Rare Community Profiles: Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) Advocates Respond to Celine Dion’s Claims in “I Am: Celine Dion”
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Rare Community Profiles: Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) Advocates Respond to Celine Dion’s Claims in “I Am: Celine Dion”

  Rare Community Profiles is a Patient Worthy article series of long-form interviews featuring various stakeholders in the rare disease community, such as patients, their families, advocates, scientists, and more.…

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Embracing the “Tin Man Disease”: International Stiff Person Syndrome Awareness Day 2023 on March 15
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Embracing the “Tin Man Disease”: International Stiff Person Syndrome Awareness Day 2023 on March 15

Written by Meghan Bayer Stiff Person Syndrome Spectrum Disorder (SPSD) is an acquired, progressive, neurological spectrum disorder with features of an autoimmune disease that is believed to affect one to…

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Managing a Dual Diagnosis: How Sarah has Survived, and Overcome, Challenges from Addison’s Disease and Stiff Person Syndrome (Pt. 2)
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Managing a Dual Diagnosis: How Sarah has Survived, and Overcome, Challenges from Addison’s Disease and Stiff Person Syndrome (Pt. 2)

Before you read on, make sure to check out Part 1 of Sarah's story. In Part 1, Sarah discusses the traumatic (and life-threatening!) odyssey that led to her eventual Addison's disease diagnosis…

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Managing a Dual Diagnosis: How Sarah Has Survived, and Overcome, Challenges from Addison’s Disease and Stiff Person Syndrome (Pt. 1)
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Managing a Dual Diagnosis: How Sarah Has Survived, and Overcome, Challenges from Addison’s Disease and Stiff Person Syndrome (Pt. 1)

When Sarah Williams Maxwell was 18 months old, she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Outside of managing this condition, Sarah was relatively healthy until 2014, when her diagnostic…

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Singer Celine Dion and British man Ian Rawlins both live with Stiff Person Syndrome
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Singer Celine Dion and British man Ian Rawlins both live with Stiff Person Syndrome

  Singer Celine Dion recently acknowledged that she has an extremely rare neurological disorder called stiff person syndrome (SPS). According to a recent article in The Metro, the disease occurs…

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Cursed, But Prepared: A Diagnosis of Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) And The Importance of Private Disability Insurance

Have you ever awoken in bed and thought that what happened the day before must have been a nightmare? It CANNOT possibly be true that I have a rare disease…

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