In a message dated 27/05/2003 23:28:13 GMT Daylight Time, nevos4@...
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> Hi all just thought i'd join a few addisons disease groups as it is
> a great way to communicate and share our problems with this
> disease.i am 37 years old (getting older)male live in the uk at a
> town called Newmarket.I fell of a racehorse one morning and fell on
> my head ,i just got back up and got back on my horse.A few days
> later i started getting bad cramp round my neck,shoulders and
> legs .I just thought it was from falling off so didnt do anything
> about it.A few weeks later my cramp was getting worse and i fell off
> again (lol),this time i didnt get back up and ended up in hospital
> (Addenbrookes Cambridge). I nearly died as they said my kidneys had
> packed up and i was nearly in a coma.Thats when they found id
> damaged my brain and that had affected my addrenal glands.What i was
> going though is what we now call a addisonal crisis.With the
> medication i take i live a normal life but gave up riding rachorses
> for living. If anyone wants to chat about addisons disease just send
> me a e-mail nevos4@...
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> hello my nane is maggie and i am 48 now like you one day i was ok then the
> next in a mess i was 39 when i got it and i thourt it was the flu it took
> weeks to get the help i needed i was in hospital in doncaster 2 weeks on drips
> and told i was close to diying it makes you think the only think that is hard
> on me right no is weight i have puta lot on and it up sets me but my addisons
> i live with some times i can go a year with been ill like this year i have
> had to criss and spent time in hospital but sin my ills i have made my self
> dop more i learn to drive and go on pc foster kids and home start so i have
> got a live now i take day by day and make the best of it yours maggie
> www.maragetsct@...
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