Katherine Ryan Quotes

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

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

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

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

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

When I was in my early twenties, I spent six months bedbound with a condition called Cholinergic Urticaria that basically means I'm allergic to heat, including my own body. It was bad.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

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

I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.

My mother had multiple sclerosis.