I don’t even know where to begin. Seriously, it’s been an awful time lately. Whilst I’ve avoided anything majorly going wrong or happening, I’ve had tons of shite dumped on top of me and I find myself struggling beyond my wildest dreams. It all started when I got the results of my latest lot of scans and blood work back – I had a Liver MRI and Pelvis MRI…
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IBD Basics: Blood Tests
Disclaimer: This information is based on my own research into this particular aspect of IBD as well as some personal experience and should not be used as medical advice or a diagnostic tool. The suggestions given within are taken from sources laid out in the references header. If you seek advice regarding the things you experience within your own disease, please contact your IBD team for medical advice. If you are looking for the…
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IBD Basics: Aminosalicylates – 5ASAs
Disclaimer: This information is based on my own research into this particular aspect of IBD as well as some personal experience and should not be used as medical advice or a diagnostic tool. The suggestions given within are taken from sources laid out in the references header. If you seek advice regarding the things you experience within your own disease, please contact your IBD team for medical advice. If you are looking for the…
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Life Lately | Into Thirty We Go!
More of the same, ahead we go… My health has been so up and down of late; most of which needed some attention, I was completely unphased by my birthday on Monday! Processing and accepting where things are heading with each new issue is hard. And coping with anxiety doesn’t make any of this any easier; not that it would be easy without the anxiety.. I’ve had some time off…
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Life Lately | “And Another Thing..”
Do you ever have those moments when you just think ‘What else can be thrown at me?’ Not that I haven’t been feeling okay lately, but its been chock full of just things that need to be sorted and nothing is every simple with me. For one reason or another, every week for a while, I’ve had my blood taken. Sometimes for my IBD monitoring or a potential flare up,…
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Being Medication Free: It’s Effects on My Body
Disclaimer: This information is based on my own personal experience since being able to come off my Crohn’s medications. This is always done with authorisation of my consultant and my medical team, following a prepared plan of action. If you seek advice regarding the medications best suited to your condition or indeed any discussion about changing medications or removing them, please contact your IBD team for medical advice. Let me…
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Grateful for my Struggle
“In order for me to get here, I had to go there.” I’ve never really sat down and thought about what having a chronic illness actually means. It means a great deal of things to different people, so there is no one true answer to what having IBD actually is like. The wide spectrum of symptoms, side effects and general wellbeing leads us down very individual paths. My path…
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Surgical Review #2 – 13.02.17
Back to see my amazing surgeon today. Don’t worry, I’m okay! If anything, that’s the reason for seeing him. I am doing so well since surgery, he double checked my blood work, did a MRI scan and a calprotein test to confirm that everything is A-Okay. I’ve briefly discussed my thoughts on ‘remission’ this time around here, and also here. But today it was made official but not at all…
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Remission: I AM IN IT
So, this week is proving to be quite good. And I want to share my good news, because lets face it, sometimes it happens so infrequently, I just get too excited. Today I’ve had the results of my MRI scan from last week come back, in the form of my IBD nurse calling me to cancel and rebook some appointments with me. I enquired to what was open on the…