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102 Chronic Illness Resources

 

Below are 102 great online resources you can tap into on chronic illness.  I have included resources on how to live with chronic illness, different types of chronic illness and even videos and quizzes!  Let me know what you think! 

1.  Coping With Chronic Illness.   Tips on how to live and deal with chronic illness.

2.  Improving Chronic Illness Care.  Foundation that helps the chronically ill through quality improvement and research.

3.  Chronic Illness News.  The latest in chronic illness from Science Daily.

4. Gaining Psychological Control of Your Chronic Illness.  After crossing the stages of shock, denial, anger, and protest, you ask yourself the sixty-four thousand dollar question, “How do I manage this disease? 

5.  Even With Chronic Illness You May Live to Be 100.  New research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark.

6.  Reaching Students with Chronic Illness.  A flexible program for chronically ill students who are trying to complete schooling.

7.  Chronic Illness In A Marriage.  Chronic illness can and probably will happen to all married couples. One spouse will get sick. Very sick. Here are coping strategies to help your marriage through this difficult time.

8.  Psychological Complications of Chronic Illness.  Chronic illness further complicates normal development.

9.  We Have A Chronic Illness, We Are Not Our Illness.  Women, Work & Chronic Illness.

10.  Things to Watch Out For When Using A Disability Lawyer.  Make sure your disaiblity attorney knows what to do for your type of chronic illness.

11.  Qualifying for Disability - How Difficult? Find the answers you need here on Social Security Disability.

12.  Chronic Illness.  Common stresses with chronic illness. 

13.  Advocacy For Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc.  Resource where patients can get free information advice and advocacy services in areas such as health records, SSDI information, etc.

14.  Acceptance of a Chronic Illness is Not A Surrender. When you accept your  illness, it frees your powers to work on recovery and rehabilitation that were earlier being used to protest and fight against the disease.

15.  Chronic Illness & Depression.  Why depression is common in chronically ill people.

16.  Working Through A Chronic Illness.  More employees learn to cope with debilitating diseases.

17.  Quiz:  Coping With Chronic Illness Self-Care Quiz.  Is how you think about your self-care consistent with how well you practice it?  Take this quiz and find out. 

18.  Video:  Rest Ministries Chronic Illness.  Dealing with chronic illness through faith.

19.  The Cost of Chronic Illness.   Chronic illness costs the economy over $1 trillion a year.

20.  Chronic Illness & Your Sex Life.  How does chronic illness affect this part of my life?

21.  Emergency & Disaster Advice for Patients With Chronic Illness. Everyone reacts to the stress of natural or manmade emergencies and disasters. However, patients with chronic illness must be extra attentive at such times.

22.  Stress & Chronic Illness.  All about dealing with stress while sick and what stress does to the body.

23.  Quiz:  Do You Have A Sleep Disorder? Are you always sleepy or exhausted? Do you suspect you have a sleep disorder? Take the Epworth Sleepiness Scale questionnaire, developed by sleep researchers in Australia.

24.  Women, Work & Chronic Illness.  A cold reminds me that my body still rules.

25.  The Invisible Disabilities Advocate.  IDA offers articles, booklets, pamphlets, links, an online support group, a discount book store, t-shirts and more to help you and your loved ones forge the journey with limiting conditions.

26.  Approach to Chronic Illness.  An interesting post from a doctor trying to diagnose his patient.

27.  Does Anyone Remember What Normal Feels Like?  A bad day with chronic illness flares.

28. Nine Ways to Maximize Your Misery: The Don’ts of Chronic Illness. What not to do and how to avoid falling into these traps.

29. Aging and Chronic Illness Healthy Lifestyles. Advice on diet, nutrition, and other areas of chronic illness.

30. Rise in Child Chronic Illness Could Swamp Health Care. Diabetes, asthma will follow American kids as they age, experts warn.

