My name is Melinda, I’m a wife and mother. I discovered I had kidney failure in the year of 2007. I was tired and sick all the time. One night while my husband was out of town working, I had bad stomach pain. I couldn’t handle it so I went …

Hi my name is Rachael. I’m 22 years old and I was diagnosed with FSGS nephrotic syndrome in April of 2012. I knew I was sick when I was in year 12 (2009). I would get stomach pains on a regular basis I was told by doctors that there wasn’t …

On August 4, 2010, I was diagnosed with stage 2 IDC at the young age of 29! Being the mother of two young children, who at the time were only five and seven years old, I thought there was no way I was going to make it through this! The …

My name is Sylvia Platz, I’m 18 years old, and have been diagnosed with gastroparesis. On August 26, 2009, at age 14, I was in a horse back riding accident. I immediately felt a sharp, stabbing pain underneath my left breast. For some reason, I threw up right then and …

I am currently 22 years old. When I was born I was born three and a half months early and weighed and and a half pounds. When I was born I received blood transfusions. When I was 17 years old it was October 2008, I was a senior in high …

I was only diagnosed seven years ago, but I’ve had symptoms of still’s disease form 14 to 27 years ago! I’ve tried every medication out there and nothing has been effective enough to reduce the steroids. Now I have steroid induced Cushing’s, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, steroid induced osteoporosis, leaky …

Deeann Elizabeth Pavlick. Battling reflex sympathetic dystrophy. Former proprietor of five interior decorating florist shops. I was born in New Jersey, with an artistic quality in designing, which I used in my businesses. While attending floral and interior classes in Florida I also did freelance modeling. I attended John Robert …

My name is Tiffany and I am 24 years old. For the past 11 years, I have been fighting a battle of chronic pain called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), or shortened to RSD/CRPS. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is a clinical syndrome of variable course and …

My name is Natalie, I’m 42, and I’ve had severe endometriosis since I was 16 years old (it runs in my family). I went through five years of many doctors (who couldn’t believe someone so young could have it so bad), missed high school and college, had horrible pain, GI …

I had no clue after having a beautiful baby boy 15 years ago at the age 22 how much my life would change physically. I had been thin my whole life, weight was never an issue for me. I did have strange skin issues as a kid and it always …