'It felt like my world had stopped': Woman struck by autoimmune disorder at age 22, now a mother to a 2-year-old
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SINGAPORE - Two years after moving from Johor Bahru to Singapore for work and further studies, Ms Stella Mui began experiencing double vision. Over the course of six months in 2009, Ms Mui, then 22, visited a number of general practitioners and optometrists'It felt like my world had stopped': Woman struck by autoimmune disorder at age 22, now a mother to a 2-year-old
SINGAPORE - Two years after moving from Johor Bahru to Singapore for work and further studies, Ms Stella Mui began experiencing double vision. Over the course of six months in 2009, Ms Mui, then 22, visited a number of general practitioners and optometrists to figure out what was wrong with her eyesight. But they were unable to diagnose her, prescribing eye drops instead, or suggesting that there might be a problem with her contact lenses. Then, one evening in July that year, she suddenly felt weak as she was leaving her accounting class and collapsed. «It was very sudden. I lost all my strength, and then I fell down,» said Ms Mui, now 37 and working in the financial sector. Her boyfriend helped her up and accompanied her home. However, she experienced the same thing the following morning, suddenly losing her balance and falling down. It was then that Ms Mui began to suspect that something was wrong. She returned home to Johor Bahru and visited a hospital, where - after going through a battery of tests - doctors diagnosed her with generalised myasthenia gravis. Read more