Category: Health
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Grieving The ‘Old You’ – Dealing With A Chronic Illness Diagnosis
Good morning everybody. Today I wanted to share a post about how a chronic illness diagnosis can affect you. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis aged 15 months, so have never known any different but my diagnosis with Crohn’s Disease came when I was 26. I found this was handled very badly by my gastro…
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Prescription Charges In The UK
In the UK we are really lucky to have the NHS and access to free healthcare. One thing a lot of people do have to pay for is prescriptions, and I have recently seen people in support groups I am a member of, talking about the rising cost of this. I was shocked to read…
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IBD – Is It Crohn’s Or Colitis?
I see so many posts from people who don’t know which type of IBD they have or saying they have both – which just is not possible! I thought I would do a post to explain the two diseases and the differences between them. I understand how confusing diagnosis is, and the doctor’s often don’t…
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Mental Health Awareness Week – The ‘But’ Factor
Yes, I know I post a lot about bums and poo but I haven’t made a spelling error in the title, I promise!
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Exercising With Arthritis
Did You Know… May is Arthritis Awareness Month. Approximately 350 million people worldwide have arthritis. In the UK there are around 10 million people living with the disease. Around 15,000 of these are children. Yes, children get arthritis too!
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Spring Cleaning Week – 10 Chronic Illness Cleaning Hacks
Happy Friday everyone! We have made it through another week! Who has kids that are breaking up for the Easter holiday today? The boys are spending the first week with their Dad and the second with me, I can’t wait! Today as part of my Spring Cleaning Week I am sharing ten hacks to make…
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Health Update
Well, what a month! For anyone not following me over on social media, I am now out of hospital, yay! I was released on Monday 16th March after three weeks in hospital. Although my symptoms haven’t all been rectified, they are a lot better than they were.
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Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month
March is national Deep-Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month, a public health initiative aimed at raising awareness of this commonly occurring medical condition and its potentially fatal complication, pulmonary embolism. What is Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)? DVT is a blood clot which develops in one of the deep veins in the body – usually in the leg What…
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The Spoonie Mummy 