So...at 15 weeks I started to take Heparin shots and 60mg of Prednisone, which is a VERY high dosage! I had to get blood work done every week and to the doctors. With the blood work they would check my white blood cell count and if they were normal, I would be able to lower my dosage of Prednisone, in the 15 weeks of takin the drug I only lowered the dosage once for a week and it was to 40mg. I would not recommend taking Prednisone if you are trying to lose weight, it makes you extremely hungry all the time! In 15 weeks I gained 30 pounds. My face was so swollen that I didn't recognized myself when I saw my reflection in the mirror, I stopped looking in the mirror. My hair grew fast and became very dark, I'm a burnette and I looked as though I had black hair.
As for the Heparin, I was taking 2cc shot twice a day. My blood was so thin that if I cut myself I would bleed as though my blood was water. I was what the medical field would call a Hemophiliac.
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
So there I was, young and now 9 weeks pregnant...my life was about to change in more ways than I expected. Once I was was diagonsed with LA, I was told that I would have to see a specialist for the duration of my pregancy. So off to UCLA I went, now 15 weeks pregnant, I met with Dr. Tavish, a man of few words, but when he did speak you heard what he said. He immediately asked my husband and I why we were coming to him so late in my pregnancy? Late?! We had no idea what he meant by that, we had followed the medical red tape procedure. We thought that we had done everything right. Only to find out that I was at a high risk of a miscarriage again because we didn't see him before I got pregnant. We reminded him that we didn't know I had LA until after I was pregnant and the delay of seeing him was do to another Doctor's incompentance..a possible law suit was in the making. 15 weeks into a pregnancy is very dangerous of women with LA, our bodies have already started to attack the placentia, like the video game Pac Man eating the blinking lights. Immediately I was put on a regiment of Predizone and Heprin. The Predizone was to make the fetus grow and gain weight at a rapid pace. The Heprin was used to make my blood thin, to trick it, so that the fetus and placentia would not be considered the enemy.
Until next week..when I talk about what the Predizone and Heprin did to my fetus and my body.
Until next week..when I talk about what the Predizone and Heprin did to my fetus and my body.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
What is Lupus?
What is Lupus?
What is Lupus? According to: http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/lupus/ff_lupus.htm#b website, Lupus is
the immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in the body. If you have lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system and it attacks healthy cells and tissues. This can damage many parts of the body such as the:
Joints ,Skin, Kidneys, Heart, Lungs, Blood vessels, Brain.
There are many kinds of lupus. The most common type, systemic lupus erythematosus, affects many parts of the body.
Who Gets Lupus?
Anyone can get lupus, but it most often affects women. Lupus is also more common in women of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American descent than in Caucasian women.
What Causes Lupus?
The cause of lupus is not known. It is likely that many factors trigger the disease.
Some have said that every woman has the Anti body for Lupus, but it is only triggered when something tramatic happens in their life (i.e. a bad breakup, pregnancy). But why some women will have a flare up and others won't is still the biggest mystery.
My Story:
As for me, I never had a symptom or even knew that I could have the Antibodies for Lupus until my third pregnancy. I have what the doctors call Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrom, which means that you don't have any of the above mention symptoms, but when your pregnant your body attacks the placentia as if it was a cold to the point that all life is terminated. I found out the hard way!! I was in my late twenties and pregnant for the 3rd time. My previous pregnancy which was seven month earlier, ended at 5 month and the one before that was 13 months earlier ended at 6 weeks. So at the early stages of my 3rd pregnancy, a series of test were done and one of them was a siffulus, but the thing was I had no symptoms of that either!! We 2 days later I get the test results and I had a postive-negative reading for siffulus...what did this mean? There was something wrong with my blood system...so off I went to a Rheumatologist for more test. And there I was 6 weeks pregnant diagnosised with Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrom..what would this mean..I was still unaware of the implications that any of this meant....
What is Lupus? According to: http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/lupus/ff_lupus.htm#b website, Lupus is
the immune system is designed to attack foreign substances in the body. If you have lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system and it attacks healthy cells and tissues. This can damage many parts of the body such as the:
Joints ,Skin, Kidneys, Heart, Lungs, Blood vessels, Brain.
There are many kinds of lupus. The most common type, systemic lupus erythematosus, affects many parts of the body.
Who Gets Lupus?
Anyone can get lupus, but it most often affects women. Lupus is also more common in women of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American descent than in Caucasian women.
What Causes Lupus?
The cause of lupus is not known. It is likely that many factors trigger the disease.
Some have said that every woman has the Anti body for Lupus, but it is only triggered when something tramatic happens in their life (i.e. a bad breakup, pregnancy). But why some women will have a flare up and others won't is still the biggest mystery.
My Story:
As for me, I never had a symptom or even knew that I could have the Antibodies for Lupus until my third pregnancy. I have what the doctors call Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrom, which means that you don't have any of the above mention symptoms, but when your pregnant your body attacks the placentia as if it was a cold to the point that all life is terminated. I found out the hard way!! I was in my late twenties and pregnant for the 3rd time. My previous pregnancy which was seven month earlier, ended at 5 month and the one before that was 13 months earlier ended at 6 weeks. So at the early stages of my 3rd pregnancy, a series of test were done and one of them was a siffulus, but the thing was I had no symptoms of that either!! We 2 days later I get the test results and I had a postive-negative reading for siffulus...what did this mean? There was something wrong with my blood system...so off I went to a Rheumatologist for more test. And there I was 6 weeks pregnant diagnosised with Lupus Anticoagulant Syndrom..what would this mean..I was still unaware of the implications that any of this meant....
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