I started having symptoms 5 years ago with discomfort and pain in my abdomen and racing heartbeat.
I lived in Litchfield, MN at the time and the Dr couldn't find anything.!! October of 2015 I started to get really sick.
They diagnosed me with depression. I did loose my dad and 3 cousins within 3 months BUT I started having trouble breathing and all sorts of weird stuff.
I ended up in the ER one night and the Dr reading the X-ray was worried about enlarged lymph nodes on my chest.
I also tested positive for mono so they send me home for 3 weeks then rechecked X-ray.
I got VERY SICK. But I thought it was just mono, I never had it before.
Half my body went numb. Dr didn't have any answers for that... I switched Dr's.
She was a Nurse practitioner but she took my condition very seriously. Finally!!! She did a lot of testing. I had a biopsy done in St Cloud, MN and it came back sarcoidosis.
Meanwhile waiting to see a pulmonary Dr, I was in so much pain and agony they started me on 40mg of prednisone.
Dec 31th of 2015 I had my first stroke.
9 days at St Mary's hospital, domatilla, stroke unit. Day 5, I had another stroke during an angiogram...
Many many tests later I was diagnosed with
Neurosarcoidosis
A PFO
Factor V Leiden
Mayo Clinic put me on 60mg of prednisone along with a bunch of other junk including methotrexate.
April 2016 I was diagnosed with AVN of the hips and knees.
I tapered off prednisone and methotrexate and had hip surgery June 14th
Feb 8th 2017 I had a reaction to vaccines they told me I had to have.
It almost paralyzed me. I still have trouble walking some days.