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Ulcerative colitis - Carenity members tell their story

Ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative colitis - Carenity members tell their story

Dec 18, 2019 • 1 comment

Carenity members living with ulcerative colitis waiting on average 2 years to obtain a diagnosis. Here they tell their stories.

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Depression diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Depression
Postpartum depression

Depression diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Dec 16, 2019 • 1 comment

Depression is an invisible disease whose sufferers sometimes fight for years to be taken seriously and diagnosed.

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Diabetes : understanding the low glycemic diet

Diabetes (Type 1)
Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus
Gestational diabetes
Maternally-inherited diabetes and deafness
Neonatal diabetes mellitus
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

Diabetes : understanding the low glycemic diet

Dec 13, 2019

Have you heard about the low-glycemic diet? What links are there between diabetes and diet? How is the glycemic index of each food calculated and which foods should be avoided? Read our article to...

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Cyber security and improved user experience… meet Jeremy, head of IT

Cyber security and improved user experience… meet Jeremy, head of IT

Dec 12, 2019

Jeremy, our Head of IT, corrects errors and makes improvements to the site all while ensuring cybersecurity. Discover his job and his advice and his tips for avoiding risk while surfing the Internet!

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Living better with Parkinson’s disease with alternative medicine and therapy

Parkinson's disease

Living better with Parkinson’s disease with alternative medicine and therapy

Dec 12, 2019 • 3 comments

When Claire learned she had Parkinson’s disease, she set out to understand the signs her body had been sending her. Discover how in her...

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What conditions and medications are incompatible with aspirin?

What conditions and medications are incompatible with aspirin?

Nov 26, 2019 • 1 comment

It’s one of the most widely marketed medications in the world, but there are some illnesses and medications that aspirin doesn’t go along with. Find out which ones.

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Cancer Treatments: Biotherapy and Immunotherapy

Cancer

Cancer Treatments: Biotherapy and Immunotherapy

Nov 22, 2019

Care for cancer patients is turning more and more towards personalized medicine and targeted therapies. Over the past 15 years, the use of biological therapies has exploded in the oncology field and...

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Type-2 diabetes diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Diabetes (Type 2)

Type-2 diabetes diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Nov 22, 2019 • 1 Like

Our members affected by Type-2 Diabetes tell the story of their diagnosis. Symptoms, emotions, examinations and relationships with their doctors.

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Osler-Weber-Rendu Disease: “The bleeding can be hard to live with, but I stay positive no matter what!”

Rendu-Osler-Weber disease

Osler-Weber-Rendu Disease: “The bleeding can be hard to live with, but I stay positive no matter what!”

Nov 14, 2019

Pierre lives with a very rare genetic illness. Learn more about his story, his symptoms and his treatments, as well as his daily life and how he stays positive in spite of his...

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COPD diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

COPD

COPD diagnosis: Carenity members tell their story

Nov 11, 2019 • 2 comments

Carenity members affected by COPD tell the story of their diagnosis: Symptoms, emotions, examinations, quality of care, and more. Read Carenity members' experiences with their COPD diagnosis and...

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My battle with Fibromyalgia: an eternal struggle between hope and depression

Fibromyalgia

My battle with Fibromyalgia: an eternal struggle between hope and depression

Nov 8, 2019

Rosaline recounts her fibromyalgia journey and how she continues to strive to live a normal and active life with her husband at her...

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Patient Testimonial: Cluneal Neuralgia - The pain is still there, but so is the fight to stay positive

Cervicobrachial neuralgia
Chronic pain
Endometriosis
Pudendal neuralgia
Radiculopathy
Sciatica

Patient Testimonial: Cluneal Neuralgia - The pain is still there, but so is the fight to stay positive

Nov 7, 2019 • 1 Like

Suffering from cluneal neuralgia, preventing her from sitting down, Peggy agreed to talk to us about her symptoms and her fight to live a normal life.

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