For the second time in six months I’ve undergone another BRAVO 96-hour PH monitoring test, whilst investigating my chest pains and digestive problems.
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Category: Challenges
The chronic life….
The chronic illness life is the gift that just keeps on giving. And giving. And givvvvvvingggggg….
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I’ve been lonely all my life – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
For most of my life I’ve felt alone and lonely. I never realised this was a thing, it’s just how I’ve always felt and I…
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The road to diagnosing my chest pains and digestive issues
After years of being suffering with relentless chest pains and other digestive symptoms that have largely gone undiagnosed, I’m finally closing in on an answer.…
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Why do we stay?
I wish there was an easy answer to this. For those of us who struggle, who want to leave, who don’t feel like we belong.
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Making the most of bittersweet holidays – My top 7 Christmas (holiday) posts
HOW is it even Christmas already? Don’t bother answering that. You know how I feel about the holidays. Bittersweet time of year. I love to…
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The season is changing so I’m flaring, send help!
As the autumn air ushers out the summer sun I, like many of my friends around the world living with fibromyalgia reel from a flare…
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A night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgia
Monday 4 October 2021, 1.27am Luckily for me I don’t have work later today, because it is 1.27am and I am wide awake. I am…
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‘Thought I was going crazy’ – fibromyalgia patients on the impact of not being able to regulate their own body temperature
[Feature image: Yes that is me sweating like I’ve run a marathon. No I didn’t] People living with fibromyalgia have described how the often overlooked…
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Advocates excited but say more research needed after latest fibromyalgia research say it could be autoimmune
I welcome the new research (any research really, please) that suggests fibromyalgia may be “an autoimmune response that increases the activity of pain-sensing nerves throughout…
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