Health Update

I have no idea what is going on with my health. I have been feeling pretty well lately. I still have to take a short rest in the afternoons, and I am not going to run a marathon anytime soon. In August of 2007, I started getting really fatigued. Not just tired, but fatigued where I had to sit down for a couple of hours after only being up and around for a couple of hours. Then I started getting weaker to the point where I had a hard time lifting a gallon of milk. I couldn't walk for very long and then I started noticing slurred speech. I went to doctors and they didn't know what was going on. Fortunately, toward November I started feeling better. I never got back to my old self, but I could function and felt pretty good. Then, this past August it all came back only much worse. Chris grew very concerned and, since I started back to school this year, it was really taking a toll. In addition to all the old symptoms, it became harder to breathe and swallow. It never got to the point that I thought I needed hospitalization, it was just as if I was breathing through a straw. The doctors I'm seeing now have prescribed a medication that helps and for the past week or so, I haven't had to take it. Weird, right?

I'm supposed to have another appoinment with the neurologist on Dec. 3rd for a nerve conduction study. So we'll see what he has to say. He says that from his exam and my symptoms, he feels that what I have is myasthenia gravis. I've done some research on it and fortunately, it's a manageable disorder. For those interested, I found that the information found at www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/myasthenia_gravis/myasthenia_gravis.htm is very helpful. Also, the Mayo Clinic has some good info. That site is: www.mayoclinic.com/health/myasthenia-gravis/DS00375.

So for now, we'll see what happens.