Autoimmune Disorder Quotes

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

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.

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

I take one of the interferon therapies, Rebif.

Only 1 to 2 percent of adults have a real food allergy. This gluten thing is a... whatever. It's not an allergy for most people.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

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

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

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

I have a liver disease where my autoimmune system is fighting against itself.

Back in 1983, quarterback Tommy Kramer got hurt and the Minnesota Vikings traded for me. The plan was for me to play, but I got something called Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, and wound up on injured reserve.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

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.

John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.

It's remarkable she [Venus Williams] plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.

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.

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

I occasionally suffer from eczema but only very mildly.

Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.

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

Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.

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.

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.