PERNICIOUS ANEMIA

Pernicious Anemia.....they finally after 2 months of constant testing and no treatment find I have this dreaded anemia. Even though MS patients tend to be deficient in b12 I want all of you to relax and not be fearful that if you have MS you will either be b12 deficient of have pernicious anemia. I have had MS for going on 27 years and this is my first signs of the illness. I received the call from my MS doctor yesterday with the results and instructions to call my primary care doc. So this is what I did and they got me in immediately yesterday and began b12 injections which I will now receive each week. There is a possibility it will be for the continuation of my life. I will cross that bridge when I come to it. So far this morning I feel just a weak and worn out as yesterday so I assume it will take a while for the injections to show some affect. I eat healthy, I take supplements so why then did this happen. Well people with an autoimmune illness such as MS sometimes develop b12 deficiency. Your body needs b12 to make the red blood cells and my body is not absorbing the foods I give it and making enough red cell. The body will store 3 to 5 years of b12 in the liver. Perhaps this stems back to when I rapidly lost nearly 30 pounds (only put back on 25 over 3 years). When they were searching for causes back then they found I have numerous cysts on my liver. No treatment was given for this...just a statement that lots of people have these and do not even know it. Could the cysts have something to do with the deficiency? I suppose I will never know. I just need to concentrate of getting my injections and hoping some energies will come back to me and that no permanent damage to the nervous system has occurred other than what the MS has caused.
Healthy eating.....healthy living.....thank God I have been doing so for the last 35 years of my life or who knows....I just might not be here now. So now to concentrate on getting well......digging my hiking boots out today as they will be an inspiration to me as to not forget just one of the things I love so in life and plan to do again in the spring......yes positive thinking, prayer, family and friends will keep me grounded and where I need to be. It will take more than this to get me to surrender.