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What’s your most low-maintenance health condition?
We talk a lot on The Mighty about the symptoms, experiences, emotions, and diagnoses that impact our day-to-day — some of us are more weighed down by physical illnesses, while others manage an all-consuming mental illness or caregiving role. But one perspective we don’t talk about as much are the conditions that we just kind of… forget about? (We know, we know, sounds fake. 😅)
Whether it’s because you’re in remission or very rarely experience flares or episodes, have another condition that causes more trouble, or live with a diagnosis that you were born with and don’t really put that much concerted, conscious effort into managing it — it’s time to choose your “golden child.”
For Mighty staffer @xokat, it’s definitely her rare headache disease, SUNCT syndrome. Thankfully she hasn’t been in a pain cycle in over a year and a half (it’s very common for the disease to enter long periods of remission), and she only takes one preventive medication to keep the attacks at bay. Other than that? Absolutely out of sight, out of mind. It’s very rarely something she thinks about, plans around, or talks about. What a treat!
What’s that low-maintenance condition for you?
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