… There is a fine line between chronic whining and actually just talking about your day when your day involves pain, doctors, limitations, frustrations, and everything else. I hope we can find it together.

… Although this group will definitely be a place to vent, it will also be a place to learn to cope and accept your illness and to have a group of peers that understand what you are going through and will always be there to help you through it. All of these disease's can be frustrating because you look fine on the outside, but have a serious illness and many of our peers have a difficult time understanding what we are going through. I want our members to leave our meetup feeling empowered and to kn …

In my practice as an acupuncturist and herbalist I see this all too often; a patient that has depression, difficulty loosing weight, hair loss, feeling cold, low metabolic rate, often accompanied by anxiety, insomnia and palpitations, but when complaining to her physician is told either nothing is wrong with her, or being placed on levothyroxine, Synthroid, etc., after being diagnosed with hypothyroid condition which sometimes may take years. After starting the medication, symptoms may only impr …