Autoimmune Disease Quotes

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

I've discovered that anxiety, panic attacks, and depression can be side effects of lupus, which can present their own challenges.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

I started taking medication to weaken my immune system because that is what was attacking my kidneys. The problem was when I went on different medication, I suffered side effects. And the side effects caused 'moon face,' where my face swelled up. It was a reaction.

I got really, really sick with a horrible disease called transverse myelitis; I lost my legs. I couldn't play anymore. It was a form of multiple sclerosis, which I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth.

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.

I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.

To clear the air once and for all, I don't have cancer. I'm not going through chemotherapy. I have alopecia. Alopecia areata, to be exact about it. I love the way that I look; I'm not worried about it.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.

A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.