full body cat scan, numerous chest x-rays, and An MRI and countless blood tests. All this time i was feeling so crappy. To crappy to eat, too crappy to walk, too crappy to go to school. the next time I saw Dr. Raddatz he told me to stop going to school. That was very depressing for me and very realiving all at the same time. Around May, or June. My doctor finall diagnosed me with Juvenille Rheumatoid Arthritis. And Hypothyroidism. For me this was the end of the world. It meant no more sports, and an end to life as I knew it. Juvenille Rheumatoid Arthritis is a type of arthritis that only kids get. 1 out of 1000 kids gets it. Its not contagious or anything like that. I got it from my immune system overreaccting and attacking my joint tissues wich makes them very sore. Hypothyroidism is also an immune system disorder in which my thyroid glad doesnt produce enough thyroid stuff and this causes me to be tired most of the time, have a hard time focusing, be cold all the time and be suseptible to weight gain. So after finding all of this out I became quite depressed. I had absolutly no appitite and I lost weight very quickly. The next time I went to the doctors, I was at an all time Low I felt so shitty and I only weighed 77 pounds. Dr. Raddatz said I needed to stay in the hospital for a couple days. So I did. After that I began feeling so much better. And I improved so incredibly. If it wasn't for modern science I might still be bed ridden and sick. I now take 12 pills of methotrexate weekly on tuesdays. I do self-injections of Enbrel on wednesadays and sundays. And I take prednisone, folic acid and Levothyroxine daily. The one thing that i hate so much about all of this is hat no one understands how I feel sometimes. Not even my best friends or my parents. It sucks but i'm so thankful to be alive
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