Sadness and frustration

So, some of you know that my mom has this crazy chronic disease called Hashimoto's Encephalitis. Basically, this disease causes her own body to attack her thyroid gland, which releases lots of thyroid hormone. Then, the thyroid hormone imbalance causes her brain to swell. Thus, the encephalitis. She is OK most of the time as long as she takes medicine, but when her body gets stressed out for some reason (this could even be caused by the weather), she has a Hashimoto's attack. For the last month, she has been having a constant attack and the doctor couldn't figure out why until recently. Finally, she was able to start taking this new thyroid medication that is time-release and it has pretty much cured the problem. So this is good news.
The sadness and frustration for me is that I have the same genes as her and have just been diagnosed with the exact same disease. Apparently, whenever I get stressed out for too long, my body will go into attack mode too. This happened just this morning—I feel awful. I woke up with this horrible headache that I thought was a migraine (but I've never had a migraine so I didn't know what it was exactly). The left side of my body was sort of numb starting from my left ear outward. I'd never known what it was like to have a numb elbow. It was weird. Advil didn't do anything for the pain or the numbness, so I just lay around in bed all morning and Joel made me food. I couldn't see straight out of my left eye. It kept closing on me without me telling it to, just the left one. Weird. I'm kind of freaked out. I never want to feel like this again.
At least now, I'm feeling better. Sorry these thoughts are not very coherent though.