Karissa Pentlichuk, BASc, IBD, AS, HT, OTS, BLD with GA, PsO, IAE, TMD, CM When I was in university, I would dream of the educational pos…
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We, the collective 'we' of Spoonie-dom, speak a lot about Invisible Disease; the illnesses that cannot be perceived by a cursory g…
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Here is the rundown and update as of Feb 2025. I am currently 38 years old, turning 39 this August. Diagnoses & Chronic Conditions: …
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I would say that a good 90% of daily living wiith chronic illness is just unwillingly cataloguing all types of symptoms and sensations from…
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It's been two weeks with my new hearing aid for my left ear. I have moderate to moderately severe hearing loss in my left ear, presume…
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I mean, I would like to think that it's common knowledge that living with chronic illness is difficult. But is it just something we kno…
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Diagnostic years are absolutely exhausting! A diagnostic year is when new symptoms pop up, or a change is made, which begins a cascading e…
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Alright - some good-ish news. I had my pouchoscopy today - to look in my internal J-Pouch, check on the Crohn's, and try to figure out…
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I've got a pouchoscopy in the morning (scope of my internal J Pouch), so today I am prepping for it. This means fluids all day (full fl…
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This past year has been a pretty rough year for health. Last September, I was removed off of a medication to explore different potential d…
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My biopsy results came in today from the upper and lower scopes I had done last weekend. There was active esophagitis and an ulcer in my e…
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Last week I was having major pain in my esophagus. Suspecting esophagitis (which I've had before), my family physician called in a pres…
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Living in the grey area of the medical world can be really frustrating. I feel like I've been trapped in this grey area of health sinc…
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Do you ever feel like most of your time is wasted being sick?? When I am going through a particularly bad spell, all I focus on is listeni…
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In March of 2004, I had an abdominal surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, secondary to a surgery performed the year prior: after spendin…
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Let's face it - dating with any kind of chronic illness can be incredibly difficult. Dating with illnesses like Crohn's Disease, U…
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One of the biggest myths of healthcare is a one-size-fits-all approach. We are led to believe that: Bacterial Infection -> …
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It has been ingrained in us that much of our identity comes from what we do. What we do for work, what our hobbies are, what we do …
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This is a topic that was liked by multiple people to write about - and it's such an important topic: How do you cope with …
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What is it like to live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (like Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn's Disease...)? The short version…
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