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Articles about chronic illness (0-50 of 1753)
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Symptoms
By: Hannah Rosas | -
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is a medical condition where a person is drained of energy all the time. It doesnt matter how little physical activity that they take part in or how much rest they happen to get each day. Of course chronic fatigue is the main symptom that people experience with it. This is much more than just being ran down on any given day. It is a severe fatigue that prevents you from being able to take part in your daily routine.
Some people assume that they are ...
Tags: post viral fatigue, myalgic encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, cfs, me, pvfs, recovery
- Helping Kids Transition Away From Toxic Foods To Healthier Nutrition Choices
By: Colleen Trombley-VanHoogstraat | - The science of Epigenetics explains that our lifestyle choices (environment) will determine our level of health and our risk factors for chronic illness. In fact, research has demonstrated that over 98% of all chronic illness (cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, depression & anxiety disorders, reproductive disorders, digestive disorders, etc.) is due to environmental factors, not genetics. This means that our choices in nutrition, movement and mindset will determine how healthy we are.
Tags: nutrition, healthy food, toxic food, diet, children's health, childhood illness, healthy lifestyle
- How To Choose A Doctor : Top 5 Things To Consider When Selecting A Healthcare Practitioner
By: alona Rudnitsky | - Whether you are misdiagnosed, undiagnosed, or chronically ill, a quality healthcare practitioner is very important on your healing journey. Your doctor, whether he or she is a medical doctor or natural health practitioner, will either set you in the right direction or delay your healing process. While the average person can check their insurance handbook or simply pick someone from the online yellow pages, your case is special in that you need a certain type of doctor someone who is smarter than ...
Tags: Health and wellness coach, Chronic Illness, Self-Management
- 7 Steps To Overcoming Your Misdiagnosis
By: alona Rudnitsky | - Although a misdiagnosis can feel like a dead end, there is valuable information to be learned from the process. Here are seven steps to help you harness the information you have already gathered and use it to help you move forward in your wellness journey. Follow these steps and you are sure to get the right diagnosis and regain freedom and control over your life.
Determine what caused your misdiagnosis. The more specific and concise you can be the better. This is the most import ...
Tags: health and wellness coach, Chronic Illness, Self-Management
- Health And Economy : The Effect Of The Economic Crisis On Chronic Illness Sufferers
By: alona Rudnitsky | - You do not have to look far to see the effects our economy is having on the lives of Americans. What may not be so apparent are the potentially life-threatening effects economic hardship can have on the immune system of those that are chronically ill. There is a definite relationship between health and economy. For the chronically ill population, a rough economy means more than just watching their pocketbooks.
Everyone is stressed out due to economic troubles. Prices are high and ...
Tags: Health and wellness coach, Chronic Illness, Self-Management
- Is Your Mechanic Better Informed Than Your Doctor?
By: alona Rudnitsky | - Would you expect a mechanic to be able to repair your vehicle if all you gave him to go on is that your car is running bad? Surely not, it is more likely that you approach your mechanic with a detailed description of your vehicles problem, such as:
The exact speed of travel where the problem sets in
What other operating systems (air conditioner or radio for example) may lead to the problem
Road conditions that make the problem more or less notice ...
Tags: Health and wellness coach, Chronic Illness, Self-Management
- Employed With An Invisible Illness
By: alona Rudnitsky | - If you are suffering with an invisible illness, the effect on your career can be devastating. Being sick takes its toll on your wallet, too, and before you know it you are caught up in a whirlwind of co-pays, prescriptions, supplements, or alternative treatments, making your need for an income more vital than ever.
The problem is that it is a challenge to will your body to cooperate each morning when the alarm makes its presence known. You feel as though you haven not slept at a ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- The Great Divide: How Undiagnosed, Misdiagnosed, And Mystery Illnesses Effect Family And Friends
By: alona Rudnitsky | - Familial relationships and friendships can be a challenge to maintain even when your body is functioning at peak performance. So, what happens to these relationships when your body becomes ravaged by the symptoms of an invisible or mystery illness?
Your Symptoms are only the Beginning
Initially, family and friends offer sympathy. They believe that you are suffering, and provide comfort and support. With good intentions, they pay a visit laden with casseroles, heating pads a ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- Employed With An Invisible Illness
By: alona Rudnitsky | - If you are suffering with an invisible illness, the effect on your career can be devastating. Being sick takes its toll on your wallet, too, and before you know it you are caught up in a whirlwind of co-pays, prescriptions, supplements, or alternative treatments, making your need for an income more vital than ever.
