'An estimated one million Australians suffer from MCS, an extreme allergy to everyday chemicals in cosmetics, air fresheners and cleaning products. While some Australians have chosen to end their own lives rather than live with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Australia’s medical authorities continue to reject calls to recognise the condition as a disease. “Patients get … [Read more...] about MCS: The Illness Crippling Australians, Dismissed by Doctors
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Lyme: How a diagnosis can take decades
After two decades, over $70K, and at least 20 medical professionals, finally a diagnosis: Lyme. I believe this is the last missing piece in my health puzzle. I would like to say I have simply been very unlucky and hit a series of dodgy doctors, but the truth is this situation is common. Many people with Lyme Disease often spend years written off as other conditions of … [Read more...] about Lyme: How a diagnosis can take decades
The Diversionary Tactic
The fight to breathe, the metallic taste in the mouth, and the stinging tongue. Numbness in the upper-respiratory tract, the dry heaving episode, and the headache that leaves cheekbones and temples feeling bruised. It involves a world that has also included hepatic injury, (liver cell death/necrosis), dermatitis, urticaria, hematotoxicity (the killing or damaging or red … [Read more...] about The Diversionary Tactic
About GoFundMe Campaigns
Just to assure my readers that any GoFundMe campaigns shared on this site are of people whom I either know personally or know through friends or shared medical specialists. I also know they are actually sick--with a similar condition or the same as mine. Most are chemically sensitive to some degree. But all of them need help to seek medical and or access assisted living … [Read more...] about About GoFundMe Campaigns
How to make a: ‘Submission to MBA Consultation document on complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments’
The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) have tried to rush through this proposal (we have to June 30 to lodge submissions.) If you know one thing, know this, if you have a chronic illness and you've been helped by a Doctor of Environmental Medicine, you need to put in a submission (one paragraph is all you need) so that you and other people with illnesses such as MCS, CFS/ME, … [Read more...] about How to make a: ‘Submission to MBA Consultation document on complementary and unconventional medicine and emerging treatments’