Posts Tagged ‘Rosemary’s Story’
Hi. My name is Rosemary and I am 48 years old. I live in Minnesota in a suburb of the Twin Cities, a suburb of Minneapolis. I am single, have no children, but have a great companion named Guinness, a black and tan cocker spaniel, and believe it or not, he’s brought me a lot of comfort over the years.
To just give you some background about my story, it’s kind of an interesting story because I suffered from some symptoms that were unexplainable for nearly three years. In January 1996, I started noticing that I was flushing, having red flushes and having diarrhea and I just assumed it was probably menopause. I was in my early 40’s and I knew some of my sisters had gone through menopause early, so I just assumed that was probably what was going on.
Tests Inconclusive Despite Extreme Pain and Symptoms
After a while, I went and made an appointment at the Clinic and told them what my symptoms were and asked to have the test for menopause done. Well, it came back that I wasn’t in menopause. So, I thought–oh okay. As the symptoms continued and as the diarrhea became worse and I was losing more weight, my doctor and I decided that we needed to do some other tests. I wasn’t concerned, really, at that point. We thought, maybe I had some intestinal parasite or something that I’d picked up when I’d been on a recent trip to Mexico. …read the rest of this entry»
