Simone Scully

If you’ve been trying to conceive for more than a year, you may be experiencing infertility. Most medical professionals define infertility as the inability to get pregnant after 1 year or longer of sex without birth control. If you’re over 35 years…

“We still have choices and decisions about how we contribute to the world around us and our families, and I think that’s what gives purpose and joy to people.” Why I Advocate spotlights members of the chronic condition community working to make the…

Why I Advocate spotlights members of the chronic condition community working to make the world a more welcoming, equitable, and accessible place. Whether it’s calling for policy change, highlighting the need for representation, or simply offering…

Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Is it the doctor I should call? If your lips are looking flaky, it might just be a case of chapped lips. It’s pretty rare for psoriasis to break out on your lips. But if you have the signs of a…

I’ve always struggled with anxiety. I remember being in middle school, lying wide awake in my bed listening to the sound of my parents snoring down the hall as my brain raced through a thousand “what ifs” or replayed the events of the day, beating…

Many people complain about winter, but it can be a particularly challenging time for those who live with chronic conditions. Chris Anderson is no stranger to bad winters. He lives in Minnesota — a state that gets, on average, between 35–70 inches of…

As a child, Sandra Bettinger, now 55, was never allowed to use her lupus as an excuse for anything. On school mornings, if Bettinger was feeling fatigued or simply didn’t want to deal with bullying classmates mocking her swollen body, she would…