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Diagnostic Years

Diagnostic years are absolutely exhausting!  A diagnostic year is when new symptoms pop up, or a change is made, which begins a cascading e…

Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh About It

I've been struggling lately with some very annoying (and often mildly-moderately painful) symptoms since coming off of a medication.  I…

Swelling Disease Update

Lots of updates happening lately. Here is the current update of the swelling disease/disorder that I have.  Since the end of 2010, I have h…

The Lighter Side of: Weight Fluctuations

Weight can fluctuate for an entire list of reasons... Changes in eating habits Medication Hormonal Changes Illness Changes in activity…

HAE Day

Today was World HAE Day! Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) is a disease that causes severe swelling episodes. The most common areas of swelling …

Projectile Style

It still amazes me how much one day can affect my body. How much one THING can cause such a chain reaction. On Saturday, a friend had a ta…

An Unknown Symptom

It turns out that I have had a simple symptom for YEARS that I never knew was a symptom. Over the years, with any singing competition or p…

Stepping Off the Scale

Although it is fairly normal to have a scale in the home, when you have diseases in the digestive system, ones that increase water weight, …

Allergies

In past posts I have mentioned being allergic or intolerant to various medications. I wanted to explain a bit about what that means and wha…

Being Dramatic

I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis in 2013. Around eight months earlier is when I first started experiencing symptoms. My hips we…

Dinner Date

Last night I had a really tough time sleeping through the entire night. After I attempted to get back to sleep, only to find myself starin…

Answered Questions

My recent 'Ask Me Anything' post got a bit of engagement. My post: "Ask me anything about Hereditary Angioedema". The …

Medication for HAE

We got married this year!! September 22, 2018. Beautifully perfect day, with no real problems other than the health complications we expect…

Treatment Day

It's treatment day!!! Which means a painful needle to the gut. So why am I excited? It is amazing how someone can become accustomed …

The Cosentyx & Dentist Problem

For some reason, the first week after my Cosentyx injection, my body seems to be hypersensitive. It is almost like my body is intolerant w…

Swelling from Excitement

With Hereditary Angioedema, any extreme emotion can trigger a major episode. Anger, frustration, anxiety, panic attacks, being frightened,…

Dinosaur

Okay I have to give major props to my friend Carmen. After reading my previous blog about my current pukey situation probably due to excit…

Singing

Well.. I am not able to do much, but every now and then, every few months, I get an opportunity to sing. As long as I have people availab…

Consequences

I tend to get self-conscious a lot about my illness. Sometimes I feel like I am being too cautious, other times I feel like I push myself t…