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Multiple Sclerosis
Why I Chose a Neurologist Who Specializes in Treating People With MS
September 17, 2021Somebody told me once: ”Don’t forget that your doctor works for you.” At first, it sounded strange. Almost wrong. I never looked at my relationship with my doctor that way ...
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Breast Cancer
How I Triumphed Over Breast Cancer
September 17, 2021Cancer changes a lot of things. But I never expected it would affect my underwear drawer. The three dreaded words, “You have cancer,” came screaming at me...
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Breast Cancer
If I Could Go Back, Here's What I'd Tell Myself About My Breast Cancer Diagnosis
September 17, 2021The most painful experience of my life was being diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer in March 2020 at the age of 32. Since reaching remission, I planned to move ...
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Breast Cancer
Bald and Boldly Beautiful
September 17, 2021It is fair to say a cancer diagnosis makes you uncomfortable -- it places your realities front and center, pressures you to think about what matters...
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ADHD
How Therapy Helps Me Manage My ADHD
September 16, 2021After an Instagram comment spurred me to look into whether I might have ADHD, I was eager to bring up the idea to my longtime therapist at our next appointment. Spoiler alert: I have ADHD.
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Pain Management
Can Electricity Relieve Your Pain?
September 16, 2021Like many of my own patients, you may be interested in doing more to treat to pain than just relying on medications, but you aren’t sure where to start. One simple and accessible treatment to consider ...
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Psoriasis
Managing My Psoriasis Flares Involves Preparation, Acceptance, and Resilience
September 15, 2021While prevention may be the best medicine, sometimes flares just happen. When they do, having a plan in place to ride the wave of symptoms, speed healing, and shorten ...
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Ankylosing Spondylitis
How My Pain Became My Teacher
September 14, 2021I’ve had a long, sordid affair with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) -- over 20 years to be exact. It hasn’t been a good kind of relationship, unfortunately. But I have ...
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Food and Fitness
How to Handle Pandemic Weight Gain
September 13, 2021At the doctor’s office recently, the nurse weighed me and said, “That’s five pounds heavier than last time you were here.” I was taken aback--not by the news, but that she’d actually made the comment ...
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Deep Vein Thrombosis
My DVT Treatments Took a Toll on My Mental Health
September 13, 2021After getting diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (or DVT -- a blood clot), my doctor put me on an anticoagulant medication. It treats dangerous blood clots and prevents new ones from forming. When I left ...
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Ulcerative Colitis
Changing My Diet Helped Me Manage My Ulcerative Colitis
September 10, 2021As with many conditions, there’s no one size fits all approach for what you can eat when you have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). My sister and I both have a form ...
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Mental Health
Considering Medication? What a Psychiatrist Wants You to Know
September 9, 2021“It felt like putting on glasses for the first time.” That is how one of my patients recently described the experience of being on medication. “I didn’t think it was ...
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