Over the past month I have been asking people with growth hormone deficiency to tell their heart-wrenching stories to the NHS – about their long years of non-diagnosis and the medical scepticism about their symptoms, their suicidal feelings and attempts – and to urge that the A-Z of Health Conditions should at least contain a […]
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GHD doesn’t stand for Ghastly Horrific Disease, but it could do. It happens after a sixth of concussions, and roughly a quarter of more serious head injuries and it makes you want to kill yourself. Interestingly, suicide risk is tripled after concussion, and four times after worse injury. There were over 100,000 people admitted to
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Christine knew that she was not alone. There had to be other pituitary patients misdiagnosed like her with ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. She told her story to them, ending with these words:.= “I put my heart and soul into my story. I wrote it to help you. I think of you all each and
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A must-read for anyone who thinks they may have cortisol deficiency or GHD Once upon a time there was a Yorkshire lady named Christine Wrightson. Here she is. You can see the kind of person she was: downright, valiant, not to be messed with. She got ill. She’d had arthritis for decades and in 2005
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You’ve had multiple concussions in sport. Do you have: Impaired concentration and memory loss? Lack of well-being? Depression and anxiety? Reduced energy? If so, you may fear you have early signs of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and that it’ll be downhill all the way with this incurable condition. But maybe it’s not as bad as
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Head injury makes you four times more likely to die by suicide. Read more here.