#Degenerative Disc Problems

[doomedfromthewombfr]

My body’s favorite hobby? Gaslighting me into thinking I’m fine until I move. Then it’s like, ‘Haha, just kidding- suffer’

[lesjoursdekiah]

Look, im not in the habit of asking for help. But my income has drastically dropped ever since my ex wife/sole caregiver decided to walk away.

I will be able to safely move back to my parents home at the end of April, but I am really struggling right now.

I could really use $30-$40 until I get my SSDI check next week so that I can buy food for my pets and a few essentials for myself.

My ex doesn't help with expenses anymore and I've explored several avenues to get cash for myself. However, I am limited in options due to my income and because my disability prevents me from working and earning money that way.

Any amount is appreciated and, as always, no pressure. Even if you just boost my post, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.🩷🩷

Venmo:

Zelle:

[chronic--experiences]

After years of putting it off, I finally got my first cane.

Definitely having mixed feelings about it. I’m worried about judgement coming from people who have seen me move around without a cane, and people claiming that I’m faking a disability because I’m young.

At the same time it’s such a relief to have something that provides me with more stability while moving around. My left leg has gotten so weak and I’m constantly scared of falling after my leg has given out multiple times (once on a flight of stairs)

I’ve got great friends who are super supportive of me finally getting a mobility aid and are willing to fight anyone who looks at me funny, but it’s definitely going to get some taking used to.

[pickle-the-lad]

Just a gentle reminder that if your doctor says you have a degenerative disc and not degenerative disc disease and you are experiencing

Stiffness in the spine

Muscle pain in the spine

Muscle weakness in the spine and/or limbs

Tenderness and/or swelling over the affected area.

If you're experiencing all of that...

Get a new doctor!!!

[genderqueerdykes]

disabled intersex trans person needs help paying internet bill

hello, i'm equinox. i'm a disabled intersex trans lesbian who is currently in the middle of paying off an electric bill, as well as my internet bill. i need internet for my job, as i sell jewelry on ko-fi as well as collectables and other items on eBay. i deal with hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome, degenerative disc disease, schizophrenia, GI issues and other health problems. i applying for disability at the moment but currently my online shops are my only source of income. if you are interested in helping, you can do so in the following ways:

cash app: $glitterGraphix pay pal: glittergraphicnightmare@gmail.com venmo: $Equinoxian chime: $Equinoxian

[gateway-2000]

New items coming to our eBay shop!

my name is equinox, im a disabled intersex trans lesbian who makes their living off of their online shop! i deal with arthritis, fibromyalgia, hypermobile joints, degenerative disc disease and other health problems. i am stabilizing after 6 months of homelessness and housing insecurity. i am currently selling a lot of y2k, 2000s, and 2010s items as well as other merch and collectibles! i am currently saving up for rent, as well as my future bills. if you are interested, feel free to check out my eBay shop!

if you'd like to help an autistic disabled trans lesbian stay safe and sheltered this pride month, here's a great way to do so

please note that it may take time for eBay to display these items, if you don't see them, check again a bit later!

[f4wri]

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[luigilore]

just got a really insane ask in my inbox accusing me of lying about having back problems… this is not a normal thing to say to someone!

i have no reason to lie about having chronic pain and losing the 17th and then the 21st years of my life to back surgeries and pain that continues to color my daily life and future. here’s a ct scan of my fully fused l5/s1 vertebrae from my fusion in 2023 that i had to have because my l5/s1 disc collapsed after i had a discectomy at 17 on the same vertebrae. since we are requiring medical documentation now… what a joke

never in my life did i think i would be accused of lying about having a degenerative back condition for clout

unfortunately, millions of people get spinal fusions every year, suffer with lower back pain, have degenerative back conditions, have chronic nerve pain broadly, or live with any type of reoccurring pain in general… if ur surprised a lot of people on here struggle with some form of chronic pain and have found community here re luigi then.. idk what to tell you!

i really am at a loss for words so im going to take a step back from this blog for a bit!!!

[dissociacrip]

does anyone have any wheelchair (manual) cushion recommendations? especially ones beneficial for someone who has trunk weakness, lumbar degenerative disc disease, sciatica, and stuff like that which tends to make sitting uncomfortable

for more context: my current wheelchair cushion setup triggers low back pain (maybe near tailbone specifically) and discomfort in my legs due to sciatica or other radiculopathy, but this didn't happen to the same extent while using a rental chair at an amusement park

unless it's my seat depth or something that's actually the problem instead of my cheap cushion :(

[scientia-rex]

Whole lotta people look at that post I did on how pushing weight loss doesn't actually solve problems and start naming the problems they think it will solve that I specifically mentioned by name in that exact post.

