#autoimmune reactions

[theonlyladyt]

Low Carb vs Insulin Sensitivity

Hello my lovelies I am having an autoimmune flare presently and this has triggered the symptoms of Reactive Hypoglycemia (RH for short) as well. So it took several days before I could continue this blog post today. The flare I think was on its way a few days ago as I started waking up more than usual. My blood glucose which was fairly stable, started waking me up with autoimmune symptoms and…

[makanidotdot]

whoaa Thura soloed a faction leader cheevo what a goddam hero

[healingheartdogs]

How does one go about getting tested for MCAS...

[oniongarlic]

can you not eat bread

i have celiac disease so i cant eat anything with wheat, barley, or oats [some oats are gf and i CAN eat those]. youd be fucking amazed how many foods have fucking barley malt in them as flavouring [rice crispies, chocolate, many kinds of sauce]. i will also get sick if i eat food cooked in cross contaminated fry oil or in cookware that has had gluten in it. basically my immune system is holding a gun to my intestines and if a single gluten molecule gets in there its gonna shoot that thing. i can eat GF bread tho, which these days is not half bad.

[sunset-a-story]

Happy WBW! In honor of the pain bestowed upon me by the Blood Goddess 🙃, what is your world like in relation to sicknesses, injuries, and other afflictions? Feel free to discuss the medical system or how jobs/institutions respond, or even how individual characters feel!

First of all, my deepest condolences for your life rn. That's the worst.

And thank you for the question! Within SolCorp, it's the Pluto Department that is in charge of all medical care ranging from pediatric, general preventative care, trauma medicine, and mental healthcare.

Pluto agents are pretty dang busy on a daily basis. Sol offices are practically closed systems with the majority folks leaving the campus maybe once a week so all that recirculated air means that when a cold hits, everyone gets it. Pluto (Dakota del Sol) refers to LAHQ as a plague ship (affectionate) (sort of).

A lot of healthcare provided by Sol is what you'd expect of modern medicine. Some of it, not. Biological manipulators are recruited to work in Pluto for their ability to alter someone's biology, down to their cells. There is too much risk to use bio manips for every single medical problem but when agents are gravely injured in the field or there's a serious issue, bio manips can reknit bones, close gunshot wounds, remove cancers, heal organs, etc. And yes, this does mean people with muscle sprains will aggressively pout at the bio manips telling them to go home and rest instead of fixing them.

Those not living in a SolCorp office can travel to the closest office for care or, in emergencies, trauma units will be teleported to them. There is typically someone with basic medic training on each team to take care of everyday needs. (Hannah is the medic for Reeve's team.)

There is no charge or cost whatsoever for any of this for Sol agents. It's just part of being in Sol. Your needs are cared for.

Thanks to having an expansive employee base, agents' bosses are generally understanding of illness/injuries and are not overly pushy to get the agent back to their desk/out into the field until they're ready. (Something a certain other organization of knacked people views as supremely soft.) If you become too disabled to continue at your job, you will be moved to something you are able to do.

Also some knacks can cause medical issues all by themselves that Pluto has to manage. For example, mimics often (1 in 2) develop autoimmune issues because their body reacts to the "borrowed" knack as if it were a foreign virus to be fought. If knacks become too dangerous/harmful (I'm looking at you, radiation manips) Pluto and Venus work together to perform a Post-Breathe Gene Alteration (post-breathe for short) which can alter or remove a person's knack altogether.

All of this is nothing at all like how medical care is handled in Entropy or in The Church but...no spoilers.

[shitty-check-please-aus]

see this is why I can’t do tiktok, I need to be able to freely say that my immune system is going to murder my thyroid eventually, I can’t switch to “unalive” or clinical terminology

[bother-blame]

I woke up with a migraine, and then panicked when i tried to eat something to take ibuprofen bc I realized I couldn’t taste anything in the front of my mouth. then I remembered I burnt my mouth on miso soup last night and that’s probably the reason why 🫠

[catholicjinx]

doctors when you dont want them to bring a whole fleet of medical staff to stare at you while they talk about how rare and weird your body is:🤬

[david-box]

General and more specific autoimmune disease meme for your enjoyment, featuring every autoimmune disease I could think of.

[nellievances]

hey besties do u ever get so stressed that your immune system turns on itself!!! bc same!!!

[theonlyladyt]

My Auto Immune Journey Reactive Hypoglycemia Hypothyroidism & Hashimotos Disease 2023

My Auto Immune Journey Reactive Hypoglycemia Hypothyroidism & Hashimotos Disease 2023 is the title of my blog post. An update as to what has happened to me since we spoke last. Unbelievably frustrating as you will find out... ❤️

For my dear family and friends who’ve been following my journey. I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism in 2017. I was put on thyroid medicine, I was initially having regular blood tests to ensure I’m getting the correct dosage for me to be able to function normally. My former GP (an experienced semi-retired part-time GP who also taught other GPs) wasn’t sure what to say when I asked why did I have…

[commodorecliche]

downside of working in healthcare (aside from all the other obvious downsides, of course) is that sometimes you will see a post on here talking about some fantastical story (usually written to be funny) that happened to someone in a healthcare setting and you're like... "yeah, no, that's not how that works, that's not how any of that works"

[system-splintered]

So I tried the new med this morning, hydroxychloroquine, and it made me nauseous within ten minutes and I didn't keep it down longer than twenty. It gave me facial twitches and part of my face wasn't responding when I tried to move it. A different section felt tingly and numb. I was really over stimulated and it was all around awful. So I called the doctor and she took me off of it, and now we're going to start injectable methotrexate. Here's to hoping it actually does something besides make me sick.

[flatstarcarcosa]

karnaka when i'm trying to explain to him if i eat or drink certain things my body thinks we're under attack and responds by actually attacking itself in its confusion

[dragon-hoard]

oh I am absolutely experiencing The Agonies right now

[ayakashibackstreet]

I can't believe I got cursed and I have to pay over 100PLN to get the curse lifted smh