Hayley and son Mark’s Story

Our son Mark has Cutaneous Mastocytosis. I guess he is pretty rare as only about one in 400,000 – 500,000 in the UK has this condition. Sounds quite cool but actually it kinda’ sucks as it took many months and wrong diagnoses to figure out why our son is so “spotty” and what caused his 

Elaine’s Story

I am Elaine and I have had SM [systemic mastocytosis] for 3 years but it was only when I had been going to a dermatologist 9 years and now a new consultant. He did biopsy on my skin then sent me to Haematology, they did a bone marrow biopsy and SM was positive. I am 

Raymond’s Story

I have been diagnosed with Idiopathic Anaphylaxis (IA). It all started at the tender age of 48 when I woke in the night, head ringing, itching all over and when I looked in the mirror a face the size of a football. I uttered the famous words to my wife “I think there’s a problem”.