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began to feel tired and started noticing black and blues on my legs and
arms. I went for a blood test and was admitted to the hospital the next
day. After a few short stays at a nearby hospital, I switched doctors
and was diagnosed with Aplastic Anemia. Of course, my life was never
going to be the same. I have two children, a girl 14 and a son 18. I was
given horse serum and about 5 months later, my counts started to go up.
All this time I was put on cyclosporin and I am still on a low dose. Up
till then I had many, many transfusions of both red blood and
platelets.
When the levels sort
of peaked, I began to experience a great deal of arthritis pain and was
put on Prednesone for about a month. As a doting mom and also working
out of the home, it was extremely difficult to spend so much time away
from home. Being relatively healthy most of my life, this was a great
shock, physically as well as mentally and still is.
At this time my levels
are up to a degree called remission, but I never go a day or a few hours
without wondering what they will be when I have my next blood test. I
still have aches and pains and still feel tired with not much effort. I
have heard many theories about the cause of AA, so, I have decided to
put together a list of things that I could think of in the year before I
was diagnosed that I suspect could have caused it. Possibly others will
do the same and maybe we can come to possibly something in common.
Here goes, painted
wooden shelves in closed space, spray painted furniture with 3M
waterproof, got a flu shot, had pesticides put on my lawn, Had to MRI's,
used cell phone a lot, used electric blanket for the past 10 years. So
those are all things done within a year of diagnosis. I feel that it
might even be like a Moletov Coctail. In other words, a number of things
in conjunction. May God bless all of you. Hopefully there will be a link
to something and there will not be any new patients.
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