Mandy Ulseth submitted her incredible, heart-warming, hope-giving story about her experience with vancomycin. Mandy—a PSC and Crohn’s patient—started taking the ANI Pharmaceuticals brand of vancomycin in her early thirties. When she started vancomycin, she was in stage two liver fibrosis and was also living with gallbladder cancer and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma. Before vancomycin, Mandy was dealing […]
6 Signs You Might Have Iron-Deficiency Anemia (And What to Do When Your Doctor Doesn’t Believe You)
The last few months of 2020, I felt off. I blamed it on my chronic fatigue at first. But after listening to my body and noticing some very abnormal symptoms, I brought up my concerns with my gastroenterologist. In this blog post, I share the six signs that pointed toward iron-deficiency anemia, and four ways […]
3 Things That Help Me Emotionally Cope With Living With a Rare Disease
In honor of Rare Disease Day today, I’d like to share how I emotionally cope with living with the rare disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) journey. I also have written a list for you at the bottom of this post sharing my top three favorite rare disease organizations! What is Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis? I live […]
The Power of Community: 5 Chronic Illness Brands to Follow
On this final day of Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week 2020, I thought it only fitting to reflect on the powerful impact of community and share my top five favorite chronic illness brands doing great things on the online community. Three Reasons I’m Thankful for the Online IBD Community The online IBD community has been […]
The Relationship Between Introvertism and Chronic Fatigue: How One Can Exacerbate the Other
If you live with chronic fatigue, has it increased your introvertism or decreased your extrovertism? As an introvert myself, my fatigue has deeply intensified my introvertism over the years. In this blog post, I cover this interesting relationship, explain the difference between my physical and mental fatigue, and share my all-time favorite self-care activities that […]
Living with Remission Guilt
My ulcerative colitis has been in remission for two years, at the time I’ve writing this. Sometimes it makes me feel guilty or as if my chronic illness story isn’t as valuable. Keep reading to hear my confession in today’s mini post and let me know in the comments if you’ve every felt this way. […]