I couldn’t understand why my legs weren’t working as they always had before. I didn’t know why I felt off balance when I was standing still or why I fell in my closet I tried standing after bending down to pick something up.
I found out the next day when my doctor sent me and my husband straight to the hospital where I was admitted for the 1st of 6 separate 11-15 day hospital stays. It turns out I developed a rare autoimmune disease, Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS).
To put it in layman’s terms, my antibodies were not recognizing my own nerves and were attacking them causing paralysis of my legs and feet. This made it so that I couldn’t walk and at times, even stand. I had tingling and numbness in my face and different parts of my body.
After 8 weeks of relapsing and being sent back to the hospital, my diagnosis was changed to CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory Demylenating Polyneuropathy). Try saying that 5 times fast!! .😜 At this point, I was told there was no cure for this condition. I was consistently being fed all the potential medications and treatments on which I may be reliant from now on, along with all the negative and serious side effects that goes with them. They made it sound like this was going to be my life from now on.
