Hi everyone, after 3 years of feeling terrible I decided to take control of my health rather than fight in vain with GPs!
I've never really been ill in my life. Never lost a day at work bar pregnancy so when I started feeling tired and foggy headed i assumed it was diet and lifestyle and went about making changes. I tend to throw myself into things and work 24/7 plus am a carer and Trade Union rep so life is always ridiculously busy but i love that.
I went vegan, lost weight and stopped drinking alcohol. I also scaled back on some of my activities and tried to say no now and again. I felt worse! Eventually I sought advice from a GP and was quickly and surprisingly diagnosed with PA. Great, I thought, I will get treated and be back to normal in a few weeks. Oh how I learned that's not the case.
3 years of exhaustion, sore joints, weak legs, crabbitness and inability to focus on anything or recall the simplest of words at times. 3 years of endless research to find improvements, supplementing to death and finding no real benefit. 3 years of GPs saying it was PA but also menopause, depression, Coeliac, dietary, over work, exhaustion...
A final visit to GP and an offer of a 3 month sick line for ME was enough. I know my own body and that its simply poorly treated PA. So decided to take control and self inject. I read through posts here and cross referenced advice. I then followed excellent advice from Steve Purkiss on what and where to purchase and within 5 days it was here and I was ready to go.
I got my 8 weekly jab from the nurse on the Friday, ordered supplies on the Sunday and they arrived on the following Friday. I injected within an hour of it arriving. No time to chicken out. Have injected every two days since and at the end of week two I feel 95% back to my old self. It really was that quick and easy and almost painless.
I'm planning to review and reduce injections at Christmas and am expecting there will inevitably be days where symptoms return and I feel yuck but I can live with that if I can function the majority of the time. If you are considering SI I would strongly recommend you give it a go. There's nothing to lose by taking control.