{"id":7042,"date":"2022-09-06T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2022-09-29T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:35:46","slug":"mary-found-support-living-with-hereditary-amyloidosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/senior-health\/mary-found-support-living-with-hereditary-amyloidosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary found support living with hereditary amyloidosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box round ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-14 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-7043\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/09\/07210725\/Mary-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/09\/07210725\/Mary-Headshot.jpg 250w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/09\/07210725\/Mary-Headshot-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Mary McAnea (Dugan)<\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Amyloidosis Patient<\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>My initial diagnosis didn\u2019t happen overnight. Amyloidosis is often overlooked as signs and symptoms mimic other diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started with breathlessness, fatigue and a feeling of a weight on my chest. In 2010, I had a stent put in my artery. I returned to work on my usual medications and felt like a new woman. Five years after, I had pains all over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was in and out of hospital and experienced a heart attack. Three years later, after many procedures, I was diagnosed with Cardiac Amyloidosis. The mutation is known as Donegal Amy \u2014 with a 50% chance of passing the gene to our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><meta charset=\"utf-8\">The group is like my second family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I was under the care of Professor Emer Joyce and her team. Dr Joyce ordered genetic testing and medications were changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infusion medication started in March 2022 then home infusions in May. Recently, I was told I am stable with no side effects. The support after my diagnosis from ATTR: Amyloidosis all Ireland Support group was tremendous. The group is like my second family. With treatment available, early diagnosis is the answer. With the infusions, I have already noticed a difference in my quality of life. Hopefully, it will be a game-changer for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My initial diagnosis didn\u2019t happen overnight. Amyloidosis is often overlooked as signs and symptoms mimic other diseases. I started with breathlessness, fatigue and a feeling of a weight on my chest. In 2010, I had a stent put in my artery. I returned to work on my usual medications and felt like a new woman. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/senior-health\/mary-found-support-living-with-hereditary-amyloidosis\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":7044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5746],"tags":[5747],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senior-health","tag-senior-health-q3-2022"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/09\/07210724\/GettyImages-1319031310-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/09\/07210724\/GettyImages-1319031310-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Carolina Galbraith Duarte","author_link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/author\/carolinagalbraithduarte\/"},"vicky_category_order":[{"category_id":5746,"order":"7"}],"vicky_index_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}