MY TESTIMONY: For the past 5 years of my life Ive battled with extreme sickness.. Doctors didnt know what was wrong. It started with 3 random Anaphylactic breathing attacks (all 2 months apart) where I was said to die within 5 mins, seconds, & 15 minutes due to my pipes closing quickly. Then, one random day I went for my regular check up at my primary care doctor (no illness had been going on prior to this particular visit) & became randomly immobilized while in the waiting room. I couldnt lift my head, couldnt walk, could barely talk, couldnt move, nothing.. My legs became numb.. They rushed me back to check my vitals & everything was normal. Thought it may have been blood pressure due time past low blood pressure problems in younger years. My doctor called the hospital & told them to prepare for me. My mother & sister carried me to the car & rushed me to the hospital where they received me through the ambulance side & immediately rushed me back. Pain began to consume my body like Id never felt in my life! Excruciating! I still couldnt walk at all, couldnt use the restroom on my own (I had to use a bed pan with assisstance), extremely weak & fatigue, couldnt lift my head, just everything went south... I was in the hospital for a week & a day. & during that course of time, they performed a CT Scan, Ultrasound, EEG, EKG, full body MRI, a lot of blood work, & a Lumbar Puncture. The MRI & Lumbar Puncture was torture, so it felt like.. I felt like I was in a casket with the MRI & dealing with the extreme body pain & laying on that hard surface, not being allowed to move one inch or else Id mess up the test or I would have to stay longer, for those 3 hours was crazy! The Lumber Puncture is when they stick this thick needle about 7/8 inches long into your spine to retrieve fluid from your spine for testing.. They put 2 numbing creams on the area & gave never numbing medicine, & put on a movie & the proceeded to stick this needle in & out, in & out, & in & out of my back that I could still feel........... One of the most painful & uncomfortable procedures to have done. My Neurologist came into my room & said it looks like you have Multiple Sclerosis (MS) & I wouldnt be able to walk, dance, run, or anything of that sort for a many months after that. My mother & I cried instantly.. Even the doctor began to cry.. Then he hugged me, gave me encouraging words, then left. I stopped crying & told my mother to stop crying because in other other words, Gods got this! & Im gonna walk before I leave this hospital I had completely lost my muscle within 24 hours. My muscles literally dropped.. I begin to try to force myself to walk during the day & when they cut the lights off on that floor at night Id still be trying to walk with the assistance of my mother, my father, & sometimes my nurses. I started off dragging my legs then slowly but surely my feet began time pick up off the ground a tinch at a time.. My doctor came back & said the other test results came back & you DO NOT have MS & all your tests are normal. I screamed on the inside!! He then said But, your MRI shows that your brain has holes in the white matter part of your brain, which is the nervous system part of your brain & he showed us the pictures of all the holes.. Painful to hear, but I knew I had to keep moving in faith. All the doctors & nurses called me a mystery case! They didnt know what exactly was going on with me at all! So, they then put me on physical therapy.. All I could think was exercising has never been so painful & forcing my body to what they asked felt like a truck was running over me & bricks were sitting on my body.......They gave me a walker that day & I received it. Later that I gave it back & said give that to someone who needs it they looked surprised like shes really serious about this.. I was determined to walk & to walk on my own before I left that hospital.....& I did. :) After I left, I had to be off & on many different meds. I had to see a few different doctors because they still didnt know what was going on. They concluded that I had Fibromyalgia, seizures, hypoglycemia, some circulation issues, & they are looking into a New diagnosis.......& they still arent sure what happened. Im still the mystery case! After I left the hospital, I had to go through many days of extreme pain (skin, bones, muscles, fingernails, toe nails, everything literally), black & blurred vision, weakness, not being able to move, talk, breathe, or walk. I starting needing up to 18 hours of sleep a day. I had time stay in dark rooms often times. I had to deal with medicine reactions. They told me every time I have a seizure it breaks down my organs, if I dont stay active my muscles will deteriate & everything will follow until I eventually die to Fibromyalgia, my immune system had weakened so it caused me to have Strep Throat often & many colds & viruses. Fluctuating weight. Couldnt bathe myself. Couldnt lift anything over 2 pounds. Couldnt sing with my family. I had to attend Physical & Aquatic Physical Therapy for about a year & I had to finish school in a homeschooling program for sick students. I couldnt do a lot in life for a while.. I couldnt for anywhere! Couldnt drive or work. Doctors always told me to keep my stress levels down. I was sick every single day & night. I never had energy. I just felt like life had just been sucks out of me. But God! I am now walking & run on my own(I have some pain & itching when I walk/run too long or too much tho), I dont have anywhere near as much pain in my body, I can lift things that usually take a man to lift, I can see all the time, I can breathe all the time, I can dance, I can sing, I have LIFE!!!!! NO meds, only as needed! No more physical therapy! I still have seizures & hypoglycemic attacks, but nowhere near as much I use to!
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:32:56 +0000
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