Coping with Chronic Illness Circle
Chronic Illness…
IHello, everyone. I can certainly deal with the idea of chronic illnesses. I have a plethora of them, number one with a bullet being depression and anxiety. I have had these diagnoses since I was 26 years old. I am now 61. Perhaps that explains the road that I have been on in my life,…
Loopy over lupus
Entry #1 I suppose I just introduce myself. My name is Kym. I'm 35 years old and a mother to a beautiful, pain in the tush son. I was born and raised in Melbourne where I survived with my aunt, uncle and ten cousins who would later be my brothers. My mom is a drug…
6 Is Better Then 20
Today is a good day on the pain scale. It's kind of a awful thing that your life surrounds around a pain scale score for a good day or a bad day. But that's how my life has been for years but the last 3 weeks it has been a tornado mixed in with a…
Dilemma
To med or not to med, that is the question. Whether it is saner in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of rages and crying, or to take capsules against a sea of sorrows and in medicating them, end them; to be awake past 9, to be able to get things done quickly…
Graves Disease at its finest
13 years ago next week...lived on this rollercoaster that robbed me of a "normal" life. Who knows if this ever gets easier...
Living With Fibromyalgia
There is a good book out called "You Don't Look Sick" that best describes what Fibromyalgia is all about. Its different for every person affected, some worse then others, but all the same, one person's pain hurts just as much to that person as the other does. Many Doctors don't believe it in &...