Psychosomatic or med seeking? The gaslighting of patients with chronic diseases.

Happy holidays, now what?

We are back! After so many life changes in the last few months, we took a break from life to talk about taking time for yourself during the holidays, avoiding family drama and the insurance chaos that is approaching us in the new year.

Triggers of inflamation and video for the first time!

We are giving a trial to using videos and we talk about triggers of inflammation. The changes in diet and lifestyle that annoy us. We are excited to have a new way to create and learning in the process, check us out in our YouTube channel: @RheumaSisters  PS. we will be taking a hiatus and we will see you back in October.  Please reach out to us in instagram @rheumasister or Facebook : Flare up and flare back or maybe take a nap or at "rheumasisters [https://www.facebook.com/rheumasisters/]".

Angry is not a bad word.

Going through the motions of anger and frustration is part of having a chronic illness, let's talk about it.

Hospital selfies and the Backstreet Boys conversation.

In this new episode we discuss an article by "The mighty Contributor", at the Huffpost (of the Hufflepuff post as Angie pronounces). Article link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chronic-illnesses_b_8055560 [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chronic-illnesses_b_8055560]

Psychosomatic or med seeking? The gaslighting of patients with chronic diseases.

Mari and Angie talk about the difficulties of being taken seriously in the ER and other medical environments.  From nurses thinking you are "medication seeking" to docs that keep diagnosing pain as "psychosomatic".