Posted by Spriggy on June 26, 2005, at 14:58:20
I debated on whether or not I should share this. I know it might seem really strange to some of you (it probably would to me if it had not happened to me). But I feel I'd be hiding a treasure not to share what God has done.
God has often used dreams to speak to me. I have had several dreams that God told me to "write down." I wrote them down and in time, they came to pass. I suppose you would say they were prophetic.
Well, last October (before I ever got sick), I had a dream. In my dream, I walked into a room, and in the room was a shelf. On the shelf I saw a prescription pill bottle and I heard God say, " Thse will destroy your life."
I woke up right after that. I could not figure out what it was about becuase at the time, I wasn't on any medications.
I never forgot about that dream- I actually wrote it down in my journal but in time, and with life getting so nuts for me, it slipped my mind.
Well... fast forward to Christmas time- most of you know, I had a traumatic event, got sick, had a high white count, started having anxiety. My dr. put me on Lexapro- I had a horrific reaction, became suicidal/depressed for the first time in my life. Anyway, becuase of that, I ended up in the hospital for 4 days.
In the hospital they put me on Klonopin and Restoril (for sleep).
I have been on them both ever since the February.
Now... come May, I was staying very sick all the time, had fevers, rash, etc.. My doctor ran 3 tests and 3 different times and said I had lupus. My ANA count was high ( at one point it was 1:180).
Anyway, I began to really pray about this whole lupus thing and asking God to help me get better. I'm not one of those Christians that believes you'll never get sick, or suffer, or die.. but I still felt the need to pray about my illness and ask God for healing.
Well, God brought to my mind one day while praying the dream I had last year. It just would not leave my thoughts that entire week.
My husband then tells me he has been praying for me and says, " I really am beginning to wonder if the medicine you are on could be making you sick."That night, a lady from my church came over and said, " I was praying for you today and then went and read as much I could on lupus. It says that anti convulsants and medication can sometimes trigger it. Are you on any medicine right now?"
I felt like that was a confirmation that God was telling me, "This is the cause!!"
So I talked with my doctor, he did a bit of research and he said he did find some information that anti convulsants can do this. So he agreed it wouldn't hurt to try and get off this stuff.
So I am totally of Klonopin now. I am down from 30 mg's to 7-8 mg's of Restoril ( I am weaning slowly).
I have felt much better physically the last 10 days- no fevers, no body aches, just occasional sore joints but nothing like before.
So my doctor took my blood last week. My ANA count came back the lowest it's been since this started. IT's actually considered borderline normal (it's 1:40).
I just have to thank God. I have no doubt in my mind He forewarned me through my dream last year that this medicine would "destroy my life" because it was honestly beginning to.
I just thinks it'a amazing to KNOW that the God that created the universe is still so interested in our lives' and desires to be so personal with us.
I just had to share it!
poster:Spriggy
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