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  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Sleep (Chinese Medicine Can Make It Better)

    Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Sleep (Chinese Medicine Can Make It Better)

    How is your sleep?  I mean, your night-time sleep (not naps during the day because you’re exhausted).  People with EDS and the common comorbids have the same issues that normies can have, true, but there are several characteristic problems that chronic illness folks experience when it comes to slumber.  My guess is that your answer…

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  • The October Slide and hEDS/HSD, MCAS, and POTS: What Chinese Medicine Can Do For You

    The October Slide and hEDS/HSD, MCAS, and POTS: What Chinese Medicine Can Do For You

                Autumn is here and the October slide is in motion.  You probably know this phrase already, but in case you don’t, here’s the TL/DR: the weather patterns are shifting and you are experiencing flares, increased fatigue, worsening pain, extra-fuzzy brain fog, and/or vertigo to go along with the cooler temperatures and social changes that…

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  • Acupuncture & MCAS: How to Find a Practitioner of Chinese Medicine When You’re a Mastie

    Acupuncture & MCAS: How to Find a Practitioner of Chinese Medicine When You’re a Mastie

                This is now my third blog post on the subject of how to find the right acupuncturist for what you want to accomplish.  The first, posted in 2019, was written for normies.  The second, shared in 2025, is for people with HSD/hEDS, POTS, and/or MCAS but it’s mainly directed towards folks with HSD/hEDS.  This…

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  • Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness (There’s Always Something New to Learn)

    Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness (There’s Always Something New to Learn)

                It probably sounds trite and obvious but it is a lesson that many do not seem to take to heart.  To wit: there is always something new to learn when it comes to hypermobility, HSD, and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.  It does not matter if you live with the condition or you are a famous…

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  • Looking Ahead: New Season, Same Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Or Is It?)

    Looking Ahead: New Season, Same Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (Or Is It?)

                A new season is upon us and with it comes an inspiration to review our life practices.  What summer or fall or winter or spring mean at one stage of life is not going to be the same as the years pass and the decades accumulate.  Especially when we live with complex conditions, the…

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  • hEDS and Letting Go: A Meditation

    hEDS and Letting Go: A Meditation

                When we are hypermobile our physical attachments march to their own beat.  Whether a person is a stiff bendy or a complete rubber band, each of us has our story surrounding our attachments.  Physical ones, anyway, at least in the context of hypermobile Ehlers Danlos syndrome.  But what about our mental or psychological attachments? …

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