Uncured

What it causes

When doctors suggested to my parents that it was just " growing pains " that I was experiencing in my toddler years, he suggested I be put into physical therapy and to try sports. When I was 4 my parents put my sister and I into a youth soccer league. We loved it. I loved being able to run and feel the impact of the ball against my foot, it was something that helped me feel normal.
In middle school I even organized my own girls soccer team since the coach said girls weren't allowed to have their own team..
in high school, my freshman year, I was on the soccer team as well. Not even a few months in and I started to feel different. My legs became numb, I couldn't even feel myself stand anymore. It was like I was floating around and I had no control over it. I started getting this tingling feeling in my body that felt like electricity traveling throughout me.
Even through that I tried to play soccer and continue in PE class.
Then the pain happened.
In January it happened. I was diagnosed with a childhood disease called Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome ( AMPS )
I was forced to quit sports and anything physical, because it was too risky.
Me being the stubborn person that I am, I had refused to quit. I got myself these vitamin C drinks and all of this healthy, organic drinks and food, I told myself " you're going to heal! " I honestly thought that it would work. I thought that if I made myself better, then I could play soccer again.

I had to wear a knee brace from there on out, at school and at home. When even a knee brace didn't even work, I got a cane about half a year later.. a cane at 15. FIFTEEN!!!! I looked like a walking circus monkey, it brought so much attention to me and it was just torture. I technically only completed 2 years of high school, because my junior and senior year I was put on home and hospital, ( aka a program where you live in the hospital and you're able to complete your school work )
My stomach began acting up too, I almost had to get a feeding tube because my stomach began to reject everything and anything that I'd eat.