My aunt in NY, she's kind of a step aunt, not blood related. She officially has CFIDS now. She was suffering from POTS for a long time to the point of falling down the stairs a few times from the lightheadedness and blood pressure drops. And we saw the fatigue in her for a long time. She's housebound and mostly bedridden.
She called me tonight very, very sick. Now she has the swollen glands and the ear ache and the sore throat and a million other problems. And I felt so bad for her. The doctor doesn't know what to do other than give antibiotics in case the throat thing is strep. They really don't do much more. Throw pain pills at her.
The early years of this disease, I had the throat and ear thing alot. Mostly, throughout the mid 80's till the mid 90's I had that with the throat and the ear. And then for some reason, that pretty much stopped. I still get swollen glands, but I haven't had the severe major thing like the feeling of the hot poker in your ear for a very long time.
I just wish this wasn't still going on. And people weren't still getting sick with this. All these years later and there is no prevention and no real treatment.
She called me tonight very, very sick. Now she has the swollen glands and the ear ache and the sore throat and a million other problems. And I felt so bad for her. The doctor doesn't know what to do other than give antibiotics in case the throat thing is strep. They really don't do much more. Throw pain pills at her.
The early years of this disease, I had the throat and ear thing alot. Mostly, throughout the mid 80's till the mid 90's I had that with the throat and the ear. And then for some reason, that pretty much stopped. I still get swollen glands, but I haven't had the severe major thing like the feeling of the hot poker in your ear for a very long time.
I just wish this wasn't still going on. And people weren't still getting sick with this. All these years later and there is no prevention and no real treatment.
