Welcome to my health blog. I am a 29 year old living with a range of strange and confusing medical symptoms and conditions including various functional/neurological disorders, Endometriosis, PCOS, Raynaud's Disease and seronegative Hughes Syndrome. This blog is to document my struggle with doctors and the impact these illnesses have on my life. I hope that in some small way, my experiences will give others who are in similar situations some sort of strength or some form of comfort. Thanks for visiting!
Some may question my choice of title but if you are ill constantly and seem to always have your brain on pain and discomfort that's making your life very difficult, you begin to feel that perhaps you are a hypochondriac or what's worse, that other people see you as one. Whether you are or not, you still feel pain, sadness, and dispair which brings me to this quote from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling:
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" - Albus Dumbledore
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Purple spot!
Today is not such a good day. Started off by having a shower and donning some DVT stockings afterwards to see if this would help my legs at all as the pharmacist recommended this a couple of weeks ago. I got ready and went with my step mum to the local supermarket to get some bits and have lunch. Almost immediately I noticed a pain on the top of my left foot. Soon after, another pain started in my back, right hand side just below my shoulder blade. When we sat down to eat I noticed a purple blob in my right hand, below and to the left of my knuckle. I don't like the appearance of something like this as it looks very similar to the dark purple lump that appeared on my kneecap after I was thrombolysed. After we ate it was time to pick up a few bits but soon I got another pain, the same as the other two in my head and I started to feel quite sick. I can feel the left side of my mouth weakly trying to pull a bit but it's not gone into the usual droop/spasm. I don't like this, it's worrying and I don't understand what's going on :(. Functional? I don't know about functional purple blobs.
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