Tag: colitis
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The infinite loop
“Stress and anxiety are known to compound the effects of colitis or make a flare more likely to occur, so now I’m anxious about my anxiety giving me colitis trouble…”
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Being more than your career and illness
“For 3 years of my life I’ve had nothing to say to people outside of work and colitis. Work and colitis aren’t my identity. I am more than this.”
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Harry never met Sally
I explore why “When Harry met Sally” is flawed through personal experiences with life, dating and ulcerative colitis.
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I don’t know how I’m doing
I hate when people ask me how I’m doing with my illness. It’s not that I hate people (for the most part) or that I don’t want to share things about myself (obviously I have no restraint) but mostly because I really don’t know how I’m doing. Right now I’m a month into my remicade […]
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I quit the gym
“When I had my second last flare I quit the gym. This whole website was built on me staying fit and lifting weights while suffering with UC but I had a quantum leap in my mindset around health and my life so that idea got kicked to the side a bit. As a result, I didn’t post here for a very long time. Here’s an explanation.”
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My year on Mercaptopurine and where I’ve been
“Mercaptopurine took 3 months to kick in, a lot longer than I was told, but once it started working it was great. I was back to my 100% perfectly normal self and had started to finally put a couple of kilos back on. 2 months later, it started working too well.”