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Could the foods you are eating be causing you pain?
- By nanascorner · Posted 2:09 pm
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- When dealing with the reality of living with chronic pain in my life, I never consider that some of the food items that I was consuming on a daily bases , could be a contributing factor in causing some ...
Being a survivor
- By annebert · Posted 10:50 am
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- I have been meaning to post his here for a while. I stumbled on this poem one day and it encapsulates for me the fact that being alive RIGHT NOW is the best revenge. If you are not familiar with ee cummings ...
To: Pain From: Me
- By Nina372 · New reply yesterday at 12:37 am
- Journal · 9 replies
- To: Pain From: Me Well hello pain, you might not want to hear this but you have out-stayed your welcome here in my body. You are the most annoying, agitating, distracting, way to needy, company that I ...
School = feeling horrible. need advice
- By Nina372 · New reply November 6, 2009
- Journal · 12 replies
- I go to the University of New Mexico it’s been about a month since I have started my classes and it is HARD I am taking 14 credit hours. I am always worried I will pass out on campus as I almost did ...
pots/dysautonomia
- By Nina372 · New reply November 6, 2009
- Journal · 5 replies
- Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...
Reaching Out
- By nanascorner · New reply November 4, 2009
- Journal · 4 replies
- It has been said; A human being requires at least eleven hugs a day to feel complete! I have no idea whether that figure is correct or not, but I do know that a baby can not survive with out human touch ...
When Life Gets Hard
- By nanascorner · New reply November 1, 2009
- Journal · 9 replies
- I was thinking about so many ladies I know that are struggling with some tough situations, chronic pain and illness. I was thinking about some certain situations that I am struggling with as well. I was ...
The word compassion
- By nanascorner · New reply October 29, 2009
- Journal · 2 replies
- The word compassion comes from two Latin words, suffer and with . To show compassion means to suffer with someone, to enter into a persons situation and become involved in that persons suffering. Compassion ...
New Research
- By nanascorner · Posted October 27, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Everything that I have read about CD/UC points to new research information.. Some researchers are suggesting that there is a link between chemical sensitivities and auto-immune diseases like lupus, type ...
19 years old. alone??
- By Nina372 · New reply October 25, 2009
- Journal · 23 replies
- I am 19 years old and sometimes feel as though there is nobody else my age who knows what I go through. I know many other people who understand what I have to face every day and the difficulties involved ...
Compassion Does Matter
- By nanascorner · New reply October 25, 2009
- Journal · 9 replies
- I have been asked; why do you send out these poems? Some of my friends understand, some think I am weird. Some answer with a thank you, some dont answer at all because they dont have a clue of why I do ...
2:41 am and I want to be a brat!!!
- By spiritlove · New reply October 18, 2009
- Journal · 38 replies
- An hour ago I had one of those frightening, choking attacks, my heart was throbbing, it felt like my throat was going to rip open and it was a struggle to get all the velcro off. I've been battling this ...
THIS IS GETTING CRAZY!!!
- By so-tired · New reply October 17, 2009
- Journal · 12 replies
- I have 2 sons, 38 & 28 yrs old. They have not felt well for a long time. After going from doctor to doctor, we finally got a diagnoses for both of them. My oldest has a Pituitary Tumor, so small, that ...
Finding a purpose when you battle a chronic illness
- By nanascorner · New reply October 17, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- I loved my grand mother very much. She was to be an example of a strong self-sufficient women. Widowed at the age of 35, she went back to school and became an RN. She has to knee surgeries , in order ...
TODAY HAS BEEN A BAD DAY~~~
- By so-tired · New reply October 16, 2009
- Journal · 13 replies
- I HAD TO GO T MY DENTIST, AND COULD BARELY WALK. THE NURSE HAD TO HELP ME INTO THE ROOM. I JUST DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY LEGS?? MY SON THINKS IT IS FROM MY BAD BACK, I JUST DON'T KNOW ...
Almost back to my "normal"
- By spiritlove · New reply October 14, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- Well, hope this gets posted. Wrote a long one and accidentally deleted! Thanks everyone for soothing my brat. I'm doing better and haven't quite figured out what I'll do. Don't feel right asking for delivery ...
I CAN HARDLY WALK TODAY
- By so-tired · New reply October 13, 2009
- Journal · 27 replies
- I HAVE SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH ME, BUT TODAY IS REALLY BAD. I AM SO WEAK, AND CAN HARDLY WALK! ANY IDEAS AS TO WHAT THIS COULD BE? I'M SCARED! PLEASE, REPLY? LINDA (SO TIRED ...
Reasons for Chronic Nausea
- By nanascorner · Posted October 10, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Chronic Nausea, is a common problem with people battling a chronic illness and pain. People with Fibromyalgia can suffer from IBS, GERDS, Hypersensitive ( HSP) issues, which can and does lead to chronic ...
I'm an RN that got hurt and my health went to pot!
- By RobynRae · New reply October 10, 2009
- Journal · 11 replies
- This is my first time on this site to recored any info and I hope I do it right! I'm still in the learning stages of the computers and what I can and can't do which is keep my fingers on the right keys ...
Big scientific breakthrough on CFS
- By annebert · Posted October 8, 2009
- Discussion in In the news · 0 replies
- This is really exciting. A research paper was published today (from Whittemore Peterson Institute in Nevada, the National Cancer Institute, and the Cleveland Clinic) showing a strong link between infection ...
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