Thread: I'm losing my sister

p.s. Just dawned on me that car accident might have done some damage to your sister neurologically when she had seizure that time.  Somebody suggested MRI and I think it might be a good idea too. May God bless you, your sister and her family.

I don't normally post such things online but I don't know where else to turn.  I am a 35 year old female Condoms Female condoms Female sexual dysfunction , I am a working mom, wife, daughter, and.....sister.  I am a positive, upbeat, enthusiastic person but I feel completely lost, disenheartened, helpless when it comes to my sister.  You see, I am losing her to...

I am so sorry for what you and your family Birth control and family planning Choosing a primary care provider Ewing’s sarcoma Family troubles - resources are going through. I'm wondering though... could your sister have lyme disease or another illness instead ? There is a physician who will be in MedHelp beginning Monday (Nov. 9th). He is an expert on these chronic illnesses. If you could get your sisters medical history (lab reports,...

Yes as Plateletgal posted.  Could she have lyme?  PA is a lyme endemic state and FMS does not cause seizures.  Her symptoms sound like more than fibro to me.

I see she has been through many tests.  Have they done a brain MRI to check for lesions, etc?  My cousin has multiple sclerosis and she gets the paralysis Cerebral palsy Facial paralysis Isolated sleep paralysis Laryngeal nerve damage Muscle function loss Parkinson’s disease Poliomyelitis sometimes.  It would be worth asking her to check.. There is also more than one way to diagnose...

I have to agree, does not sound like Fibro. Can she get a second opinion? Something else is going on with her.

The best light I can share in raising 2 girls with fibro, and they were 4 & 7 when my symptoms were at their worst, I couldn't hardly function at all, & I moved like I was a 95 yr old on my last breath of life, the fatigue & pain was excruciating. I would spend no less then half an hour just begging, pleading with God to just help me get up and at least be able to move, to get the girls ready for school, they are...