MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'flares'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:49:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4893705&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fis-there-really-an-ms-stress-connection%2F I’ll have to admit to you that I’ve never understood the underlying connection that we all seem to make between times of high stress and multiple sclerosis flares. I know that my diagnosing attack came at one of the highest stress times of my life, but I wouldn’t say that I remember any of the next six major attacks as having taken place during stressful times. In fact, if you start to consider the autoimmune theory of MS, it begins to make less sense to me. Stress seems to lower immune activity (stressful time = getting sick with whatever bug is going around), so how is it that we can equate our multiple sclerosis disease activity — or at least its symptomatic expression — with times of great stress? Many of us have made mention in the pages of Life With MS Blog that a s... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4893705 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:26:50 +0100 4893705 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266032&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fgratitude-for-sleep-with-or-without-an-ms-attack%2F Sleep comes in fits and starts when I am in the midst of an MS attack. I’ve been told by my doctor that my brain goes into overdrive trying to re-route signals and assessing damage and generally freaking out during times of active exacerbation. As I head into the third week of this “thing,” sleep is becoming more and more spotty. I get VERY tired but will only sleep for a few hours before something will wake me and I lay awake three to five hours, too exhausted to get up and do anything, too awake to shut down the bouncing of my mind. If I am able to get back to sleep by 5 a.m., I sleep until about 8 a.m. and wake again; this time tired and cranky. Last evening, while driving home from Poker Night (my self-help group for men living with multiple sclerosis) I heard something o... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266032 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:18:18 +0100 4266032 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220342&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fdecember-2010-hows-your-ms-today%2F An unexpected winter snowstorm, family drama, reaching for the stars with a Thanksgiving meal, a consulting project nearly ready to open, major writing deadline… Why was I surprised to have an exacerbation??? All I can say is that it’s a good thing I learned that whole “laugh at yourself” thing early on in my multiple sclerosis career! Every month here at the Life With MS Blog, we set aside one post for anything you want to talk about. It’s a chance to update us on your progress and slips, your successes and failings, and we ask, “How’s your MS today? ” I’ve noted a large number of comments posted by new (or lurking) members of our community over the past month. This excites me to NO END! This is a very popular blog in the MS world and we’re all very proud of that. I’... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220342 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:22:17 +0100 4220342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2939450&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fhow-do-you-cope-on-a-bad-multiple-sclerosis-day%2F I have good days and bad days.  I don’t suffer from multiple sclerosis; I live with MS.  I’m a healthy person with MS.  And, the ever popular,  I have MS, MS doesn’t have me! OK, these are lines we use to comfort others and to get ourselves through.  I have no problem with them; I use them myself.  They’re slogans, if you will, that we use to get through/past that part of a conversation.  Slogans may be trite and glib but they’ve helped elect officials, sell products and recruit militaries for centuries. So, what about the days that are “bad days,” the days we do suffer the effects of our disease…the days multiple sclerosis does have us? No sense hiding it I’m in the midst of a “thing” right now (for those new to the Life with MS blog, I tend to use “thing”... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2939450 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:34:10 +0100 2939450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2259899&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fmultiple-sclerosis-and-weight-issues%2F We’ve been taking one posting per month for healthy eating ideas here at Life with MS for quite some time now.  Usually, we look at one particular food or recipe or at least a specific MS/food topic. Today, as I have been for a while now, I was searching around our new home; EverydayHealth.com.  I’ve found some really great “stuff” in here and wanted to point out a few areas that might be of interest to people living with both MS and “weight management” issues. First, the Weight Management center offers a wide range of tools from “ask the experts” Q&A to weight loss blogs. Further investigation into the tabs of this page offer discussions of “Food and Mood”  “Meal Planning”  and information on dietary supplements. I’ve found the articles well researched an... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2259899 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:14:58 +0100 2259899 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2195240&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36041&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fchrista-life-with-psoriasis%2Fthe-self-fulfilling-psoriasis-flares%2F Writers are always being told “write what you know,” and obviously that is the basic and rather brilliant idea behind HealthTalk blogging. We live with these conditions and therefore are best qualified to write about life with whatever health condition, in my case psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The thing is that with chronic conditions we may have periods where nothing much is happening for us and our condition is either reasonably well managed or simply behaving itself, so what do we write about during those times? Usually I look to see what the support groups are talking about, what’s in the news, what is happening or of concern to other people I know who have psoriasis…including members of my own family. This means that sometimes I may write about things that I a... Life with Psoriasis blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2195240 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:21:55 +0100 2195240 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512233&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36041&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fchrista-life-with-psoriasis%2Fupdate-on-otc-creams%2F Some time ago, I wrote about some OTC cream I bought while we were on holiday in the U.S.A. last year…and I thought it was about time for an update and a verdict. Initially, I didn’t see much by way of improvement to my psoriasis. However, my mother was delighted with the results when she tried it on a very stubborn patch of eczema on her leg that had not been responding to prescribed corticosteroid cream. In light of her success, I decided to persevere and I have to say that the skin is less scaly and less prone to flaking. The positives of this cream, in addition to the above, are the following: (Source: Life with Psoriasis) Life with Psoriasis blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512233 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:36:41 +0100 2512233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512234&cid=t_115168_129_f&fid=36041&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fchrista-life-with-psoriasis%2Fim-not-hibernating-im-just-flaring%2F I can hardly believe it has been so long since my last blog entry and I feel I should begin by wishing all HealthTalk bloggers and blog readers a belated but very Happy and Healthy New Year! I haven’t been hibernating, although with the weather we’ve had that is quite an appealing option, but fell foul of a very nasty and protracted flare. It seems this was linked to a persistent throat infection and the whole sorry mess pretty much ground my life and productivity to a halt. Throat infections seem to have a real impact on my psoriasis – both on the skin outbreaks and the flares of arthritis too. My skin was sore, cracked and bleeding and my joints were sore swollen and very painful. Of course when my hands become so badly inflamed it makes taking care of my skin that much harder and ... Life with Psoriasis blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512234 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:40:56 +0100 2512234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=569556&cid=t_115168_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F25%2Fthought-for-the-day-shielding-astronauts-from-cancer%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Research, Environment, Products, Daily news, Thought for the DayThose venturing into space face a very serious occupational hazard -- cancer. The disease can be caused by radiation from the cosmic rays and solar flares astronauts encounter when they travel beyond the Earth's protective magnetic layer or magnetosphere.British scientists are working on rectifying this problem by creating a Star Trek-style deflector shield to protect astronauts from radiation.Think about this:Scientists wish to mimic the magnetic field that protects the Earth with shields deployed around spacecraft and on the surfaces of planets to deflect harmful energetic particles. Details, presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, UK, include the followi... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=569556 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 569556