This week we went to UCLA Medical to try to get some answers for my daughter’s recent autoimmune flare ups. We have some new directions… but no solid answers.
That’s the thing with chronic illnesses and autoimmune issues. Sometimes there are no answers.
We know what is going on with her body but we don’t know why.
And that is the part that sucks.
Without knowing why we can’t know how to fix it.
So, we shoot in the dark.
What we do know is that there is something causing extreme constipation and then extreme diarrhea. Her chronic urticaria (hives) are flaring up again. Her muscles, joints and bones ache. She is getting dizzy a lot, fatigued, doubled over in pain and sleeps a lot more than usual.
Not exactly what a nine year old girl is supposed to be experiencing. [click to continue…]
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