And It's About Time There Was Some Support For Cushing's!
I live in NJ and I am a 36 year old single mother of 3 (soon to
be divorced), my oldest has ADHD and my youngest is autistic.
For as long as I can remember I have always had to make a great effort in order
for me to be organized in my life. I now believe that I have suffered from
depression for many years...It got worse as I got older I was always very slim
before I got my menstruation at the age of 11, after that I just got out of
control, which of course I got even more depressed I had very low self esteem,
it did not help that my family life was also dysfunctional.
When I married in 86 I thought I would have a family right away since it has not
been a problem conceiving in my family, but of course lucky me had to go through
it. I started routine testing a year later and my doctor sent me to do a cat
scan and of course I had a terrible time because I was allergic to the dye.
Chest pains, trouble breathing , terrible rash it was loads of fun. But anyway I
remember when the Doc said to me it came out positive for a brain tumor, but
don't worry a lot of people go through life having this and they never even know
it and besides it is too small, and the more babies you have the smaller they
will get just check on it some day. And that was that I went into hormones
treatments for one month then I quit because my menses where just too painful
and I had decided to work a little more on my marriage before trying to get
pregnant. Just my luck 6 months later I got pregnant without any medical help
and then the following year and then 2 years later I was like a rabbit. So I
figured that this brain thing was just no problem I was going to be like one of
the many people that have it and never knew about it. Meanwhile during all this
time during my pregnancies and the times that I was not I was experiencing
terrible panic attacks, depression, headaches, massive weight gain, lost my
looks, heart palpitations, snoring, dizziness and the very worse forgetfulness I
seem to just go blank on many many things and a whole lot more. But I never made
a connection I had been to tons of Drs and everything was normal in the lab
work.
In the last year and a half I have been through a lot with my separation from my
husband (not to mention when my kids for diagnosed with ADHD and another autism
needless to say that I did not have time to concentrate on myself) I have had to
juggle everything myself but eventually I managed to get things done. for the
last 3 months I have been unusually very tired my knees joints, elbows and wrist
joints hurt so bad and everything else have gotten worse. I was to the point of
accepting that I was going to have a stroke soon and no one would ever know from
what until it clicked to me HUMM let me look in the internet for brain tumors
and see if I can find anything that might be connected to what I am feeling but
of course I was thinking to myself I AM WASTING MY TIME WITH THIS. HOW WRONG I
WAS BINGO!!! I was so HAPPY. happy to know what I had at last..
I want to say of how much this site has helped me to feel less anxious, this
site is just wonderful. I am on my way to getting some blood work done. I went
to my Dr last night and he was like oh I tell you the internet has helped people
be more aware of so many diseases that they make my work easier. but of course
he said well maybe what you have is not that exotic maybe it is just your
thyroid (here we go again) I am looking forward to your chat tonight.
Thanks again to everyone that have contributed there Bios I felt that sharing my
story with you would be the least that I could do.
very truly yours
Wanda