The problem is that it is a challenge to will your body to cooperate each morning when the alarm makes its presence known. You feel as though you haven not slept at a ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- Employed With An Invisible Illness
By: alona Rudnitsky | - If you are suffering with an invisible illness, the effect on your career can be devastating. Being sick takes its toll on your wallet, too, and before you know it you are caught up in a whirlwind of co-pays, prescriptions, supplements, or alternative treatments, making your need for an income more vital than ever.
The problem is that it is a challenge to will your body to cooperate each morning when the alarm makes its presence known. You feel as though you haven not slept at a ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- Employed With An Invisible Illness
By: alona Rudnitsky | - If you are suffering with an invisible illness, the effect on your career can be devastating. Being sick takes its toll on your wallet, too, and before you know it you are caught up in a whirlwind of co-pays, prescriptions, supplements, or alternative treatments, making your need for an income more vital than ever.
The problem is that it is a challenge to will your body to cooperate each morning when the alarm makes its presence known. You feel as though you haven not slept at a ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- Chinese Medicine-the Greatest Medicine For Chronic Diease
By: sunshine girl | - You know that Western Medicine is the best solution for acute conditions. However, for treatment of chronic conditions, most modern people are preferring green and safe medicine and this tendency is becoming more and more prominent. Western medicine, which is based upon chemical materials and its side effects are sometimes stronger than the therapeutic roles. While traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is based upon natural plants, and its comprehensive and flexible treatment strategies always brin ...
Tags: chinese medicine for chronic diease, TCM, chronic illness cure
- Labeling Gone Bad - When Not To Accept A Diagnosis
By: alona Rudnitsky | - Imagine this scenario: A man goes to the doctor because he is having chest pain. After a brief examination, the doctor proclaims, you have Chest Pain Syndrome. Just take some aspirin and you will feel better. Problem solved!
What is your gut reaction to this scenario? Does it make you cringe? Do you think the symptom diagnosis and treatment are acceptable? If you were the patient, would you stop off for aspirin at the 7-11 and call it a day? What if the patient were your spouse, p ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- Restore And Replinish Your Health
By: alona Rudnitsky | - What are you plans for the prosperous year? Whatever they may be, consider restoring and replenishing YOU. Here are some ideas to get you started:
-Get rid of toxic relationships Is your relationship causing you stress? This may be a good time to examine your relationships and keep only those that are not toxic to your health and wellbeing. Toxic relationships can have toxic effects on your health. Consider this; every time you experience a negative emotion, it affects the bioc ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
- Dating With An Invisible Illness
By: alona Rudnitsky | - In a perfect world, dating, maintaining relationships, being social and making new friends would be easy for everyone, however in the real world these task can be a challenge. When you suffer with an invisible illness, these challenges are magnified a hundred fold. If family and friends do not understand what you are going through, how will someone new be able to?
The begin stages of dating is all about first impressions, how well you keep the conversation flowing, expressing and ...
Tags: self-management, chronic illness, treatment fibromyalgia, illness treatment, fibromyalgia
Social Web Results   Danine Spencer » Call for Interviews: Women with Disabilities and Chronic Medical Conditions Shared By: daninespencer - If you are a (cis or trans) woman with a disability or a chronic medical condition, I’d like to interview you for this blog. I am interested in what...
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 Best Way - Relaxation Techniques for Fibromyalgia Shared By: CharlesDillon - Fibromyalgia is a chronic illness classified by muscle aches, fatigue, joint pain and a variety of other symptoms. Doctors do not know the cause of...
 Conversations on the Church's Vocation in the Public World: Chronic Illness: Globally and Personally Shared By: ChronicFatigue1 - Chronic Illness: Globally and Personally Chronos is actual, specific time. Kairos refers to the timely moment, the “right” time. Chronologically I...
 Building a Lodge for Camp Triumph | Aviva Community Fund Shared By: Rtousi - When a family member has a chronic illness the whole family is impacted. Camp Triumph is a truly unique, residential adventure based camp designed to...
 Psychotherapy Brown Bag: Schizoid personality disorder: Does it truly qualify as a mental illness? Shared By: PsychBrownBag - by Michael D... I almost invariably encounter at least one student who raises concerns that our system of classifying mental illnesses simply...
 Chronic care has major impact Shared By: diabeticnews - A recent study published in Diabetes Care cites that... which would equate to roughly 17 percent of Georgia residents developing this chronic illness.
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 Mastery of physical goals lessens disease-related depression and fatigue Shared By: libbyshope - Physical activity is known to reduce depression and fatigue in people struggling with chronic illness. A new study indicates that this effect stems...
 Political Cortex: How Does A Personal Medical Alarm Work? Shared By: nicolejames31 - Be sure to include any prescription medications, chronic illnesses, and life-threatening allergies. For example, those who are severely allergic to...
