Fibromyalgia Awareness Day Fibromyalgia is an immobilizing, difficult to manage and not widely known disease which affects many men and women worldwide. It’s a disease that is about seven times as likely to affect women than men, and although it usually is seen in people between the ages of 30 and 50 it can appear… Continue reading Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
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May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Activists throughout the United States use it as an opportunity to organize walks, 5K runs, showings of the Lyme documentary Under Our Skin, and other events to help educate the public and/or raise funds for research. Some write letters to their local newspapers, share… Continue reading May is Lyme 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
Lyme Disease
Lyme Disease Way back when all this started for me, the doctors first thought that I had Lyme Disease. Of course, most doctors are really good at getting you all convinced that you have a particular illness or disease. In this case, they asked me if I had ever been bitten by a tick, which… Continue reading Lyme Disease
