Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford | Patient Advocacy

Inflammatory bowel disease, ostomy, chronic pain, PTSD, and mental wellbeing.

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Tag: Chronic Illness

16th Nov 202227th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Changing seasons, chronic fatigue, and mental health

25th Oct 202227th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Attending the pain management programme – part 1

19th Apr 202227th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

We're probably not “fine”

19th Jan 202228th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Ostomy life: Progress report

14th Oct 202127th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Invisible illness. Just because I look OK…

25th Sep 202127th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

What if I don’t want to rest?!

21st Aug 202127th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

How I was yesterday means nothing today!

22nd Jul 202127th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Trying to find balance with IBD pain

26th Mar 202127th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Series | How my ulcerative colitis impacted my physical activity

8th Jan 202127th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Series | How my ulcerative colitis impacted my recreational activities

25th Nov 202027th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Series | How my ulcerative colitis impacted my career

21st Nov 202027th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Series | How my ulcerative colitis impacted my education

7th Sep 202027th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

A new diagnosis – fibromyalgia

30th Jul 20207th Sep 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Sustaining friendships has been more difficult due to chronic illness

29th May 202028th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Am I causing my own symptoms?

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Hoping the algorithm will help me reach my people!🤞 I used to have 6K+ connections on Insta, until I was hacked! I'd love to be able to reconnect! 💕 A quick heads-up to anyone who ever buys or plans on buying us presents… 🎁🫣 I’ve spent the last few weeks completely overhauling my home to clear out microplastics. I wrote about how reducing microplastics can benefit people with #IBD and other #ChronicIllness 🔗 https://advocatinghealth.com/2026/09/08/reducing-microplastics-to-benefit-ibd/ First, apologies for the recent irresponsible post! Intestinal blockage aftermath... I’ve switched to an anti-inflammatory Mediterranean diet recently, but adapting it to suit my specific restrictions (intestinal strictures from surgeries) has been a lot to get my head around! 😵‍💫 Life has been a bit chaotic lately! Between the additional tasks of researching and publishing new articles for IBD Science, doing separate dog walks every morning to work on individual behavioural issues (Loki is a barker and Aragorn is a puller!), and a vet visit for Lady’s cheek infection, my energy has been stretched! https://www.instagram.com/p/Db7xtK1sGss/ When living with a #ChronicIllness, we often talk about getting through the flare, recovering from surgery, or managing the daily symptoms. But what happens after the storm clears? It's strange that it's completely normal to me to start a Saturday with movement that helps manage my pain, followed by a catch up with people I only know because of our shared health conditions, whilst organising my meds for the week. Afterwards, I organised and cut my latest #ostomy supply delivery. Only then did I realise that for a "normal healthy person", this is not a standard day 😂 This is the day of a person who's spent so many years adapting to their chronic conditions, that this is MY normal 💜 I'll give you two ✌️ guesses where this peppermint oil ended up after I'd dropped a few drops 💧 in my #ostomy bag whilst on the toilet 🚽... It's ok to ignore the pile of washing 🧺 in favour of rest. It's very likely that the person judging you most for it, is you. If it isn't, kick them to the curb - you don't need that kind of negativity or lack of understanding in your life 👋😂
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