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Misdiagnosed by your doctor? Here are ways to minimize and mitigate the damage!
There are times when doctors, very simply, are wrong. There are also times when they do not know the answer. Mistakes can and will happen, and your goal as a patient is to make sure you are properly diagnosed by your doctor. Making sure you aren’t misdiagnosed! If your doctor does not know what your…
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Maintaining mental health while filing for disability
Filing for disability put me in a depressive funk that left me exhausted, and the process of filing the paperwork literally took me weeks because I couldn’t work on it for more than ten to fifteen minutes at a time before I was physically unable to continue. Filing for disability, in itself, was an emotional…
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How healthy is your mind?
When you are injured or ill, there is a lot of focus on healing your body, but your mind’s health(mental health) is a huge factor in your recovery process. Since this is mental health awareness month I wanted to talk about the relationship between physical and mental health. The question I have for you is…
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Why friendships fall apart after severe illness or injury
It is terrifyingly easy to become socially isolated after a serious injury or illness. It doesn’t happen to all people, as there are a lot of variables. The quality of the friends that you have before your trauma is one of those important details that will affect your friendships post-injury. Friendships and social interaction are…
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Internal Physical Therapy: Should I see a pelvic floor physical therapist?
For both urge and stress incontinence, the best treatment is actually physical therapy. You’ll probably have to do some digging, but there are physical therapists(many of them are DPT’s(doctors of physical therapy) as opposed to having a master’s in physical therapy) out there who focus in on pelvic floor health and rehabilitation. Do some searching…
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Stop mental health stigma!
This month is mental health awareness month! In honor of that, I intend to make sure that my posts for the month have more of a mental health focus. Today, I want to talk about the stigma that is placed on mental health, and what we can do to fight it off. So what is…
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Seeing a specialist: getting the most out of your appointment
When trying to get diagnosed, you are often told your next step is seeing a specialist. This is an indicator that your GP can’t easily figure out what’s going on, and wants you to see a doctor who focuses in on whatever system of yours seems out of whack.
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I have to pee all the time! Urinary urgency and incontinence
Roughly one in three women will experience urgency(that desperate feeling of needing to pee right now) or incontinence(not being able to keep the pee in until reaching the toilet) at some point in her life. It is more frequent later in life or shortly after childbirth, but it can hit any woman at any…
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Self-care with FND: 8 ways you can help yourself #letstalkfnd
Today, in celebration of FND Awareness Day, I want to focus on my fellow FNDers. For anybody wanting more details on what FND is and how it works, here is my guest-post about FND to promote awareness. In a nutshell, Functional Neurological Disorder is a neurological condition where stress(especially emotional stress) is expressed in very…
