#HealthPosts

[vikashkumar7544]

🔥 Chronic heartburn can mean more than discomfort.

Barrett’s Esophagus starts as GERD but can lead to cancer if ignored.

🧠 This deep dive breaks down symptoms, risks, and what modern science recommends for 2025.

Barrett’s Esophagus is no longer rare — and it’s a red flag for esophageal adenocarcinoma. Our updated guide explains:

🔍 Risk factors & genetic susceptibility 🔬 Key diagnostic markers 🩻 Endoscopic screening & ablation options 🛡️ Evidence-based prevention strategies

👉 https://revisiontown.com/barretts-esophagus-causes-risks-and-treatment-guide/

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So I just found out about this free app for wheelchair folks (might be useful to those with other devices, too) called Roll Mobility. It’s on iOS and I am told it’s on android but I’m not sure.

Anyway, it lets you search an area to see detailed reviews about how accessible places are for wheelchairs. The questions it asks when leaving a review are pretty in depth, which is nice, although sometimes the phrasing is odd so I use my best guess.

My area doesn’t have a lot of coverage for reviews yet so I’m starting to add them on my own and passing it along to a local group in hopes we can help each other.

If you’re out Pokémon Go-ing or walking or anything, you can help everyone by adding accessibility reviews while you’re doing it! You don’t have to be disabled or use an assistive device to do it, though it might help with understanding some of the weird little niche-y things you run into in these situations sometimes.

Pass it on!!

[sparkylurkdragon]

...So I thought that Phoenix just got too excited with a mouse toy and dunked it in one of the water bowls by accident earlier this week, but I just witnessed him:

Playing with the same toy by the bowl

Tapping the water with a paw, then anointing the mouse with it

Flipping it into the bowl

Carefully Bobbing For Mouse

(And pawing for mouse. But there was Wet, you see.)

Eventually bobbing for mouse successfully and parading with the sopping wet toy in his mouth past a baffled-looking Urist

I gotta get him one of those cat fountains.

[gameclam4]

10 mins till call about kidney issues

[sepiamestus]

Doctors when you ask them why you're experiencing a symptom

[ac-cell-erate]

Half of me is covered in bandages and or gauze bc I had small bandages on that I reacted to. And the places where I reacted all touch my clothes. So I have to develop more reactions to avoid being just unable to wear clothes. Cool cool cool cool.

[sharaishvalda]

Was no one gonna tell me that these fruity cough drops do wonders for a sore throat? Mine's been hurting all day but the second I popped one of these it's feeling better!

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All of this plus my bones and joints are hurty and by the time I’m comfortable and relaxed under the water my body has decided it is Too Hot And Too Much and my heart rate goes haywire and I need help getting out so I don’t fall over and then my energy is shot for the rest of the day, but at least I’m clean. I have to strategically plan shower time nowadays. I could probably take colder showers, but also, no. Heat nice for sore body, bad for heart rate. There’s no winning solution.

Anyway, that’s POTS.

showering:

pros: you get to feel clean. you get non greasy hair, non oily feeling skin, it just in general makes you feel better, more energised, refreshed.

cons: there are so many steps. oh my god are there so many steps. before getting into the shower there are steps. during the shower there are steps. and once youve gotten out of the shower? guess what!!! more fucking steps!!!!!!!! UGHHHH

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I used my wheelchair for the first time in “real” snow today and it went well. When I got near the beginning of the year most of the hard snow was over and it was just wet out so I’ve been uncertain how it would handle when the weather turned snowy.

The biggest problem was honestly my hands. I use fingerless cycling gloves for grip and so I can check off grocery lists and stuff on my phone, but they were atrocious in this weather for obvious reasons. I also forgot that frostbite is a thing that happens and my push rims are aluminum so my hands were very very very cold and wet augh. I am looking into new ones for winter. These are things I never thought about when I picked a manual chair but I’m still happy with it.

I have a little motor called a Smartdrive that attaches to the back and is meant to take the strain off my shoulders, because they are terrible. It pushes me fully around on dry surfaces with no issue but this was new. I keep forgetting that it’s technically an assist motor so I can manually push and turn it on to, well, assist. It did so much better than I thought. With some difficulty I got through a pile of snow I shouldn’t have attempted (5 or 6 inches? Maybe?) and once I was on just thin snow it was great. It struggled on its own but pushing to speed it up was a breeze and basically no effort on my part.

I can’t find a gif of it but I am currently the “technology is incredible!” guy from Pokémon so just imagine that in this space.

Anyway, if you’re out there considering a Smartdrive and also live in a snowy climate, it’ll probably work ok as long as you’re on a reasonably well plowed or shoveled surface, and you can manually push a little when needed. The traction could be a little better but I can’t exactly complain because it worked better than I expected it to. It probably isn’t designed for this at all and in retrospect I hope it’s ok getting kinda wet, but I’ve been through rain and stuff and it seems ok. Time will tell I guess.

[gameclam4]

fuck yeah im so fucking pissed at this psychiatrist.

on zoloft: prevents constant panic attacks, sometimes i get heartburn if i take it with too little water, still have motivation issues but that’s more of an adhd problem

on webutrin: constant tinnitus, nightmares and bad sleep, active depression which is incredibly demotivating

i understand that there’s an adjustment period but there was nothing fucking wrong with the zoloft. i just needed to also have adhd meds. and this is terrible timing because i have seasonal depression anyway !! fucking with my antidepressants during winter when i said i was struggling hard with motivation issues but NOT THE MOVE ARE YOU STUPID. i am literally diagnosed with adhd and keep telling you my symptoms. fucking listen to me

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From experience: this is extremely true. Take care of yourselves.

[gameclam4]

no wonder the hospital always wants my pee so bad it’s kinda fucked up lol. #kidneyissues #uti #personalmedicalinformation

[vatio-nuked]

so every hour i spend outside, i need an extra 30 mins of sleep that night it seems

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I’ve spent nowhere near this much parking at specialist appointments yet but it feels like a punishment and it feels like an effort to get you to go faster, get through the appointment and get out before the meter runs up higher (in garage parking) and to not take the time you need. Especially when they’re already cutting appointment times down to like 15 minutes. Talking about the US in my case, but.

May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

[vikashkumar7544]

🫀 “It Wasn’t Chest Pain – It Was Fatigue”

What if your body was warning you about a heart attack… and you didn’t know it?

Our latest post reveals how myocardial infarction symptoms vary, how it was first discovered, and how you can protect yourself.

👉 https://revisiontown.com/myocardial-infarction-causes-symptoms-recovery-guide/

[krisrisk]

This is your sign to take a break. I am hereby allowing you to rest.

Drop those shoulders. Unclench your jaw. Drink something. Eat something if you feel like it.

But most importantly: rest. You deserved it by getting here.