avoiding my chronic disease
Hello, I have just joined this group◡̈ I’m 19 years old and I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2018. It’s hard for me to accept the fact being that I was fortunate enough to not get it worse case. Instead of getting larger episodes, which would include losing eyesight, becoming paralyzed in parts of my body, or severe chronic pain, I have a lot more of the smaller symptoms. I always have headaches, i lack energy and motivation, the medication I take causes me depression episodes, and all I’m feeling is annoyed. Such a rare disease, which is most common in 40 year olds, was gifted to me for what? My doctors always ask about how I’m doing and I always say everything doing great because I can’t even face the fact that this is a serious life long disease. There’s no curing it and I’ll be living with it forever. And it can really only get worse from here
Hi, I have a similar experience as I’m also a fairly young person (I’m 19 too) and developed a chronic illness. I appreciate you for sharing and thank you for making me feel less alone in my struggles with having a chronic illness. I myself feel fortunate that I’m not the worse case scenario and just keep doing my best to manage all my pain and emotions
@peap0d Welcome! I think it's pretty typical to take a while to fully process it aall, I know for me it's still an ongoing thing!
Feeling annoyed is certainly understandable. WHile a condition can be fairly serious long term, all the little symptoms that accompany it can be annoying when living life.
I hope that having the diagnosis now, with symptoms that aren't really serious means you will have better management in the long run!
