Vicky Beeching
Vicky Beeching is a British writer, broadcaster, speaker, former rock star, and LGBTQ Equality Campaigner who focuses mostly on Christianity.[1]
She stated in an interview in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and she is currently severely ill with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.[2]
Illness[edit | edit source]
Vicky Beeching first become ill with the serious autoimmune disease scleroderma morphea, which affected her skin and required chemotherapy. After fully recovering, she developed chronic fatigue syndrome.[3]
Doctors gave her the all-clear for the scleroderma morphea in 2013, but since then, and increasingly over the last year, she has fought an array of symptoms: exhaustion, a chronic lack of energy, and muscular pain. She kept going to the doctor, who eventually referred her to a specialist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
"This month I got diagnosed with M.E.," she says, before pronouncing the longer version – myalgic encephalomyelitis, also called chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).[3]
Beeching later developed the genetic connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and fibromyalgia which is very common in people with both EDS and ME/CFS, plus anxiety and depression. By 2018, she was mostly housebound.[2]
Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]
- 2012, This Is What It’s Like Being A Gay Christian Rock Star
- 2018, ‘God was still my highest priority and my greatest love’
Books[edit | edit source]
- 2018, Undivided: Coming out, becoming whole, and living free from shame, Vicky Beeching
Online presence[edit | edit source]
Learn more[edit | edit source]
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "About". Vicky Beeching.com. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Davies, Madeleine (June 22, 2018). "'God was still my highest priority and my greatest love'". Church Times. Retrieved December 7, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Strudwick, Patrick (August 13, 2015). "This Is What It's Like Being A Gay Christian Rock Star". Buzzfeed News.