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SHOCKING! ‘I thought it was just stress after my divorce — but now it is slowly killing me’
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A mum has today warned others about a rare life-threatening disease with which she has been diagnosed after a period of significant stress. Kristina Hamilton had initially dismissed the anxiety, putting it down to her divorce at the time. However, she soon became concerned when her fingers turned “ghostly white” and she started experiencing gut issues.
Doctors diagnosed Kristina, 43, with a chronic autoimmune disease called diffuse systemic scleroderma, which causes issues with the skin, muscles, bones, internal organs and blood vessels. It turns the body’s own defence mechanism into an aggressor, triggering an overproduction of collagen.......>>
