#Medic team therapist “sorry for your loss but you used up your 1 mental health session of the year!! Get out of my clinic”

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🔥🔥🥀🥀Hey xx my name is Izzy Magdalinoz-Martinez, and I am a drug addicted alcoholic with 2 years clean! I’m 22. I have 20 mental illnesses I know rock bottom, hell, trauma , pain, and darkness from top to bottom x I’ve been homeless 13 times, 215 mental hospitals , Trauma occurring 24/7 from 2001-2018.

Here's a list of my doctors diagnoses (they were actually diagnosed , DO NOT SELF DIAGNOSE)

•Bipolar, Schizo-affective, PTSD

OCD , ODD, ADHD, anxiety , depression

Insomnia , autism, anorexia

Attachment disorder , narcolepsy

Borderline personality , multiple personality. Dissociative identity fugue

Critically/clinically insane

Tardive Dyskinesia, body dyamorphia

Dissociative Amnesia

Depersonalization/derealization disorder

Intermittent Explosive disorder

Severe Brain Damage

🌙🌙🔥🔥🖤🖤🥀🥀HUGE TRIGGER WARNING🥀🥀🖤🖤🔥🔥🌙🌙

🥀🥀🔥🔥Hey my name is Izzy && I'm a recovering drug addict && alcoholic x This is the longest I've been sober being out of treatment. I've used mostly every drug there is. Been In 3 foster homes (2 out of 3 were abusive) group homes, unlocked and locked treatment centers, rehabs shelters, crisis centers. Short and long term treatment centers. And boarding cares , no home from 2011-2018 Which none will take me back cuz I've been there to many times. I've sold myself && got tortured abused raped drugged up for drugs and money to raise my unbio son, Anthony. I lost custody cuz of false accusations. I've had multiple near death experiences (some were suicide attempts && some were naturally done) my drug of choice was meth x Most of my life I've gotten abused raped, literally tortured and drugged up. Sold. Prostituted, almost killed. But no pity sympathy or attention pls.

a shout out to my unbio son that I raised as my own, Anthony Castillo-Martinez, I met him at one of the many abusive foster homes. Where it was owned illegally by Andrea/Angela && Jimmy Miller. We got tortured daily. They were not licensed foster parents. I met Lil Toni there and I escaped with him to meet up with Kimberly. We lived in a run down hotel in LA. I became homeless again. Toni got me through so much and even tho I can't find him (he's been gone for years) your my lil baby. I will always love u. U are my world and one day I hope to see u again. I hope you have a good home now. Going to school. Just doing well in general. And I'm sorry for you witnessing what Kimberly was doing to me. I love u babes with all my heart. 🖤

🔥🔥every day and night I deal with

20 mental illnesses

Vivid flashbacks 24/7 of the trauma that occurred 24/7 from 2001-2018

40-80 mental breakdowns all day and night

Not being able to aak for help cuz since I've been in 215 mental hospitals the next time I go I'm going to a state institution

Michael Alvarado Alvaro (my main demon) constantly tortures me

No options cuz: I've been in over 100 treatment centers none will take me back

Been on all medications (dosages, types, combinations)

Being the most high maintenance mental health case in the system of California

My dog slowly dying

My mom being constantly sick

Feeling like I dont belong anywhere

My psyical health is getting worse

-feeling weak

-blacking and passing out

-throwing up

-body aches

-memory loss

-constant headaches, stomach pains , nausea, soar throat , body numb

Narcolepsy

-ear aches , my whole body aching Sinusitis

Being overly sensitive / wanting to save the universe and everyone in it

Fear of telling people I'm not OK cuz:

I feel like a burden

It's the same thing over and over again

It gets tiring

I feel like my existinese is a waste

Being literally possessed by my demons

Being autistic

Not eating and not sleeping

Wanting to hurt myself

Wanting to end it

Wanting to escape

My family doesnt want me home

They would be better off without me

Constantly missing my un biological son Anthony

Hearing my torturours in my head

This is not for pity or sympathy

I'm trying.

Im here for all of u . My 2nd Number: 951-460-8418

Suicide Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

Also u can text 711-711

Don't give up , u matter x 🔥🔥

60-80 mental breakdowns a day vivid flashbacks every day _ nightmares every night. Being a recovering drug addict/alcoholic.

