Cure Chronic: The Chronic Movement

Sandra is the voice of the podcast Chronically Driven and in this podcast we get to hear a bit more about my story, what I learned and how important self care it! Be sure to listen to her podcast and how we are in the driver's seat to our health and wellness and follow Sandra on Instagram @ChronicallyDriven! 

Diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis when she was 22 years old Kim actually went into remission for years and forgot about having the disease!

After years gone by she started to have some really strange symptoms and she was told that it was her female parts (unreal!) Then FINALLY they told her these symptoms are caused from her Ulcerative Colitis! Her symptoms became increasingly worse as the she dealt with major stress from a custody battle for her daughter. Then in 2016 she had excruciating pain and was told that she was overreacting about the amount of blood she was passing and pain she was experiencing. Thankfully she is mostly in remission from medication and has her own podcast called This is Your City! Check it out at ThisisYourCity.ca and follow her on Instagram @thisisyourcitynow

From getting skin cancer diagnosis, to Hashimotos from black mold, she has learned to take care of herself, by listening to her body more, and understanding what foods she is putting in her body. Diet and exercise are tools to use to heal the body, but understanding that exercise can be a stressor as well. Releasing the stress in the way our bodies can, and learning when the body says no and how important down time is! Listen to your body, the experts don’t always have the best answers for YOU. https://wholistichealthboss.com and Instagram: @Wholistichealthboss

After not healing from a shoulder surgery in 2012, to being misdiagnosed with a neurological disorder then having to go to the Mayo Clinic to find some answers. Then being put on all kinds of medications to control seizures, tremors and more, but Lisa knew that the medication was not working, or helping. The docs were just trying to find medications to mask the symptoms, instead of diagnosing the actual problem. She finally had to take her health into her own hands by researching her medications that she was on, and getting answers for herself. As Lisa started to advocate for herself, she was getting the run around from her doctors, leaving her with more questions than answers. Her health deteriorated so badly, that she thought she was going to die. She found out that part of her health deteriorating was due to medical negligence. She finally decided to get a whole knew medical team, that she was going to interview and when she started being taken off medication, she soon realized that these medications were masking symptoms of severe POTS and EDS, as well as a major heart defect from birth! From her experience, she now has the ability to advocate for herself, and ask more questions and stand up for her life and her health.” Connect with her on instagram @conroy_lgc and she just launched her website and respectively rant!  ChronicallyConroy.com

After walking her dog through a trail in Connecticut, she found a tick on her neck 5 days later! (Yikes!) then after 30 days later she started getting very sick with all sorts of different, and very strange symptoms! As the illness got better and got worse, she saw her doctor and got tested several times for lyme and it kept coming back negative! Overtime she kept getting worse, after getting tests and more tests done for a year straight she started losing hope. But then she took matters into her own hands and sought out a Lyme literate doctor that she paid for out of pocket. The doctor said “You are classic Lyme disease, Gina” and she felt a surge of relief. However, that was just the start of a journey with Lyme!

Follow her to learn her story with Lyme on Instagram @GinaVallesFit  Check out her new venture on Instagram @immunewarrior_   and be sure to follow her fitness studio on Instagram @ginas_total_fitness

Getting back into the swing of things! Here's a bit of an update for me and I want to know what are you going to do? Are you getting the COVID Vaccine, or are you not? Let me know, connect with me on Instagram and Facebook @CureChronic or send me an email [email protected] I am super interested to know your opinion and what your plan is! Finally a Big Shout Out to all of the advocates out there making a difference and changing lives, because of you we are creating this massive chronic community to help so many people with what they are going through, and making life better for others AMAZING! 

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This year has been a crazy year and here we all thought that 2020 was bad! Starting this January I started feeling a bit of a flare coming on, and I was doing everything I could to help stop it, eating healthy, doing more meditation, exercise etc. But the stress of this year just became too much and the fear of the flare getting worse took over, and the flare got worse. I ended up in the hospital on the 25th of March for three weeks, in the middle of the flare up I ended up switching GI doctors, which I am so grateful for my new GI specialist, shout out to Dr. Chalmers-Nixon out of Fernie BC, you saved my life. While I was in hospital in Calgary, the GI team started me on Xalgenz, but after 5 days we found out it was not working and that prednisone was giving me this fake feeling of getting better, so on Good Friday, Easter weekend, I met with the surgical team and discussed having a full colectomy, to take out my entire colon. I have never had major surgery like this before, so it was very much a shock to me. I ended up having the surgery on April 5th and recovered in hospital that week, and was able to come home April 11th. I have been getting better and better each day, good days and bad days still, but I feel like I am getting my strength back and I am feeling back to my normal self again. Listen to my story and how everything happened so fast. *Yikes!* -Becky 

Melissa is #Lyme warrior, entrepreneur, wellness fanatic, Voice First Pioneer and TedX Speaker. To say she is busy in as understatement, because she is also a Mom of 2 boys, and a published author. In business Melissa is the founder of The Güüd Company - a voice-first wellness company. Find our Flash Briefing, "Today's Health Tip" for Amazon Alexa or as a podcast on iTunes. Founder at The Scoop, Inc. based in Princeton New Jersey as PrincetonScoop, a hyper-local Social Media Marketing Consultancy. Founder of RestoreOurShore.com, a philanthropic movement in 2012 which raised and dispersed funds directly to charities in NJ hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy. 

She is currently battling a lyme relapse and sharing the journey on Instagram and Clubhouse.

Be sure to follow her journey on Clubhouse: @melissaklepacki

Check out her website: www.wellnesswarriors.club 

The The Güüd Company on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGuudCompany

Instagram: @melissahallklepacki

LinkedIN: @melissahallklepacki

In 2019, after a year of life changing events; pregnancy loss, family loss, and a major job change, Rachel began experiencing numb/tingly hands and feet, vision loss (diagnosed as Optic Neuritis), and extreme brain fog and fatigue. Two months later, after many tests Rachel was diagnosed at 29 years old with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS). Now a year and a half later, Rachel is taking more control of her diagnosis and overall health and well-being living with MS. Through the support of her family, friends, community, and fellow warriors she has gained new perspectives on life with MS. She has become an activist for MS and Chronic Disease Awareness, championing her own team for Walk MS for the last two years. Rachel loves connecting with others and building a network of support – connect with her on social media!

@ms__rach (Instagram)

https://www.facebook.com/rachel.gaffron.9

We welcome back Shamitris this episode and she has wonderful news about her journey into remission! Though it seemed like a long one, her story unfolds unexpected truths and hardships that she is grateful to have gone through. Be sure to connect with her on instagram @Shamitris and check out her story with Adenomyosis.