I am curious to know what disease or diseases people have and what are the biggest misconceptions that people have about your disease. What is the hardest part about having the disease that you have? Serious responses only please.
2006-07-01 10:39:52 · 8 answers · asked by UnderGrad Student 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome. Because it is a serious chronic life threatening disease that is invisible....meaning I look fine but I am not fine.
It has caused me alot of problems. Heart attack, mini strokes, blood clots and neuro problems.
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2006-07-08 10:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by hello 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have ADHD... the biggest misconception is that people are hyper and insane and uncontrolable which is not true... there are some that are very reserved but have a hard time paying attention or focusing.
The hardest part about my disease is that it makes it hard for me to even be able to enjoy a book or really spend time and do a puzzle in my spare time which alot of people can do. I hate how my mind races a million miles an hour and I feel like I have no control over my thoughts sometimes.
2006-07-01 17:45:43 · answer #2 · answered by Tara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have sacroiliac joint dysfunction, which is considered a spinal disorder. It most often happens when there is an injury to the joint that connects the spinal column to the pelvis. This occurs mostly in women because the female pelvis is wider. I injured my back in 1999 after slipping on a patch of ice in my back yard.
Some days are very good and I have nearly perfect mobility, but some days my back muscles will tighten up and my whole lower back will be sore. Every once in a while the joint will "slip" (that's what it feels like) and I will be in some pain for a few hours. That happened two years ago as I was getting dressed, and I was laid up for three days because the joint was pinching my sciatic nerve, causing pain and numbness in my left leg. When I have a really bad day, my leg will go to sleep.
Ever since my injury, I have not been able to lie flat at all. I have to be careful of how I lay in bed because if I fall asleep in a bad position, I'll wake up sore. I also have to watch how I sit in chairs, because the shape of the seat might make my leg go to sleep.
2006-07-01 18:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by krissydahs93 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis. As diseases go I guess it is not the worst by far. I have concern that it may progress to thyroid cancer but as cancers go that is also by far not the worst. The worst part about it is I suffered from this for the last 19 years and went undiagnosed until I developed a goiter too large to ignore. The reliance that doctors place on the TSH test alone for diagnosis led to my worsening symptoms being ignored and minimized for years and them telling me to go home and deal with it. "You cant expect to feel like a teenager all your life". When I finally talked my doctor into doing the antibody test the reading was off the scale. I had to switch doctors three times after the discovery of the goiter to finally find a sympathetic expert who agreed to prescribe a low dose of levothyroxine. I am very thankful that I have access to and can afford thyroid medication, and didn't take "go home and deal with it" for the rest of my life. It got so bad I really didn't want to live this way any more. 20 minutes after I took the first tiny tablet I felt about 100 years younger. It was if I had finally come fully awake for the first time in years.
I firmly believe that going undiagnosed with this underlying condition all those years led to a host of unneccessary medical and surgical treatments for various nasty conditions that pretty much resolved themselves immediately after going on thyroid medication. I have struggled with depression most of my adult life and that seems to have evaporated. The misconception that people have is that thyroid disease only affects one's thyroid gland when it affects virtually everything about you, from your mood and energy level to everything else about your body. What I hate about having this the most, frankly, is carrying more weight around than I should and the way an overweight person is treated in our society. Especially women.
2006-07-01 18:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by laurel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antisocial Personality Disorder
2006-07-01 17:43:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suffer from incontinence. I've had this since age 12. I'm now 20 as of the 3rd of this month. I think it's the most annoying disorder anyone can ever live with.The constant trips to the pharmacy,the frequent changing of goodnites at bedtime,then during the day going to the bathroom to change my Depend underwear in malls,grocery stores,all kinds of shopping centers and in the middle of errands. This disorder absolutly sucks d***! I can sympathise for others on here who also suffer from incontinence.
2006-07-05 05:06:32 · answer #6 · answered by James A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have Lupus, not the systemic but the discoid type. So my first symptoms were lesions on my face. I was scared at first because my dad had just died from cancer, I just knew it was melanoma. I finally had a bx done. I got some prescription ointments and I'm fine. I just stay out of the sun and try to live stress free!
2006-07-01 17:44:43 · answer #7 · answered by m_tlgtexpress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have Obbessive Complusion Disorder.. (O.C.D)
2006-07-01 18:49:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