- Chronic Fatigue And Immune Dysfunction And Writing
By: Cindy A Christiansen | - Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (also known as CFS and CFIDS) is a debilitating illness. I should know I have it.
More than four million people in the United States suffer with it. It destroys once healthy individuals, ends careers, and splits up families. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that more people suffer from CFIDS than MS, lung cancer and AIDS altogether. Yet it is an often an unrecognized illness by people and doctors. Here are the criteria fo ...
Tags: Cindy A. Christiansen, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFIDS, CFS, chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia chronic fatigue, disability, disabled, wri
- The Five Pillars Of Chronic Illness
By: Colleen Trombley-VanHoogstraat | - Despite all the attention shed on health, exercise & fitness, diets and the "miracles of medicine" during the last few decades, our society is witnessing a drastic increase in all chronic illnesses. These illnesses and conditions include cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, osteoarthritis, depression and anxiety disorders, Alzheimer's, dementia, autoimmune issues, acid reflux, constipation, infertility, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, decreased sex drive, and so on.
Science c ...
Tags: chronic illness, disease, cancer, heart disease, health, healthy lifestyle, stress
- How Our Lifestyle Choices Are Causing Us To "sink" Into Chronic Illness
By: Colleen Trombley-VanHoogstraat | - Current science continues to demonstrate that the reason we move away from health and develop chronic illness is due to our environment rather than our genes. Less than 1% of chronic illness is truly genetic in nature. Essentially, this means that chronic illness is preventable.
Yet over half of the American population has been diagnosed with a chronic illness and 80% of all health care spending (doctors' visits, prescriptions, hospitalizations, etc.) is a result of these conditi ...
Tags: chronic illness, sickness, disease, cancer, heart disease, health, healthy lifestyle, drugs
- Is Chronic Illness At The Heart Of Our Economic Crisis?
By: Colleen Trombley-VanHoogstraat | - In the U.S., chronic illness has risen to epidemic proportions over the last 50-60 years. The incidences of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, autoimmune issues, depression and anxiety disorders, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, infertility, insomnia and other sleep disorders, acid reflux, constipation, decreased sex drive, Alzheimer's, dementia, ADD/ADHD and many other conditions continue to sky rocket, despite our "best" efforts.
It has been stated by leading he ...
Tags: chronic illness, sickness, disease, cancer, heart disease, health, healthy lifestyle, drugs
- A Look At Chronic Depression And It's Treatments And Symptoms
By: Akhil nair | - Other long-term form of depression, Chronic Depression or Dysthymia is much less dangerous and still took a chronic form.
Dysthymia does not halt a soul from performing routine services but prevents him from performing them as well as he could have.
It's considered that some of the causes of dysthymic depression could be childhood harm, adjustment problems during the formative teenage years or stress in the mature lifetime.
Individuals with dysthymi ...
Tags: Chronic depression, Chronic depression Treatment, chronic depression symptoms, long standing depression, mental health, chronic depression
- Electro Magnetic Radiation, Affects Us All, Here Is Why
By: Mercedes Oestermann van Essen | - Over the last 20 years I have done a lot of research into geopathic stress and electro magnetic fields. What started out initially as solely geopathic stress research merged into research into electro magnetic radiation and the evidence of dangers to our physical and emotional health which I observe daily in my work is very worrying.
First lets look at a few brief facts
Geopathic stress is a naturally occurring phenomenon and is largely caused by cavities in the ea ...
Tags: electro magnetic radiation, EMR, EMF, geopathic stress, sick building syndrome, chronic illness, A.D.D.
- The Challenges Of Being A Young Adult With Invisible Illness
By: LisaCopen | - I was just twenty-four years old and living over one thousand miles away from my family when I faced the diagnosed of rheumatoid arthritis. In barely a month I visited doctors more often than I had in years, and eventually found one who would listen to me explain my symptoms. A few days later I had a diagnosis.
Despite the terms "chronic" and "forever" I felt relieved to know the label that described my chronic pain. Few of my friends, however, shared my enthusiasm for a diagnosis ...
Tags: you don't look sick, you're too young to be that sick, you don't know tired, invisible illness, ICI,
- The Healing Power Of Music
By: Shawn Wilson | - The latest study shows that music has far more healing properties than was once suggested. A recent study wherein chronically ill patients, both men and women, were given music as a form of complementary and alternative therapy during their long recovery stay in hospital, show significant health benefits.
Both men and women were given 15 minutes of music therapy, with a musician on a portable keyboard playing softly by their side. Each patient was given the option of choosing the ...
