Ankylosing Spondylitis has been a journey on it’s own. With all the treatments I was going through and some were little to not working at all. My doctor suggested Humira. An injection that I would inject myself with once a week, every two weeks. Looking for any sort of relief I gave in and I…
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Relapse and Journey to (ED) Rehab-
As many of you noticed. These past few weeks have been extremely tough. For those who don’t know, or have missed the past few posts. I have completely relapsed with the binge eating disorder. I spent days/weeks trying to play it off saying everything was okay. When clearly it wasn’t. I tried to go to…
Mental Illness and Complete relapse of Eating Disorder
Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day. A way to end stigma about Mental Health. And how it is taboo to talk about Mental Health. If you’ve been following this website you know the struggles I’ve been going through. I suffer from high anxiety which has been getting better. But sometimes I hit the point where…
Weird ass Symptoms? TMI Alert **
Has anyone ever gone through one of those days, weeks, months…where you are undergoing some weird ass symptoms that you have no idea where they have come from…Like you have got them maybe once in the past year and even at that point you were like what the f-…fluff… This has completely been me lately….
Binge eating; the relapse and addiction
*Heads up about this post…may not be suitable for all readers* Getting cleared from a binging disorder had been a huge accomplishment for me. Especially struggling with it longer than I can remember; and it impacting my everyday life. However, recovering was not as glamorous as I expected. Now…before getting into this I will talk…
Training for a 2 program competition 5 days after the last one.
As I wrote a few days ago, I performed 2 routines in a weekend competition. This was along with 2 hospitalizations. Now with 6 days to prepare for the next one there are many things I have to factor. A) My health. It’s not strong lately and pretty much since September it’s been a downward…
Week in Review: 2 gold medals & 2 hospitalizations
What a week this has been. So many ups and downs…especially with a double routine competition in sight. Monday was fine. I felt a bit run down, but come on midterms, competitions, essays, exams etc… I was just a stress ball. I was also up until 2 am studying for a health science exam due…
Gym training with a broken body
Last week, I wrote an article: Skating my way through pain. Which gave an outline of how I am able to skate and compete with Fibromyalgia (and my other long list of illnesses). Well, this article focuses on gym training. I will explain my most recent gym day and then give tips on the gym…
Skating my way through pain
May 12th, is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, and for this day, I have decided to tackle one question I constantly receive. Question: How can you figure skate/compete while having fibromyalgia/being in constant pain? Point A: I will throw this out there right away…I am probably one of the more stubborn people you’ll ever meet. When I…
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