Designer Feeha Jamshed opens up about her life-changing illness
She shares her struggles with auto-immune degeneration
PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/ FEEHA JAMSHED
Pakistani fashion designer Feeha Jamshed took to Instagram yesterday to share something very personal.
Posting multiple videos of her dancing at a wedding, she wrote, "This post is an emotional summary and very close to my heart. Many of you didn’t know what was happening with me."
Explaining a condition she had suffered with, the designer continued, "Three years ago, I started to lose control over my body. I had Trigeminal Nueralgia and after a series of procedures, I had it under control, though that was the last of my worries"
She went on to state that not long after, the lower part of her body - mainly her hip and lower back - started to give away. " I was experiencing excruciating pain, that had no diagnosis. From one MRI to another and after juggling between the best doctors this country had to offer - I finally had an explanation."
It runs in the family: Feeha Jamshed and Mustafa Jamshed
Jamshed shared that eventually, she was unable to walk properly, due to which she had began limping on her left leg. However, the reason she found it very difficult was mainly because she had been a workaholic for the best part of 10 years as working was what she knew best. So not being able to walk properly and taking medication that slowed her down and made her feel like a zombie. "I was taking every medication that they had to offer. Out of all of them, steroids were the real killer. Which meant I had to be on anti depressants too."
"I decided to go cold turkey because I couldn’t let my work suffer. The only thing that kept me going was work. And that too became a downfall," she added.
All this eventually led the award-winning couturier onto a wheelchair for eight months and she went on to express how that affected her. "Now my battle was not only at work but inside me. My mind. I couldn’t let that go out of my control. There were some very very dark days for me," said the designer. "In order to win the battle I had to surrender first; surrender to everything that didn’t make sense, to what the reality was, to my negative thoughts in order to rise from it."
Explaining her illness further, she continued,"I had to fight the biggest fight of my life with myself FOR myself. I have auto-immune degeneration. There is no cure for my hip joint but my spine is manageable."
I’d die the day I copy someone else’s work: Feeha Jamshed
Jamshed explained that this post was an appreciation to how far she has come. "From a wheel chair to a stick to dancing. As long as my good days are more than the bad ones, I’m winning each moment."
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg1GgMXlT-Y/?taken-by=jamshadys
She concluded with a tribute to herself. "Lastly the person I need to thank after God is MYSELF. I couldn’t have done it without ME."
You go girl!
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Posting multiple videos of her dancing at a wedding, she wrote, "This post is an emotional summary and very close to my heart. Many of you didn’t know what was happening with me."
Explaining a condition she had suffered with, the designer continued, "Three years ago, I started to lose control over my body. I had Trigeminal Nueralgia and after a series of procedures, I had it under control, though that was the last of my worries"
She went on to state that not long after, the lower part of her body - mainly her hip and lower back - started to give away. " I was experiencing excruciating pain, that had no diagnosis. From one MRI to another and after juggling between the best doctors this country had to offer - I finally had an explanation."
It runs in the family: Feeha Jamshed and Mustafa Jamshed
Jamshed shared that eventually, she was unable to walk properly, due to which she had began limping on her left leg. However, the reason she found it very difficult was mainly because she had been a workaholic for the best part of 10 years as working was what she knew best. So not being able to walk properly and taking medication that slowed her down and made her feel like a zombie. "I was taking every medication that they had to offer. Out of all of them, steroids were the real killer. Which meant I had to be on anti depressants too."
"I decided to go cold turkey because I couldn’t let my work suffer. The only thing that kept me going was work. And that too became a downfall," she added.
All this eventually led the award-winning couturier onto a wheelchair for eight months and she went on to express how that affected her. "Now my battle was not only at work but inside me. My mind. I couldn’t let that go out of my control. There were some very very dark days for me," said the designer. "In order to win the battle I had to surrender first; surrender to everything that didn’t make sense, to what the reality was, to my negative thoughts in order to rise from it."
Explaining her illness further, she continued,"I had to fight the biggest fight of my life with myself FOR myself. I have auto-immune degeneration. There is no cure for my hip joint but my spine is manageable."
I’d die the day I copy someone else’s work: Feeha Jamshed
Jamshed explained that this post was an appreciation to how far she has come. "From a wheel chair to a stick to dancing. As long as my good days are more than the bad ones, I’m winning each moment."
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg1GgMXlT-Y/?taken-by=jamshadys
She concluded with a tribute to herself. "Lastly the person I need to thank after God is MYSELF. I couldn’t have done it without ME."
You go girl!
Have something to add to the story? Share it in the comments below.