Baraka,
Actually for me looking back in time a bit....
in 1991 I woke up one day with the most unbearable pain
in my back (for no reason that was apparent) anyways.
I went to the doctors and tests were done, and the blood
tests revealed I had Hep B.
Now....the "bottom line is".....I NEVER HAD HEP B afterall.
Yet, my blood tests at that time in 91 said I did.
I got retested, a full panel done, *by another doctor* shortly
after the initial test.
The new blood panels revealed I had no Hep B, and never
had it as a child either.
Since that time (I've had other Hep B) tests, and I'm negative,
plus I've never had the symptoms.
I'd only had that pain in my back once in 91.
Here's the thing too, I've heard over the years of others
being diag'ed by their doctors and told they too had HepB.
Yet....a YEAR later, they don't.
Same thing I'd experienced.
I believe "whatever this is" THROWS tests results.
Then what happened, from 91 to 1998 I would pop out in
"itchy hives" every now and then, and I wrote that off to
stress. I remember back then putting toothpaste on a few
itching hives at that time, because I just figured they're hives
and they're just a "food reaction" and they'll go away within
a few hours as they "always use to do".
I DID notice in 98 just before moving here to Vegas, that
as time went by, my "hives" I'd get now and then.....were
taking days to go away, which THAT was something "different"
for me, because they always use to go away within a couple of
hours.
Then after moving to Vegas in 98....hehehe this is SORT OF
funny, but every day that I showered before going to work
I thought my goodness, the water here in Vegas SUCKS,
because it was like it was making my hair GLUEY....to where
I could hardly comb my hair through. It was as though I had
a wax coating throughout it, and it only happened every other
day, which I don't understand that, but...? that's exactly what
happened.
Anyways...I remember people at work asking me what the heck
I put in my hair - because it WAS that "yuckied out"....it was
obvious to all.
hehehe I started buying bottled water like water was becoming
extinct, just so I could wash my hair out in "good water" since
I thought (the gluey gunk was Vegas's water).
The funny thing I remember is that when family or friends would
come to Vegas, I'd let them know: Don't wash your hair on
Monday, Wed, or Fridays, (I told them) because I said they're
putting something in the water on those days!
Little did I know "it was me"....not the water.
They'd tell me (they washed their hair since they weren't
worried about it) and their hair was fine. And their hair WAS
fine, which I remember that too....wondering HOW come
their hair had been washed in the same Vegas water, and
was all soft and fluffy, yet mine was like someone sprayed
candle wax all over mine.
As time went on....I see now, something WAS/IS/HAD BEEN
lurking.
It wasn't until 2005 after having "stress put on myself"
by "cosmetic surgery" that the mega itching burning watering
lesions came on like a vengence, and then I think it was about
2 weeks after the lesions broke out, that the black specks
began emerging from my face. Those black specks by the way
would be on the surface of my skin/face every morning I awoke,
and once I got in the mirror to try and pick just one off, they'd
all sink right back into my skin. This went on for about a year
that every morning I swear, I looked JUST LIKE the "sandman"
had sprinkled ground pepper all over me every night - it was
THAT bad every morning. To see that in the mirror, trust me,
was a horror in itself...because nothing was making sense,
of "how could this be"?
So in retrospect, I see that (the first symptoms) I believe them
to be.... in 91. Then ever so subtly....other things happened
from 91-2005, like having to have my appendix out, and having to
have a hysterectomy, and having polyps on my right vocal cord
(and having to have surgery to have that removed) then one year later
having polyps on my other, the left vocal cord, and that too being removed...
oh yes....lots of (stuff) all of a sudden....since that "backache"
that apparently THREW the test results off that blood test I'd
had when they said Hep B, YET it wasn't that at all.