Tara Keith

All articles by Tara Keith

• How ice baths help my indolent systemic mastocytosis symptoms

  I have lived with extreme pain for the last 24 years because of indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM), but ice baths help me find relief.

• Coping with low self-esteem caused by my rare disease

  Living with a rare disease is hard enough without the mental anguish that comes with it, but what’s most important is that I keep moving forward.

• Living with PTSD caused by my rare disease

  Living with PTSD due to a rare disease, systemic mastocytosis, has been challenging, but over the years, I’ve learned ways to cope.

• What it’s like to live with systemic mastocytosis and osteoporosis 

  After years of living with undiagnosed ISM and osteoporosis, I often wonder how different my life may have been, had I been diagnosed sooner.

• How ISM affected my pregnancies and births

  I experienced one complication after another during my last two pregnancies, which may have been due to my indolent systemic mastocytosis.

• My 25+ year journey to diagnosis of indolent systemic mastocytosis

  I have indolent systemic mastocytosis (ISM) and cutaneous mastocytosis (CM), but my diagnoses do not define me.