E205 - Addison's Disease Ground Hog Dog - Margot's Story
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- čas přidán 14. 04. 2024
- What happens when two new friends chat about the diagnosis of Addison's Disease? They share and can relate to each other in ways ONLY people living with adrenal insufficiency can. And this episode speaks volumes!
Margot shares her diagnosis of Addison's Disease in 2013 after years of being told it was "ALL IN HER HEAD", and fighting the progression of what she refers to as "BIOLOGICAL EXHAUSTION". The physical exhaustion that rest never resolves.
Feeling like she was living the movie GROUNDHOG DOG...all she wanted was to feel better. Hyperpigmentation, extreme weight loss, crippling fatigue, unable to regulate her body temperature led to her fear of going to sleep on not waking up. Repeated patterns over the years of symptoms that fell on deaf ears in the medical community.
One night feeling as if she was having a heart attack she ended up in the ER. Dismissed again by the ER nurse as Margot desperately sought care. Extremely low blood pressure FINALLY made her story legitimate. The ER doctor quickly recognized she had ADDISON'S DISEASE.
The goal was a 40 minutes episode but when friends share and relate it turns into 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Listen, watch, relate, share, laugh and cry with my new friend Margot.
Please comment on the video below and help make our voices heard!
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I love Margot's energy! Despite everything she has been through, she's still incredibly strong and has a positive outlook on life
She is a fighting!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for watching and the comment
I thank GOD!! For this podcast and CZcams channel!! 🙌😭
A friend shared your podcast with me!🙌 it has helped me SO much! This episode has me in tears!!
Her story is SO similar to mine!Feeling SO many emotions! Because of the harsh reality of living with Addisons, and the comfort of hearing others that have and do experience what I have and continue to live with! Fighting every single day for LIFE!! Refusing to give UP!💪😭🙌
Jill I want you to know how much you have helped me! I have been feeling absolutely terrible! More days in bed then normal. Not being able to be engaged in my life, my life with my family. Like all of us with Addisons have prob had to do 100x over, sit and evaluate, try to problem solve! I watched several of your videos all day the other day! Which led me to asking for some specifics in my routine lab work taken yesterday 🙌 I’ve had an additional prescription of prednisone but have never used it. I started to experiment with adding that in along side my regular dosage of hydrocortisone. It has only been a few days and I can already tell a tremendous difference, an improvement in how I am sleeping and feeling!! I truly thank GOD for YOU boldly speaking out with such transparency about everything you have went through! ❤
Thank you friend...I am glad you enjoy them, I hope they are helpful and make you feel less alone and empowered to FIGHT this illness. We can do it together I know we can
@@amandasosebee4412 Keep fighting, asking questions and finding what best suits you! Thank you for your kind words friend.
I understand only to well. You explained it well!! It took 10 years from symptoms to diagnosis for me. I was diagnosed in 1998 at age 36.
Margot's symptoms of Addison's is exactly like mine. I told my son she sounded like a carbon copy of how I felt. Only difference is I'm 70 yrs old. For probably 2 years my blood work was terrible. What was supposed to be high, mine would be low, and visa versa. So in a followup appt back on Feb 29, 2024, my doctor asked me to pull up the back of my shirt. One look at my back, she asked if I'd been going to a tanning bed. (No...never.) Then she said I have Addison's disease. I'd lost so much weight that my weight that day was 95 (from 125 a year earlier). She also was concerned because my potassium level reached an all time high at 6.9. My doctor called me at 8:00p.m. after having another potassium blood draw that day and told me I needed to go pickup a prescription that would lower my potassium. I got home and mixed the nasty stuff with water and began drinking it. I got all of it down except the last ounce before I started throwing it up. Meanwhile, the lab tech at the hospital (where the last potassium draw was sent) called and said I needed to go to the ER because I was in danger of a heart attack or death. My son came and took me to ER. They immediately did more blood work and slapped an EKG on. Told me I was in danger of a "widow maker heart attack." Hours later, the ER doctor told me I was being admitted. I had an IV in all night and the next morning I started my steroids. Almost immediately I felt 100% better. One night while in the hospital, two nurses came in my room at 3a.m. to wake me up. They said my heart monitor alert went off and they needed to check my blood pressure. The took it laying down, sitting up, and standing up. I remember asking them, "Am I dying?" They said my BP was 52/40. Immediately they put compression hose on and strapped things on my legs to massage them to prevent blood clots. Even with extremely low BP, my heart event monitor said I stayed in tachycardia (rapid heartbeat). Fast forward to coming home, I was just like Margot; I could not lay in bed to sleep because I felt like I was smothering and couldn't breathe well. I had to sleep sitting up for several weeks. Also, I was always a person who would sleep 10-12 hrs a night. After starting the steroids (Hydrocort and Fludrocort) I was unable to sleep more than 4 hrs. Just in the last week I've finally been able to sleep about 8 hrs/night, so I think my body is adjusting to the steroids. Today I went for an MRI on my adrenal glands. Said it would be about 48 hrs before the report got to my doctor. Oh I forgot to also tell you for the last 2 years I've also developed kidney disease. I'm in stage 3a kidney failure. So that's another worry of mine. Jill, I love listening to you and your guests and thank you so much for bringing Addison's disease awareness to more people. No one in my family, nor any of my friends, have ever heard of it. People need to be made more aware of it because it's practically unheard of, and it just might save a life if the symptoms were discussed more openly.
WOW...that is amazing...I am so glad you are okay and have your answers. So scary what we go through and what could happen. Keep fighting friend and thank you for your kind words. I hope Margots episodes and the others are helpful to you. Be well and keep fighting...you are not alone!
Thankyou for this podcast
Great episode. Margot's story is common. Thank you for watching and for the comment!
Thank you both so much for this video! I'm at the stage where I think I need to go sooner to the hospital because my Appointment not till May 1 st. ❤
I hope it was helpful. Margot is amazing....please take care friend!
Boy, do I understand!!!!
Yes we do friend...do not we!!!
Have Margot checked B12....no supplement of B12 for 4 to 6 months others they will be falsely high. MS is a B12 deficiency....I have done research on this. B12 shots work better than B12 supplements
I let her know to check out her comments on her videos!! Thank you!
Listening to how severe your symptoms were and how long it went on before anything was done about it was more frustrating to me than funny. It’s good to have a positive attitude, but there is nothing amusing about almost dying and no one taking the symptoms seriously,