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My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by badblog: 1:57am On May 26, 2015
Please guys I need good advice on what to do.
My mum has been sick for 15years now. She has gone for and to many medical check-ups and series of test from different doctors and locations. They all diagnose the same thing "Maleria" with different kind of ++++'s.
she has prayed and fasted countless times in the past 15 years.

She has been to different different churches and spiritual houses and non has been able to help her out.

She has also been to the synagogue twice but yet no solution though she did meet Prophet TB Joshua on a one to one contact which I really wish she could.

All the spiritual houses and pastors that has prayed for/with her always come to the same conclusion that it's a spiritually inflected illness by my step mum. More than two pastor has seen the same person to be the curse of her problem. All because she was married into the family as a second wife. She currently has 7 children for my dad.

People find it hard to believe my mum is sick because she doesn't appear sick physical but inside of her is always burning with internal heart,sharp headache,fever,general body weakness, sleepless night and days. She goes for months without being able to sleep even with drugs still doesn't help her.

We are all confused and don't even know the options to take now cos lately it's gotten out of hand. My mum has never gone Through a week in the past 15 years without taking drugs.

We really need help and advice.

Thank you for reading and sorry for any typos or wrong grammars.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by ZACHIE: 2:28am On May 26, 2015
badblog:
She goes for months without being able to sleep even with drugs still doesn't help her.

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Sorry about your Mum illness.
But I'm certain she didn't go for months without sleeping. she would be dead.
I think she needs a break from here current environment.
If you can afford it, please send her on a long vacation ,even if it is Togo or Ghana.
It will do the magic but preferably send her to Europe. African juju no like cold.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by dulux07(m): 2:58am On May 26, 2015
I think she should be sent abroad for proper checkup, d doctors here might be clueless giving wrong diagnosis. Most importantly she shud continue seekin d face of God.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by eleojo23: 5:12am On May 26, 2015
How old is she? It could be menopause. Headaches and sleeplessness (insomnia) are common and women passing through that stage of life usually feel exhausted sometimes.

The internal heat might be hot flushes experienced by women in menopause.
A hot flush is characterised by a sudden feeling of heat which seems to come from nowhere and spreads through the woman's body.

More often than not, a hot flush can leave her feeling drenched with sweat and exhausted and she can get "chills" after them because she's usually wet from sweating. Exhaustion can come often after these hot flushes but, feeling exhausted all of the time or having a fever for more than the duration of the hot flush is not (to the best of my knowledge), part of hot flushes.

And about the frequent malaria diagnosis from lab results, almost everyone in a malaria-endemic region like Nigeria will usually test positive to plasmodium because all of us have suffered from mosquito bites and malaria in the past. It now depends on the level of parasitemia (amount of plasmodium in the blood.)

From the foregoing, I would have concluded that she is experiencing menopause as most of the symptoms you listed are found in menopause but the persistent fever and the fact that you said it has been going on for 15 years brings another dimension to the case. It is rare for a woman to experience menopausal symptoms for that long unless she's among the few who experience such.

She may actually have some other problem going on within her body such as a virus or bacterial infection of some kind.
It could also be clinical depression.

She needs expert medical check-up to really get to the root cause of her condition.

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Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by badblog: 9:06am On May 26, 2015
ZACHIE:

Sorry about your Mum illness.
But I'm certain she didn't for months without ssleeping.she would be dead
I think she needs a break from here current environment.
If you can afford it, please send her on a long vacation ,even if it is Togo or Ghana.
It will do the magic but preferably send her to Europe. African juju no like cold.


Thank you for your reply, sympathy and advice.
As we speak, she has done one month without being able to close her eyes. We have thought of sending her on vacation but the money has remained the issue. We will keep looking into it. Thanks.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by badblog: 9:09am On May 26, 2015
dulux07:
I think she should be sent abroad for proper checkup, d doctors here might be clueless giving wrong diagnosis. Most importantly she shud continue seekin d face of God.

Thank you.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by badblog: 9:44am On May 26, 2015
eleojo23:
How old is she? It could be menopause. Headaches and sleeplessness (insomnia) are common and women passing through that stage of life usually feel exhausted sometimes.

The internal heat might be hot flushes experienced by women in menopause.
A hot flush is characterised by a sudden feeling of heat which seems to come from nowhere and spreads through the woman's body.

More often than not, a hot flush can leave her feeling drenched with sweat and exhausted and she can get "chills" after them because she's usually wet from sweating. Exhaustion can come often after these hot flushes but, feeling exhausted all of the time or having a fever for more than the duration of the hot flush is not (to the best of my knowledge), part of hot flushes.

And about the frequent malaria diagnosis from lab results, almost everyone in a malaria-endemic region like Nigeria will usually test positive to plasmodium because all of us have suffered from mosquito bites and malaria in the past. It now depends on the level of parasitemia (amount of plasmodium in the blood.)

From the foregoing, I would have concluded that she is experiencing menopause as most of the symptoms you listed are found in menopause but the persistent fever and the fact that you said it has been going on for 15 years brings another dimension to the case. It is rare for a woman to experience menopausal symptoms for that long unless she's among the few who experience such.

She may actually have some other problem going on within her body such as a virus or bacterial infection of some kind.
It could also be clinical depression.

She needs expert medical check-up to really get to the root cause of her condition.

Thanks for the advice. She's 55yrs now which means she became ill at the age of 39. Can menopause still be rulled out?
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by tforever(m): 11:01pm On May 26, 2015
My oga what else have you tried apart from drugs.. But if it's not too much trouble I can book a meeting with my health practitioner and see how we can help her..she is not supposed to be in pains like that.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by eleojo23: 5:12am On May 27, 2015
badblog:


Thanks for the advice. She's 55yrs now which means she became ill at the age of 39. Can menopause still be rulled out?
It's only few women who start menopause that early unless she is among the few. We cannot say with certainty that that is the case here. An expert medical exam is the best way to diagnose her problem.
Re: My Mother Has Been Sick For 15 Years- Help by Ekpees: 8:45am On May 27, 2015
Your mother problem is spiritual,stop wasting your money on drugs,this is a clear case of witchcraft attack.look for a strong spiritual church,or a good native doctor who will use herbs and kill whatever poison deposited in her system,then the native doctor will now go and confront the person responsible to leave your mother alone.

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