01 Jan 2025
By Ronny Allan
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A review of 2024 from Ronny Allan

A review of 2024 from Ronny Allan

Patient Advocacy, ,
ReviewBlog.  It was a funny old year in 2024.  New challenges prevented me from exploiting the increase in followers and views of 2022/2023 following the slight slump during the pandemic, coupled with the introduction of new Facebook algorithms which treated non-profits such as myself as businesses (clearly a tactic to  increase advertising revenue).  Personal challenges included some strange symptoms which I self diagnose as Hives (urticaria) for the first 6 months and the last two months of 2024.  This led to me to write two posts (Histamine The NET Effect and Hives (Urticaria) The NET EffectI still managed to push…
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12 Nov 2024
By Ronny Allan
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Living with Neuroendocrine Tumours – the 14 year itch

Living with Neuroendocrine Tumours – the 14 year itch

Diet and Nutrition, Patient Advocacy, Survivorship, The NET Effect Series, Treatment, ,
Following a diagnosis of metastatic small intestine NET in 2010, I wrote a blog in 2017 entitled "The 7 year itch".  I thought I would re-release it having reached 14 years and almost 7 years since it was published. When I wrote it, I was inferring a link between Lanreotide and my ongoing leg itching.  After some years, I also started to see correlations between itching and many other things including but not limited to the seasons of the year (i.e. it seemed to be worse in the winter).  As another example, I also noticed itchy skin could be caused…
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