*Originally published on 15 December 2021* HOW is it even Christmas already? Donβt bother answering that. You know how I feel about the holidays. Bittersweet…
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About BRAVO 96-hour PH monitoring tests
For the second time in six months Iβve undergone another BRAVO 96-hour PH monitoring test, whilst investigating my chest pains and digestive problems.Β
View More About BRAVO 96-hour PH monitoring testsThe chronic life….
The chronic illness life is the gift that just keeps on giving. And giving. And givvvvvvingggggg….
View More The chronic life….Iβve been lonely all my life – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022
For most of my life Iβve felt alone and lonely. I never realised this was a thing, itβs just how Iβve always felt and I…
View More Iβve been lonely all my life – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022The 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, Iβm finally closing in on an answer.…
View More The road to diagnosing my chest pains and digestive issuesWhy do we stay?
I wish there was an easy answer to this. For those of us who struggle, who want to leave, who donβt feel like we belong.
View More Why do we stay?The season is changing so I’m flaring, send help!
As the autumn air ushers out the summer sun I,Β like many of my friends around the world living with fibromyalgia reel from a flare…
View More The season is changing so I’m flaring, send help!A night in the life ofβ¦ an insomniac living with fibromyalgia
Monday 4 October 2021, 1.27am Luckily for me I donβt have work later today, because it is 1.27am and I am wide awake. I am…
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[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…
View More βThought I was going crazyβ – fibromyalgia patients on the impact of not being able to regulate their own body temperatureAdvocates 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 βan autoimmune response that increases the activity of pain-sensing nerves throughout…
View More Advocates excited but say more research needed after latest fibromyalgia research say it could be autoimmune