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| Nan:
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Fibromyalgia Finally
after several years of struggle, one wonderful doctor at
OSU got gutsy and gave me the MCTD diagnosis... |
| Nancy
H: Raynaud's I also have the beginning stages of Crohn's,
panniculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and now Raynaud's... |
| Naomi:
Systemic Sclerosis and Pulmonary Fibrosis My
doctor is astonished of my attitude considering I have Raynaud's,
my fingers are curling up and I have lost my nails, pulmonary
fibrosis... |
| Natasha
Lubin: My Eyes Say It All When
I was only eight years old, my hands were blue, red, white,
purple, numb, stinging... |
| Natasha
Lubin: Scleroderma Meets Sjögren's I started
this page so I can keep finding connections between all of
our diseases... |
| Natasha
Lubin: My Son, My Caregiver Jeffrey said to me, "My mother is never going to die and is
not sick..."
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| Nathalie:
Lupus/Scleroderma I arrived
at the hospital with two black fingers. They had gangrene
and I was very worried about having an amputation... |
| Nats:
Morphea One thing I often wonder
about is whether this condition could have been caused by
a tetanus jab I had a few weeks before I noticed the first
mark appearing... |
| Naye:
Systemic Scleroderma I was looking in the mirror one
morning when I noticed a pink discoloration around my nose... |
| NB:
Dermatomyositis I just knew
then that my child's father would leave me, but he stood
by my side and later became my husband even when I thought
I looked like a monster.. |
| Neelam:
Systemic Sclerosis (India) In
December 1998 my right pointer finger started becoming blue
and was hurting a lot... |
| Nettie:
Systemic Scleroderma with CREST Up
until now I have done very well at pretending not to be ill... |
| Nickole:
Surviving Daughter of Diffuse Scleroderma Mother I
am not sure how long my mother had scleroderma, but I do
know that the doctors did not know much about it at the time... |
| Nico:
Daughter of Patient with Raynaud's Syndrome and Systemic
Scleroderma (Italy) My mother was twenty-nine years
old (now she is almost sixty one) when she discovered she
was affected by Raynaud's Syndrome... |
| Nucci:
Morphea (Italy) My disease
was diagnosed in 1998, although my first tests were done
about two years before at one of Italy’s best dermatology
hospitals... |
| Noreen:
Surviving Mother of Fibrosing Alveolitis Patient (Manchester,
England) Alana gave us the most precious 14 months of our life, and because of Alana we now
look after profoundly handicapped children... |
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| Jaci: MCTD and Autoimmune Hepatitis Out of fear of going back to the doctors, I tried just to live with it, whatever it was. What I found strange was that nobody seemed to noticed how terrible I was feeling, not even the doctors... |
| Heather: Vitiligo, Hypothyroidism, and now Linear Morphea I am not too concerned about
the other two conditions since there really is nothing you can do about
the vitiligo, and the
thyroid is under control. The morphea is what is bugging me... |
| Amanda: Diffuse Scleroderma Systemic Sclerosis I am
thirty-nine years old and was diagnosed with diffuse scleroderma systemic
sclerosis in August 2007... |
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