Raise awareness about chronic illnesses by understanding their impact, symptoms, and the importance of support and education.
By: Dr. Alexa James I spend a lot of time negotiating with my body as someone with multiple chronic illnesses. I feel I can’t go for days and I’m determined to never give up for days. The emotional range is wide. I was through all of them and I have a great deal of coping mechanisms. My inner dialog is one of them. It could be my enemy or my friend. I have a large…
By: Dr. Alexa James I watched one of my favorite TV shows recently, The Golden Girls. Though I saw the show hundreds of times, I really clicked and hit home this time to watch some episodes. The episodes I am talking about are known as “sick and fatigued,” if we know the show. This two-part episode was a time of extreme exhaustion for Dorothy and a month of feeling sick. I know everything too well…
By: Dr. Alexa James When people ask me what I am or what I am doing, generally my typical answer is the same, “I am OK,” or “I am good,” or “I am OK,” or, “We are all OK.” Without a second thought, we have conditioned this response. These reactions are so automatic that we don’t know any other answer. It’s just because I sometimes think “Hello, how are you going?”When you see the people,…
Doctors are diagnosing metastatic carcinoid tumors (MCTs) increasingly better. Nevertheless, the varying symptoms of an MCT can sometimes lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate care until it is discovered that a carcinoid tumor is behind these symptoms. Carcinoid tumors are often initially misdiagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or Crohn’s disease, or as a symptom of menopause in women, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Understanding the similarities between carcinoid syndrome symptoms and IBS…
By: Dr Alex Robber A Chronic Pain survivor shared us these related details to chronic survival pack. In the event of an emergency, we asked people to add items to the list containing few items which all should keep in their pack. Their ideas and needs were brought up. This is the community that shares this with us: 1. Every physician has their own website and I stick the card at the bottom right-hand corner…
By: Dr Alex Robber We pass hundreds or thousands of tiny, tiny movements every day in our daily lives. Then probably don’t even believe about most of that. Therefore we have natural instincts and reflexes. We have duties and duties every day. We’re working, we’re playing, we’re training. We inhale, we blink, we exhale. In the morning, we wake up and stretch to face another day before going out of our bed. At night (or…
By: Dr Alex Robber Well, here we are, it’s not only life, I know it has changed. We are now on a fresh trip, not an exciting, but rather a mountain trip with a host of pit stops and detours. There are therefore a few things you should understand about going on this trip that can facilitate your dealings with me. I have a chronic disease, as you understand, and for one of us life…
By: Dr Alex Robber People are Having a Hard Period to Believe that Famous Lady Gaga is suffered from a painful and Misdiagnosed Disease. After the interview confession of lady Gaga that she is painfulness and struggling from the rarified familiar disease Fibromyalgia, the group are not believing her and criticizing her which makes her much spirited and annoyed from them. The Popular American superstar and pop vocalist singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, well known…