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Sunday 26th April 2020 should have seen thousands of runners pounding the streets for the 40th London Marathon. Instead, a challenge with a difference was launched. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a catastrophic effect with the cancellation of thousands of events and...

“You might remember my story from issue 2 of GAIN4ALL magazine back in summer 2014. Three years on, I’d like to tell you how I’m doing now” – Hayley Watson On 26th April 2010 my life as I knew it changed forever. I was about to embark on a trip of a life time to help...

My name is Karen Pennington – I’m 60 years young. I am a partner, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, great aunt, cousin, friend and occasionally a pain in the bum! And oh yes, I’m recovering from having had Guillain-Barre syndrome. Once upon a time not so long ago I...

As Trishna Patel recovered from a bout of flu in 2017, little did she imagine that the next few months would see her having to learn how to walk and talk again. Trish’s GBS Story What is Guillain-Barre syndrome? So many of us have been asked that question, right? When...

Developing Guillain-Barre syndrome means everything grinds to a halt for a while. Andy Ingham tells us about returning to work as he started to get his life back. It’s a funny old world. One day I’m living my life as usual, juggling home and work life, having...

David Stonehouse shares his story of Guillain-Barre syndrome from diagnosis to recovery – “He tapped my knees with his hammer, but they were totally dead – he would have got more response from a tree trunk. I had various tests carried out, the last one being a lumbar...

Dylan was only three years old when he started to complain that his legs hurt. His mum knew it wasn’t just growing pains, but it took a few days of fear and uncertainty before Guillain-Barre syndrome was confirmed. A parent's worst nightmare by Carina Whitehouse...

In July 2017 I fell ill whilst studying at the University of Nottingham. Initially starting with severe back pain for which I was provided painkillers by the doctors I then spent a few days with heavy flu like symptoms and was advised by 111 to go to hospital after I...

This is my story so far. It all started Saturday 16 June 2018. I awoke with a slight weakness in my left hand. I did not think too much about it as for about 10 days or so previous I’d had a stinker of a cold and assumed the weakness was related. The weakness had got...