Quotes About Chronic

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.

People think those with fibromyalgia are just faking it. Actually, they've got it backwards — we're faking being well.

I wake up tired I stay up tired I go to bed tired. I wake up in pain I stay up in pain I go to bed in pain. I wake up with hope I stay up with hope I go to bed with hope.

Fibromyalgia is a pain in the neck — and my shoulders, head, elbows, knees, back, hips, feet... sometimes even my hair hurts.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

It turns out that for most people who have chronic diseases with deferred consequences, improve my financial health is a much more pervasively experienced job than maintain my physical health.

any program for resolving our runaway health-care costs that does not have a credible plan for changing the way we care for the chronically ill can't make more than a small dent in the total problem.

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

Inflammation promotes the growth of osteoclasts, the cells that break down bone matrix and simultaneously suppresses osteoblasts, the bone matrix makers. Because of this, even low-level chronic inflammation increases fracture risk.

For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he'd always felt that it was worth doing a task properly if it was worth doing at all. That was part of his problem, of course; that was why he ended up with so much to do. It was also the source of his own particular pride: he knew--and he was certain they knew that there was no one else who could handle details such as these as well as he.

Why have we settled for a medical system that allows cancer to be recast as a chronic and tolerable disease rather than one we should try to prevent? Why do so many scientists at the nation's drug companies and universities turn their backs on the possibility of prevention?

We have understood and recognized how emotional trauma changes not only the mind and heart of a person, but the body as well; how living with chronic emotional pain affects what we now know to be our limbic system; how when the limbic system is impacted, our ability to regulate our emotions is undermined; and why we can't "just get over it" when we have been impacted by the repeated mobilization of our own fear/stress response.

If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.

Recent research is showing that chronic powerlessness—poverty—stunts brain development in perhaps permanent ways that undermine not only school performance but also the capacity to contribute to society more generally.

Cranial neuralgia due to continuous stimulation of cutaneous nerves.

I've had chronic back pain since I was a preteen - like, 12. I have really funny posture. I developed this funny posture where I hunch my back a little bit when I'm playing, and I overuse my back muscles instead of my abs. My posture has put a lot of strain on my lower back.

Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.

Obesity is associated with, but does not cause T2DM. Both diseases are the consequence of prolonged over-consumption of the same drug – carbohydrates. T2DM manifests as damage to end-organs that result from a series of progressive microvascular injuries due to the toxic effects of chronically elevated blood sugar.

In my specific area of longevity, I hear too much emphasis on how people look (sort of important) and feel (important, to be sure), but very little on the actual task of delaying the onset of chronic disease, which is almost the mathematical equivalent of delaying death and improving quality of life. I'm consistently amazed how little the experts in this space advocate for approaches to delay the onset of cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and accidental deaths.

La ansiedad y la irritabilidad crónicas vuelven a las personas más susceptibles a la acción de un amplio abanico de enfermedades, y aunque la depresión no constituya la causa directa de la enfermedad, sí que parece interferir, en cambio, en el curso de su recuperación y aumentar el riesgo de mortalidad, especialmente en el caso de los pacientes aquejados de enfermedades graves.