31. Can Those with an Invisible Illness Park in the Blue Spots without Others Seeing Red? The next time you see a healthy looking man loading groceries into his car–parked in the “blue spot”–don’t glare. Stop and offer to help him, or just smile nicely, giving him the benefit of the doubt.

32.  Quiz:  Do You Know How to Tame the Stress Monster?  Take this quiz to find out! 

33.  Chronic Illness:  Not to Die From But to Live With.  Chronic illness is a sign of the advances in medicine. Advances in diagnosis and treatment have slowed the course and impact of diseases previously considered terminal. They have become diseases not to “die of” but to “live with.”

34.  Chronic Illness Often A Taboo Subject.  Along with taboo topics such as politics and religion, many Americans are reluctant to discuss managing a chronic illness with family or friends, according to a survey of more than 1,000 adults.

35.  The C. Everett Coop Institute.  Chronic illness resources for teens.

36.  Quiz:  Do You Know Your Pain Relievers? With the bewildering slew of analgesics lining pharmacy shelves, it’s hard to believe there are only five active ingredients out there: aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, and ketoprofen. For a garden-variety headache, any one will do. But these drugs differ widely in their benefits and potential side effects. How much do you really know about the pills you take for pain?

37.  Study Finds Qigong Exercise Helps Pain & Stress. Qigoing is an ancient Chinese health care system that integrates physical postures, breathing techniques and focused intention.

38.  Your Brain & Chronic Illness.  Your brain governs all functions of the body. 

39.  Video:  Breathing Exercises.  Chronic illness increases stress levels and proper breathing techniques can help fight the stress.

40.  Chronic Illness, Balance, & the World Wide Web.  How does a person with chronic illnesses get his or her intellectual and emotional needs met?

41.  Getting Enough Sleep Can Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease.  According to the latest research, heart risks that are obtained to people are linked to sleep. People who are not getting restful or sufficient sleep at right time are more prone to the heart risks when compared to the normal people who obtain good sleep at night time.

42.  Chronic Illness & the Holidays. Experts describe strategies to let people with chronic illness enjoy the holidays.

43.  Eight Choices You Must Make to Live Successfully With Chronic Illness.  We all seek validation for our chronic illness, but our attitude about how we live with it, even when we don’t find that validation from others, is vital in how we succeed. It’s all about choice.

44.  Quiz:  Your Monday Chronic Quiz.  What’s the obvious cure for autonomic failure?

45.  Give Support Not Platitudes.  A platitude, during a crisis, distances the person saying it from the person who is supposed to benefit.

46.  Chronic Illness & Your Love Life.  Does your health issues get in the way of your love life? Is your chronic pain not allowing you to enjoy a loving relationship with your spouse?

47.  Ten All Natural Ways to Stop Feeling Depressed.  If you allow them to, negative thoughts can fester and lead to serious depression. That’s why it’s important to take action early to bust yourself out of a slump.

48. 6 Reasons the Chronically Ill Should Shun Making Resolutions. For most people, going through the steps of setting goals is an expectation of themselves. For those of us who live with chronic illness or chronic pain, however, it can be frustrating and intimidating.

49.  The Physical Effects of Long-Term Stress.  Chronic stress can have a serious impact on our physical as well as psychological health due to sustained high levels of the chemicals released in the ‘fight or flight’ response.

50.  Tools for Dealing with a Chronic Illness. When you become sick you lose control of so many things in your life that it becomes extremely important to take responsibility for what you can control.

51.  Learning to be Assertive Despite the Fatigue of Illness. Has assertiveness gotten a bad rap, however, among the chronically ill? Is it assumed that we won’t have the energy or stamina to fight all of the battles that we will face?

52.   When Is A Cold Just A Cold?  For one chronic illness patient, it’s never that simple.

53.  Video:  Montel Williams:  Dealing With Chronic Illness.  Motivation on how he lives with MS.

54.  A Migraine Personality?  Maybe it’s because I don’t want people with headache to be further stigmatized or stereotyped, but I have a hard time believing there’s a migraine personality.

