Five years ago, I posted a video describing health problems I had been experiencing throughout my 30s. After a dozen medical specialists, I had few answers. Ultimately, I was diagnosed (again) with Lyme disease and Bartonella--both infections from ticks--and later I was also diagnosed with mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), an allergic disorder that in many cases co-occurs with Lyme disease.
Now it's 2020, and we're in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, seven months into lockdown. I feel better than I did five and 10 years ago, but I have some scary new medical findings that could be life threatening.
Thanks to everyone who has viewed my older videos and left comments. As I say in those videos, the reason I put these out into the world is in the hope of providing some solace at the very least, and potentially some leads, for anyone who is going through anything similar. When I was in my darkest place physically, emotionally and diagnostically, videos posted by a young woman with multiple sclerosis helped me to cope with that I was experiencing. So in case you're wondering, my only intention with these videos is to try to do accomplish the same thing.
18 сен 2024
