March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month When an intruder invades your body like a cold virus or bacteria on a thorn that pricks your skin—your immune system protects you. It tries to identify, kill and eliminate the invaders that might hurt you. But sometimes problems with your immune system cause it to mistake your body’s… Continue reading March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
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March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month When an intruder invades your body like a cold virus or bacteria on a thorn that pricks your skin—your immune system protects you. It tries to identify, kill and eliminate the invaders that might hurt you. But sometimes problems with your immune system cause it to mistake your body’s… Continue reading March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month When an intruder invades your body like a cold virus or bacteria on a thorn that pricks your skin—your immune system protects you. It tries to identify, kill and eliminate the invaders that might hurt you. But sometimes problems with your immune system cause it to mistake your body’s… Continue reading March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month When an intruder invades your body like a cold virus or bacteria on a thorn that pricks your skin—your immune system protects you. It tries to identify, kill and eliminate the invaders that might hurt you. But sometimes problems with your immune system cause it to mistake your body’s… Continue reading March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
March Is Autoimmune Disease When an intruder invades your body like a cold virus or bacteria on a thorn that pricks your skin—your immune system protects you. It tries to identify, kill and eliminate the invaders that might hurt you. But sometimes problems with your immune system cause it to mistake your body’s own healthy… Continue reading March Is Autoimmune Disease Awareness Month
Lymph Nodes – Part 2
Lymph Nodes – Part 2 Part 1 is here Tuesday, September 19, 2023 Everything seems to thankfully be at a dull roar today. Both sides are swollen, but the pain and discomfort seem to be manageable. I haven’t heard anything yet about scheduling the biopsy yet. Looking back through all this, I am about 98%… Continue reading Lymph Nodes – Part 2
How We Do Hay at the Barn
How We Do Hay at the Barn First, I want to note that each boarder is responsible for his or her own hay, though some of us do go in together on a load to save on shipping. We have several horses that have some medical issues, so we have to limit their intake of… Continue reading How We Do Hay at the Barn
Fibromyalgia Isn’t Just For Women
Fibromyalgia Isn’t Just For Women Often, when you hear that someone has Fibromyalgia, you instantly think of a female. Fibromyalgia affects more than 4 million Americans age 18 and older. Depending on the source, anywhere between 60-90% of those with Fibro are female, but men can and do get it. Men who have Fibro are… Continue reading Fibromyalgia Isn’t Just For Women
Costochondritis Rib Pain
Costochondritis Rib Pain If it’s not one pain it’s another. I know it is almost cliché, but it works for this post. I have always had a fairly high threshold for pain, in fact, I have been able to ignore a ton of pain in my life. Usually, I can ignore it and just push… Continue reading Costochondritis Rib Pain
Costochondritis – A Year and a Half Later
Costochondritis – A Year and a Half Later I was first diagnosed with Costochondritis in the ER around Thanksgiving 2022. At the time, the pain was intense and I was at the ER not for the pain itself, but for what we thought the pain was being caused by. I had been having the pain… Continue reading Costochondritis – A Year and a Half Later