Melodie suffers with Crohn’s, an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and initially, before her official diagnosis, she felt pain in her joints.
It got so bad that my joints were literally stuck, and I was crawling on the floor,” explains Melodie.
Besides the arthritic joint pain, Melodie was losing her hair and had regular eye infections.
She had an autoimmune disease (AD) called Crohn’s.
Crohn’s is one of the autoimmune diseases that affects more African Americans and especially African-American women.