Losing weight might help your knees, but I see plenty of thin people who still need knee replacements. If you live long enough, you will get arthritis. Osteoarthritis is the degenerative process that is a result of wear and tear on cartilage, a type of tissue that does a fuck-awful job of repairing itself. If you run a lot, you might get more arthritis. If you're fat, you might get more arthritis. But there is no way to prevent it. You just have to keep moving, because activity may not prevent arthritis but it is the most effective tool we have for preventing the associated pain.

Just because something in your body is busted doesn't guarantee it will hurt. If you MRI the backs of "normal" people in our 40s, you'll find that a whole lot of us have blown discs. Doesn't correlate well with symptoms. It's why back surgery has such a shitty rate of improving pain--we don't understand back pain well enough to say "oh, that's definitely that blown disc and nothing else" and then fix it. You can have absolutely godawful arthritis and be in less pain than someone with objectively fewer changes to their joints on X-ray.

Eat plants and stay active, if you want to be healthy, but don't figure being thin will do that for you.

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"For years, Sharissa Derricott, 30, had no idea why her body seemed to be failing. At 21, a surgeon replaced her deteriorated jaw joint. She’s been diagnosed with degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. Her teeth are shedding enamel and cracking.

None of it made sense to her until she discovered a community of women online who describe similar symptoms and have one thing in common: all had taken a drug called Lupron.

Thousands of parents chose to inject their daughters with the drug, which was approved to shut down puberty in young girls but also is commonly used off-label to help short kids grow taller.

The drug’s pediatric version comes with few warnings about long-term side effects. It is also used in adults to fight prostate cancer or relieve uterine pain and the Food and Drug Administration has warnings on the drug’s adult labels about a variety of side effects.

More than 10,000 adverse event reports filed with the FDA reflect the experiences of women who’ve taken Lupron. The reports describe everything from brittle bones to faulty joints.

In interviews and in online forums, women who took the drug as young girls or initiated a daughter’s treatment described harsh side effects that have been well-documented in adults.

Women who used Lupron a decade or more ago to delay puberty or grow taller described the short-term side effects listed on the pediatric label: pain at the injection site, mood swings and headaches. Yet they also described conditions that usually affect people much later in life. A 20-year-old from South Carolina was diagnosed with osteopenia, a thinning of the bones, while a 25 year-old from Pennsylvania has osteoporosis and a cracked spine. A 26 year-old in Massachusetts needed a total hip replacement. A 25-year-old in Wisconsin, like Derricott, has chronic pain and degenerative disc disease.

“It just feels like I’m being punished for basically being experimented on when I was a child,” said Derricott, of Lawton, Okla. “I’d hate for a child to be put on Lupron, get to my age and go through the things I have been through.”

Women fear drug they used to halt puberty led to health problems (PBS) graphic from woman-for-women | thinking of detransition? you are not alone

[chronic--experiences]

Apparently I did NOT have enough spoons to go shopping today, just walking through the store was such a challenge.

[chronic-creation]

Life update!

I finally had my surgery to help minimize the pain associated with my now multilevel degenerative disc disease. The surgery targeted the nerve pain in my lower back associated with the L5-S1 region and modic end plate changes. I cant tell you what that really means but i can tell you that it hurts like an absolute bitch and a half.

I had something called the intracept procedure on may 28th and while im pretty sore and swollen from the incisions, i can tell that the inflammation around that nerve in my back is already so much better and i’m already in much less pain than i was before the surgery other than feeling like i was stabbed in the back with a knife lmao 🤣

They told me it should only take a few days to two weeks max to feel better and that the swelling and inflammation will go down and ill have much more relief soon! Thank FUCKING god.

Ive been struggling to figure out this chronic pain since 2018 and it finally finally finally is being addressed and taken care of after YEARS of begging, crying, forcing doctors to take me seriously and give me an xray until they finally saw that it was a real fucking problem. I have scolisis and degenerative disc disease in my neck and lower back.

My hypermobility eds is also officially being genetically addressed which is cool- ive had so many issues my primary is like “why dont we send you to genetic testing” ofc genetic testing literally sent back a letter that said “we dont have a genetic test for heds so just go off of the diagnostic material” which we already did and he just wrote hypermobility spectrum disorder despite eds likely running in my family as my sister, and aunts all have joint issues and hypermobility- hell my younger sister had to have a hip replacement as a teenager! That shit aint normal!!! But its close enough and hes treating it as EDS anyways and im going to a orthopedic specialist and a rhumetologist soon so Anyways the heds is finally being properly addressed by my doctors and i think im finally finally getting the treatment that i need to be okay long term and have more function and stability in my life! Im going to find a PT therapist that can help me strengthen these joints bc its my goal to be able to hike again.

