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Christy Willard Kile I'm having a very hard time with my health, most of you know I have lupus, RA and mixed connective tissue disease along with Addison disease. I'm to keep in touch with my Dr at Emory every day. My adrenal glands are completely shut down. I am totally dependent on replacement hormones. My body doesn't make cortisol which helps me deal with daily stress, and if I get scared, upset, sick and ECT. I have to triple my dose and now I have to carry around an emergency injection, when the Dr. told me that I will be on it for the rest of my life to live. It’s one thing to be on medicine to help you with whatever the problem is, but to be told that you have to take this to live, it’s totally different, and IM scared. I know God has me but my life has changed so fast. I'll be okay, I'm not going to let it beat me.