Tags: Music, Therapy, Healing, Hospitals, Chronic Illness
- Mold In Your Home - What To Do?
By: Empty Your Nest Professional Organizing | - Oh, Poor Moldy Me! Or The Canary in the Coal Mine Speaks
No need to hire a mold inspector. Just send me, Amy Gray, into any area you suspect of having mold, and I'll come back with an instant report. As in the form of a splitting headache.
I don't get headaches that often. So if one quick trip into a damp, moldy, basement turns me into a migraine case, imagine what it is doing to your health on a day to day basis.
Let's backtrack just a wee bit. What ...
Tags: mold, home safety, chronic illness, headaches, respiratory
- Invisible Illness Week Theme Says Hope Can Grow Despite Illness
By: Lisa Copen. | - The 2008 National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week, September 8-14, 2008, has announced this year's theme: "Hope Can Grow From the Soil of Illness."
Lisa Copen, the founder of Rest Ministries, Inc, who sponsors this annual event shares, "The journey of illness is often defined by the many losses one goes through and the grief of seeing their dreams disappear. Many people, however, eventually find a fresh passion that they could not have imagined they would have ever taken ...
Tags: invisible illness week, , invisible chronic illness, , national invisible chronic illness awareness week, , hope can grow theme, , lisa copen, , rest ministries
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (cfs) - In The Genes Or In The Mind?
By: wealthbuilder1 | - The cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is both confusing as well as debilitating with sceptics still claiming that the illness is all in the mind! A recent report however, has stated that the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) illness could be in the genes.
Scientist say that they have found that patients with (ME) Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS as it is more widely known, shared certain genetic characteristics.
Based on a 1999 study of adults ...
Tags: cfs, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms, symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic fat
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (cfs) ""self Help
By: wealthbuilder1 | - I had nothing to compare with the original symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and it was the family Doctors diligence in suspecting that there was more to my constant lethargy, and headaches, that finally led to specialists diagnosing the illness
Despite popular understanding to the contrary this illness is not only treatable but also curable. But it was a rocky journey over five years, from diagnosis, treatment, to eventually signing off with a clean bill of health
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Tags: cfs, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms, symptoms of chronic fatigue
- 6 Ways Your Church Can Minister To The Chronically Ill
By: Lisa Copen. | - Over 100 million people in the USA, about 1 in 2, have a chronic illness. That means, if you are not the one suffering from chronic pain, chances are someone you care about is dealing with it silently.
Oftentimes a chronic illness, such as chronic fatigue syndrome, or chronic pain like migraines or back pain, is undetectable to those around them. It may surprise you to know that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately 96% of the people who have an illness do not use an ...
Tags: parish nurse position description, the role of the parish nurse, parish nurse certification, health ministries, disability ministries, chronic illness mini
- How To Create Romance When You Have A Chronic Illness
By: LisaCopen | - "Hot and bothered!" For most people these words create images of being twisted up in sheets, breathlessly reaching out to the one you love. For those with chronic illness, however, "hot" is more likely to refer to one's thyroid condition, night sweats, or a heating pad on high. "Bothered. . ." Well, let's just say when your body aches, everything makes you feel bothered: a cat that won't move off your leg, a joint that continues to throb, and a spouse that is able to snore through minor earthqua ...
Tags: romantic ideas, romantic gift ideas, valentines, illness, romance, marriage
- Romantic Ideas For When You Have A Chronic Illness
By: LisaCopen | - "Hot and bothered!" For most people these words create images of being twisted up in sheets, breathlessly reaching out to the one you love. For those with chronic illness, however, "hot" is more likely to refer to one's thyroid condition, night sweats, or a heating pad on high. "Bothered. . ." Well, let's just say when your body aches, everything makes you feel bothered: a cat that won't move off your leg, a joint that continues to throb, and a spouse that is able to snore through minor earthqua ...
Tags: romantic ideas, romantic gift ideas, valentines, illness, romance, marriage
- 6 Ways To Let Those With Chronic Illness In Your Church Know You Care
By: LisaCopen | - Nearly 1 in 2 people in the U.S. have a chronic condition. If it's not you, it's someone sitting next to you.
Too often, a chronic illness, such as fibromyalgia, or a chronic condition like back pain from a car accident, is invisible. Those who live with chronic illnesses do everything they can to look presentable, get to church, and sit through the service. But as someone with rheumatoid arthritis, as I stood during worship and grasped onto the pew in front of me to balance my kn ...
