Personal StoryClaireMy name is Claire Lynch. I was born in Epsom, Surrey and worked as a legal secretary in London law firms and US banks until retiring to Cumbria in 2021 with my family, Kevin, my husband, Harry our cockapoo and Scarlet our cat. I had digestive...
Personal StoryChristineIn the summer of 2001, I had an accident that resulted in a broken elbow. I had managed to fragment several pieces from the head of the Ulna, and in 2005, the problems and difficulties the fragments caused led to keyhole surgery to remove the...
Personal StorySusanAt my very worst, two and a half years ago, I moved out of the bedroom I share with my husband and into the spare room, because I was waking in the night and would spend hours scouring the internet for answers as to what was wrong with me. Every...
Personal StoryJessThe Beginning Hi, my name is Jess, and I live in British Columbia, Canada. I was officially diagnosed with Autoimmune Atrophic Gastritis and Pernicious Anemia in August of 2022. However, I can recall symptoms now that had I known the variability in...
Personal StoryTami -Washington StateI was twenty years old the first time someone gently suggested that my exhaustion might be something more than the usual college kid burnout. For weeks, I had been falling asleep in class, head nodding, eyes fluttering, the kind of...
Personal StoryAndrew, LincolnshireI couldn't get out of bed. Not because I was lazy. Not because I was depressed. But because my body had simply stopped functioning. For two weeks, I lay there, unable to work, unable to think clearly, unable to explain to my employer...