Showing posts with label Morphea Scleroderma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morphea Scleroderma. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 March 2012

Morphea Scleroderma and What Women Really Need to Know

What is Morphea Scleroderma?
Before July 1, 2011, I had absolutely no idea what was morphea scleroderma, as it would affect my life or what it meant to me as a woman and single mother. In the months since July, this has changed and changed quickly. This is my story and I would like to share with you in hopes that my fight with this disease can help to understand other women to find some peace and perhaps even with this disease, which seems mainly targeted women over whatever.


Localized scleroderma: an autoimmune disease that mostly women. In America there are about 300,000 known cases of which about 70 percent are women aged 30-60. Some believe it is primarily aimed at women of African American or Native. Others believe that a person with a family history of autoimmune diseases like lupus and type IDiabetes may be more prone to this form of scleroderma.

Well, now we know what it is, but it really tells us the story? I'm afraid not. Hang on to your seats ladies because here's the information you really want to know about it. In laymen's terms for people like you and me, this causes the autoimmune disease of the immune system to "short circuit". This means that for one reason or another begins, our immune system against the body. In this case, start the soft tissues (skin, joints, ligaments, muscles, tendons) attack. Initial symptoms include fatigue, dizziness, and bruise-like lesions against any part of the body from the neck. Most fevers are run regularly and often lost any kind of infection initially diagnosed. Inflammation also occurs with almost the entire body, especially in affected areas of injury.