55.  A Mother & A Migraineur?  Deciding Whether to Have Kids When the Migraines Don’t Quit.

56.  Company’s Calling:  Back Pain.  One woman’s journey with back pain.

57. Sexual Dysfunction Is Common Among Both Male And Female Diabetics. Did you know high blood sugars can directly effect your sex life? It is something I have never put more than 2 minutes of thought into. Because of being diabetic, my va va va voom can be, well let’s just say, not too voom.

58.  Obesity & Cancer. Obesity has always been linked by experts to high risk of developing metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and most especially cardiovascular diseases . In fact, all these conditions are closely linked to one another.

59.  Sleep Disorders - Causes & Symptoms.  There are many factors involved with sleep disorders - one of them is chronic illness.

60.  Chronic Major Depression. Chronic major depression can be diagnosed as a form of Major Depressive Disorder.

61. Now Diet Soda is Bad For You Too?  Those who drink a measly one can of diet soda per day were faced with a 34 percent higher risk for metabolic syndrome than those who abstain from the fizzy delight altogether.

62.  Secrets of Getting A Diagnosis Unmasked.  Secrets of Getting a Diagnosis Unmasked will teach you how to find and form a partnership with professionals and how to receive an accurate diagnosis and effective guidance–without depleting your life savings.

63.  Anger, Unlimited. Today, I’m tired of thinking about all of those people who have it so much worse than I do. For right now, I’m tired of being grateful for the good days that I have. At the present time, I just want to be mad.

64.  Conditions with Similar Symptoms to Interstitial Cystitis.  Times are changing in the medical community and more urologists are recognizing IC as a real chronic illness.  But there are still other conditions that Interstitial Cystitis can be misdiagnosed for.

65.  Have Sex for Your Heart Health.  If you don’t like to do traditional exercising, have sex for your heart health and you just may reduce your risk of heart attack! 

66.  Top Five Chronic Illnesses.  More than 90 million Americans suffer from some form of chronic illness.  These five chronic illnesses together cause more than two-thirds of all deaths.

67. This won’t make sense until you read it, but I’m trying to be a turtle. For the past few months, I’ve been thinking about being a turtle.

68.  Living & Blogging With Chronic Illness.  Different websites that deal with chronic illness.

69.  Video:  Montel Williams:  Weight Loss Tips.  Advice on losing weight and reducing risk of chronic illness.

70.  Coping With Chronic Pain.  Chronic pain can disrupt your normal lifestyle.  Chronic pain does not need to run or ruin your life.

71. Making Peace With Pain: Accepting Migraine and Chronic Daily Headache in My Life. Accepting that I may have a migraine or headache every day for the rest of my life is the most effective treatment I’ve had.

72.  Glossary for CFS  & Fibromyalgia.  Commonly used words and phrases for CFS & Fibromyalgia defined.

73.  The Oprah Show Controversy:  Is Your Illness All Your Fault?   It seem that Oprah has ruffled a few feathers while explaining her recent bout with thyroid problems

74.  Preventing Chronic Disease.  Resources from the CDC.

75.  Sleep Apnea.  An extremely common and dangerous sleep disorder.

76.  Yoga to Treat Chronic Illness.  Purpose of yoga and illnesses it is used to treat.

77. Chronic Neuroimmune Diseases. The inability of a doctor to correctly diagnose a multisystemic disease is evidence of a deficiency of the doctor rather than a patient’s lack of cooperation.

78.  Healing With Foods.  Food is the source of nutrition and energy to support the health of our body. Although not always considered an important part of many of the common diseases we see in our society today this section of our website helps you to understand how incorporating the World’s Healthiest Foods as a regular part of your diet can help prevent or reduce the severity of the various diseases discussed.

79.  My Battle With Leukemia.  There are events in our lives that come unexpectedly, yet change us in significant ways. January 25, 1995 was such a day in my life.