215 mental hospitals, 3 foster homes, 2 were extremely abusive. , bouncing from unlocked, locked, short and long term treatment centers, group homes, rehab, residential, crisis centers, homeless 13 times. Shelters, most of my life I've been literally tortured, raped, abused, sold, drugged up, I sold myself/prostituted, got tortured and abused in every way possible. Sold drugs to get money to raise Anthony "Lil Toni" Castillo-Martinez (why I have the last name Martinez) who I met in one of the abusive foster homes and raised him as my own. Kimberly M. Olivarez was my deceased ex fiance, she made a false accusation that I gave Anthony drugs (not true at all) , CPS took him away. Kim tortured and abused me in any way possible. She called 60+ people every day and night to abuse, rape, torture , almost kill me. I have attempted suicide over 100+ times, my "dad" who I don't consider my dad abused me in anyway possible from age 4 till he died in 2011. I've been abused by several more people. I have been on every single medication for mental health, every dosage, combination, type. In every sort of treatment. They are trying to concerve me again, last time I talked to my therapist, doctor , treatment team etc they said my next admittion to the mental hospital they are gonna send me away to a state institution. Last time they concerved me I was past my 52/50 and I was at this one hospital, I was there for a few months I can't remember, they had a hearing then they took me to court. I already got my criminal record when I was under 18, they cleared it. I lied to the judge and then later on they took me off concerveraship . so let's say I'm suicidal , unsafe, I can't tell anyone cuz of what I just mentioned. When I was 12 years old I for sent to a level 14 (higher level of care) mental health, addiction, behavioral treatment center for over a year. They couldn't even handle me and they were tryna send me to a higher level of care, but that was the highest level of care. The state of California named me "the most high maitence mental health case in the system" from 2011-2018 I had no home. From 2001-2018 there was trauma occurring 24/7. My soberiety date is 9•18•2018. I have a name for myself from several people. Over 200. Have told me I "help everyone obsessively" I get told to put myself first but that ain't ever gonna happen. I don't trust people, I'm extremely sensitive and I can't take confrontation without me breaking down. I don't date at all cuz of the many traumas. I'm a bi-romantic asexual. I'm 22 and I've always been a female. I accept all of u for who u are, no matter what race, color, sexuality, illness, circumstances ur in, etc etc. I can name more, I accept everybody. Everybody needs somebody , we deserve care, love, help , support, acceptance, appreciation, etc etc. U don't kno someone's story, what they have been and/or currently going thru. U matter, ur existence is a huge blessing to this universe. U are doing the best u can and I'm proud of u. There's more but its 2am and my meds are kicking in. Don't judge anybody. I appreciate all of u and I'm here for u. -- Izzy M. Martinez🌹🌺🌷🔥

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Thawing Out a Frozen Shoulder, with Diabetes

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Thawing Out a Frozen Shoulder, with Diabetes

Scott Johnson’s left shoulder was bothering him. Really bothering him.

“I couldn’t remember a specific incident, but was sure it was just a stubborn basketball injury," said Johnson, a Minnesota-based type 1 for more than three decades who blogs at Scott's Diabetes and works for the app company mySugr. But after months of physical therapy with no progress, and even what he describes as “negative progress,” Johnson was diagnosed with adhesive capsulitis, better known in the vernacular as frozen shoulder.

This is one of those lesser-known diabetes complications, one that doesn't get discussed much in comparison to vision loss, nerve damage, and a host of other very scary ones. But it's a complication that can be painful and life-altering, and isn't always easy to recognize when we might just equate it to "the wonders of getting older." DiabetesMine covered it several years ago in our 411 Complications Series, but overall it's not really on the radar unless you're personally experiencing it.

Here's the scoop on frozen shoulder, for those inquiring minds in the Diabetes Community.

What is Frozen Shoulder?

In a nutshell, it happens in three stages:

Freezing: Pain slowly becomes worse until range of motion is lost (lasts 6 weeks to 9 months)

Frozen: Pain improves, but the shoulder is still stiff (lasts 4 to 6 months)

Thawing: Ability to move the shoulder improves until returning to normal or close to normal (lasts 6 months to 2 years)

Digging deeper into the medical side of how this ailment affects your body, we learned that surrounding your shoulder joint is a bundle of heavy-duty connective issue called the shoulder capsule. For reasons that aren’t clear, in some people the tissue thickens and becomes tight, and then stiff bands of tissue called adhesions develop, making movement of the joint painful and even blocking the shoulder joint’s normal range of motion.

It’s a progressive condition, starting slowly with occasional pain, and then a reduction in the ability to move the joint. At first, perhaps, reaching the bottle of whisky on the top shelf becomes difficult. Then impossible. Eventually, it can become so debilitating (the frozen shoulder, not the whisky) that you can’t even dress yourself.

And it’s not just that you can’t raise your arm; the arm can’t be raised, period. Frozen shoulder is characterized by what is called “loss of passive range of motion.” Passive range of motion is simply how much someone else can move a joint. In other types of conditions, a person may not be able to move his or her own shoulder beyond a certain point, but someone else could easily move the joint farther. But with frozen shoulder, the shoulder is, well... frozen. Physically stuck.

It cannot be moved farther.

And then what? Oddly, just when it gets worst, the process often begins to reverse itself. Like the seasons of the year, the natural progression of adhesive capsulitis is often described in stages of freezing, frozen, and then thawing.

Who Gets Frozen Shoulder?

Each year in the US, 200,000 people are diagnosed with frozen shoulder. It’s most common between the ages of 40 and 60, and more common in women than men. And I’m sure it will come as no surprise to you that people with diabetes are more likely to get it than anyone else.

