11/30/2023
A quick lesson about autoimmune diseases. It takes an average of 3 years and 5 doctors for a person to get a proper diagnosis of an autoimmune disease. I just wish more people understood what an autoimmune disease is. It is not a cold or the flu, you will never get better, and even a nap will not help. Just eating a salad and hitting the gym won’t slim your face or get the pounds off. Sleeping 10 hours doesn’t leave you well rested, ever. Last minute changes in plans because that “just got ran over” feeling never makes appointments, just walks in whenever you aren’t ready. Achy joints and bones, dry skin, breaking hair, mood swings, and depression are just the tip of the iceberg. You are also prone to having multiple autoimmune diseases.
The “put together on the outside”, rarely matches the raging battle on the inside. How the autoimmune disease is affecting your organs, and mental health with the struggle of coping with the many changes in lifestyle to the changes you can’t control.
I am watching the ones who will take the time to read this entire post and react.
Please, in honor of someone who is fighting POTS, MCAD, Sjogren's, Scleroderma, Hashimoto Disease, Hypothyroidism, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Sarcoidosis, CVID, RSDS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hepatitis, Raynauld's Syndrome, Diabetes, Mold Illness, Celia Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, Pemphigus, Neuropathy, SPS, MS, PBC, Psoriatic Arthritis, CIDP, Behcet's, Alopecia, MMN And GPA .Copy and paste to your page and reply "DONE" on mine.
Unfortunately, most of us know someone fighting against one or more Autoimmune Diseases. 🙏🏻 ❤️💙💚💜Thank you!💞
Reposted for all those who don’t know and the ones that do.
