The Journey to Health: Part 1 Overcoming Heart failure
In 2012, I had ventured into seeing my THIRD rheumatologist. The first rheumatologist I saw wasn't helpful at all. The second one I LOVED but she was always 2- 3 hours behind no matter what time we went to see her, and she was half an hour away. She had helped me get diagnosed with serum negative rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's, and was still poking around to figure out some other things for me. I was started on Methotrexate shots, which I gave myself at home, to try to prevent further damage. I was also started on plaquenil. In the beginning, I had every side effect known to happen with both of those medications, in 2011 I got to the point I couldn't work any more. The diseases that I had and knew about, as well as the ones yet to be figured out, had wreaked so much havoc on my body I didn't have anything left for my little girls. I had been a very dedicated volunteer at church, I had just finished my Healthcare management degree, going to school full time, on top o...