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My name is Jennifer and am 23 years old. I always knew that
something wasn't right. I always had a butterfly rash, was
depressed, had headaches and some of the other symptoms that come
with lupus. But I never knew what it was until my husband and I
where in a car accident on Nov. 28th, 2005. About a month later I
started to feel that something wasn't really right. As time past I
started to get sicker. Just after Christmas I got to the point where
I couldn't move. Couldn't get out of bed nothing. By this time I was
starting to wonder what was going on I thought I was going to die I
hurt so bad. I went to many doctors and they made me feel like it
was all in my head. Finally I found a doctor that would help me. I
couldn't see my family doctor cause I had to wait a week or so to
see him. By the time the other doctor found things wrong in my blood
test. I wouldn't eat, hardly drank anything causing me to lose about
35lbs.
So in Jan 06 the doctors put me in the hospital for 4 days.
They said I had the FLU. When they let me out my family doctor
called me in to tell me that while I was in the hospital they ran
some test and he thought I had Lupus, and he wants me to see a
specialist. So I went to see a specialist and then he sent me to a
kidney doctor. In Feb 06 I was put back in the hospital for a week
to have a biopsy on my kidney. Come to find out I was in stage 3 of
Lupus in my kidneys. I didn't know what to do. As all of this is
going on I'm feeling bad cause I have to depend on my family to help
me, but most of all I was feeling bad for my husband. When I got
sick he had only been home from Iraq for 2 months.
After we found out that I was in stage 3 lupus in my kidneys
the doctors put me on all kinds of medication. I was put on
Prednisone, CellCept and many others. While I was on a high dose of
prednisone I ended up losing my hair and gain back all the weight
and more. I also found out that I am allergic to CellCept. I took
CellCept for almost a year before I found out I was. So now it has
been a year and I still am in a flare up and wishing I wasn't. I
only wish I was out of this flare up so my husband and I can start a
family.
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