Mom thought symptoms were sciatica but were diagnosed with leukemia (exclusive)

Brittne Largent first noticed that something was wrong when her right toe was stunned in early January.

She did not think “anything about it then” until the numbness became pain. Still, Largent just assumed that she pulled a muscle in the gym and there was nothing to worry about.

“A few weeks later, I started to have sciatica pain, and it gradually began to get worse,” the 30-year-old tells exclusively. “As a mother who works full -time, our schedules are busy and think it will be better, I tried to make distances for sciatica, but nothing would work.”

As the weeks went by, her pain got worse and worse.

“At night, when I tried to get ready for bed, it was unmatched pain that went down from my lower back on my right side, and I couldn’t sleep,” she says. “I got 30 minutes off and on. After two weeks my husband took me to you, and they said it sounded like sciatica and sent me home.”

When nothing helped to relieve the pain, Largent decided to go to his family practitioners. She also asked the doctor to do blood work because she had not had her annual physical yet.

When her blood work came back, the doctor told Largent that she needed to see an oncologist as soon as possible. From there she underwent a bone marrow biopsy, which confirmed that she had acute myeloid leukemia.

Largent says “never in a million years” would she have thought that her symptoms could be cancer.

After her diagnosis, the process moved very quickly and she began chemotherapy at the end of February.

“My oncologist, he’s amazing, and he was so sure and told me, ‘this is what we have to do with. This is our treatment plan and let’s go,'” she shares. “So he was on top of it. I didn’t have to wait for weeks to get started.”

“When I found out, I didn’t even let myself cry at first. I thought,” Okay, let’s go. We have to go to the hospital. We have to get started, “she continues.” It was soothing that he was so sure of our playing field. ”

Her first treatment was an induction round, which meant seven days in chemotherapy to eliminate as many cancer cells as possible.

She was in the hospital for three weeks later. Largent still receives treatment twice a month, with two weeks of treatment and recovery in the hospital and then two weeks at home.

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Largent says that her “faith, family and friends” have helped her through this process.

“I have been very blessed with the family and friends I have, the support I have and I have built my faith much stronger,” she shares. “Since all this has happened, my faith has become much stronger.”

“I hope someone else who goes through something similar, or something medical, I hope they also have a strong society behind them,” she adds.

Largent shared a video about her story on TiktokWho went viral and collected over 760,000 views. She hopes to inspire others to listen to their bodies when something is wrong.

“I see trends and like to jump on them. I shared it to help at least one person who comes across it,” she says. “I want them to listen to their body because I ignored the toe Dometes as if there was nothing.”

“Listen to your body and try not to skip your doctor’s meetings, especially your annual checks,” she continues. “If I had listened to my body when my toe was first stunned, maybe I would have caught it a few weeks earlier than I did.”