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Help Me with My Journey to Conquering Grave’s Disease

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Hello everyone,

I am Doris, wife and a full-time mother of two boys (11 and 1), and I have been diagnosed with Grave’s Disease.

I was very active in sports before this and I was enjoying my career as a teacher. Even though I was a single mother before, I was living a good life and proudly taking on my role as a mother to my then only child. In 2020 I met the love of my life, now my husband and my son’s father, and we got married. A year after I gave birth to our youngest, a lovely bouncing baby boy. It was a joy balancing my new role as I left my teaching job to focus on taling care of my family. Little did I know, I was already developing and triggering illnesses in my body.

3 months into my last pregnancy, I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. It was not a big deal for me since I have overactive thyroid activity from genetics. No later than 2 months after it was gone and I felt normal. However, after I gave birth, it went back and the overactivity progressed. I woke up with an enlarged throat (thyroid) and realized that I have been ignoring signs of goiter. I was already having a hard time physically, emotionally, and mentally but I just dismissed then all to postpartum struggles.

My hyperthyroidism is due to something called Grave’s disease, an autoimmune disease.

My husband and I decided to have me checked with a doctor and it was rules out to be goiter. Because I was breastfeeding, I could not take strong medication. However after six months my condition was just worsening despite the expensive medicines I was taking. I see my body deteriorating so the doctor decided to see if my hyperthyroidism is due to something called Grave’s disease. I was not familiar to this and tried not to make a big deal out of it. But, it is slowly taking it’s toll on me. As an autoimmune disease, it is attacking my body mainly through my overactive thyroid activity. This causes me to be overtired, exhausted all the time, losing my breath to the point of feeling like drowning, having palpitations even in the middle of the night, and so on. My teeth are getting bad, my skin is very dry that my scalp is falling out in patches of dandruff and I am very itchy all over. Moreover, I have been showing signs of advanced Grave’s disease with my one eye bulging and hurting, my throat feeling constricted, my heart beating wildly every time, and I have been experiencing mood changes and having very dark thoughts now and then.

You see, I need to address all these by seeing all kinds of doctors that will help my body get back to normal. Aside from my doctor for my disease who requires me to monitor the bad cells ($100 or ₱6,000) every month, I have to see my gynecologist, dermatologist because my disease caused me to have eczema, psychotherapist for my deteriorating mental health, cardiologist as my heart function is the one most affected by my disease, ophthalmologist or eye doctor for the bad Grave’s eye as they call it, and a dentist for my teeth that are rapidly decaying due to the imbalance of hormones and bodily fluids. On top of all these, I have to buy and take medications required for my disease and my Rx for the other doctors as well.

Please help me fund my road to being well again

Please help me be healthy again so I can be able to be a better mom for my children and a better wife to my husband. My disease is stopping me to be both. Please help me fund my road to being well again so I can go back to work as well. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you and I appreciate every assistance you can give me.

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