Naomi Alderman Quotes

I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers and black holes, and my single visual hallucination of a little pink man and a pink ox on the floor of my bedroom.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I've had tendinitis since college.

I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.

One of the common conditions on both sides of my families is diabetes.

The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I had to completely change my perspective on food. It was a huge challenge to have to change the way I'd eaten for so long.

I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.

I have successfully dealt with my dependence and my chronic pain issues. I ask that my privacy and that of my family be respected on this health issue.

Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

I had over 10 seizures.

Fortunately, the shooting pain in my back masked the pain of my broken sternum.

I have permanent damage to my facial nerves. I went to the UCLA Movement Disorder Clinic, and after two years of tests and constant monitoring they have finally found the right medication that keeps the spasms under control.

I do Botox... I started getting Botox when I was 25 for migraines. I recommend that to anybody.

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

People don't realise I have seriously bad blepharitis.

I have an abdominal hernia which I tore and had operated on, and it's not the easiest thing in the world to get over. I'm gonna go on down the road, but hopefully I can get over the damn thing.

My back is permanently messed up.

I never had concussion issues. What I have is cervical spinal stenosis.

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Words don't go from the brain to the lips in time. That's what a stroke does to you... and that hurts me.