Be the best autoimmune mom you can be.
In the time it has taken me to craft this sentence I have had to change a nappy, put a tired baby to bed, comfort a crying toddler, send a text about my mother’s upcoming birthday, unsubscribe from an email list that keeps interrupting my train of thought, answer a work-call about an urgent grant application, and resist the urge eat half a block of
Close to 100 diseases can be classified as autoimmune-related. And while each has specific symptoms associated with it, there are some “super symptoms” that are common to a great number of autoimmune diseases. Super Symptoms List Inflammation: This is at the root of autoimmune disease. Your body attacks itself and then responds with inflammation and swelling, which is often accompanied by
What conditions is this diet best for? In her book, The Wahls Protocol, Dr. Terry Wahls, MD describes the basis and implementation of her clinically researched diet, The Wahls Protocol. Dr. Wahls developed The Wahls Protocol after she was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis and later, secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. Dr. Wahls had reached the point of needing a zero
We asked, you answered — a collection of 28 memes that are spot-on in describing the fatigue that comes with autoimmune and many other chronic diseases. Thank you so much to the hilarious AutoimmuneMom friends who contributed memes and other little snippets on Facebook in posts on November 11 and November 15. PLEASE share widely among family and friends to spread
When it came time to try for a baby, my husband and I adopted our usual cautiously optimistic approach. We started trying to conceive the earliest we thought we’d feel ready, with the underlying assumption that it might take longer than average because my body didn’t always function normally. Imagine our surprise when we discovered we were pregnant on the
It never leaves us. It’s a super symptom of almost all autoimmune diseases. For us moms, we realize it’s similar to the fatigue experienced in the first trimester of pregnancy… except it doesn’t go away at 14 weeks. Yet autoimmune fatigue is undeniably an invisible symptom. I can have the best night’s sleep, yet wake up feeling like I
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