#immunosuppressives

[inniave]

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We all deserve to have the basic freedom to protect ourselves from airborne diseases. If the government won't protect us, we must protect ourselves.

[noxious-fennec]

A redraw of an old thing because exam season is the only time i get creative energy ig

[qursidae]

I got pneumonia 😢 So I haven't had the energy/time for any art lately, therefore this years b-day piece is just gonna be a amelliana sketch (Cause I thought about them earlier and listened to their playlist)

[mrehkka]

Dib meets one of the tallest in person and uh... is actually rather awed. He kinda gets it now. Zim is like "see?! the tallest are great!"

The story that goes with this is that Dib becomes ill, but oddly, with a somewhat rare Irken disease (stemming from a long term complication from when Zim's PAK attached to him way back when, it messed with something internally in Dib's body). So Zim takes Dib along with him to meet Red, to get Dib some Irken medicine/cure. Red has a huge crush on Zim so he tends to give him whatever he asks for (or gives him SOMETHING anyway, if he can't give him what he wants), and Zim knows this, although maybe a little in denial about the actual crush part.

aka: the "Dib gets to visit Irk and experience a bunch of Irken Culture" fic :D

[bitchfitch]

So the thing about EDS is that the sorta unofficial mascot for the disorder is a zebra. Because there's this saying in medicine "if you hear hooves assume it's a horse before a zebra," and that's advice to disuade younger doctors from jumping to cool rarer diagnosis. Most coughs are just colds, that type of thing.

back when EDS was first being figured out by the medical community it was considered one of those rare and unique diseases it was considered a zebra not a horse, when it came to figuring out diagnosis.

because prior to genetic testing allowing for you to Actually confirm a patient has it, only the very worst cases were even being diagnosed, so milder (vastly more common) presentations were being missed and treated as if they were some other "more common" disease.

and it's a series of events thats had very frustrating results blah blah blah. The point is back when they couldn't figure out what was killing me, my medical care team did not know what EDS was. But they knew whatever the fuck was wrong with me, it wasn't a fuckin horse. (and because they didn't take my main complaint "everything hurts constantly not just my joints" into consideration, EDS probably wouldn't have been considered anyways.)

So I spent what, 9 years? getting constant medical scans and tests on a never ending cycle of medications because none of it worked. My doctor's were looking for rare types of brain lessions and immune disorders that had only ever been seen a handful of times. blood disorders I didn't even have the genetic markings for were being looked at. hell one of my docs liked to joke about what the novel immuno-nervous system disease I have would be called.

So it was a it like there being a hoof beast of some description loose in your local park, and everyones talking about how it can't be a horse there's so much evidence it Isn't a horse. and they're saying it's a gazelle or a giraffe or an extinct species of pronghorn, one guy thinks it's an honest to God unicorn, and you don't really care you just want it to stop shitting on your yard but everyone's really excited about it.

only to find out it was a fucking donkey.

[dmardsanddaisies]

💊Ya girl has been fatigued, bruising like a lil banana, on new meds, and now on medical leave while I try and get my physical health and mental health sorted. Arthritis requires 3 medications now to hopefully get back to being controlled, aaaand I'm havin' a blegh time! 💁🏻‍♀️💊

[froody]

interesting fact: ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease can trigger skin problems like cystic acne

[thedisablednaturalist]

Literally everyone but me in the office is some sort of sick. They say oh I need the money or I don't want to use up my sick days or its not that bad *cough hack sniff*. And then they refuse to at the very least wear a mask. Like no wonder everyone is getting sick!!! I can feel my body starting to feel icky and I feel like the last man standing in a zombie apocalypse

[tumble-tv]

No one:

Me and my eight boxes of masks:

[spooniestrong]

[dudeshusband]

shippers with skin conditions: your f/os love you and are no less attracted to you due to your condition. they would never blame you for it and will do whatever they can to help.

[batwynn]

Me, immunocompromised and blessed with Emetophobia, reading that the new COVID variant includes 2-5 days of barfing and that everyone’s seen someone doing that in stores and in the middle of the road and at work and—

[certifiedsexed]

Hello! I saw another post where you mentioned immunosuppressants can impact sex. I just recently started immunosuppresants and while I am not having sex rn this is the first I've heard of them affecting sex and I would like to hear more?

Okay, so this really changes depending on what type of immunosuppressants you're going on, Anon.

For example, they can cause fatigue, headaches, high blood pressure, muscle spasms, nausea-All things that can impact sex. But I'd kinda have to know what med you're on to get more specific.

If you don't mind sharing though, I 100% don't mind explaining in more depth. Lemme know!

[astronicht]

My dad apologizing for calling at night bc I’m yawning and visibly so tired he forgot about the time change etc and I have to admit it’s 8:30PM

[quaranmine]

Just wanted to share that it's now been over a month since I disgracefully tripped and fell on concrete in Savannah, GA and had to hobble to my work conference bleeding—

and I STILL have a massive red mark on my ankle from it! Is it just gonna be a scar? Who knows!

[arttsuka]

If I may- *ahem*

BEGONE FOUL PESTILENCE THAT PLAGUES OUR DEAREST ARTIST’S TOOTH! BEGOOOOOONE! WASHASHASHASHASHAA!!! 🪄🪄🔥✨✨

Thank you for trying to magic away my pain, greatly appreciated ✨️