Overweight Grandma on too many meds

Just found out I am going to be a granny! I am with you....I want this to be a healthy time of my life to enjoy my family, friends and me! Here is to a new you...today is a new day! :flowerforyou:

Not a granny or a mom (only 23!), but I have two autoimmune disease and a slightly low thyroid, so I understand how difficult a journey this can be, but I'm sure it can be done. So let's go! :happy:

Buccinator - these autoimmune diseases are rotten but we CAN overcome them!! Just gotta stay strong. I was 29 before I had my problems. I HATE that you are so young to be dealing with this!!

I've been sick for the past three years, so I started around 20. I can't imagine the people who have these types of diseases their whole lives or from childhood. It's heartbreaking. I was recently diagnosed (two weeks ago) at the Mayo Clinic and I'm waiting to get all my results back so I haven't even really started on meds for it yet. So this is part of a HUGE change for me. Diet, exercise, meds, getting my life on track now that I finally know what is going on! Excited, overwhelmed, READY!

Can I ask what you suffer from? So glad you got to Mayo. A great place to be!!

You just stay positive honey and you will be okay! And I pray you have a sense of humor. Life can be hard but we can enjoy every day of our lives if we just try!

I can tell you, but I doubt you've heard of it. (Most of my doctors haven't, that's why no one could help me except for Mayo!) I have morphea scleroderma (a skin rash) that also attacks the joints. And undifferentiated connective tissue disease, which basically means I have several signs of a bunch of different autoimmune diseases, but my body hasn't decided which one yet. Fun, huh? And yes, I have a sense of humor, but it sure is hard sometimes. You have no idea how many times I've begged my BCU (Buccinator Care Unit) to let me run away and hide in a cave because I'm tired of them seeing me suffer with no doctors being able to help me, but finally Mayo knows what wrong and they know what medications to try, I just have to wait for their darn paperwork to get here!

I have heard of scleroderma!! An acquaintance of mine has it. I haven't talked to her in a long time tho and not sure of her symptoms. Plus isn't there a movie about this disease? Bob Saget wrote it about his sister. Maybe there are different kinds tho and this isn't the one you have.

Have you thought you were crazy? That no one understood? That it was all in your head? Oh honey, I feel for you. It is so hard when dr's can't figure it out and friends and family just don't get it!!! Praying you can find the meds you need now that you know what it is!! Please don't hide in a cave!!! You are going to be able to help someone going thru the same thing one day!! You are going to be a blessing to others that go thru similar problems!!

I don't know if there's a movie, I will have to look into it! I'm interested in finding out! I never really thought I was crazy because I had several different things wrong with my blood (sed rate, ANA, C-Reactive protein, a few other things I can't remember, plus an MRI of my wrist showed I had arthritis), so I KNEW there was proof I was sick, but it was SO frustrated that the doctors just couldn't put it together. They knew I was sick, but they were just unwilling to treat me since they couldn't tell which disease it was. But Mayo said Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease needs to be treated whether it's decided what it wants to be or not. And so many people have asked if I'm upset about this happening to me and I've always said no because 1.) It brought me closer to God. 2.) It made me appreciate the little things. 3.) I understand what sick people are going through now. So yes, I believe I will be able to help others some day because of this!