I'M ALIIIIIVE
I almost typed "I'M ALIIIIICE" in the title. Whoopsies.
So, I'm still alive. Yup. I've been busy trying to figure out just what the heck is wrong with me healthwise, and after several months of hurting and fatigue and several doctors, it has been determined by a rheumatologist that I have undifferentiated connective tissue disease.
What does that mean?
It means there's something wrong with me, something like systemic lupus erythematosus, or rheumatoid arthritis, but I don't have enough specific symptoms or test results to say just what precisely is wrong with me. It could stay like this, or it could progress into lupus or RA or something else.
What does that mean?
I can be treated for my achiness and my fatigue through medicine. Plaquenil, or hydroxychloroquine, is used to treat most connective tissue diseases anyway, so even if I don't have a "specific" one, it can still be treated.
Guess what?
I've been on the meds for around six or seven weeks now, and I'm feeling...normal. Awake for the first time in my life; for the first time since middle school, I feel actually alive and aware of what's going on around me. I don't feel drugged or like I'm going to fall asleep at every second. I'm nowhere near as achy as I used to be, and it's only getting better.
Basically, and I know this sounds ridiculous and maybe a little overdramatic, but...my life has been renewed, reopened to me. I actually feel like a normal life is possible. All thanks to the doctors who finally listened and figured it out.
...HUZZAH.
(Oh, this also means that, once I get my strength and such back up--as staying home and doing little due to fatigue for around six months doesn't exactly do wonders to one's ability to be out and about--I'll be able to have an actual social life and spend time with friends. TIME WITH FRIENDS OH MY GOD WHAT'S THAT?! XD;; )
-=J. Arashi
So, I'm still alive. Yup. I've been busy trying to figure out just what the heck is wrong with me healthwise, and after several months of hurting and fatigue and several doctors, it has been determined by a rheumatologist that I have undifferentiated connective tissue disease.
What does that mean?
It means there's something wrong with me, something like systemic lupus erythematosus, or rheumatoid arthritis, but I don't have enough specific symptoms or test results to say just what precisely is wrong with me. It could stay like this, or it could progress into lupus or RA or something else.
What does that mean?
I can be treated for my achiness and my fatigue through medicine. Plaquenil, or hydroxychloroquine, is used to treat most connective tissue diseases anyway, so even if I don't have a "specific" one, it can still be treated.
Guess what?
I've been on the meds for around six or seven weeks now, and I'm feeling...normal. Awake for the first time in my life; for the first time since middle school, I feel actually alive and aware of what's going on around me. I don't feel drugged or like I'm going to fall asleep at every second. I'm nowhere near as achy as I used to be, and it's only getting better.
Basically, and I know this sounds ridiculous and maybe a little overdramatic, but...my life has been renewed, reopened to me. I actually feel like a normal life is possible. All thanks to the doctors who finally listened and figured it out.
...HUZZAH.
(Oh, this also means that, once I get my strength and such back up--as staying home and doing little due to fatigue for around six months doesn't exactly do wonders to one's ability to be out and about--I'll be able to have an actual social life and spend time with friends. TIME WITH FRIENDS OH MY GOD WHAT'S THAT?! XD;; )
-=J. Arashi