Tags: congregational care, pastoral care, chaplain, chaplian, parish nurse, chronic illness, church resources,
- Nutrient Depleted Soil Cause Nutritional Deficiencies
By: Audrey Stanton | - The epidemic of chronic illness facing Americans can be traced to their diets. This is a well known fact. Noted researchers, Dr Robert H. Fletcher and Kathleen M. Fairfield reported that "most people do not get an optimal amount of nutrients by diet aloneand suboptimal intakes of nutrients are associated with increased risks of chronic diseases. The risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis increases with low nutrient intake. (Journal of the American Medical Association (JA ...
Tags: nutrient poor soil, nutritional deficiencies and risk chronic illness
- Actually, I Can't Feel Your Pain!
By: Sue Falkner Wood | - When I was a young nurse, I was placed in charge of a medical-surgical unit. One day, I was given some very good advice by one of the surgeons. He told me never to place two patients who had the same surgery in the double occupancy rooms. He explained there was always too much of a temptation for comparison between the patients. I came to learn that he was right.
Two hospitalized patients, roommates, would quite naturally talk to each other to pass the time. It was only natural fo ...
Tags: chronic illness, chronic pain, medications
- Do You Ever Spell Witch With A B"'?
By: Sue Falkner Wood | - When you live with chronic illness and pain, there have to be days when you are faced with the screaming yellow terrors. I can't be the only one out here who has these days when my car should be a broomstick and I would definitely have to spell witch with a great big capital B.
This mood has many causes. It is the pain, the confinement, fatigue, loss of self-image, physical limitations, and on and on. You know them all as well as I do. There are times when living with chronic ...
Tags: chronic illness, chronic pain
- It's Going To Take Courage. Chronic Pain.
By: Sue Falkner Wood | - For some of us, disease is our constant companion. We suffer, we adapt. We educate ourselves and try to understand. We strive to appreciate the good days and make it through the bad ones. Always, however, in our hearts and in the back of our minds, is the fear factor. We fear many things. I'm not certain what your fears may be, although I think I could guess many of them; therefore, I will tell you what I fear, in the hope that you will relate to some of them.
I fear my inability ...
Tags: chronic illness, chronic pain
- Sun And Chronic Pain Don't Mix.
By: Sue Falkner Wood | - We moved to the Northwest to escape the heat and rays of the California sun.
My photosensitivity arrived with my pain approximately 20 years ago. I owned a wonderful blue Mustang convertible and often rode to work and back with the top down. I should be ashamed to admit it but even when it was too inclement to ride with the top down, I would do it anyway and turn the heater on. My husband's favorite toy was his ski boat.
Unfortunately, all that sun exposure came to ...
Tags: chronic pain
- You Don't Look Sick!
By: Andrew Schorr | - Joy Selak knows what it is like to live with an invisible chronic illness. She went from hating it, to embracing it, to using it as a platform to help others. She teamed up with her doctor, Seattle rheumatologist Steven Overman, M.D., to write a wonderfully helpful book, You Don't Look Sick!: Living Well with Chronic Illness. Our dear host of HealthTalk Live, Judy Foreman, also interviewed them on the HealthTalk site. And I had a fascinating hour with them this past weekend as they joined me ...
Tags: chronic illness, interstitial cystitis, mixed connective tissue disease
- Chronic Conditions And My Life
By: Colin Pike | - Living with a condition is undeniably stressful and depressing. You soon find out just how much courage you really do have when you are left to deal with a lengthy illness.
There are 'chronic' illnesses (continuing for a long time), and there are 'acute' conditions (such as the common cold or flu). Some chronic illnesses can be fatal, such as cancer. Some chronic illnesses can be relieved and controlled with medical treatment (such as arthritis and asthma), although the conditi ...
Tags: illness, conditions, disease, leukemia, cancer, diabetes
- I Have Been Diagnozed With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. What Next?
By: Steve Dunningham | - So you have been issued a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). You have probably been visiting doctors and other health care professionals for some time and have been frustrated by the lack of empathy and knowledge available to you. The following are a few suggestions to assist you in managing your illness.
After receiving a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, you will want to obtain as much knowledge as possible. This knowledge can, and should, enable you to make more ...
Tags: chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic fatigue symptom, chronic fatigue treatment, crohns, c
- Career - Are You Facing Burnout
By: cdmohatta | - Chronic stress over a period of time may make you feel totally helpless and unable to cope up with demands of life. This can cause burn out. When in a job, you feel that you are overburdened, and under appreciated, that the demands of the job are increasing and despite all your efforts you are not able to manage the work and get blames for not performing, stress becomes chronic and one loses interest in work and many other activities in life. This is burn out. Absolute helplessness is experience ...
Tags: work stress, stress management, career burn-out, society, work, job, tension, over burden, chronic illness
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