Arrive 15 minutes early. Avoid eating or drinking after midnight. Remove all jewelry and metallic materials. The prep was easy, though a septum piercing, nostril piercing, navel piercing, nipple piercing, and several lobe and cartilage piercings made the latter time-consuming. I stood in the mirror with emu oil and pliers …
Read More »The Silent Killer That Took My Dad's Life, My Aunt's Life, and May Someday Take My Own
Arrive 15 minutes early. Avoid eating or drinking after midnight. Remove all jewelry and metallic materials. The prep was easy, though a septum piercing, nostril piercing, navel piercing, nipple piercing, and several lobe and cartilage piercings made the latter time-consuming. I stood in the mirror with emu oil and pliers …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Reveals He Has Parkinson's Disease in New Interview–Here's What That Means
Ozzy Osbourne is opening up about his health struggles, revealing that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in February 2019. In an interview with Robin Roberts on Tuesday’s Good Morning America, Ozzy, his wife Sharon, and two of their three children, Kelly, 35, and Jack, 34, had a family discussion …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Reveals He Has Parkinson's Disease in New Interview–Here's What That Means
Ozzy Osbourne is opening up about his health struggles, revealing that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in February 2019. In an interview with Robin Roberts on Tuesday’s Good Morning America, Ozzy, his wife Sharon, and two of their three children, Kelly, 35, and Jack, 34, had a family discussion …
Read More »After 11 Years and Countless Doctors, I Found Out I Have Early Onset Parkinson's Disease at Age 33
This article is part of Health's series, Misdiagnosed, featuring stories from real women who have had their medical symptoms dismissed or wrongly diagnosed. I remember the day my tremors started. It was 2006, and I was 22 years old. I was in the car with my boyfriend, Nick (who is my …
Read More »After 11 Years and Countless Doctors, I Found Out I Have Early Onset Parkinson's Disease at Age 33
This article is part of Health's series, Misdiagnosed, featuring stories from real women who have had their medical symptoms dismissed or wrongly diagnosed. I remember the day my tremors started. It was 2006, and I was 22 years old. I was in the car with my boyfriend, Nick (who is my …
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive brain disease that leads to problems with cognitive abilities, per StatPearls, such as thinking, memory, language, judgment, and learning. Alzheimer’s is not curable, but some therapies may help you manage symptoms, per the National Institute on Aging (NIA). In more than 90% of cases, …
Read More »I Was Accidentally Hit on the Head—and I'm Still Struggling With the Side Effects of a Brain Injury a Year Later
This article is part of Health's series, Life Interrupted: Living With an Invisible Illness. Each month, one women will share what it's like to appear healthy on the outside while navigating daily life with a serious physical or mental health condition. “When will you be better?” “You still have symptoms?” “Maybe pop an Ibuprofen.” …
Read More »I Was Accidentally Hit on the Head—and I'm Still Struggling With the Side Effects of a Brain Injury a Year Later
This article is part of Health's series, Life Interrupted: Living With an Invisible Illness. Each month, one women will share what it's like to appear healthy on the outside while navigating daily life with a serious physical or mental health condition. “When will you be better?” “You still have symptoms?” “Maybe pop an Ibuprofen.” …
Read More »Country Music Singer Chely Wright Thought She Was Having a Bad Headache–but She'd Actually Suffered a Stroke
Country music singer and activist Chely Wright shared a very personal and alarming health diagnosis on Facebook Friday and urged readers to “pay attention to your body.” Wright’s post marked a year since she’d gone to the ER at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City. She'd had a migraine for …
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