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Revelations: Fungal overgrowth, blocked lymph, and a busted ankle

So if I don’t have MS, then what is the problem?

AfterTheDoingComesTheUndoing, BlockedLymph, candidiasis, ChinUp:Revelations, FungalOvergrowth, LymphaticCongestion, lymphedema, MedialMalleolus, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, NerveDamage, neuralgia, neuropathy

Revelations: It’s not MS

The moment when I started to question the MS diagnosis.

AfterTheDoingComesTheUndoing, Avonex, ChinUp:Revelations, InterferonBeta1a, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, NHSLetMeDown

The undoing: Interferon be gone 2013–2015

The first two years after stopping Avonex injections.

AfterTheDoingComesTheUndoing, Avonex, BlockedLymph, ChinUp:TheUndoing, Healing, Incontinence, InterferonBeta1a, LymphaticCongestion, lymphedema, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, NerveDamage, neuropathy, NHSLetMeDown

Chin up: The story of a metamorphosis CONTENTS

Chin Up is a memoir of my health experiences – what happened to me at the age of 24 and…

The undoing: Avonex – the decision to stop

Ten years on, I decide to stop taking Avonex (interferon beta-1a).

Avonex, ChinUp:TheUndoing, InterferonBeta1a, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis

The doing: Intermittent self-catheterisation

This one’s about when I had to manually empty my bladder twice a day.

BlockedLymph, candida, ChinUp, ChinUp:TheDoing, FungalOvergrowth, HypertonicPelvicFloor, Incontinence, IntermittentSelfCatheterisation, ISC, LymphaticCongestion, lymphedema, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, neuropathy

The doing: Interferon beta-1a (Avonex)

What it was like injecting interferon beta-1a every week for a decade.

AfterTheDoingComesTheUndoing, Avonex, BlockedLymph, candidiasis, ChinUp, ChinUp:TheDoing, DiseaseModifyingTherapy, InterferonBeta1a, LymphaticCongestion, lymphedema, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, NHSLetMeDown

The doing: MS diagnosis

How I came to be diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 24.

Avonex, ChinUp, ChinUp:TheDoing, DiseaseModifyingTherapy, InterferonBeta1a, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, NerveDamage, NHSLetMeDown, OpticNeuritis

Chin up: The story of a metamorphosis

An introduction to the upcoming story of how I fixed my health troubles.

AfterTheDoingComesTheUndoing, BlockedLymph, candida, candidiasis, ChinUp, FungalOvergrowth, Healing, lymphedema, misdiagnosis, MS, MultipleSclerosis, NerveDamage, neuralgia, NeuromuscularRehabilitation, neuropathy, NHSLetMeDown

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Jan Komasa, 2019, Poland This was worth a trip to the cinema! The film connects us with our striking-looking young…

CineRenoir, FilmNibbles, journeytobilingualism

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