Jeska
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Hellooo I am new to this support group.. and I think it would be interesting to find out how others are feeling or just about their stories. I was diagnosed with lupus in November 2007.. I was beginning to feel very fatigue, no energy for anything, headaches for a month straight, rashes, organs hurting, my fingers, wrist, feet, ankles would be swollen but I always just thought it was my Rheumatoid Arthritis. (Diagnosed in 2004). I never did anything about it until i had a regular doctor appt with my physician, she ran as many as 5 test on me that day. I had to wait for the results to come back, after they came back i went to go see my Rheumatologists, he was the one who diagnosed me with Lupus. To double check, my Rheumatologists asked me to do a MRI and a Spinal Tap and sure enough i have lupus. The first time I found out I already had a feeling it was true because my grandma on my dads side has it; which means my dad has the antibody of it. I have been hospitalized twice ever since then. The two times I was hospitalized was during my senior year. I was stressing myself out because I didn't think I would graduate my family, friends, and doctors told me not to because it would cause a flare and it did. I had missed about a total of five months of school. Almost the whole month of January. Then Feb 4th-May 15th. Even though I was gone that long I was still able to gra[/color]duate only beca[/color]use I had tons and tons of doctor notes. (Those always come in handy). As each day passes it makes me only stronger. Post edited by: Jeska, at: 11/21/2008 11:56 |
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