#Common medical conditions

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[a2zproduct]

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[hoofpeet]

Vague concept doodles I was playing w/ for the idea of what spider syndrome might look like in satyrs . Kinda couldn't really make these look right though, just like the actual guy's design

[dumplingsjinson]

I don't see this talked about enough, but do you know what's annoying about people in the medical field? Especially older people who work in that field? They will say shit like, "You're too young to have this condition. It's so uncommon. You poor thing" and let me be very honest with you, that's very fucking demeaning and doesn't make me feel better about myself!

In fact, it makes me feel like shit that I have this condition; as if I'm not feeling shitty enough about having it at my "young age".

We need to start learning that there are certain things that make patients feel way worse about themselves. Trust me, they KNOW that this shit is uncommon for their age range. They DO NOT WANT these fucking conditions plaguing them at such a young age either. You saying that shit makes them feel abnormal, and I don't think people understand how words of pity and looks of pity like that can really fuck with people who are already dealing with diseases/conditions from a young age.

Because it doesn't make them feel normal, and it doesn't make them feel good about themselves, and it makes them feel like they're an outlier. In which they already know they are, but you had to go and slap them in the face with that.

Shit like this is so insensitive and I don't understand how it's okay for people, especially doctors, to say shit like that.

I mean, you're free to say whatever you want, but this is one of those instances where maybe you should shut the fuck up if you've got nothing nice to say.

[thesnadger]

My current theory about my pain (after talking to a doctor about it) is that it is tangentially related to the fact that I am juuuuuust barely tall enough that my height is not considered a medical condition in itself.

[anomalousmancunt]

begging USians to realize their experiences are not only not universal, but extremely rare in comparison to basically the rest of the world. Brits too, actually. specially regarding disability and chronic illness.

[girlblocker]

i hate womens health… how have none of you doctor freaks figured out what causes endometriosis by now

[nazmazh]

Started on a new anti-migraine drug today (ajovy). Also have had terrible sleep - Especially today, but, like, all year. Also, y'know the migraines.

So not 100% sure if certain things are side-effects of the ajovy or just y'know, my body being upset with many things going on in its life - But more to the point: Should I be concerned with anything that I'm seeing/experiencing?.

Trying to google side-effects is sure a fucking trip, though.

Official company line on their site seems to be "Some swelling/irritation near injection site" is likely the only side-effect confirmed to definitely be from this medicine. Anything else? Well, that must be someone else's problem.

Various reddit posts of peoples' experiences with the medication - Mostly neutral-to-mildly positive. A lot of not-outright-negativity, but disappointment or frustration about the tradeoffs vs benefits. But the side-effects definitely vary wildly in type and intensity. The ones I'm curious about are topics of discussion that have come up with some degree of frequency.

Various interaction/drug rundown sites have much more comprehensive lists, but also include a warning that the ones I'm looking into may be serious/concerning and I should consult my doctor about them right away. Which, like, doesn't seem to be the tone regarding them anywhere else. So, more confusion as-to who's out of step here.

Meanwhile, the pamphlet that came in its box actually does have a more comprehensive list of possible side-effects. Doesn't list severity other than obvious "If experiencing anaphylaxis..." or other obvious emergencies/serious stuff, then go to ER/phone doctor immediately. Everything else listed is just sort of "This could happen" without any level of how concerned you should be.

The ones I've noticed are heartburn (Unusual for me without certain types and timings of trigger-foods, but not impossible to be something else going on that's unrelated to this). And notable joint-stiffness (hands and feet, especially on the same side as my injection), with a touch of joint pain. Both of those are in the "might happen in ~1% of patients" group. Which, hey, alright. That's fine. They're known to have a connection, echoing what the reddit posts were saying. From the tone in the pamphlet and on reddit, I probably don't need to be concerned unless they worsen or persist for a very long time.

Uncommon doesn't necessarily mean alarming, though I am curious as to if there's any correlation in the group of people that experience them. Any factor that might predict it, or explain why they're causing this reaction, y'know?

Okay. Good. No need to panic. Probably should sleep though. Less than 4 hours in the last 48 can't be good for me.

[flutterbyfairy]

oh my god and i was excited that this GP didn't google anything in front of me because my old GP every single appointment would google things (like conditions i had) right in front of me because he didn't know anything about it and just like. read the first two sentences of the first search result. and use that to make medical decisions even when i had a lot more info than that. which made me think about the whole google AI thing and how i feel sooo sorry for this GPs future patients because he would absolutely just skim the AI overview and base decision off of that.

[minty-bunni]

Y'all say this site is toxic, but mweor got my sister and I diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome instead of fibromyalgia and "that weird kid who keeps telling people she dislocates an entire limb by just existing"

So I'd say it is a win.

[vamptastic]

reading about literally anything medical as a trans person is so annoying. im not like, offended by gendered language in medicine beyond concerns about insurance coverage & such. but it can be frustrating to not know if variables that have a different average between cis men and cis women are the same for transgender people on HRT, and if levels that are normal for a woman but abnormal for a man would be harmful to a trans woman on HRT, for example. and then there's also variables that have different averages for different races (body temperature is the most well-known one iirc). like a lot of what we assume to be true medically is based on studies that do not include trans people and mostly only include white people. this isn't really a major problem when it comes to like, curing infections and developing surgical techniques, but when it comes to more... everyday kind of medicine it can feel like every doctor i talk to is just of a completely different mind as to what quality my overall health is and what i should worry or not worry about. you kind of just have to hope you can find a doctor who's worked with lots of other trans people and is on top of what medical literature does exist on us.

[rosie-b]

Current intro to my essay due at midnight:

Though it seems unassuming at first, “idiot” is a word which has a long history of upsetting mothers, insulting commoners instead of the oppressive systems they’re trapped in, and otherwise being a complete joke, like this paper.

I'm changing it, don't worry! But I am all out of ideas and I hate introductory paragraphs 😅

[thirteens-earring]

great post about how people are encouraged to ignore caffeine overdose symptoms because there are material benefits to maintaining the level of productivity many achieve with daily use. unfortunately you implied that a prescription legitimizes daily use of a drug and a lack thereof delegitimizes it so I shan’t be reblogging

[field-of-sungflowers]

head in hands.

THAT'S NOT WHAT LAZY EYE IS

[doctorweebmd]

as i'm studying for my (second) board exam, i can't help but think of that one post on tumblr.edu with like 80000 notes saying 'doctors should have to take tests every few years to be allowed to practice!!!' and then a million people just, fully believing that doctors don't need any certifications to practice. the whole post is a fucking mess with comments like 'what! as a hairdresser/teacher/pharm tech/vet tech/nail tech we have to be certified but doctors don't?!?! that explains everything!!!'

babygirl. it takes 0.0000025 seconds to google something. are there truly people on this planet that think that doctors don't need to take regular exams and prove that we're doing a certain amount of hours of continuing medical education every year to maintain our licenses. i just. people are so desperate to believe whatever they want to believe when they dislike a certain profession huh

[thethingything]

wait wait wait ciprofloxacin can cause mitochondrial damage? are you fucking kidding me? our ME/CFS symptoms first showed up shortly after taking it and then we were prescribed it again years later and it completely fucked us up

[transcript: The drug prevented the ordinary transcription and maintenance of mitochondrial DNA, by changing mitochondrial DNA topology and causing impaired mitochondrial energy production and blocking cellular growth differentiation. The researchers mentioned that this impact on the mitochondrial DNA is likely to be the cause for many of the negative side effects experienced by patients using the drugs. end transcript]

(source: https://www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/79715/ciprofloxacin-mt-genome/)