Bharat Ramanujam

My name is Bharat Ramanujam, I live in California. I am 38 yrs old. I was diagnosed at the age of 2 that I had a condition called Homocystinuria, which is due to the absence of an enzyme in my body. In 1999,  this site was developed in order to

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Joanna B

  Joann from Oregon My name is Joann and I was diagnosed with Homocystinuria at age 3,  (1974) when I rubbed Trisodium Phosphate (paint thinner) into my eyes.  They originally thought it was Marfan’s Syndrome but upon looking at my eyes closer they determined it was Homocystinuria.  I was born

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Samantha

Samantha from Canada My name is Samantha and I was not diagnosed through newborn screening. I was breastfed as a baby. My childhood genetic doctor, Dr. Greenberg at the Health Sciences Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba said this was probably one of the reasons why I didn’t get sick until foods

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Jessica Karnes

  The Early Years I was diagnosed with homocystinuria at the age of 4 and a half. I don’t remember much before I was diagnosed other than I loved chicken. As a child, I was devastated that my life was going to change forever. I soon realized that my life

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Samantha S

I began my last semester of college excited for the year ahead, doing normal things for a college senior, thinking about life after graduation and hanging with my friends. I was looking forward to my last performance of Step Sing, a campus – wide production unique to Samford University that

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Danae

My name is Danae’ Bartke and I was diagnosed with Homocystinuria in 1995 at the age of 10. We discovered the diagnoses because my younger brother had bumped his head on a table in school and then complained that he could not see. After a week or so, my mom

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Pamela P

I am Pam and I was diagnosed with Classic Homocystinuria in April of 2011 at the age of 54. Growing up, I had always thought I had Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. This was because at the age of two, my parents were told I had dislocated lenses in

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