My Wifes Illness

So Get this…We have been to so many Dr’s and until we visited Duke we had no idea of what was causing the headaches. Migraine headaches are a terrible thing to be diagnosed with. So the Dr’s in Wilmington couldn’t figure it out. But Duke…Your going to love this. They took her off all the drugs that the Dr’s in Wilmington put her on trying to stop the headaches and told us we needed to visit our family Dr to get routine work done first. They gave her some new meds to try for the headaches. Well when we got to our Family Dr he referred us to a Arthritic Dr, who 1st thing did a complete blood work up. In the mail we received a prescription for Vitamin D 50,000 units of vitamin D to take for 9 weeks. After taking it for 1 day she was out of bed after being bed ridden for 14 days. Within 24 hours she was out of bed because of low vitamin D. whoda thunkit? After the 9 weeks of Vitamin D she was better but not. She started aching all over and couldn’t explain it. It started getting worse as time progressed. The Arthritic Dr started checking other symptoms that had started and was leaning towards Lupus. He said that the symptoms fit for the full fledge version of Lupus. Worried as we should be we decided to take it one day at a time. Reflect: My wife 42 working a full time job suffering from Migraines but working none the less a high paying position with Toyota. Now unemployed bedridden and suffering from extreme body pain. When visiting the DR again he took the time to speak with us and give us time to take in what he was suggesting. He had given my wife a brochure on fibromyalgia and after reading it we started seeing that it was what she may be suffering from. And the Dr agreed but still thought that the beginning stages of lupus was still in the recipe. Ok listen up here is where it gets good. When the Dr Snow is his name tell us the drugs taken for Fibromyalgia Linda and I look at each other with disbelief. Neuroten that was the drug the Duke Dr took her off of that was being used for Migraines. Seems this drug is also used for fibromyalgia. And she had been taking it for the last 2 years. Holly $#!@!! It is obvious that when she stopped taking Neuroten that her body started experiencing the effects of the disease. When she went back on the Neuroten she started feeling less and less body aches, her headaches have subsided somewhat (still there) but not as often. No cure as of yet but a year and ½ break through for us.

Just thought you should know.