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Sarcoidosis...My Partner In Life

     I moved to Detroit, Michigan at the end of 1985 and started experiencing dramatic health changes.  The first noticeable difference was that my sinus problems went from wet mucus to hard mucus.  This caused me to experience the most painful situation I’d ever encountered.... migraine headaches!  They were very specific and only occurred in the left corner of my right eye!

     As time went on I started to throw up mucus along with blood from my nose on a daily basis.  I was constantly thirsty, frequently urinating clear urine and could not sleep more than two hours at a time without having to get up to urinate then satisfy my extreme thirst.  My appetite was non-existent and I was losing weight at a rapid rate.  My energy was lacking and I could no longer produce any sweat when exercising.  I started developing skin problems such as my face became two-toned and I would develop little blisters on my arm, which was described as skin poison from the sun.  In addition, I developed male sexual problems.  Needless to say the mental aspect of dealing with this situation (at times) outweighed the physical!

   During approximately four years of suffering these symptoms I saw six or seven doctors and all of them put me through the same routine.  I would be given chest X-rays, blood tests, checked for sugar diabetes and given pain pills.  As with the routine, the conclusion was again the same with each of them telling me, “You have bad sinus problems and there is nothing we can really do to help you.”

     Finally after reaching my breaking point I received a free coupon for a chiropractor, so I took him up on the free consultation.  After listening to me and taking a few X-rays, he found the reason for my migraines.  The top bone of my Cervical Vertebrae was just slightly off center.  My mother had a difficult time giving birth to me so this had probably been with me since birth. Since my sinus problems had now turned to hard mucus, when my cavities filled up it caused the bone to press directly against a nerve.  This nerve in turn affected the left corner of my right eye, which is where the migraines always occurred.  After six weeks of twice a week sessions he was able to correct my problem and my migraines went away.  Now (mid 1990) it was time to find out what was causing my other symptoms.

     As you should always do when you find a resource that you have positive results with, ask for referrals to their associates since most successful people surround themselves with other successful people.  I felt I was now on a positive path!

     I spent the next several months going through a multitude of tests with my new doctor.  In February 1991 I was informed that in his opinion I had two or three weeks until I was going to fall asleep and never wake up!  The good news was that he finally had came to a conclusion to what my health problems were being caused by and it wasn’t “sinus problems”.  He found that there was a problem with my pituitary gland.  He just didn’t know exactly what it was or what to do next.  So as a true professional should do, he asked for help and sent me to an endocrinologist.

     After a few more tests the endocrinologist knew exactly what my problem was and what we needed to do.  I had developed sarcoidosis in my lungs, liver, lymph nodes and pituitary gland.  In my case the sarcoidosis went from organ to organ basically killing the cells it came in contact with.  This was most evident with my pituitary gland.

     To name a few of the high level conditions that came from this situation - I could not release the proper amount of oxygen from my lungs, my immune system was abnormal, I had developed hypothyroidism, my testosterone level was insufficient, my entire endocrine system was working insufficiently and due to my pituitary gland no longer producing the vasopressin hormone I had developed a rare case of diabetes insipidus or commonly known as “water diabetes”.

    

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