A recent study found that libido is negatively impacted by rheumatoid arthritis. This by way of a site called Celebrities with Diseases, through my google alert of course. 🙂 I was a little disappointed that the site that reported on …
It’s my birthday. Yes, there is going to be much celebrating. Yes, there will be cake, and yoga, and Ethiopian food and all the other things I love (including my fabulously supportive fella D). However, in the back of my …
Shape Magazine’s February issue has a tiny article, a paragraph really, about a University of Minnesota study linking gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis (February 2010, page 81). The study found that people with gum disease are three times as likely …
Do you think it’s possible for a person to hit a sort of medical bad luck quota? So far this year, I’ve sprained an ankle–with a torn ligament, had a questionable mole removed, and racked up a fair share of …
As a self-described morning person, coming to terms with the fact that there are things I just can’t do in the mornings has irked me since my Chronic diagnosis. Listen here body: I like to do yoga in the morning. …
It’s getting cold too quickly. Weather.com tells me that there’s a chance of snow this weekend. Aside from the annoyance that we longer have seasons (it’s October, where the heck is fall?), a long period of cold is really bad …
Since I was diagnosed with RA, I’ve tried all sorts of drugs and remedies. At the time of my diagnosis, the rheumatologist I was seeing recommended putting me on a very high dosage of steroids and a drug that I …
S here. For me, the impetus for this blog came from a medical anthropology class I’m auditing from my alma mater. Second or third class into the semester, we started talking about illness narratives–the stories that sick people tell others …
Hi, M here. I just wanted to give you all a brief intro to this blog and what it is all about. S and I are both in our twenties and we both have chronic illnesses, albeit different ones. S …