so, here's how it all started:
it was almost three months ago when i woke up and noticed severe unexplained edemas on my legs, so i immediately went to my doctors. they took a blood and urine sample and did few other tests, and found out that the edemas were a concequence of the very low albumine levels in my blood. they said i had proteinuria - lost a lot of proteins becouse of an intensive exercise i did few days before. they recommended a high protein diet and in the meanwhile i was being put through a LOT of tests, laboratory checks etc. at different clinique departments to find out what is the acctual reason that caused these edemas. nearly two months passed and there was no improvement in my condition, but luckily there was also no worsening - for this whole time i haven't had any other symptoms, problems or pain, thank god. finnaly i was sent to the gastro-department and diagnosed with a liver disfunction (one other pointer was that my coagulation factors were not "working well"). for a while noone knew what had caused this liver disfunction, but then they suspected it was the wilson disease. having in mind that macedonia is a poor country and the hospitals have this old technology equipment, my doctors decides i should be sent to the AKH hospital in vienna, so that's how last week (after the liver biopsy) i was finnaly and undoubtedly diagnosed with WD.
now i am back in skopje, feeling perfectly fine (apart from the pressure i feel in my legs because of the edemas) and in the process of being treated with d-penicillamin. in this past months i had (and still have) often diarrhea and gas problems (i'm not sure if it's related to WD, but i just wanted to mention it) but i have no other sypmtomes or any problems, thank god!
a thing that concernes me most at this time is that, according to the AKH doctors, the copper caused some cirrhosis but as i understood it is still in an early stage. however, i am still in the need of advices how to heal it, or how to stop it from progressing, because strangely noone recommended any dieting, food supplements or alternative medicine, apart from the therapy i should take.
finally, becouse of the penicilamin therapy the doctor said it is necessary for me to do weekly blood tests for the leukocytes and tromobocytes level, and to come to viena again in six weeks so they could do a complete check on my condition. i pray everything goes well...



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