Jessica Gimeno has five diseases, one of those is myasthenia gravis. In her Ted Talk she talks about dealing with those, along with having depression. Go watch! I love that she…
Nicole graduated high school, but was forced to withdraw from college because she suffers from dysautonomia, particularly postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). This disorder causes rapid heartbeat, fainting spells upon standing,…
Doctors in New Delhi, India recently made history by performing a heart bypass surgery on a young boy who has the rare condition called homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, or HoFH. The…
Have you heard of myasthenia gravis? If not, that's not surprising considering it is a rare disease, with about 20 out of 100,000 known sufferers. However it is probably under-diagnosed and those…
Sixteen-year-old Sydney Rohmann has a number of rare conditions that have left her in a wheelchair. Among them are Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). She has even had brain…
Q: When is asthma not just asthma? A: When it's a symptom of Churg-Strauss syndrome. Five and a half years ago, in January 2011, Carole Cordum thought that her asthma was…
One way people spread awareness is by wearing shirts and other items with messages about what they support. If you want to be one of those people and you want to…
One of the difficulties facing the IPF community has been a lack of knowledge and awareness about the disease among many doctors and even specialists. An aggressive disease, idiopathic pulmonary…
Zebra’s Child un blogger que tiene inmunodeficiencia variable común, recientemente publicado acerca de la lucha que ella misma hallazgos mirando a la cara a primera hora de la mañana. Mientras se…
Píldoras y Parfaits: ¿Cómo probióticos podrían hacer la vida con CVID un poco más fácil. Entre las infecciones lejos demasiado frecuentes asociados con ICV y los problemas gastrointestinales recurrentes, muchos…
You really have to feel for the poor flu vaccine. Not only is it a target of the inexplicable “anti-vax” movement that would have us believe all vaccines are the…
June is Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month and Patient Worthy is here to help the cause. We recently published this great article about having a sense of humor when dealing with myasthenia gravis.…
Rachel Ablondi and her husband David knew from the start their infant son Andrew was having trouble meeting common baby-milestones. But their giant wake-up call occurred during a party celebrating…
What do June and snowflakes have in common? June is Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month, and those afflicted with MG are often called snowflakes because no two people with MG have…
Gaucher, considered a rare, life-threatening disease, affects 1 in every 40,000 to 60,000 individuals, and in most cases, the disease is misdiagnosed, which is just what happened to 18-month-old Tamara…
If you are living with narcolepsy, no one knows better than you, that your life is not normal. Narcolepsy might be the answer to those individuals who are suffering from…
The future can be overwhelming, and by "the future" i mean sometimes even just next week. Take things day by day and give yourself time to recuperate and refresh before…
I hate the sound of the word “lesion.” I think it ranks right up there with the word “moist” in icky-ness. And I’m willing to guess men with axial spondyloarthritis…
Amanda luchó durante años para comprender el dolor y la hinchazón que se mantuvo experimentar. Sus médicos no podía entender era incorrecto y que nunca supo por qué la garganta…
Myasthenia gravis comes from Greek and Latin words meaning grave muscular weakness. It is a is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease defined by fluctuating weakness in the voluntary muscles. It effects…
“I can’t even remember the name of that new drug Jo used,” my cousin told me, “but it did help improve the time she had left.” Jo was one of…
Not only is a chronic illness always hanging over your head because of it's cost to your health, your social life, and overall well-being, most times it also takes it's…
In every great mystery novel, there's a code that needs to be cracked so the protagonist can triumph in the end. When it comes to medicine, that code is the…
In order to learn about something new, I need to know what the words describing the illness mean. If you look at the word "dysautonomia," and have never run across…
On June 23, 201, a little boy named Jackson was born. He weighed in at a healthy seven pounds, three ounces, and was 20.5 inches long, and his parents were…
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