Category: Health
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Methotrexate
Low dose Methotrexate (25mg or less once a week) is used to treat a range of joint, skin and bowel conditions. This includes rheumatoid diseases, Crohn’s disease and severe psoriasis. In higher doses it is used to treat cancer. I was put on Methotrexate when I was 14 years of age. I remember it being the first time…
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The Spoonie Mummy Reviews – Bullen Healthcare Delivery Company
So I wrote this post over a week ago and then didn’t save it properly – doh! So here we go again! Today my recommendation is for my stoma supplies delivery company – Bullen Healthcare. I previously used another company which was the one I was ‘given’ by my stoma nurse when I left hospital. …
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Why Online Support Groups Can Be So Helpful
I joined my first IBD online support group in September 2015. I had been struggling for a while with my mental health and had just made the big step of opening up to my rheumatology nurse about how I was feeling. I had been diagnosed with Crohns Disease almost three years previously but still didn’t…
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GYBO Ball 2017
Apologies for being quiet this weekend. I have been in Birmingham attending the GetYourBellyOut ball, celebrating three years of their campaign. The founders did an amazing job and the party was brilliant. There was an Alice In Wonderland theme and the venue looked fab. Some lovely food (they had treacle sponge and custard ☺️), great…
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‘Good To Talk’
Today is the World Health Organisation’s World Health Day 2017. The focus for this year’s World Health Day is depression. The WHO are running a year long campaign to raise awareness of depression and promote the slogan ‘good to talk’. Close to 10% of the world’s population suffer with depression or anxiety. It’s an illness…
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Stoma Mail
When I had first had my operation one of the most amazing things was the support I received from people in the IBD and Ostomy communities. From the visit from wonderful Lauren from Purple Wings, to mailed gifts from far and wide to so many messages from people checking up on me – it all…
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To Reverse Or Not To Reverse, That Is The Question
When my stoma was formed last year, my surgeon told me that there was a possibility of a reversal in the future. There are many factors for me that will influence whether this could go ahead including the medication I am on and have been on, how things have settled with the stoma, how my…
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Autism Awareness Week
This week has been World Autism Awareness Week, culminating in World Autism Awareness Day tomorrow (Sunday April 2nd). About 700,000 in the UK alone are on the autism spectrum (including Asperger’s Syndrome). It affects how a person communicates with and relates to others and how they experience the world around them. It is a spectrum…
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