"The Girl": My Health Story!

My Health Story

Written by: Kimberly Meibos

April 23, 2017

Today I'm going to take you way back to 2009.

I had a lot of health issues back after I had my son (second baby)

I experienced a lot of pelvic pain and discomfort. I also noticed I had started Urinating blood. I had several visits to the Dr's That told me that the Pain was associated With PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease). I had several visits to my regular dr, and Obgyn and no one would give me answers.

By the time it got worse and needed to be addressed I was pregnant again with my third child. The blood in my urine got so bad and it stumped the Urologist. I had a CT done while pregnant and they couldn't find the source of the bleeding. By then you can believe I got all the good names from family and friends that I was this big Hypochondriac. It made me so mad and hurt my feelings. I knew I was having some health problems but why is it so hard to diagnose? why cant these drs just figure it all out? I still to this day dont understand how something like the human body is so complicating even with all the technology we have today.

As my pregnancy progressed we noticed the bleeding stopped. Im not sure if it was from the pressure from the baby or hormones, we still dont know.

As months went by I carried my son to 37 weeks and had him through C-Section because of a Placental Abruption. I did ok for the first four months of his life until I experienced extreme pain in my bladder. we found I had a Staph Infection in my Bladder and treated me with Two types of Antibiotics, peridium, and pain meds. weeks went by with no comfort. The blood in my urine was so significant that you could see flakes in the toilet and at one point on my urine analysis was at the levels of someone who is dying. It scared me but it didnt scare the drs. after that my life was never the same again. i had my son in June and had this experience in Oct-Nov and in December of 2012 my life was forever changed.

December 28th 2012

Sitting watching Batman with my husband, just having a normal night relaxing. I got up to use the restroom and started experiencing symptoms of a stroke. My right leg went completely numb, I got a little worried because it felt so tight. I decided to take the drive up to the ER and see what was going on. On the way there I experienced numbness up to my arm and face. I got right back to see the drs and they ran a battery of test. All the blood work, MRI, ect and set me up to see a neurologist after New years. I was terrified going from some what healthy and comfortable to scared and in pain. Not to long after this experience I started having a hard time with just speaking, holding objects, keeping balance, trouble staying awake, and severe pain down my shouldrs, shoulder blades, and chest.

Numbness in my limbs, weakness, shape pain, confusion, anxiety, depression. ALL AT ONCE. I never got a break. I seen my neurologist and did a battery of blood work to check for every autoimmune disease we could think of and all in normal range. One came back pos for EBV. After finding that I had 4 Oligoclonal Bands in my spinal fluid they came to the conclusion I had Multiple Sclerosis. I cried and cried for months and was on the verge of committing suicide because the depression was so bad and I couldnt handle the pain anymore. I didnt want to leave my husband nor did I want to leave my three babies, but I wasnt In and position to care for them or myself. I did my best I could though, even if it meant taking a pain pill as soon as I opened my eyes in the morning so I could at least get out of bed to get my daughter up for school. I had to drug myself to be normal and I was miserable. I had to fight, it wasnt in me to give up, Im a leo.

I couldnt do it anymore and had to rely on myself to heal. I needed answers and I knew If I didnt educate myself I wouldnt get the answers I needed. I started studying, Looking in any direction possible for answers of similar stories as my own and finally starting seeing some improvement. I reach out not only spiritually but even to things like essential oil, energy work, eft, emotional healing, foods and using supplements, and many others. I seen several other drs for second and third opinions and that was a dead end when the dr told me it was just because I had high arches in my feet. I was blown away at that response. I think he lost his marbles.

I was Diagnosed with MS in March of 2013

Later after many drs and $30,000 later decided I wont have answers even when in my gut MS didnt feel like the right diagnosis. It felt wrong and I couldnt accept it. I had no lesions. I had MRIs every 6 months and they never found a thing. I have said millions of prayer, I have searched and searched for a way to live a life pain free without having to use meds all the time and still yet to find a way to heal.

May 4th, 2013 I lost my baby at 13 weeks. We found she would have been a girl and after that miscarriage we decided that with my health I shouldnt have anymore babies.

