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Originally Posted by CD3
so, since you know me so well, let me up the ante a bit. last year i had to be intubated, only after they had to give me a tracheostomy, because my airway shut and i was minutes from asphyxiation. truly, the doctor said hes never seen anyone so as close as i got and not dying. i woke up 5 days later in icu and the story goes on. so the reason for me almost suffocating to death is because i have a very rare hereditary disease called hereditary angio edema. basically im a little mutant with no powers but swelling anywhere and everywhere minus my tits and ass. well, point being mr brainiac is after that doctors started prescribing me to start giving myself infusion treatments of C1-inh which is the enzyme that im missing in my dna, in turn causing the life threatening episodes. now. i cannot take the pill because it fucks with the study process im doing for the doctors. they dont want their guinea pig interfering with work they are trying to save lives with, one being mine.
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HAE can effect menses and menses can trigger HAE episodes. Has a client who had HAE has a comorbid condition to her traumatic injury and learned a lot about it. Interesting condition, if you're not the one who has it.