#Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

[am-i-interrupting]

Hi there! I was wondering if it wasn’t too much to ask for a Lucifer x reader who has POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Basically you get dizzy easily and can faint if your heart rate gets too high. You get fatigued easily and have to make sure you stay hydrated and have electrolytes to help keep your blood pressure up. Sorry if this is a really weird or specific ask! I recently got diagnosed and it’s been weighing on me and I could use some comfort. Regardless thank you for your time and your lovely fics have a great day/night!

-🧂Salt Anon

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Lucifer would do so much research. Even before you started dating.

He’d make you a cup of a size of your choosing. It’d be tailored to you but the handle is a snake. It would magically refill whoever empty.

He would make you as many cups as you want. You’d end up with at least one for every day of the week.

He’d find you the bestest tasting supplements if you need them. No nasty gummies, only the best. Only the most swallowable of pills.

Would be your reminder to take your medicine.

He’d buy you the most comfortable socks.

Whenever he’s around, he will always be there to catch you if you start to sway.

Expect him getting up and slowly pulling you to your feet any time you need to get up in hopes that it’ll help you from getting dizzy.

Any time you do end up passing out though, expect to wake up to him doting on you with food and water. Just a big old breakfast in bed.

He would try to take the best care of you but it doesn’t become a caretaker and patient situation. He will always see you as his equal, even if you’re not royalty now. Someday you will be.

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[vtk13]

“slut era” i whisper to myself as i rot in my bed, sick like a frail victorian child

[potsiepumpkin]

When the chronic fatigue is chronic

[chronicallydragons]

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

[body-of-ouches]

One thing that MASSIVELY pisses me off is how fainting is shown in media. It’s always the person sways a little, collapses in one movement, and then is unconscious for like… fucking ages??? They wake up hours later tucked under a blanket and it’s acted like that’s normal. It’s NOT. A person that’s fainted should be back with you pretty quickly, actually:

(From NHS website)

I had an experience in my last work place where I fainted, but because it looks so different to how it’s shown in film and TV my managers had no idea what had happened. Here’s a comparison of usual media vs my actual fainting that they were all confused by-

Films, TV shows, plays etc:

1) Person goes “oh goodness” or something similar whilst holding hand to chest

2) eyes roll back, gracefully falls to the floor

3) nearby people see the poor fainted person, pick them up, put them on a bed or sofa

4) person comes to hours or even days later with no idea what happened and everyone else is just like “oh good you’ve woken up 🙂”

My usual fainting experience:

1) Everything starts spinning. Incapable of making words as my sole focus is on trying to get myself to the ground ASAP

2) Stumble to floor/chair/ anything I can lean against

3) Quick violent slump as actual faint occurs. There is no dainty falling- the whole body has hit shut down. Usually smack my head on the floor if I haven’t managed to get myself somewhere soft

4) Aware of surroundings almost immediately, but takes a few seconds to fully come back round

5) Carefully sit back up and explain to everyone going “what the fuck happened” that I fainted, and no, I do not need smelling salts actually.

[gayaest]

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Bora! She’s blasian (black and korean!) she has POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) and Chronic Pain! 🩷💜

She takes her rollator everywhere!

[thatchronicfeeling]

Reminder that it's less than a month before pharmacies will be closed for end-of-year holidays. Make sure that you will have enough medications to see you into the new year.

[chronically-evie]

my mom keeps trying to get me to go to the ER when im having a flare up and i have no idea what to tell her.

because ive BEEN to the ER before. you wanna know what they did? while i was sweating, shaking, and sobbing, curled in a ball of pain?

they asked me if i was on my period. when i told them no, they asked me if i was pregnant.

when i told them no, because i wasn't sexually active, they forcibly tested me anyways, and then when it came back negative said, "well maybe you should just take a few deep breaths", gave me liquid ibuprofen, and sent me home.

disabled people, in this particular situation disabled afabs, are never fucking listened to.

the ER staff literally LAUGHED at me multiple times. they pointed at me when i was having one of the worst episodes of my life and snickered.

so no, i do not want to go to the fucking ER. my heating pad, ice packs, and nausea meds are going to help me more than anything a hospital could do.

[justsomerandomgay]

EVERYBODY STOP WHAT YOURE DOING I HAVE THE BEST NEWS! I GOT A WHEELCHAIR!!!!!!!! I CAN LEAVE THE HOUSE ALONE AGAIN, I CAN BE SAFE AND INDEPENDENT AND HAPPY AND SEE MY FRIENDS AND HAVE A LIFE AGAIN!!!!!!

[hellyeahsickaf]

brain fog is so stupid. Like what do you mean my body is in such rough shape I have nothing but my thoughts but also I can't think?

[thelupuslady]

[apologyacceptedcaptainneeda]

DONT take a persons medical device

I shouldn’t have to say that but here we are

One of the managers at work likes to take and hide peoples stuff as a joke. My manager took my pulse ox when I wasn’t looking. When I noticed it was gone I started to panic. A pulse ox is minimum $30 and I’ve had mine for over 7 years and have named it. So yeah I was panicking. I immediately paged my manager to my register and when he arrived I demanded it back. He did give it back.

I informed him that it was stupid and dangerous of him to take a medical device from someone especially like that.

So again

DONT TAKE A PERSONS MEDICAL DEVICE

[ghostonly]

Irritates the hell out of me when people respond to a post or comment like, "everyone does this, it's not just [disorder/illness/neurotype], it's called being a person."

Yeah and everyone coughs once in a while but it doesn't mean someone with pneumonia doesn't cough?? It doesn't mean pneumonia doesn't cause coughing??

Everyone gets dizzy once in a while but it doesn't mean vertigo doesn't exist??

Just about every symptom or group-common trait is going to be experienced by people who don't belong to those groups or have that disorder. It's about the frequency and intensity with which that symptom or trait comes up.

[potsiepumpkin]

Useful information

[b0kunoanime]

On this beautiful disability pride month can we talk about how eating healthy is incredibly difficult when you’re disabled? If I can’t get out of bed to make food then I might not eat, or I might end up spending far more money than I want on takeout, and hurting my finances. And those meal delivery kits are cost prohibitive and rely on you having enough spoons to, y’know, actually make the food.

People don’t talk a lot about disabled people’s struggles with basic survival skills, but this one is huge and important and something we have to do 3 times a day for optimal health — and when your health is already suboptimal, it can be incredibly dehumanizing to hear people just say things like,

“Well, have you tried going vegan?”

[alpinechamomile]

TIP for any fellow disabled folks who have cats ❣️ if you got chronic fatigue or back pain or POTS where you cant bend down easily or even if you're able bodied and just feeling sick get one of these shits ↓↓↓

It's got one huge sifter so after your cat(s) use it you just grab it, shake it side to side a little, dump the poop into a bag, put the now clean litter in a fresh box (this one gives you two litter boxes for this reason) and pour the clean litter in the box on top of the pan. You can put the second box under it to keep it out of the way for when you switch over again.

This Arm and Hammer one was only 15 bucks on amazon and it's so much easier to clean. It is heavy to lift up the full pan and dump the cleaned litter into the second box so keep that in mind, but it's so much faster and less arduous than shoveling the caked up cat shit for 10 minutes and having your back screaming in pain, numb feet, and a head rush from bending over 😭 i didn't know these existed until now so that's why I'm talking about it anyway if you see this you should pet your cat for me maybe give em a kiss on their stupid little forehead 🤎🐈🐈‍⬛