The story of Roman
I grew up a healthy child, went to college and played sports. I trained in the gym and I did not recover well after lifting heavy weights, although other people trained more and harder than me and they recovered well. My blood pressure rose and my heart ached, but after rest everything returned to normal and I continued to train. I decided to quit the gym because over time it only made me feel worse. I started running and playing football, but even in these sports, my leg muscles became acidic and I could not run. Then in college I got a numb face and high blood pressure and I was taken away in an ambulance. I was in the hospital for a couple of weeks and they told me that I was completely healthy. But after that, I got worse and worse, it was hard for me to get to college. I woke up as if I hadn’t slept at all. I started having panic attacks even though I wasn’t nervous at all. I was recommended to go to a psychiatric hospital because all my organs are healthy. Psychiatrists did not find mental abnormalities in me. Strength continued to fall and I only walked around the house calling an ambulance for panic attacks. I dropped out of college because I no longer had the strength to attend classes. I did not know what to do, all my organs were healthy, but I did not have the energy to live a normal life. I decided to go to the capital of Russia to the hospital. There, one doctor noticed that the level of lactic acid in my blood was elevated and recommended that I take a genetic test to check the mitochondria. Half a year later, I was told that there was a mutation in my mitochondria. And mitochondria provide energy for all reactions in the body. I have been suffering from mitochondrial disease for over 5 years. Usually people with a similar diagnosis have epilepsy strokes blindness deafness, but I just don’t have the energy to be active. Now I can only lie on the bed 24/7, aftÂer any physical exerÂtion, my strength beÂcomes even less and the brain begins to think worse.
I take magnesium and B vitamins, nothing else helps , I wish there was a cure for this disease