A Year After My Diagnosis...As a medical student, you spend most of your time reading about all these rare diseases and learning how to recognize them...reactions3comments
My 10-year Anniversary With AS – 10 Insights Gained...Wow! Just writing this title feels strange. Strange to think that it has now been 10 years since the onset of my...reactions5comments
Using Mobility Aids in Public...I’ve been using mobility aids for about 4 years now. The thing is, it wasn’t until more recently that I started to...reactions5comments
What Are Digital Therapeutics?...Digital therapeutics (DTx) first entered clinical discussions in the 1990s. The idea was that technology could improve healthcare access. It could help...reactionscomments
What Are Digital Therapeutics?...Digital therapeutics (DTx) first entered clinical discussions in the 1990s. The idea was that technology could improve healthcare access. It could help...reactionscomments
Hey, You — Here Are 10 Examples of Ableism...Ableism: Discrimination [whether purposeful or not] in favor of able-bodied people. This article is for people who love someone with a chronic...reactions1comment
Telling Your Story May Be Good for Your Health...“While writing about my health issues has not cured them, it has helped me develop better coping skills and even contributed to...reactions1comment
Finally, My Cimzia Migraine Stopped...I did not react well to Cimzia. It did not help me. I ended up in the ER after three months of...reactions3comments
The Mental Side: Finding My Escape from AxSpA at the Hockey Rink...The door opens and the first thing I noticed is the air on my skin. Crisp and dry, it is cold inside...reactions1comment
Caring For a Disabled Person as a Disabled Person...Ten years ago, I became a mom. Three years into those ten, my oldest son was diagnosed with autism. It was not...reactions7comments
Young and Disabled...I first began showing symptoms of Ankylosing Spondylitis when I was 16 years old. I was officially diagnosed with AS three years...reactions2comments
I Took a Reset Trip...Before I get into the details of my trip, I just want to say I went on this reset trip back in...reactions2comments
How I Felt After My First COVID Vaccine...I received my vaccine on a Wednesday, and by the evening, I was already feeling sick. I had a headache, fever, and...reactions5comments
Amplifying Black Voices: How Healthcare Providers Can Better Serve the Community...For our Amplifying Black Voices series, we are exploring how bias in healthcare affects the quality of life for Black people living...reactionscomments
My Story...I started with hives 2 months after I graduated college. I was on many different meds for them but nothing help. I...reactions2comments
Why I No Longer Put On a Brave Face With My Doctors...A lifelong people-pleaser, I've always tended to be polite and agreeable in an effort to make others comfortable. When a problem arises...reactions5comments
Sharing Intimate Moments: Why We Began Posting Injection Videos...Sitting with injection needles, alcohol cleansing wipes, and cute band-aids… Taking deep breaths and hyping yourself up to prick your skin and...reactions4comments
Is Unattended Grief Hurting You?...The Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross popularized the common understanding that humans process grief and loss in stages in her 1969 book On Death...reactionscomments
Dreading When the World Goes Back to “Normal”...As the pandemic shows signs of finally drawing to a close, people are talking about what life will be like when things...reactionscomments
Believe Chronically Ill People, Period...After the singer Jessie J was recently diagnosed with Ménière’s disease, which is marked by vertigo, dizziness, hearing loss, involuntary eye movement...reactions3comments
