My First Blog Post

“Your Illness does not define you. Your strength and courage does.”

— I have no idea but credit is due where credit is due

This is the first post on my new blog. As some of my close friends and family members know, I have EoE or Eosinophilic Esophagitis (and yes I actually can pronounce that). Over the coming weeks, months and years, I’ll be sharing my experience with the disease, how it affects me and the treatment I am undergoing.

For (most, if not all) of you who don’t know what EoE is, it is a chronic autoimmune disease which affects the oesophagus. Eosinophils are white blood cells which are present in my oesophagus when they shouldn’t be – what naughty boys! This then means that my throat attacks food as it travels down, which leads to choking. If you know me then you know this is no surprise as I have had several episodes of food becoming lodged in my throat in the past.

Now that I have a diagnosis, albeit a scary diagnosis, I’ll be documenting my journey with EoE as I trial medicines and diets whilst also sharing how it affected me in the past. EoE is a relatively new disease with cases only being recorded for the first time in the 1990s, so it may not come as a shock that there is not yet any cure. However, research is beginning to have some basis and there is some medication which works for some patients.

I begin medication in the next week which means I guess I’ll upload a review of what I think xx Just kidding, I guess that’s all I’ve got to say for now.

Over n out troops x