I'm 29 years old
I'm married
I'm a teacher
I developed arthritis the summer of 2004. I started to experience some direct membrane swelling or I thought I was in July. Two months later I couldn't walk, had great difficulty moving my hands and the most severed pain I had ever experience. I didn't know it was possible to be in so much pain.
I don't know why it took the doctor so long to put me on proper medicine. Maybe it was my age after all I was only 23 years old. The months went by and I did nothing but get worse. Every dag I woke up, I was worse than the day before. My arthritis started in my right ankle with pain and impaired mobility then gradually it found the way up to the knee, the thigh, the hip next it was the hand then the shoulder, neck. The next stop for the arthritis was my face, I got in my jaws, my ears, my eyebrows then the arthritis continued to the left side and did the same thing there. Basically I think I got it in every muscle attachment of my body and in the joints as well. For you people which have arthritis you know what I experienced, you know the the pain, the impaired mobility that follows, the anxiety and despair. I was so scared those months which I woke up worse than the day before. I didn't know what was going on, nothing seemed to work and the pain was killing me. I couldn't sleep because of the pain, I cried almost every day out of pain and I thought my life was over. It's very hard to live a normal life when you are in such agony.
My family and friends were worried sick about me specially since my conditions only got worse. My best friends' mother recommended that I would go and see her doctor. I did so and that was truly the best thing that I could do. The new doctor put me on methotrexate and I started gradually to feel better. The arthritis slowly went to a remission. It took three years for me to get back on my feet. The year 2007 was the year when I stopped being scared because the pain wasn't longer killing me and I could walk and use my hands to do things. Even though I still had arthritis and couldn't do certain things and still experienced some pain now and then, I knew I would be able to live fairly normal life.
I got married the following summer and week after the wedding we moved to Chapel Hill, NC. We started soon to talk about having baby's and in December 2009 I started to go off my meds. That took three months then we had to wait another three months so we didn't start to try for a baby until June 2010. I was terrified by the thought of going of the meds because I hadn't forgot the pain and how much of a hell it was in the beginning but we both really want to start a family. Therefore I'm willing to be off the meds in the hope that we're going to have a baby.
In the meantime I'm going to blog about the journey that's ahead of me.
I started to work as a teacher the fall 2008. I was lucky both with my class and colleagues and I had a wonderful time teaching. I worked 100% which was to much, I could do my job but there wasn't much left for the rest of my life. I was frustrated and glad that winter, glad that I could work and frustrated that I didn't have the body to do more than just work.
I got married the following summer and week after the wedding we moved to Chapel Hill, NC. We started soon to talk about having baby's and in December 2009 I started to go off my meds. That took three months then we had to wait another three months so we didn't start to try for a baby until June 2010. I was terrified by the thought of going of the meds because I hadn't forgot the pain and how much of a hell it was in the beginning but we both really want to start a family. Therefore I'm willing to be off the meds in the hope that we're going to have a baby.
The baby thing has taken longer time to achieve than we suspected. I have been surprisingly good of the arthritis, most of the year 2010. However in October I started to get rather bad and get worse by every week. We have scheduled appointment with a fertility clinic in April. Hopefully we don't have to wait long for a little baby.
In the meantime I'm going to blog about the journey that's ahead of me.