May 9, 2014 I had to make one of the hardest decisions and I had a Hysterectomy. They took my uterus and cervix. I cried many many tears because mothers day I got released from the hospital. I cant explain how hard that was on my emotionally. I cound be around babies, I couldnt hold babies, I couldnt even walk through walmart without bursting into tears over the baby clothes. I was completely devastated.

After my Hysterectomy we found out that my uterus never shrunk back down to normal after my babies. My uterus was attached to my bladder, and intestines. I had adhesion's and scar tissue all over and my body was a mess.

In 2015 I decided to work on just me and my health and spirituality. I found that when I calmed my mind I felt more at ease and not in as much pain. It didnt take away my problems but it helped me cope with the fact that after years I wasnt going to get any better.

six months after my surgery I had excruciating pain in my right side. after several apts and er visits for morphine and toradol we took my appendix, later then took my right ovary because the pain wasnt going away. yet again the drs were stumped AGAIN.

Why me?

Three colonoscopies showing nothing out of the normal.

I finally told the drs my gal bladder was also bad and they didnt believe me. hida scan was good, blood work was good, ultra sound was good but when they took it out ..... It wasnt even working.

Filled with sludge and inflammation. Did it take away the stomach pain? nope, Nothing has yet.

Still peeing blood, Now with Midly A typical squamous cell in cohesive clusters, and have a spot on my hand that needs to be looked at, nothing has yet to get easier for me.

January 11th 2017

We finally decided to go up to a clinic in Idaho to have our blood looked at under a Dark Feild Microscope. I was a little hesitant because of all that I have been through. I have a blood infection, EBV, And bio film that cause by a for of bacteria called Lyme Borreliosis. I still either am in denial or I just refuse to believe im sick. I dont want Lyme disease. After meeting with a few people that are recieving treatments for lyme you will find that its more and more common in a lot of sick people like me that was diagnosed with MS, Fibromyalgia, And chronic fatigue. People go misdiagnosed Daily and it breaks my heart.

My husband got tested as well after having similar pains to mine after his uncle passed away. he started hurting and never recovered. Been there so I know his pain. His blood was infected and biofilm was all over. poor guy was diagnosed with lyme as well as me. we found out a lot of info about lyme the last few months. not only is it extremely embarrassing but devastating and debilitating.

I encourage you to share this and spread the word and be more open and understanding to those suffering illness. It is so hard to live a healthy happy life when people can be so hard on you. be understanding and be a shoulder to lean on and someone to talk to.

if you want to help me and my family with treatments please follow the link posted in the side bar! any help is a blessing. and for those suffering DONT give up, We have your back and are here to be supportive to you!

*Update*

6/19/2017

I wanted to quickly share an update with you all. Because I am loosing so much Potassium, I have now been referred to several specialists. One being a Kidney specialist and the other is my GI specialist. We are now retesting for Lupus and Kidney cancer/ Kidney disease. Ive been testing for Lupus before but with the Internal Inflammation and kidney problems they are leaning towards that more than anything else right now. We are also looking into a second opinion with the Lyme because the treatments at the place we first went to are outrageous and there is no guarantee we decided to look into it more. I am exhausted trying to find answers and we are exhausted financially. we bought our home with "0" debt and ready to live a happy life. since then our basement flooded, we sold out truck, trailer, and car that were all paid off just to help with medical bills. now we are $12,000 behind from ER visits, specialists bills, ect. how does something turn so fast??

Im praying for answers and unfortunately they dont come without a price. we have always sacrificed so much all the time we just wonder when it will be our turn for a break. I really dont want to have to sell out new home because of all this. my kids are finally in there own rooms and they are happy. they have shared rooms their whole life so far. I between doing all this I am now in school so I can get a certificate to be a CNA so I can help my husband with the income. Im struggling with my health but I cant let him do this all alone now that our kids are older.

Its hard and I dont feel good 100% of the time but I will prevail.

Wish me luck please. I will update when I get my results back on July, 3rd 2017