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Being your own GP! (When medicines aren’t being effective or condition is untreatable…)

My condition has not improved; at times it feels as if it is steadily getting worse and so as my condition has been significantly bad recently, it has meant that I have spent a lot of time in bed and watching television.  I have particularly been enjoying spending time watching medical dramas - Saving Hope, Grey's Anatomy, Emily Owens and M.D and notably Monday Mornings. Although, I love these types of show, as a spoonie however, I do find them to...

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NHBPM Day Three: “I don’t know about this but I’d like to…”

This prompt for the National Health Blog Post Month is all about what we would like to know but don’t. For me, I would like to know more about the spastic paraparesis that plagues my life. I know the basics - it causes severe stiffness and weakness in the legs. But that’s about all I know about the condition, and something which wasn’t even explained to me by the neurologist whom diagnosed it - I had to learn about it from...

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