Patient Stories

Melissa Kirkland went from holding everything together to not being able to hold a pan. Here's how a rare autoimmune condition called CIDP changed her life overnight — and why she's talking about it.

Britt was thirty-four weeks pregnant when her hands and feet began to tingle. What followed was an emergency delivery, five months in the hospital, and an eight-month search for a diagnosis that finally had a name: CIDP. Three years later, she is standing again, and telling her story for the person who needs to hear that they are not alone.