A reminder of the past..

I was searching at work for something, and came across this word document. It stated " Medical Problems 3.10". I decided to open it and I couldn't believe HOW MUCH pain I was in and how bad it hurt!! I think this is an AWESOME reminder of how far I have progressed in the last year, and also a testament to Eastern Medicine aka holistic healing.

03.10

Head

·         Lesions in mouth/swollen/inflamed gums (seems to correspond with flares)

·         Headaches

·         Superior Limbic Kerotosis (SLK)

o   Inflammation of eyes

o   Cornea surgeries

o   Dry eyes

o   Worse with hormones

·         Extreme light sensitivity

·         Rash/hives on face (cheeks and underneath eyes)

·         Cysts behind ears

·         Break-outs randomly and no reason. Just comes and goes

·         Migraines

·         Lose lots of hair.. no clumps but just tons of hair

·         Lips go numb sometimes & hives on either right side or left side of face

Stomach

·         Sensitivities to food other than meat/veggies

·         Diarrhea/stomach cramps or constipated – to extremes, never “normal”

·         Worse with hormones

·         Nauseated randomly

·         Not much of an appetite

·         Eating sucks for me

Girlie parts

·         Endometriosis (surgery at 19)

·         Prone to UTIs

o   Current Doc ran test- high e-coli and put on Macrodante

·         Inflammation always worse with hormones/period

·         Heavy period for 4-5 days

·         Heavy cramps

·         Bleed rectally/vaginally

·         Take UTI pills, comes out rectally

·         Stomach always worse with hormones

·         Can’t take birth control- period 3 weeks and constant pain/nausea/bleeding

·         Gained 5lbs in a week with birth control

·         Allergic to condoms

o   Painful after intercourse

o   Have to take a Cystex to help pain every night

·         Ovarian/Breast Cysts

·         Infection on breast which was removed and drain pipe for 1-2 weeks

Hands/Feet

·         Swollen on sides

·         Itchy

·         Red and burning

·         Bruising

·         Turn white/blue or reddish/pink depending on temp

·         Hot/cold

o   Hands freezing cold or hot

§  Extreme sensitivity to hot/cold (painful tingling/rash if to extreme)

§  Sometimes husband says hands not the temperature I think they are

·         Hands red, itchy and swollen

Over-all general

·         Prone to bad infections/random cysts

·         Allergic to most anti-botics

o   Penicillin, sulfa, “macin”

o   Prednisone makes me horribly ill

·         Get shaky / trembly / weak and freezing cold

·         No sleep cycle- If I sleep 4 hours or 12 hrs doesn’t matter

·         Blood does not clot when cut or surgery even needles

·         Very easily bruising

·         Usually when “sick” my spleen swollen and/or hurts to touch

·         Night sweats bad

·         Always get very, very sick after surgery and never recover well

·         Hives, random hives or red rashes.