I got a wheelchair from my nurse that comes to check up on me every few weeks from home and makes sure i have everything i need. She realized how limited i am in my mobility especially outside the house so she prescribed a wheelchair and shes actually going to see if she can get something motorized for me covered by insurance but we’ll see!!! Ive finally been leaving the house more and doing more and im actually really happy rn. But maybe after this surgery i wont even need to think about using my wheelchair as much except when my eds is being annoying- but with more pt my joints should be stronger and maybe just maybe i can graduate back to just using a cane again

My partner and i are so happy with our lovely family and im finally getting the care ive needed and my adoptive parents are back in my life and i sorted through so much trauma and realized a lot of stuff was actually my fault- not because i was a bad person, but because i was a kid who took everything very literally and very personally and there was a lot of misunderstandings.

But my adoptive parents apologized to me??? For everything??? So im chilling and im actually going to a family reunion with all of them soon! Im super excited to see everyone and my grandma and i have been bonding over sciatica treatments lol

Im trying to get her to try CBD salve- its amazing.

Anyways after finally having a few years of proper medical treatment and being treated properly by my partner and reconnecting with my REAL family, i feel so much more whole… i have less alters - like- way fucking less, and theyre wayyy less obvious. Its so much easier to just pretend my did isnt there until it starts causing problems and then just do some communication skills and coping skills and everything works out fine???

Is… is this what functional multiplicity is???? Holy shit lmao

Anyways thank everyone on here who has donated to me when i didnt have insurance or food, who sent me kindness, read me cards, made me spells and sent energy, thank you so so so much. My life has done a complete 180 from a few years ago where i was trapped in a dv situation and was constantly forced to lie for my boyfriend to make sure people liked him and i was hiding his abuse properly. He used to make me promise that i wouldnt tell anyone the things he would say and do because he didnt want people to think he was abusive because “they just wouldnt understand…” but no i understand its not okay to treat me like that and my partner now is my best friend and treats me with the upmost respect. Now im stable. I have insurance. I havent been to the psych ward in years. I havent even had a therapist in a few months and ive been pretty okay managing things on my own.

I am running a business??? Im selling art. Im in magazines and galleries and online publications. Im a REAL ARTIST now.

So yeah

My life is pretty frickin great rn

[shattered-divinity]

Ugh. Small rant about health issues and the healthcare system under the cut.

I have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis of the spine, a bulging disc right above my tailbone that is putting pressure on the nerves to my entire lower body...and have pending diagnoses of EDS and IH. All of which cause and/or exacerbate full body pain. Pain is my normal. My doctor switched my pain meds around to one that should work better than what I was on back in the beginning of April. My insurance covered it twice...and has since refused coverage. I have no way to pay for it myself, and I haven't been able to get IN to see my doctor to have her switch me back to the one insurance WAS covering. So I've been without pain meds since I ran out in May.

A good friend of mine makes edibles and they gave me some homemade chocolate. The problem with that is I have no idea what the strength is lmao. Soooooo....do I try some and see what kind of chaos unfolds with Luci while I am 'herbally infused'? :D

[genderqueerdykes]

disabled trans person recovering from homelessness needs help with electric bill

5/4/2024: hello there, my name is Equinox, i am a schizophrenic disabled trans person dealing with psoriatic arthritis, hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndrome, fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, and other health problems. i am recovering from homelessness and fleeing domestic violence. after months of living in hotels and staying with friends when and where i can going from abusive situation to abusive situation, i finally have an apartment for myself through a government program for severely disabled people.

i need help with my electric bill, it is due on 5/14/2024. i need to keep the power on for obvious reasons, but also for my job, as i work from home. i sell handmade jewelry as well as traditional paintings, which you can find on my Ko-fi below

if you are interested in helping, you can do so these ways:

csh app: $glitterGraphix py pal: glittergraphicnightmare @ gmail . com venmo: Equinoxian chime: Equinoxian

[gateway-2000]

i now have an eBay shop where I am selling old y2k era games, consoles & tech as well as other collectibles!

my name is equinox, i am a multiply disabled mixed black intersex trans lesbian who is stabilizing after 6 months of homelessness. i am schizophrenic and autistic and deal with hypermobile ehlers danlos, fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease, arthritis and other health problems. i am finally settling down and selling some items i don't need anymore. i've been carrying these around for years and not using them so i decided it's finally time to let go of quite a few items!

feel free to take a look, every purchase goes toward our rent, monthly bills, transportation to appointments & the pharmacy, toiletries, cleaning supplies, and other monthly necessities. if you're interested in helping a queer person this Pride Month, this is a great way to help us out while getting something you want in return! thanks for reading, feel free to DM us with any questions you may have!