Handtalk

Hello to all of you! My name is Hannah, but I like to use Handtalk as my online name. Handtalk stems from my knowledge and use of American Sign Language. (My hands 'talk'.) I recognize many of your names from www.NDRF.org, where I originally started, but my parents have banned from NDRF. Thus, I have come here. I just got back from meeting with Dr. Fealey at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. For the first time in six years, I have a diagnosis other than I am insane, which has been the opinion of many a doctor throughout my struggles with my diseases. Rather, I have three concrete diagnoses which came from my visit to Mayo Clinic. The first is POTS. Now, my POTS is primarily- and barely- under control with a simple beta-blocker. For this I am glad. My second diagnosis was a bit more of a surprise: PCOS (Poly-Cystic Ovarian Syndrome). Though nothing is physically wrong with my reproductive organs, my testosterone levels are sky-high, a syndrome which was first diagnosed in women with poly-cystic ovaries. The name stuck, but the name does not necessarily mean what it states. Thirdly, I have dysmetabolic syndrome, a syndrome in which I cannot use insulin properly- almost like diabetes. Instead of using glucose or making sugar-complexes (fat) from the glucose, my insulin is unable to do anything with the glucose, so my blood sugar levels are usually high, despite feelings to the contrary. I must go for now. Yours truly, Handtalk