Vidya, a long-standing patient of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) narrates her experience with specialized medications, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, yoga, Ayurveda, oil massage, warm baths among other things to alleviate severe, chronic pain,…
Bina Patel, 59 has Type 2 Diabetes and lives in Vadodara, Gujarat. She talks of her challenges in managing her condition and hopes her learnings and tips will help the community. Also, which home remedies work?
Bina, when were you diagnosed?
I was…
Jayesh Shah and his wife enthusiastically turned vegan with the hope of bringing down their cholesterol and diabetes levels. So why did they need to stop the diet? Read their experience.
In the month of October 2016, my wife and I attended a…
Asha Sarella, a Bengaluru-based Bharatanatyam dancer, movement therapist, and a counsellor, talks about how her life changed after embracing a vegan diet.
I just finished my dance practice and I feel so good. This was not the case few years ago. I…
Mala Sen had caregiving thrust upon her when her nonagenarian mother-in-law with full blown Alzheimer’s appeared in her life. She faced the challenges head on and says that she has emerged a stronger person in the process. A personal account:
A…
Vikas Mehta’s upwardly mobile life received a blow with the sudden onset of tinnitus. But what hurt him more than his declining hearing was the sniggering attitude of society and colleagues. Read his moving account to stay afloat and espouse the…
Swati Agrawal, who has Fibromyalgia, appeals to others in the community to start speaking about their invisible illness to raise awareness, remove prejudices and advocate for more equal and friendly world. If you have a story to share, write in to…
Swati Neogy is not lazy. She has a condition called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which causes extreme fatigue, together with allied problems like body ache, hypertension and sugar level fluctuations and even partial memory loss. She has had to battle…
Cancer affects and changes family and societal relationships. How are interpersonal relationships impacted when a woman is undergoing treatment for cancer? How do priorities change?
We spoke to a cross section of breast cancer patients and survivors…
