Neuropathic Pain, and Why Ordinary Painkillers Don’t Touch It
If paracetamol and ibuprofen do nothing at all, that isn’t a sign you need something stronger. It’s a clue about what kind of pain you have, and it’s one of…
Workplace Accommodations for Depression and Anxiety, and How to Ask
This is general information rather than legal advice. Your regional ADA Center offers free guidance, and the Job Accommodation Network provides free confidential advice on specific accommodations. Most people…
Clear Liquid and Low Residue Diets, and Which One You’re Actually On
These two get confused constantly, including by people handing out the instructions. They’re different diets, doing different jobs, with different rules about what you can eat. Being told to follow…
Cancer Screening Shouldn’t Depend on Whether You Can Transfer
Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable cancers there is. Caught early, it’s highly treatable, and screening doesn’t just find it; it removes the growths that would have become…
The Holiday Blues Are Not Just a Feeling
Every article about holiday loneliness treats it as an emotional problem. Manage your expectations. Set boundaries. Don’t compare your life to other people’s photographs. All reasonable, and all of it…
Allodynia, When Your Own Bedsheet Hurts
This is general information rather than medical advice. Allodynia has many causes, and treatment depends on which one applies, so a clinician needs to assess it. Limited mobility brings…
Can You Get Disability for Anxiety or Depression and What It Actually Takes
Yes. Roughly a quarter of all disability applications cite a mental health condition as the main reason, and plenty of them are approved. But mental health claims are structurally harder…
Neurogenic Bowel and How a Bowel Program Actually Works
This article is general information and not medical advice. A clinician familiar with neurogenic bowel and your specific injury should set up and adjust bowel management. Everybody poops. Almost nobody…
Could Spoon Theory Explain Your Energy to Someone Who Isn’t Disabled?
The problem isn’t usually that people don’t believe you. It’s that they can’t picture it. When you say you’re too tired to come, what they hear is the tired they…
A Suprapubic Catheter Changed My Independence
I stopped drinking water before I stopped going out. That was the order it happened in, and I didn’t notice it happening at all. My disease had progressed to where…
