Today is #RareDiseaseDay – Read my Patient Experience: Living with multiple rare diseases | Pharmafile | What’s your #Rare? care to share?

Not everyone with EDS has hypermobility, and not everyone with hypermobility has EDS!… Read More Today is #RareDiseaseDay – Read my Patient Experience: Living with multiple rare diseases | Pharmafile | What’s your #Rare? care to share?

Reflecting back! My year of patient, health, research and pharma advocacy 2019 | Carole Scrafton

In all honesty I am amazed that I have done all this especially considering my health was quite bad last year. I do tend to distract myself as much as possible, but crikey, I got around quite a bit didn’t I. – closing thoughts… Read More Reflecting back! My year of patient, health, research and pharma advocacy 2019 | Carole Scrafton

Our First Dog Show – Competing in Rally Obedience as a Handler with a Disability – The Invincible Summer

What are a wonderful read this is by Kathleen Elizabeth, aka blogger of ‘The Invincible Summer’, as she talks about her first time as a disabled dog handler in a dog show. She eloquently describes in detail about the highs and lows of her experience whilst giving us a brilliant explanation of how this role… Read More Our First Dog Show – Competing in Rally Obedience as a Handler with a Disability – The Invincible Summer

Stretch, 1, 2, 3, 4… Bend 1, 2, 3, 4 … | ActivePosture shirt – Product review | Carole Scrafton (sponsored post)

I decided to test how long it would be before my back began to ache when sat in a regular dining chair, one with no arms and a straight back. It wasn’t long before I began to notice little things….… Read More Stretch, 1, 2, 3, 4… Bend 1, 2, 3, 4 … | ActivePosture shirt – Product review | Carole Scrafton (sponsored post)

The burdens of pain management, inflammation and sensitivity to anti-inflammatories. | Carole Scrafton | 27 March 2019

What I have explained in this post is the chain reaction of ‘pain’ and ‘inflammation’ that I fight to prevent on a daily basis and when it gets as bad as this the ‘sciatic’ pain is so intense that it really does make me cry.
Read More The burdens of pain management, inflammation and sensitivity to anti-inflammatories. | Carole Scrafton | 27 March 2019

#chronicillnessVOICE | Health & medical related mini-mag for everyone| February 2019 | #notjustpatients

Feature: ‘Find Me A Cure’
Very soon FibroFlutters website will have it’s own very unique widget for readers to search for appriate clinical trials for any illness anywhere in the World and Find Me A cure have already sent me some designs to choose from.… Read More #chronicillnessVOICE | Health & medical related mini-mag for everyone| February 2019 | #notjustpatients

Special edition Happy new year & ‘Happy birthday’ #chronicillnessVOICE 1yrs young| January 2019 ~ a health newsletter for everyone! #chronicillness #notjustpatients

‘Attending an event during the middle of hibernation was a little daunting but I wasn’t going to let that stop me from going. ‘
What a way to celebrate our newsletters 1st birthday … Read More Special edition Happy new year & ‘Happy birthday’ #chronicillnessVOICE 1yrs young| January 2019 ~ a health newsletter for everyone! #chronicillness #notjustpatients

Home news | Next meet up is on 20th November

This meeting is also for our Fibromyalgia members and Fibromyalgia Action UK supporters as an extra meeting on top of our sister FMA UK Fibromyalgia group’s meeting on the FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH which our members are welcome to Join.… Read More Home news | Next meet up is on 20th November

RELIEF: PAIN RESEARCH NEWS, INSIGHTS AND IDEAS |BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE IASP PAIN RESEARCH FORUM

Headliner:  Coming Together to Put Patients First in Headache Treatment | By Stephani Sutherland 
Coming Together to Put Patients First in Headache Treatment… Read More RELIEF: PAIN RESEARCH NEWS, INSIGHTS AND IDEAS |BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE IASP PAIN RESEARCH FORUM

New research from Pain Concern on easing pain appointments | Pain Concern |  October 2018

Helping focus pain appointments with the Navigator Tool

This edition has been funded by funded by the Health and Social Care Alliance and Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation… Read More New research from Pain Concern on easing pain appointments | Pain Concern |  October 2018