2022 marks my 10-year journey with multiple sclerosis, a rare autoimmune disease. In this time, I’ve learned 10 valuable lessons that I hope can help you too.
Category: Health
This is my journey with multiple sclerosis, a rare autoimmune disease. From details on my attacks to tests to medication insight, I hope my story helps others.
It has been exactly one month since I had my hysterectomy to combat severe primary dysmenorrhea. Here is how I’m doing …
The results are in for my 10-day green smoothie cleanse. Is this diet a trending fad or fantastic? You decide.
“When you move to the USA, you’ll likely put on weight.” I read that when I first researching moving to America. Then I slowly gained weight so I decided to do a 10-day green smoothie cleanse.
I chose to get a hysterectomy based on a serious health problem that is rarely treated due to being disregarded or misdiagnosed. It took nearly 30 years for this one answer: I have severe primary dysmenorrhea.
“I don’t think I’m strong enough,” I told Andy between tears because between the symptoms and doctor visits and tests, the thought of being diagnosed with a second disease was shattering.
I started my health journey terrified of what the future held. Now, here I am — in the ‘future’ from when I was diagnosed — and I have come to learn that a “no news” type of health-lifestyle is exactly what I want.
To say there is a virus, that decisions are made that do not make the most sense, that the world seems to be crumbling around us, and that life is hard — sure, we are all experiencing this. However, if we pause to focus on the positives, there are also parts of life that are super rewarding, incredibly beautiful and these are the parts I’m holding onto.
I thought about much as the machine breathed beside me and my infusion medication dripped into my arm, and I realized that I’m actually living a better life than I ever have, that I’m lucky, that MS has opened my eyes.
Both halves of my first dose of Ocrevus, my new MS infusion medication, are finished. Here’s more about that . . .
We made my first multiple sclerosis infusion be a celebration of sorts and once it was done, I realized there is power in positivity.
On to a decision, on to Disease-Modifying Treatment Number Three: Ocrevus, an infusion medication.
Maybe this is the news I needed to shake me out of my own safety net. Maybe I needed to hear this to stop holding myself back. Maybe — in some warped way — MS will free me.
Exciting news to share: I wrote a piece about multiple sclerosis that was recently published online!