-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Achievements despite being ill
- Advantages to being chronically ill
- Benefits
- Birthday
- Caffeine & POTS
- Catching viruses
- Chiropractic
- Choosing a bed/mattress
- Chronic Illness and Dating
- Chronic illness and Parenting
- Chronic Illness and Sex
- Costochondritis
- Disability Benefits
- EDS and bad teeth
- Ehlers-Danlos
- Everyday living
- Exercise/Pacing
- Gastroparesis
- Giving up smoking
- Heat Intolerance
- Introduction
- Losing weight with chronic illness
- Medicines
- My favourite things
- Nightmare Doctors
- Other peoples perceptions of chronic illness
- Pain
- POTS
- POTS/EDS and time of the month
- Projects
- Psychology Courses
- Raynaud's
- Relationships
- Sensory neuropathic cough & Laryngospasm
- Stress
- Test Results
- The history of my POTS
- Uncategorized
- Weight
Archives
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
Links to information and support
Follow me on Twitter
- .@chestnutkay good news! Got a 'brownie' just now. Put in support group on reconsideration! Woohoo! 8 hours ago
- NEW BLOG POST: Still shrinking wp.me/p11q3O-bq 6 days ago
- Really suffering with a pain flare up. My bum cheeks, hips and legs are screaming at me. Lavender oil, stretching &heat pads not helping :( 2 weeks ago
- NEW BLOG POST: What a week! wp.me/p11q3O-bo 3 weeks ago
- Managed to get lyrica prescribed instead of gabapentin. Nervous about taking it. 1 month ago
My weight loss progress
MyFitnessPal - Free Calorie Counter
Category Archives: Everyday living
What a week!
Well two weeks actually. Last week I had not one but two district vampires arrive to take my blood. I had visions of them taking blood from both arms at once lol I did joke and ask if one of … Continue reading
Posted in Catching viruses, Ehlers-Danlos, Everyday living, Losing weight with chronic illness, Medicines, Stress, Test Results
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, chronic illness, Colonoscopy, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Stress
Leave a comment
Urgh and Blah
Yep, urgh and blah is exactly how I’ve been feeling the past few days. Dear Aunt Flo, that annoying, useless, unwelcome relative that comes to intrude and disrupts everything once a month. My POTS has gone bananas this time. Heart … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday living, Exercise/Pacing, Losing weight with chronic illness, Medicines, POTS, POTS/EDS and time of the month
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Health, hypermobility syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, POTS, Weight loss
6 Comments
Lotsa stress!
I had a stressful time of it all last week. My Mum (and carer) had to have some investigations at the hospital for stomach related problems and I don’t deal with stress at all well. The POTS goes haywire. I … Continue reading
Posted in Disability Benefits, Everyday living, POTS, Stress, Test Results
3 Comments
Control Freakery
I’ll admit it, I like to feel in control of everything. I’m sure a lot of those with chronic illness feel the same. Trying to stay in control of what happens and when makes me feel safer, keeps my illnesses … Continue reading
The vomit ninja
Did you know there is a vomit ninja? There is! He visited me last Sat. Completely out of the blue, he sneaked up on me and made me spew my guts without warning, then disappeared as fast as he arrived … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday living, Losing weight with chronic illness, Uncategorized
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, Landlord, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
Leave a comment
The dreaded brown envelope…
It was pushed through the letterbox this morning and I was unable to get it until my mum who is also my carer had come back from the local shops as I am unable to get down the stairs so … Continue reading
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Another new year dawns and I hope this one brings happiness and most importantly better health for all of us who suffer with chronic conditions. I wonder what this year will bring for me. It hasn’t started … Continue reading
Posted in Benefits, Costochondritis, Everyday living, Pain, POTS
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, Costochondritis, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, electrolytes, Fludrocortisone, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, Inflammation, Pain, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, potassium
Leave a comment
My pet alien, the tenant from hell
For those of a squeamish nature, I highly recommend you don’t read or look at this post due to the descriptions and picture included. Approx 8yrs ago a sebaceous cyst appeared on the back of my neck, it was nothing … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday living
Leave a comment
Benefit Interrogation Time
I had a lovely letter pop through the door a couple of weeks ago informing me the benefits agency are now transferring me from Income Support to Employment and support allowance and would soon receive a form to fill in … Continue reading
Posted in Benefits, Disability Benefits, Ehlers-Danlos, Everyday living, Pain, POTS, Projects, Stress
Tagged autonomic dysfunction, bed, chronic illness, Conditions and Diseases, dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fybromyalgia, Health, hypermobility syndrome, illness, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, Stress
2 Comments
