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  • Living with rare diseases

  • Time to diagnosis is always a problem

  • for rare diseases

  • but this is not only the case in Bulgaria, but all over the world

  • everyone has problems with delay of diagnosis

  • A disease is rare when it affects less than 1 person in 2000 people

  • We have an extremely big number of rare diseases

  • more than 8000 nosological units

  • The treatment that is offered is enzyme replacement therapy

  • For 10 years now in Bulgaria there is prevention and it can be said that I am already a normal person

  • I am not limited to what I want to do and I do what I want

  • The current trend for the treatment of this disease

  • is to achieve a survival rate which is almost close to normal

  • Being ill does not prevent you from starting a family

  • to have a normal life

  • Apropriate treatment eliminates all negative effects of the disease

  • I feel normal like everyone else

  • after the treatment

  • I have a life to live, I have a child to care

  • I have a husband who needs me and friends.

  • Like all of us

Living with rare diseases

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