I’m Back!

Huge apologies, life got hectic. Between work, home and getting ready for christmas, along with another lockdown and all the other things that have been going on, I dropped off the radar and that is a little bit pants. The irony of the whole thing is that I kept saying ‘I need to do my blog’ but never found enough hours in the day to actually knuckle down and do it. I have managed to carve out a cheeky 15minutes to write this! I have 7 posts (!!!!) sitting in…

Contraception

One thing that has been pretty much stable in my life for over 10 years is the fact that I have been on the Combined Contraceptive Pill for as many years. I started it at the age of 15 as I used to have absolutely terrible acne and I haven’t stopped it since then as there has been no need to.  Now one thing that happened when I was initially admitted into hospital was that I also came on my period despite having taken my pill religiously as I always…

Hair loss

So as I have talked about, I started on a medication called Azathioprine and to say I didn’t react too well is a little bit of an understatement. As referenced in “The Night of a Thousand Itches” I reacted very badly to Azathioprine and was left itching all over my body. What I didn’t mention previously is the side effects I suffered from while I was taking it. There was one major long as the title of the blog indicates and that was Hair Loss.  Anyone that knows me can…