Mary Ann Mobley Quotes

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative arthritis. And finally in 2010, I got the correct diagnosis, because on the last Le Tigre tour, I was having several seizures a day and at times not being able to brush my own teeth.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.

I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

I've had nine major operations in ten years. A lot of it is to do with something called retroperitoneal fibrosis, where the internal tissues attack each other.

I know a lot about systemic lupus erythematosus because I have it, too. I was diagnosed through the NHS when I first moved to England in 2008 following months of serious illness.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.