How do you make sure that the different pieces in your life all stay stable and well managed? The answer is that there’s no magical answer for everyone in doing this and that, unfortunately, it’s just a lot of trial and error. No matter how good of a regimen you have, no matter how good of a system, and no matter how good a support structure you have, there are always going to be flares and there’s always going to be difficult days that your symptoms are more pronounced than on other days. I think the key to focus on isn’t whether or not you’re having flares, but whether or not those flares are at a manageable level, and whether or not they’re staying at the same amount of frequencies.
Continue reading “Medical Journaling”Tag: symptom tracking
Struggling to Find Balance
At the heart of managing any chronic illness is finding balance in our lives. There are never any perfect, risk free solutions to the problems we face. Thus we have to constantly weigh risks vs benefits of treatments and quality vs quantity of life.
Continue reading “Struggling to Find Balance”