#87 What Chronic Illness Taught Me with Nicola Singleton

This week’s podcast is a first for me – my guest is a former patient of mine, Nicola Singleton. I met Nicola back in September 2016 on the second series of my BBC1 TV documentary, Doctor In The House. Since then, she has completely transformed her health and I’m so pleased she’s agreed to share that story with you.


Nicola was, in her own words, ‘aged 38 but feeling 98’. She had a list of 10 different health diagnoses and was taking 20 different pills a day. Her main issues were feeling crippled with the exhaustion of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) along with the debilitating, widespread pain of fibromyalgia – both complex and misunderstood conditions from which she’d been told there was no hope of recovery. She couldn’t work, couldn’t play with her kids, could barely get out of bed. Nicola also suffered from anxiety, depression, IBS and more.


She was so desperate to feel better and start living again that she allowed me, and a BBC television crew, to practically move in with her, her husband and three young children for six weeks. In this podcast, we revisit what happened and how, by removing the illness labels and focusing on creating health, rather than treating disease, Nicola was pain free by the end of those six weeks.


Even more enlightening though, is our chat about everything that Nicola has achieved since then, without me. I know you’re going to find it fascinating, whether you saw the TV show or not. Nicola is a remarkable woman and her story a truly inspirational one.

Show notes available at https://drchatterjee.com/87

Connect with Nicola


Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nicola.singleton.5

Twitter https://twitter.com/nicolasingleto6

To be a better ME Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/882841821856994/


Doctor In The House: Series 2, Episode 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mTKPl4dk6s



Dr Chatterjee’s resources

Podcast #83 Dr Rangan Chatterjee LIVE at the Scottish Parliament with Annie Wells MSP - https://youtu.be/UcUVOkLEVJI
Podcast #30 Mindfulness Instead of Medication -

https://youtu.be/4F5-d7PmCNc

#fblm #fibromyalgia #chronicfatiguesyndrome
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