Andrew Collinson
You must maintain healthy scepticism
The eternal tightrope of “naive to tin foil hat”. My time in hospital recently hammered home an uncomfortable truth, something which...
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Andrew Collinson
- Aug 22
- 2 min
How to survive a stint in an NHS hospital
In my opinion turning up to the hospital and letting yourself be swept along by the system is a recipe for disaster. Rightly or wrongly...
Andrew Collinson
- Aug 16
- 1 min
The positives of my time in an NHS hospital
A few things to be grateful for It wasn’t all doom and gloom from my time in hospital, as flawed and stretched as the NHS is there’s...
Andrew Collinson
- Aug 8
- 4 min
My concerns from my time in an NHS hospital
A fairly eye opening experience I recently had a ten day stint in hospital due to a CSF leak/intracranial hypotension. In layman's terms...
Andrew Collinson
- Jul 30
- 2 min
10 days in hospital with a CSF leak/Intracranial Hypotension
Apologies for the gap in my posts/going off topic for this one Obviously my blog is supposed to be AD related however I thought it was...
Andrew Collinson
- Jun 29
- 3 min
Changing Faces Skin Camouflage Service
An amazing service by an amazing organisation Do you remember those times when you were going out and your Mum would tell you to take a...
Andrew Collinson
- Jun 18
- 4 min
My Current Skin routine
Normally a title like that is for some glamorous beauty influencer but that’s not quite the angle I’m coming from! So if you’re anything...
Andrew Collinson
- Jun 10
- 3 min
Some non-medication treatments which I believe can help
Over the last 3+ decades I’ve been constantly experimenting with ways to ease my symptoms. Some of these have been total nonsense but...
Andrew Collinson
- Jun 3
- 3 min
My Experience With Mirvaso
Large companies with the most reach are heavily tied down by regulation when it comes to promoting or even discussing treatments and...
Andrew Collinson
- May 27
- 2 min
No role models and exclusively negative representation
But with the hope that this will soon change All through my life I grew up with not only a lack of positive representation but...
Andrew Collinson
- May 22
- 4 min
My thoughts on "Wonder"
(Spoiler alert) Other than if there’s another movie with Owen Wilson and a dog then I’m not watching it! I finally watched Wonder after...
Andrew Collinson
- Apr 29
- 3 min
Skin Update
I thought it might be an idea to drop in and give an update on where I am in with my skin journey. So as I’ve mentioned previously after...
Andrew Collinson
- Apr 22
- 4 min
My blog post with Changing Faces
My name’s Andrew and I’ve had Atopic Dermatitis (AD) my whole life. Mum always says one of my first words was itchy or “ishy”. Any person...
Andrew Collinson
- Apr 15
- 3 min
My meeting with a HIV advocate
What we can learn from those who know how to demand change While at the Sanofi headquarters last year for a project, which rather...
Andrew Collinson
- Apr 10
- 3 min
Aren't we so lucky!
Trying to hold to the positives Being a patient advocate involves talking about what are ultimately undeniable negative factors in our...
Andrew Collinson
- Apr 1
- 5 min
The financial burden of AD
Even in a country with universal healthcare Here’s me feeling very silly taking a selfie on the way to St Thomas hospital for a checkup...
Andrew Collinson
- Mar 18
- 2 min
No control and no consistency
The psychological toll of the seemingly random oscillations of atopic dermatitis I’m sure almost every single human being in the world...
Andrew Collinson
- Mar 11
- 2 min
"It's not really urgent is it?"
The often crushing lack of empathy from those we turn to for help. “It’s not really urgent is it?” This is the response I had from a...
Andrew Collinson
- Mar 4
- 3 min
The challenge of looking different but not “different enough”
How unmalicious people regularly insult my chronic health condition. I regularly wake up feeling and looking like I have the worst...
Andrew Collinson
- Feb 26
- 2 min
Martha’s law and AD
How we can learn from Martha’s sacrifice “If you’re worried something’s going wrong, you should scream the ward down because that’s what...
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