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Elder
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Chronic Pain, Autoimmune Diseases & Rare Diseases Check-In.
☀️Not Many Symptoms Right Now 🌦A Few Symptoms But They’re Manageable ☔️Recovering From A Few Heavy Symptom Days 🔥In A Flare 🚨Symptoms Feel Unmanageable Autoimmune Diseases An autoimmune disease is an illness that causes the immune system to produce antibodies that attack normal body tissues. Autoimmune is when your body attacks itself. It sees a part of your body or a process as a disease and tries to combat it. This is different from a Primary Immuniodefeciency Disease (PIDD), which occurs when when you do not have the ability to defend against outside diseases. Rare Diseases In the United States, a rare disease is defined as one that affects fewer than 200,000 people. The prevalence of a rare disease usually is an estimate and may change over time. Individuals can be disabled by chronic autoimmune diseases and rare diseases such as Asthma, Diabetes, Lyme Disease, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lupus, Hashimoto/Grave’s Disease, Fibromyalgia, Celiac Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Ehlers-Danlos, Arthritis, Atopic dermatitis, Ankylosing spondylitis, Sjögren's syndrome, Psoriasis This is a brief list, a full list can be found online. It can be very challenging for individuals with invisible chronic illnesses to receive support. Many of us experience discrimination, stigma, limited support and toxic positivity from people. ☀️Not Many Symptoms Right Now 🌦A Few Symptoms But They’re Manageable ☔️Recovering From A Few Heavy Symptom Days 🔥In A Flare 🚨Symptoms Feel Unmanageable __________________ #SpoonieStrong Spoons are a visual representation used as a unit of measure to quantify how much energy individuals with disabilities and chronic illnesses have throughout a given day. 1). Depression 2). PTSD 3). Anxiety 4). Hashimoto 5). Fibromyalgia 6). Asthma 7). Atopic dermatitis 8). Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria 9). Hereditary Angioedema (HAE-normal C-1) 10). Gluten sensitivity 11). EpiPen carrier 12). Food allergies, medication allergies and food intolerances. . 13). Alopecia Areata |
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