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Lost organ!!!!!!!!

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · Posted 12:40 am
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • So currently I have been having problems with passing out and graying out because of my condition and after trying to explain it to my friends a hundred times and them not getting it I wrote this ...

pots/dysautonomia

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply yesterday at 12:50 am
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...

Invitation ( story unknow writer)

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · New reply November 24, 2009
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in ...

Under the weather

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · New reply November 23, 2009
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • I had to thank my husband for the bug he brought home from work. Having a cold or flu is bad enough when you are a healthy and strong person. Add a cold bug when you have fibro, and a common achy becomes ...

Water or Coke? (or rather any carbonated drink)

meriterry
  • By meriterry · New reply November 21, 2009
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • This was sent to me by a friend: Focus on the hydration thing....... Water or Coke? I could not believe this..... Very interesting WATER #1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies ...

Taking a moment for ourselves

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · New reply November 20, 2009
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Chamomile Tea Outside the sky is light with stars; There's a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree. How little I thought, a year ago ...

Finally home

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 18, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • I am finally home after being in the hospital for a week. Last Friday I was sick all day and kept having black-outs. Around midnight I asked my mom to take me to the er because something felt very wrong ...

swine flu

meriterry
  • By meriterry · Posted November 18, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • My daughter let us know that the doctor told her husband not to come into the doctor's office, and to assume he has swine flu due to symptoms he reported. He has headache, achy, fever, coughing, but unless ...

Dr. Hastings

meriterry
  • By meriterry · New reply November 17, 2009
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Dr. Carl Named to CRN Board of Directors. Reliv Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Carl Hastings has been elected to the board of directors of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN ...

Isn't it strange...

ShannonZ
  • By ShannonZ · New reply November 16, 2009
  • Journal · 17 replies
  • that quite a few of us on here have more then one health "issue"? We ALL must be tough cookies ...

Are you suffering from Malnutrition?

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · New reply November 16, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with chronic fatigue syndrome · 3 replies
  • My father did not suffer from CD, is health issues were the result of cancer. His concept, when it was suggested that supplements would help build back up his system after have radiation theory was clear ...

Sudden fatigue

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · New reply November 16, 2009
  • Discussion in Living with chronic fatigue syndrome · 1 reply
  • I was doing better. My energy levels were still stugglish, but I was able to walk out side with out feeling as if the world was tilting around me. And then last night, around 5 i began to get a head ache ...

Hope Prevails

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · Posted November 16, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • It’s easy to give up hope. Obstacles and daily living seem to beat hope out of the best of us at times. For me, dealing with the reality of a chronic illness has shaped and changed my life significantly ...

Could the foods you are eating be causing you pain?

nanascorner
  • By nanascorner · New reply November 13, 2009
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • 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 ...

I FEEL LIKE I'M DYING....SLOWLY

ShopGirl
  • By ShopGirl · New reply November 11, 2009
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • tonight, I noticed a few BLUE patches under my skin on my fingers when I was cold. I have never seen this before. It was very noticable, in 3 fingers. I feel like I'm getting sicker. It really hurts ...

School = feeling horrible. need advice

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 11, 2009
  • Journal · 16 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 ...

Being a survivor

annebert
  • By annebert · New reply November 10, 2009
  • Journal · 6 replies
  • 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

Nina372
  • By Nina372 · New reply November 9, 2009
  • Journal · 10 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 ...

Reaching Out

nanascorner
  • 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

nanascorner
  • 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 ...

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