Healthy Eating Habits: Heart and Lungs
Developing healthy eating habits while dealing with sarcoidosis can be hard. Here are some diet tips to help keep your heart and lungs healthy.
Category: Living with Sarcoidosis
3 Tips for Coping When You’re Chronically Ill
Written by Margot Hahn Communications Intern Anyone grappling with a chronic illness understands how emotionally, physically, and mentally draining life can be. In between running around to multiple doctor appointments, experimenting with various medications, or...
The Role of Functional Medicine in Chronic Illness
Any time you’re in a conversation with patients with chronic illness, the topic of alternative treatment is bound to come up. For people who live with constant pain, fatigue, and other burdens of being ill, it may seem to make sense to turn to these kinds of...
Find Your Community: Connecting with Other Chronic Illness Warriors
Written by Margot Hahn Communications Intern At FSR, we aim to find avenues that connect sarcoidosis patients across the United States and abroad. People living with sarcoidosis are no stranger to the degree of unknown information about the disease and its effects....
5 Yoga-Inspired Tips for Sarcoidosis Patients
This post was written by a guest writer and in no way reflects advice from FSR, nor does it represent a medical opinion. It is written by Hamilton Walters, a sarc warrior who is a professionally trained yoga instructor. After being diagnosed with sarcoidosis, he found...
Tips for Good Self-Care!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Many patients battling sarcoidosis and other chronic illnesses know the stress that comes not only from the disease itself, but also from juggling the countless doctor’s appointments, symptoms, treatments, side effects and...
Cardiac Sarcoidosis FAQs
Cardiac sarcoidosis is a topic that is growing in popularity both in research and among patients. New research is being published every week on the topic, and thanks to increased awareness and screening procedures, more patients and physicians are aware of the risk...
VIDEO: 9/11 First Responders and Sarcoidosis
On September 11, 2001, life for Americans was forever changed. After the attacks on the World Trade Center, countless men and women sprung into action and selflessly risked their lives for rescue and recovery missions and to help clear the debris. These selfless first...
6 Tips for Talking About Sarcoidosis With Loved Ones
Finding out you have a rare and chronic illness can be extremely hard to deal with. Building a strong support system of loved ones can help make the journey easier. However, it can be extremely difficult to talk about your illness with your loved ones. Here are a few...