Type 1 diabetes: “The disease adds a mental burden”
One in 10 diabetics has type 1 diabetes. Marie learned that she had this pathology, characterized by excess sugar in ...
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Child with severe burns: “Today, my daughter can show her legs without being ashamed”
Firiel was burned by boiling water from an electric kettle at the age of one. After several years of care ...
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Systemic mastocytosis: “I had severe osteoporosis when I was only 36 years old”
Isabelle suffers from indolent systemic mastocytosis, a chronic disease for which there is no treatment that would allow her to ...
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Testicular cancer: “It was very brutal, everything happened in less than a week”
Diagnosed with testicular cancer at the age of 34, Stéphane looks back on his treatment journey for Movember, the month ...
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Stroke: “I had a splitting headache”
In France, each year, more than 130,000 strokes occur, or one every four minutes. Gladys Mbemba testifies to what she ...
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“After a stroke at 33, I hear and feel a lot more things than before”
On the occasion of World Stroke Day, teacher and designer Margot, who suffered a stroke at only 33 years old, ...
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Triple negative breast cancer: “Maternity grief is the most complicated thing for me to live with”
At only 35 years old, Juliette has been fighting triple negative breast cancer for years. As Operation Pink October draws ...
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Renal colic: “I felt like someone had stuck a sword in my back”
Renal colic is one of the most intense pains and is often compared to labor contractions. Célia, who experienced it ...
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Registry: “I have the responsibility to live my life to the fullest”
Suffering from a congenital heart defect, Emmanuelle had to undergo a transplant when she was “9 and three quarters old”. ...
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Violence against doctors: “We are often the receptacle of frustrations”
While acts of violence against doctors are on the rise and the government is considering new measures, Fait Docteur collected ...
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Guillain-Barré syndrome: “The hardest thing was realizing that I will never recover all my abilities”
Violaine, victim of a very serious Guillain-Barré syndrome 4 years ago, tells us about her descent into hell, her long ...
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Sepsis: “Farès must not have died for nothing”
Appendicitis which developed into peritonitis then septic shock took Farès away at the age of 13. Since then, her mother, ...
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Me, dyslexic: “We have disorders all our lives, but we learn to live with them”
Dyslexic, dyspraxic and dysphasic, Christopher tells us today how he learned to live with these language and learning disorders. THE ...
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Atopic dermatitis: “I have to be careful about what I eat, the clothes I wear”
It affects one in ten children in France and frequently disappears during adolescence. But atopic dermatitis can also persist into ...
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Testimony: “Dear endometriosis, you are my BEST ENEMY and I thank you”
© Shutterstock / BlurryMeAt 32, Nantcy decided to stop taking the pill to start a family with her partner. But ...
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Vitiligo: “I was called a chimpanzee by my ex-partner”
At 70, Jean-Marie opens up about his vitiligo, a skin disease he has suffered from for three decades. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Alopecia: the testimony of Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith’s wife
© ShutterstockAlopecia is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the immune system (the body's "defense" system) attacks the body's hair ...
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Blood donation: “one hour of my life will help 3 people”
Summer is often a challenge for the French Blood Establishment, which has difficulty collecting the 10,000 blood donations per day ...
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Breast cancer: “It feels good to be pampered after all that we have been through”
In remission, Patricia Rougeul tells us how the fact of having benefited from a spa treatment after her breast cancer ...
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Restless legs syndrome: “Doctors minimize the symptoms and their consequences”
Suffering from impatience in the lower limbs since her childhood, Simone Ruellan tells us how she felt misunderstood in the ...
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Lung cancer: “It’s hard to live with a Damocles sword hanging over your head”
At only 52 years old, Lisa has been battling lung cancer for a long time. Here is his story. - ...
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Testimony: after her breast cancer, a patient takes her oncologist on a trek to turn the page
© Jane Roussel"I didn't even wash my right breast anymore, like it was a cactus, or it was radioactive". Véronique ...
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Dengue fever: “When you think it’s a little mosquito that’s knocking you out like that!”
If global warming and the proliferation of tiger mosquitoes raise fears of the development of dengue fever epidemics in Metropolitan ...
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“Chronic migraine should be recognized as a real disability”
A third of migraine patients never consult on this subject and many of their relatives do not consider them to ...
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Jihane, suffering from myasthenia gravis: “It’s a vicious disease, very disabling”
Today is the 2nd of June the European Day for autoimmune myasthenia gravis, a disease which has a considerable impact ...
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Lyme disease: “I experienced an absolute destructuring of my personality”
Author of the new book "Lyme - if the sick knew, if the doctors could" (Editions Rue de Seine), Marie ...
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Weight loss: “Getting a sleeve is not the easy way out”
The sleeve consists of removing part of the stomach in the hope of achieving weight loss. For Gwendoline, who performed ...
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Lupus and pregnancy: “We had a year with my husband to conceive a child”
On the occasion of World Lupus Day, which took place on May 10, Johanna Clouscard explains that it is possible ...
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“My son has an ultra-rare disease: the KCNB1 mutation”
Emile, 12, has a very rare genetic disease called the KCNB1 mutation. His mother Juliette Lacronique-Gugliermina confided in the medical ...
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“Once asthmatic, always asthmatic?”
Next May 2 will be the 23rd World Asthma Day, a chronic disease caused by inflammation of the bronchial tubes ...
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