Managing Chronic Illness

Despite the growing prevalence of chronic illness in our society, the medical community often does little to educate patients on how to manage their health. This page aims to provide resources for sufferers and families to arm themselves with information and take charge of their own health.

-Basics

-Combinations

-Complications

-Specific diseases...

Each stage of life brings its own challenges. Learn more about what aging means for chronic disease.

https://www.ncoa.org/healthy-aging/chronic-disease/ 

Autoimmune diseases disproportionately affect females. Statistics.

https://www.aarda.org/who-we-help/patients/women-and-autoimmunity/ 

Lupus

https://www.lupus.org/living-with-lupus 

ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/SEID (Systemic Exertional Intolerance Disease)

https://www.meaction.net/about/what-is-me/ 

- "spoon" theory

-pacing resources

 https://patientsrising.org/what-is-spoonie/  

-relation to many diseases, info

-resources

-links back to supps

-info

-supps

Link to the Second Brain video.

The list of resources below is in the process of being updated. 

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