Some of them date back to early childhood (I'm told my first severe asthma attack requiring hospitalization was when I was 8 months old). Most, of course, were acquired in the past couple years.
But I recently tried to collect all my diagnoses on a list, and as long as I've done that, I figured I might as well share it with y'all. (Hey, I lived in West Virginia for 4.5 years, so even though I'm not a native southerner, I feel like I earned the right to say y'all. :-)
- Severe depression
- Intense chronic fatigue
- Chronic pain in multiple joints
- Idiopathic hypersomnia
- Tinnitus and moderate hearing loss
- Inappropriate sinus tachycardia w/pulmonary ventricular contractions (PVCs), both worsened with activity
- Dysautonomia (primarily a "mild" form of POTS)
- MGUS (monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance)
- Degenerative disk disease in both low back and neck w/stenosis & nerve compression
- 1995 shoulder injury that required two surgeries (3/97 & 1/99) involving a/c joint removal, bone spur removal and repair of a labrum tear. WA L&I declared me 15 percent permanently partially disabled.
- Undifferentiated connective tissue autoimmune disease (UCTD)
- Migraines (first diagnosed in 1978) and chronic daily headaches for at least the past six months (sometimes migraines, sometimes not)
- Costochondritis, chronic
- Parvovirus, possibly chronic (but that's a very controversial diagnosis, along the lines of chronic Lyme disease, which not all doctors accept as "real.")
- Tethered spinal cord
- Hypothyroidism
- Asthma & allergies
- Sinusitis, chronic
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Iron deficiency
- Chronic stomach pain/sensitivity from series of peptic ulcers (2000-04) caused by use of NSAIDs that left massive scar tissue in stomach
- IgA deficiency
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Hi Aviva! While none of your diagnoses are overly specific to cover everything you experience, take comfort that you may have the world's biggest diagnosis collection! ;) Take good care!
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