Gabriella Birzh

Friendships, especially those in your early 20s, are hard. You just recently graduated college, you might be moving to a new city, your friends from college are scattered around the...

When I was first diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa, I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness. Anyone who has been diagnosed with HS has probably gone down the same rabbit hole...

For a long time, I thought that I would never come to terms with having HS. And even now, on some of the harder flare days, I wonder if I...

Let’s face it, most people don’t know what hidradenitis suppurativa is unless they have personally experienced it or have met someone else who has it. When you tell a new...

I was grateful when for college, I moved to a city that had a very long winter, as opposed to somewhere like Miami, where I would be forced to shed the...

Anyone who has attended college while having HS has been there – a midterm is coming up and amidst all of the stress of getting your work done, you feel...

In the early stages of my HS diagnosis, I put up with a lot from doctors. I was scared and unsure of what was happening with my body and so...

For many people, exercising with HS is a double-edged sword - you know that exercise has health benefits that can help with HS, but exercising itself can sometimes be painful...

In case you missed it, check out Part 1 of this series! I switched to a new doctor about two years after my diagnosis because of a poor experience with...

There is nothing in this world that I hate more than the sight of my own blood. Watching a gruesome scene on TV or seeing a client’s injuries are totally...

When I was applying to colleges, I had no idea that I would go on to develop Hidradenitis Suppurativa. I often wonder if I did know, would I have applied...

In case you missed it, check out Part 1 of this series! Hidradenitis suppurativa. There was no way for me to know that two words, which at first I struggled...

I first noticed it in May of my senior year of high school. A small, purple-ish, veiny bump had emerged from my right armpit. It was squarely in the middle...