What exactly is fatigue? fatigue | noun 1. extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness. We all experience tiredness at times, which can be relieved by sleep and rest. Fatigue is when the tiredness is often overwhelming and isn’t relieved by sleep and…
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“Is it tough taking lots of medications?”
The one thing I really struggled to grasp was just how much medication I could end up taking for my IBD. It’s early morning on the ward and the formidable drugs trolley is making its rounds. When it gets to me, I’m surprised to get…
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“What does surgery feel like?”
As many of you know, I’ve had a few surgeries over the years. In fact, it was almost one per year. And I didn’t particularly have a terrible time of suffering from my Crohns disease, but I had issues with healing and other subsequent problems…
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Vedolizumab Subcutaneous Injections
Biologics have been around since 2003 and have had a great impact on inducing and maintaining remission in moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC). Biologics have been a mixture of intravenous (IV) infusions, subcutaneous (SC) injections and oral medications. What did the pandemic…
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Examinations Under Anaesthesia
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY What exactly is a Examination Under Anaesthesia? This is a surgical examination under general or spinal anaesthesia, also known as a EUA. Due to the location of a particular area that requires a deeper look, a surgeon will…
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#2021HOMESTRETCH
The last 10 weeks of the year, time to set 5 goals for those weeks. This is very similar to the #100daysgoals movement, in which you find realistic and actionable goals for the final stretch of the calendar year. I last did this as a…
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Silicone – Is this the next Frontier in Stoma Products?
Disclaimer: Paid Partnership with Trio Healthcare Do you ever take off your stoma bag and wonder what exactly happens to your skin underneath? There is very little time when the skin directly around your stoma and immediately surrounding it is without something sitting on top…
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“Does your scar or stoma ever hurt?”
I remember sitting in my surgeon’s office back in 2016 as we discussed my first IBD surgery – a resection. I had a ton of questions, most of which focused on pain and the scar. Looking back, being worried about the scars seems so trivial…
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World Ostomy Day
In all the years I’ve had my ostomy, I think this year has been, by far, the easiest. Why do I say ‘easiest’? What has made me feel this way? Well, even despite a long recovery from my hernia repair, my stoma behaved really well…