Written by: Ania Majsterek, @chronically_chilled Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. If you’re reading this, you probably know a lot about trying to live (and have fun) while suffering from chronic illness. For…
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Being Consistent and Kind To Yourself With a Chronic Illness
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. A chronic illness is just that. Chronic. When a person is first diagnosed it can be difficult to grasp the concept of “life-long,” even when they…
National Chronic Disease Awareness Day: July 10th, The Importance of Awareness
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. July 10th is National Chronic Disease Awareness Day. This day strives to give a voice to those who live with Chronic Illnesses, but the scope isn’t…
Red Flags that you are Struggling with a Flare-Up
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. When living with a long term illness like fibromyalgia, flare-ups are often a common occurrence. Symptoms of this condition include whole-body muscle pain, debilitating fatigue that…
Small Frustrations of Your Chronic Illness that No One Else Sees
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. When we talk about chronic illnesses, it’s easy to start listing off all of the major symptoms. Fatigue, pain, cognition and more are some of the…
What Fibromyalgia Symptoms Look Like
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Fibromyalgia is an often misunderstood condition. For years, there were many medical professionals who claimed it didn’t even exist. Though it’s grown to be much more…
Unconventional Jobs for those Living with a Chronic Illness
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. If you’ve been living with a chronic illness, you know how difficult many nine to five jobs can be. We’re not just talking about a particularly…
Ways People with Chronic Illnesses Can Decline Unsolicited Advice
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. If you’ve lived openly with a chronic illness for any length of time, you probably have enough unsolicited advice to fill three garbage bags. Invisible illnesses,…
Morning Routines for those with Chronic Illnesses
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Some days, getting out of bed is one of the most difficult tasks. You’re far warmer under your blanket fort and the world is filled with…
Why Anger is Okay for People with Chronic Illnesses
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Oftentimes, people who suffer from a chronic illness are encouraged to accept their limitations. They’re expected to lower their expectations for life, learn to juggle their…
