26-year-old Andreas lives with the chronic disease ME / CFS - "My fitness does not exist"
In September, Andreas Sillanpää from Vikmanshyttan was diagnosed with ME / CFS, a neurological disease involving chronic fatigue, and a number of other symptoms.
But the path to diagnosis has not been easy. It has been worse than the disease itself. Andreas sits with a coffee cup in the kitchen of his parents, the home he rarely leaves. Perhaps the caffeine can kick in soon after another sleepless night.
For DT, he tells about the difficult journey that began during an icehockey practice session seven years ago.
"I began to experience difficulties with distance assessment during the matches. In connection with that, I also began to feel very wilted and tired.
The opticians could not find fault with him but at a visit to the health center, the doctor could determine hypothyroid -- malfunction of the thyroid gland. Medicine was inserted. High doses were tested as well as low doses, but Andreas did not get better.
"It was so bad that I was no longer able to continue with hockey, I was very weak.
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