Hello to all of you lovely humans! Happy new year and beautiful new beginnings to you all. I started working again on the 1st of January and to say it has...

Today is a very important day for me. The 20th of November last year was the day that I was diagnosed with vasculitis. Owing to my belief that the body, mind...

Autoimmune diseases are damn tough to deal with and live with. When things go wrong, they go really wrong and it feels like there's no light at the end of th...

Living with a chronic illness is difficult, it manages to weasel its way into pretty much every aspect of your life. No matter how positive you stay or how m...

Over the last few days, I have been struggling more and more. I've once again become a rice crispy, with my joints giving me absolute hell. My abdominal pain...

Today is World Mental Health awareness day. I thought it would be appropriate to share some of my struggles and speak out about my own issues, in the hope th...

I am so terribly sorry that I haven't posted in over a month. I've been having a pretty tough time since May. I promise to post some more evidence-based post...

If Autoimmune diseases had contracts, the terms and conditions and fine print would be absolutely, indescribably detailed and unbearably long. I have had so ...

As I sit typing this post, I am devastated. I knew my journey had only just begun and that there were many more challenges awaiting me, but I never thought t...

Hello readers, It's been a minute, and in that minute I've had quite a ride. Getting back to work has been good for me, I felt like I was back on route; my ...

I've been horrendously inconsistent and I haven't posted it a while. To be honest, I went into full holiday mode in Zanzibar. I have also recently started wo...

As much as I wanted to write about the Autoimmune Paleo Diet for this next post, I thought it would be more fitting to right a little on self care and "me ti...

Finally! Here's the low down on my treatment protocol. Growing up, I was always encouraged to try natural remedies first before taking the stronger, pharmace...

Hello, As I sit here writing the post, I myself, am still in disbelief with what I'm about to share with you. My plan for the blog was to write about my trea...

While there are many new studies being published at the moment relating to AI, praise be to whichever God you choose, a new study was recently published on t...

Hello hello, I thought it was time to share with you the battles I've faced thus far and what lead to me eventually reaching a diagnosis. It's been a long an...

Hello beautiful people, So many things have happened in the last month that it seems almost surreal. There's a lot for me to post about and a lot of playing ...

C-ANCA associated vasculitis, it's a mouthful, possibly the name of an alien, potentially a universe too? No, regrettably it's nothing that fancy or that exc...

Hello, and warmest welcomes to my Blog! As I'm sure you're aware of by now, I'm Cayla, a 26 year old Doctor currently doing my internship in South Africa. I'...