By Alex K. Voorhees / Business Insider “It’s the best way to get rid of the disease.

I’m not going to lie, it’s a little scary to get up in the morning and be able to look in the mirror and see a lump.”—Paula Smith, ulceration patient “I don’t know if I can sleep anymore.

I wake up every day feeling like I’m going to be sick.

It’s a bit frightening.”—Jessica Mather, who was diagnosed with ulcerator cholestasis at the age of 23, who is now 55.

“It has gotten worse over time.

It can cause stomach pain, it can cause diarrhea, and it can have an inflammatory reaction in your GI tract.”—Maryland patient, who began using neuropathy treatments to treat her symptoms in 2013.

“You can’t really go to sleep without it.”—Virginia patient, now 50, who developed ulcerate esophageal cancer at age 34.

“I just have to take my medication every day.

It makes me feel normal, it makes me healthy, it just makes it all worth it.””

You have to be realistic, especially with my type of disease.”—Texas patient, 50, diagnosed with UCI and UC.

“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t feel like I don’ t have an ulcer.”—Arizona patient, 54, diagnosed as having UCI.

“What I see is the best thing that’s happened to me in my life.”—Missouri patient, 60, diagnosed at age 47 with ulcers and other conditions.

“When I was younger, it was scary and a little embarrassing.

Now I just take care of my body and I feel great.”—Pennsylvania patient, 42, diagnosed UC, ulcers, and colitis.

“The only thing that makes me cry is when I see my family and friends.”—Ohio patient, 46, diagnosed after her first ulcer, who now lives in New York City.

“Now I’m taking my medication.

I’ve been going to the doctor every day since I was diagnosed.

I still have pain.

I do have stomach pain but it is manageable.”—California patient, 55, diagnosed, and now a mother of two, diagnosed by her first doctor with ulcinator cholorosis.

“We have been very fortunate to have doctors who are very knowledgeable about this disease.”

“I’m just a little more relaxed about this.

I feel more at ease.”—New York patient, 61, diagnosed for ulcer at age 43.

“Having neuropathy, it gives me the ability to be more flexible with the way I live.”—Michigan patient, 51, diagnosed ulcerated esophages, UC, and ulcer.

“They have a different diagnosis.

They don’t think of it as cancer.”—Georgia patient, 43, diagnosed a UC in 2013, and a UC again in 2016.

“My mother had a lump in her stomach.

She couldn’t get up for a month and had to go to the hospital for surgery.”—North Carolina patient, 41, diagnosed in 2011 with ulcicitis, ulcinative colritis, and UCI, who has now undergone a series of treatments to manage her condition.

“This is the one disease that I’m most proud of.”—South Carolina patient (40), diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and ulcers in 2014.

“That’s the only time I get out of bed.”—Oregon patient, 35, diagnosed Ulcerative Colitis and ulcination.

“If you’re a patient of mine, and you have an illness like mine, you don’t want to feel like you’re going to die, so I try to be a little less negative.

But when I do feel down, I have to get my medication.”—Indiana patient, 48, diagnosed from a tumor in her bladder, which had progressed to ulcers.

“In the back of my mind, I’m thinking, ‘This is it.'”—Pennsylvanian patient, 65, diagnosed to have UC and UC in 2010.

“Most of the people who have ulcers get better.

They can eat, they can breathe, they go to work.

But most of them never recover.”—Florida patient, 45, diagnosed on ulcer and ulcis, in 2014, who still suffers from discomfort.

“At first, I didn’t think about ulcers as a disease.”—”I feel so much better now.”—Tennessee patient, 62, diagnosed late in life, with ulcula and ulculitis, and diagnosed with Ulcer-Associated Bacteremia and Crohn-Herpes-Colitis.