The American Diabetes Association reports, via the Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, that 10-20% of PWDs have frozen shoulder. Meanwhile, consumer literature often reports that PWDs are three times more likely to get frozen shoulder over sugar-normals (non-diabetics), and the actual risk may even be much higher than what the stats show.

A 2016 meta-analysis lead by Nasri Hani Zreik of the Blackpool Victoria Hospital in the UK, found that people with diabetes are five times more likely than non-diabetics to have frozen shoulder, with an overall prevalence of frozen shoulder in people with diabetes at a whopping 13.4%. Further, we D-folk make up fully 30% of all frozen shoulder cases.

That last set of numbers led the researchers to call for screening for diabetes in any patient diagnosed with frozen shoulder -- wow, what a way to get diagnosed!

And this is one time where we T1's share equal risk with our T2 cousins. There was no significant difference in prevalence between T1s and T2s, nor between T2s on insulin vs. T2s on oral agents.

Treating Frozen Shoulder

Adhesive capsulitis is one of the few health conditions that can actually go away if you ignore it. As noted, Frozen shoulder does eventually thaw on its own, but it can take up to three years, and during that time, the pain can be staggering.

Johnson said, “Every once in a while, both on the court and around the house, I’d jar my body in such a way as to hurt my shoulder. It was a knee-weakening, breath-taking, seeing-stars type of pain.”

And that knee-weakening, breath-taking, seeing-stars pain got more and more common as time went by for Johnson. His ice wasn’t thawing, so to speak, and it became so painful it was interfering with his daily life.

“I was avoiding basketball instead of looking forward to every opportunity,” he said, noting that new lack of activity trashed his diabetes management and, he says, his mental health.

Scott Johnson takes a jumpshot during a basketball game at the Friends For Life diabetes conference.

It was time to take action.

The traditional treatments for frozen shoulder are physical therapy to try to gradually stretch some flexibility back into the joint capsule, sort of like stretching out a pair of too-tight pants by wearing them for an hour a day. Steroid injections are also commonly used, but Johnson was wary of their notorious effect on blood sugar. Anti-inflammatory meds are sometimes used, and the "nuclear" treatment option is a primitive form of surgery in which doctors knock you over the head with a frying pan, and while your lights are out, force the shoulder through a normal range of motion to break the ice of the frozen shoulder.

What? What’s that?

Oh, I’m told they don’t use frying pans any more. A general anesthetic is used instead.

But it still sounds brutal.

Getting to Know Hydroplasty

A relatively new treatment that Johnson heard about and decided to undergo is called a Shoulder Joint Capsule Distension (a.k.a. hydroplasty). Under a local anesthesia, the joint capsule is filled with mixture of saline, anesthetics, and a small dose of steroids to stretch it out, much like blowing up a balloon. This procedure is followed up by “intense” physical therapy to break down the adhesions.

Johnson said the procedure was “quick, easy, relatively painless, and couldn’t have taken longer than 10 minutes.” He said that the physical therapy started immediately after the injection, and continued for one hour every day for the following two weeks, followed by 30 minutes every other day for another week, with additional “homework.”

Or, as Johnson describes it:

“That was one meaning of intense when my orthopedic doctor described the physical therapy requirements -- it required a real commitment and the ability to manage so many appointments. The other meaning of intense was the physical therapy sessions themselves. I listened to my shoulder make unnatural sounds,” while the therapist moved his arm around, said Johnson, adding, “all I could do was breathe through the pain.”

After the first intense physical therapy treatment Johnson was unsure about the course of action he’d signed up for. But two days into the treatment, he was back on the court, playing basketball again with, “very little pain and dramatic range of movement.” Johnson said the most challenging part was “convincing my brain to use my left arm again!”

Surgery Aftermath

Well over a year down the road, Johnson says his left shoulder still feels good, and he wonders why the hydroplasty isn’t “a better-known option for treating frozen shoulder.”

But now that his left shoulder is back in the game, he’s starting to worry about his right shoulder, which is staring to show some early signs of adhesive capsulitis. Sorry to say that frozen shoulder often jumps from one side of the body to the other. In doctor-speak from Medscape, “bilateral shoulder involvement is rarely simultaneous and instead occurs sequentially.” A mixed blessing to be sure. It would really suck to have both shoulders frozen at the same time.

If Johnson’s right shoulder gets worse, would he sign up for another round of hydroplasty with intense physical therapy?

“I would do it again in a heartbeat, as soon as my doctor feels it’s an appropriate treatment,” he said, adding that he'd push his doctor to move more quickly on his right arm. "That is my shooting arm, so I wouldn’t want to wait so long.”

Thanks to our correspondent Wil Dubois for digging into this topic for us, and of course to our friend Scott Johnson for being so open and willing to share his story!

Have you experienced frozen shoulder? If so, please share your POV in the comments section below.

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