80. Air Travel Tips for the Chronically Ill: Meeting TSA Regulations, Wheelchair Advice. If you haven’t flown for a few years, you may be confused by the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rules or how best to abide by them. Here are some up-to-date suggestions for dealing with security checks in airports and traveling with assistive devices such as wheelchairs.

81.  Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease.   A national coalition of patients, providers, community organizations, business and labor groups and health policy experts, committed to raising awareness of policies and practices that save lives and reduce health costs through more effective prevention and management of chronic disease.

82.  Video:  What Happens After You Smoke 400 Cigarettes?  The answer might just scare you enough to make you quit.

83.  Why Your Colon & Kidneys Are Your Lifeline.  One of the most important functions in the body is eliminating wastes, toxins, and excess matter that the body does not need. Our elimination channels are through our skin, kidneys and colon, and if these channels are kept clean and healthy, we will be able to eliminate most sickness, disease, and disorder.

84.  Safe Medicines Project.  Building awareness of safe use of medications among family caregivers of seniors and chronically ill children.

85.  Ten Essentials for Managing Your Chronic Illness.  Managing your illness means to take responsibility for the actions that are necessary for you to cope and live life as optimally as possible within the limits you are faced with.

86.  Physical Activity & the Cancer Patient.  Regular exercise is an effective way to counteract the negative effects of inactivity in chronic illness.

87.  Coping With Cancer in Everyday Life.  Great cancer resources provided by the American Cancer Society.

88.  The Role of Vitamin D In Heart Disease.  Over the past five years, vitamin D has emerged as one of the key nutrient deficiencies contributing to risk of many chronic diseases, including colon cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and osteoporosis.

89.  Restless Legs Syndrome Can Double Risk of Heart Disease. If you have restless legs syndrome your chances of having a heart attack or stroke are doubled compared to those without restless legs, according to an article by Consumer Affairs.

90.  Finding & Keeping A Healthy Life Balance.  Tips on how to balance our lives so that we remain happy and healthy.

91.  Cancer Coping Tools & Checklists.  Serenity. Courage. Wisdom. How exactly does a person acquire these qualities, especially when facing cancer or caring for someone who has it? The answer lies in a person’s coping skills: how you solve problems, handle stress, talk with loved ones, and take time for yourself.

92. Recommendations for Persons with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (or Fibromyalgia) Who Are Anticipating Surgery. Information to provide your physician before having surgery.

93. The Danger in Sleeping Pill Advertising: Reading Beyond the Lines. Some American consumers, encouraged by increasingly heavy advertising of prescription sleep drugs, may be assuming unnecessary risk because they’re ill informed about the pro’s and con’s of these “sedative/hypnotics” versus other means of coping with sleep problems.

94. Heart Disease is a Major Complication of Lupus. Heart disease is a major complication of lupus and is now a leading cause of death among people living with autoimmune disease.

95. Lupus Resources. Scientific Journals and online latest research information on Lupus.

96. Gluten Avoidance Key to Managing Celiac Disease. About one in every 133 people suffer from a debilitating disease brought on by common foods, but most of them probably don’t know they have it.

97. What Is Sjogren’s Syndrome? Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks its own moisture producing glands.

98. Thyroid Disorders. Great online resources for the different types of thyroid disorders.

99.  Achieving Your Fitness Goals.  Tips on how to get healthy and to stay that way.

100.  Epstein Barr Virus Linked to MS.  Back in April 2006, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health, Kaiser Permanente, and a team of collaberators found more evidence confirming that the Epstein Barr Virus is a contributory cause to MS.

101.  One Lesson From A Decade of Fighting Chronic Illness.  One woman’s journey of what she has learned along the way.

102.  What Is Chronic Illness?  When someone says they have a chronic illness, what do you think?  Do we really grasp what the word “chronic” means? 

Sandy Robinson also is the blogger for her own website, Fighting Fatigue and the Fighting Fatigue Forum. On the WebbleYou Network, Sandy is co-blogger for the American Idolist blog.

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