Sickle Cell

So my family and I booked a holiday pre-Covid and then had to move it due to the Pandemic. My mum has been vaccinated but my sibling and I still haven't. My immune system isn't the best on a good day and with all the variants emerging I don't want to risk it...

Also IF we do go the amount of tests we'd have to do and quarantining it's just not financially feasible...

The travel agent is being completely inflexible. We were willing to lose our deposit, but they're asking for a cancellation fee 😒😤

#Sickle Cell #IrritableBowelSyndrome
#Fibromyalgia #Anxiety #Depression

Everytime I see 'over medication' on the news I freeze. I freeze with genuine fear. Because I remember the fight to get my pain taken seriously and the trial to get ANY prescribed medication.

There's this fallacy that doctors prescribe opioids willy-nilly. They don't. It's a battle. A constant, unending battle.

This isn't me being 'anti' alternative treatments. I welcome them!

But for god's sake don't make this a black & white policy. Do it all!

Prescribe CBT! Prescribe mindfulness! Prescribe exercise. But!- let me tell you if I'm in bed groaning in pain. I'm not going for a walk.

Please listen to your patients! I beg you NHS & Medics around the world.

And please recognise the opioid crisis has so many factors to it. And a slap dash approach: Will. Not. Work.

#ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue #Fibromyalgia
#Depression #Anxiety #Sickle Cell #FND