Welcome to the tenth day of the National Health Blog Post Month Challenge hosted by WEGO Health. Every day during the month of November I will be writing a new blog post related to health and living with a chronic illness based on given prompts provided by WEGO Health. Today's prompt reads: Alternative Medicine: Write about alternative treatments and regimens and tell us how you feel about them. What do you support? What is crazy? Have you used any? As my condition is neurological,...
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My condition has not improved; at times it feels as if it is steadily getting worse and so as my condition has been significantly bad recently, it has meant that I have spent a lot of time in bed and watching television. I have particularly been enjoying spending time watching medical dramas - Saving Hope, Grey's Anatomy, Emily Owens and M.D and notably Monday Mornings. Although, I love these types of show, as a spoonie however, I do find them to...
Continue readingLast week (9-15th September 2013) was National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. The idea behind this particular Awareness Week is to raise awareness of invisible chronic illnesses (which there are many!) as well as providing support to those suffering from such conditions, who may feel misunderstood by others, who often disbelieve their illness because they 'look so good'. What does a person with an invisible chronic illness look like? The truth is, they look just like you or me. Look at...
Continue readingHey Everyone Haven't posted in a while, for which I apologise for, but lately am finding things so tough as of late. The symptoms that I experience with my condition - as I have mentioned before: Dizziness Stiffness and weakness in legs (Spastic Paraparesis) Sporadic episodes of vertigo with visual disturbances such as double vision, tunnel vision All these seem to worsening...
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