24/12/2023
A quick lesson about autoimmune diseases. It takes an average of 3 years and 5 doctors for a person to get a proper diagnosis of an autoimmune disease. I just wish more people understood what an autoimmune disease is. It is not a cold or the flu. Medications that treat these include malaria medications, cancer medications, steroids, and biologics, to name a few, and these have their side effects on their own. Just eating a salad and hitting the gym won’t slim your face or get the pounds off. Sleeping 10 hours doesn’t leave you well rested, ever. Last minute changes in plans because of that “just got run over” feeling. Achy joints and bones, dry skin, breaking hair, mood swings, and depression are just the tip of the iceberg. You are also prone to having multiple autoimmune diseases. The “put together on the outside,” rarely matches the raging battle on the inside.
I am watching the ones who will take the time to read this entire post and react.
Please, in honor of someone who is fighting Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Myasthenia Gravis, LEMS, POTS, MCAD, Sjogren's, Scleroderma, Hashimoto Disease, Hypothyroidism, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Lupus, Erythmalagia, ITP, Sarcoidosis, Pigmented Purpuric Dermatosis, CVID, RSDS, Hepatitis, Raynaud's Syndrome, Diabetes, Mold Illness, Celiac, Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, Pemphigus, Neuropathy, SPS, PBC, Psoriatic Arthritis, CIDP, Behcet's, Alopecia, PCOS, MMN And GPA
Paste to your page and reply "DONE" on mine.
Unfortunately, most of us know someone fighting against one or more Autoimmune Diseases.
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Thank you For A Friend