A woman developed vasculitis, a condition where the immune system attacks blood vessels, causing her nose to collapse. She received a prosthetic nose after medication was ineffective. While her doctors believe the condition may return, she feels fortunate to have a good medical team and lives a relatively normal life.
A woman with the condition vasculitis now lives with a prosthetic nose after her original one “completely collapsed in on itself”.
Vasculitis is a disease in which a person’s immune system attacks their healthy blood vessels, resulting in them becoming swollen and narrow.“I think the dog was trying to alert me that there was something going wrong with my nose,” she toldMs Hardman then approached her GP, informing him she was in pain and having a lot of nosebleeds.After nearly two-years and many doctors’ appointments later, she was diagnosed with vasculitis.
“I think if my original GP had given me a blood test or the second person I saw had given me a blood test, they’d have been able to see that there was something seriously wrong going wrong,” she said.At this point, Ms Hardman’s condition had worsened and it was “probably a little bit too late” for medication.“I was given a drug that was used for maintenance, as opposed to actually getting me into remission.To this day, Ms Hardman is still not quite sure what caused her to contract vasculitis.
Although she has been warned that it “might come back in the future”, she has a “fantastic team” looking after her in Birmingham and, overall, feels “very fortunate”. Her doctors have banned her from going wild water swimming but otherwise lives her life “completely normally”.“If you met me in the street, you would just think I looked like a fabulous 50 something lady.'People get themselves into horrible debt' - How to cope with fertility despair
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