I had a little fever, and my voice was very hoarse, which I actually had no idea was a part of the symptoms, and I had a bad feeling in the fingers and toes and knees. And when it was at its worst at the shoulders and elbows, where I could not brush my teeth and not be able to brush my hair because it hurt so much. And I was just tired all the time.
How to describe Caroline Wozniacki in a great interview with the magazine Elle, the first symptoms of the rheumatoid arthritis, ‘rheumatoid arthritis’, which struck her in the late summer of last year.
The violent outbursts, of course, was an unpleasant experience, she says.
– It is something that I had not thought could hit me. So at first I thought that the change, I could feel, was because I had trained too much, I eat the healthy and do all the right things for the body, so that it is kept as healthy as possible.
– But when the symptoms were at their worst I knew that there was something that was not quite right, and went to the doctor.
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As I leave home to start a new season, I had a bit of time to reflect on a crazy 2018, and two things stood out. Starting off the season winning my first Grand Slam in Australia was a life long dream that was definitely worth the wait! Also, being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis after struggling physically for months, gave me a new challenge to overcome and a new mission to raise awareness for the disease. Bring on 2019, I am ready – Caro
Early on in the process, she had a suspicion that she might have had overtrænet his body. But she also felt that she knows her body’s good, that the reaction was too strange, she says to Elle.
– I was not afraid, for I knew not what it could be. When I then came to the doctor, he said that frankly, they had not had to do with a on as professional a level in the past; ’you may just try your way and see’.
To get the diagnosis was something of a wake up call, she says. And the internal questions about the future came also to stand in the queue, she explains. They were not at least about whether or not she could still play tennis at a high level.
Now she tries to find a way to live with the chronic disease.
– Life will come to change; there’s going to be days where you have the super, and days where you might not be at the top, but you learn all the time, what you can do to feel better and be well.
– And I also know what I can do before and after matches, to the body recuperate better and you don’t get sore. So I am going to learn along the way, but it is certainly something that I will not let myself stop.
– it is, as It is, and then I just have to find a method where I can grow elite sport at such a high level, as I do now, and so I must make sure that the body at the same time have it as good as possible, ” she says, and explains that she must be very aware of what she eats.
Caroline Wozniacki has previously explained to Ekstra Bladet, she every other week even takes injections to keep leddegigten in chess.
Tennis – 25. oct. 2018 – at. 17:55 Caroline chronically ill
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