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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.

Bell’s Palsy
I was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy three days ago. It can occur when the nerve that controls your facial muscles becomes inflamed, swollen, or compressed (I was told it was nerve attacking the muscles in my cheek, that was scary). The condition causes one side of your face to droop or become stiff.
By Beth Holder8 years ago in Longevity
Allergic to the Cold?
I know that my siblings would envy the fact that I would get to skip out on boring tasks like shoveling the snow or standing by an open door in the middle of a Michigan winter storm calling for our very energetic dog to come back inside. I would too if I were them, but staying indoors under piles of blankets isn't all that it's cracked up to be in my world. Getting to skip out on yard work is just one of the very few perks I have with being allergic to the cold, because I also have to skip out when my family is throwing water balloons in the middle of August because it's a slightly cooler day!
By O Rose8 years ago in Longevity
A Life on Edge
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the breakdown of the nervous system which affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide. This neurological condition can appear in different formats: relapsing-remitting, secondary progressive, and primary progressive. Living with MS is not easy as many people may know. It can disrupt your day-to-day activities and have an effect on your immune system.
By Aliex Anne8 years ago in Longevity
Growing up With Scoliosis
I was diagnosed with scoliosis when I was 13 years old. At my annual well visit at the doctors, they had me bend over. Little did I know that those few seconds touching my toes would change my life forever.
By Paige8 years ago in Longevity
Artificial Sweeteners
Sugar is not merely sugar. Sugar comes in many different forms and is present in all the foods we eat and the beverages we consume unless the product label reads as, "Sugar-Free."
By Carolann Sherwood8 years ago in Longevity
My Never Ending Fight
Hello, my name is Amanda. I hope to inspire someone with my story so let's get into it and cut the beating around the bush. When I was born the doctors had trouble keeping my body temperature stable. I was either too hot from the waist down and cold from the waist up or vice versa so with this being said, I couldn't be out of the incubator.
By Amanda Turrubiate8 years ago in Longevity
My Blood Clot Survival Story
A near death experience is never something that I thought would ever happen to me. That was always something that happened to someone on television, or even down the street. Up until the age of 23, the most serious surgery I ever had was getting my wisdom teeth out. I never thought as summer was winding down in August 2013, and as I began to prepare to move back to University, that my health and my life would drastically change in the form of a large blood clot. I want to bring awareness to my condition in the hopes that it can help someone else who has experienced this or prevent it from happening to someone else.
By Sarah Franchi8 years ago in Longevity
Why I Want to Become a Certified Diabetes Educator
I want to study diabetes education because of every educator who helped me. I mean I don’t care about making money so much as I care about helping other people. If I can have full control over my diabetes, so many people will be inspired to follow this. Diabetes self-management is an interactive process with an educator who tells you what to do to fix various problems, such as my middle of the night high blood sugar at 2:00 AM, which means that I had an undocumented low blood sugar before 2:00 AM.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
Why I Want to Become a Certified Diabetes Educator
I want to study to be a diabetes educator because I want to help other people beat the apathy they sometimes have to take care of their diabetes. Sometimes it just happens. Not everybody is as motivated as I am to take care of his or her diabetes. This is why I tell myself I want to study diabetes education for both type-1 and type-2 diabetes. Many people are nowhere near as motivated as I am to take care of themselves. Obviously, my medication is a huge part of my treatment because I feel good daily instead of as terrible as I felt in high school and up until my 20s.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
I'm an Idiot and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Kills Me
A short, personal, introduction. My name is Micah. I'm a 22-year-old man from Oklahoma. I've been diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS in the future, for my own sake) in both of my wrists after experiencing extreme pain and numbness in both of my hands. As I type this, sharp pains are shooting up my arms through my wrists. My braces are not even a foot away from me, but I'm stubborn and would rather swallow 4 Ibuprofen to get rid of the pain.
By Micah8 years ago in Longevity
Infusing Can Improve Diabetes Control
By infusing, you are taking your life into your hands. It is a great way to manage diabetes but also, you must be wary of making sure you have a working set every single day you use it. My infusion set model is the silhouette model infusion set. I have a round device with three prongs on it because the connector then inserts into the set itself. Super-strong tape makes up the other portion of the device. My machine is the 630G system because I upgraded to a color screen as well as more readable screens in general.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity
How to Improve Diabetes Control
Improving diabetes control with an insulin pump is one of the easiest solutions to diabetes management in the world. Shots are bad because you get peaks at exact times—you have to eat no matter what. The pump gives you any time flexibility. Basically, shots are about the act of eating or die trying. This is why shots don’t work for me. Back in junior college, I had a hectic lifestyle. In college, I strived to make it less hectic as I went to school in San Francisco. I was taking meds for most of college but there was one quarter or so I decided not to do meds. It was not too difficult, but rather than mess myself up, I went back on the meds.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez8 years ago in Longevity