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Cancer Doesn’t Limit Me. What is Extracorporeal Photopheresis, and How Does It Work?

This post is from the archives – my old blog where I go into detail a lot more – explaining an old treatment I had, called Extracorporeal photopheresis! Enjoy words from old me guys! Full details on how this fascinating treatment, and my experiences of it, are below (about halfway down!).  I’m starting a new therapy soon, called “extracorporeal photopheresis”, where they take huge amounts of my blood and expose it to UV light. It’s being done to to treat my Graft Versus Host Disease, a side effect of my stem cell donor’s cells being transplanted into me (caused by […]

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For $20, we won’t name anything after your ex for Valentines, because you’re not a dick and we support that.

And also because it leaves you the option to keep hittin dat 😉 Valentine’s is a hard day for some. Not only are beta males like us forced to watch on, desolately, as billions share their perfect love lives on social media, we’re also subjected to this shit. It’s seems like every zoo, and every viral news site in the world have come together to form the ultimate clickholes of clickholes this year around. I was mildly annoyed by this, so, as is my God Given Right as a MILLENIAL – I put in hours (10 minutes) of work to […]

Blog, Medicine and Science

#LockEmUp. #MakeAlternativesGreatAgain. Why Is It OK for People to Fraudulently Spread BS on Health Online?

Scroll to the bottom to report someone who’s been making dodgy health claims! Sign the change.org campaign to stop this here! I recently went on CoffeZilla’s podcast today, and outlined a few experiences I had with dodgy MLMers and alternative clinics who advertise on Facebook, netting them millions, and Facebook tens to hundreds of thousands. Here’s a bunch of evidence and screenshots of other conversations I’ve had with scammers/MLM grifters. It’s REALLY sad to see. For those who don’t know me… My name is Nikhil. I’m a medical researcher, medical student, and ex cancer patient. I’ve been on both sides of […]

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Think Medicine Sucks? Think You Don’t Make a Difference? Try This.

So recently, a I was linked this article by many people. It’s been all over my Facebook feed, and I’ve been told to read it by many. It’s really well done and articulates the challenges of hospital well. On both the doctor’s and patient’s side. It goes into the powerlessness patients feel, the confusion they face in hospitals, and the struggle of being a junior doctor in a system that’s pushed to its limits, and seems not to care. It features some really amazing artwork, and is told in the form of a cartoon, that really does capture your eye. […]

Blog, Medicine and Science, Neuroplasticity - using it to beat chronic pain

How to Ignore Chronic Pain and Hack your brain to beat it. A step-by-step guide.

I wrote this up for a friend recently. And as some of you who follow me know, I’m writing a book about my experiences through cancer, and the science behind the mentality which kept me going. But I realised recently that I hadn’t written up what I wished I did have when I was suffering most from chronic pain… A step-by-step guide which showed HOW you could beat this back. The thing is – when you have something like chronic pain… everyone around you has suggestions. Eeryone suddenly becomes an expert. When you’re already so drained, physically and emotionally, from […]

Blog, Humour In Hospital

Dad Jokes!

During my time in hospital, and the months, years now of near isolation afterwards, my mum was the heart and head of my whole treatment. Keeping me safe, making sure I was comfortable and never alone, coordinating EVERYTHING that came with the cancer treatment, all while working, completing her MBA and keeping the house in order too (I still don’t know how she did it)… all those things.  But if she was the heart, Dad was the soul of my cancer “battle”. He kept me smiling, organized surprises and events, just him being the larrikin, the easy going person he is […]

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The Ultimate Cannulation and Venepuncture Guide!

Last post:                                      My Story:                                          Next One: Needles are a part of medicine. Unfortunately, despite having been discovered centuries ago, there is still no more elegant way of accessing your blood than stabbing a pointy thing through your skin – especially since Theranos turned out to be a huge bust ). An interesting story of how a startup that raised $9billion promising to avoid having to prick skin […]

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Hallucinations

 Last Post                                     My Story:                                         Next One: Your mind is a powerful thing.   It’s your personality, your spirit, it’s every aspect on how you view the world.   It’s you.   It’s no surprise, therefore, that when your   mind gets affected by something and you lose control of yourself, it is often a torturous, traumatic experience.   During my treatment, I had a brush with that.    I developed […]

Blog, Health Challenges and their Fixes

My Social Enterprise – How it’s going to save HUNDREDS of thousands of lives. Get To Sleep Easy!

My life changed a few years ago when I was told, “Nikhil, the good news is you’re 17 and you have leukemia, but the bad news is you’re 17… and you have leukemia.” Then I asked him the one question every cancer patient dreads: “What are my chances?” He looked at me, sighed and said, “10-20 percent that you’ll live the next five years.” Somehow, I got through that. But it did get close. Quite a few times actually. And now that I’m a medical student and cancer researcher, I can appreciate just how close “close” actually was. During my treatment, I suffered […]

Blog, Inspiration/Motivation/Help

Cancer Patient Plays Well, and Wins Big For Charity.

Last post:                                     My Story:                                         Next One Recently, I was given some pretty bad news. I’ve got bronchiolitis obliterans, a lung manifesation of the graft versus host disease that plagues me after my bone marrow transplant. Essentially, it’s my donor’s immune system (in bone marrow transplants, you inherit the blood making cells of your donor, which includes their white blood cells) attacking me. This time though, in the lungs. […]