#medical related

[fancyfade]

Putting this on tumblr bc I need to think my thoughts out and don't want to worry my family.

I've been feeling very, very fatigued lately and idk why. Normally it comes on at 7 or something in the night and I guess it's kind of shakey/ bad muscle feels and then by 830 or so it's like physically a challenge to keep my eyes open . Often hard to think before then, too.

I have had fibro for years and I know regular fatigue associated with fibro but it's never been this quick or this strong and I can normally work past it easier.

It started sometime last week. I chalked it up to just having a bunch of new work then but things are normal and it's still going on

[fr4nky4f1ng3rs]

Sorry for not posting but I dislocated my knee a couple weeks ago and the recovery is 6 to 8 weeks so I've stayed away from most of my socials ( minus Pinterest, Spotify & Discord ) as I don't want to stress about posting and focus on my recovery :)

[acousticmeatus]

I would like to hear about the Poopocalypse of 2017. Please and thank you.

Well, today's your lucky day I guess.

I had heart surgery in 2017 and got the dreaded opiate related constipation. I ended up somehow physically destroying my sister's bathroom. Like, the toilet seat broke off the toilet somehow? Also broke a towel rack. And the toilet paper holder. Eventually had to beg my sister to bring me an improvised squatty potty.

Really, it was the fault of hubris. Hubris and too-tall toilets.

[mezerin]

Hoping I can sleep tonight. I had two nights of finally not having anxiousness every few mins. But now it's back to haunt me again and I still have one more day to go before surgery on Thursday. Doesn't help that I don't understand how insurance works at all, just that it's shitty. And that the place I went to for consultation and set up my surgery called last week saying they checked my insurance, and since I hadn't reached my deductible I owed $1k and it was due by today, which thankfully i was able to pay last week. But then today the surgery center called and said I'd owe $250 copay upon arrival Thursday. And now I'm like .. am I being overcharged? Are they coming out of two different things? I have no idea. I'll have to pep talk myself into calling the insurance customer service tomorrow and see if they can explain it to me .. and I think that's what has me on edge again tonight. Sucks, cause I still have a very busy work day tomorrow and I'd like to be well rested for it.

[organcollect0r]

i love it when the transgender clinic for people 17 or under basically only offers one form of testosterone (injections).

“Oh we dont prescribe gel because its very hard to get the dose right” BITCH what do you mean you dont prescribe it??? You’re not the one making it??? I can pick it up at any other pharmacy in my area??

so not only will I (according to the info I have now) most likely not be able to transition the way I feel safe doing it, the only trans clinic for youth in my city doesn’t really have options for people with a needle phobia.

What the goddamn fuck

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[wildweirdly]

Honestly I think the last doctor who looked at my shoulder was probably an asshole, idiot, and/or lazy because something is /severely/ fucked. Like at this point I genuinely believe it would hurt less if somebody ripped my arm out of my socket and he just brushed that aside even though you can /hear/ the grinding and popping…

I need to get my ass into PT… and in the meantime I need better solutions cause getting so high I feel detached from reality is /not/ sustainable fiscally /and/ it puts me in a spot where I could make errors at work…

One of my coworkers urged me to talk to our CEO about the situation (re: weed usage for the pain) but I’m scared to… Even though I doubt I’d be in trouble, there’s still a chance and I’m not willing to gamble. For now I’m just going to continue doing what I’m doing I guess…

Fuckin frustrating

[schizoaffectively]

You are well within your right to be angry about the help you didn't get and should have gotten.

You are well within your right to be angry about having your needs neglected.

You are well within your right to be angry.

[shinylights]

still haven’t figured out the sweet spot adjustment if my insulin for these injections 😩 blood sugars have gotten better but still high. i’m scared to go to sleep, incase i adjusted it too high & then go too low 😔

[hellofellowneighborhoodnothings]

house md summary

[virtualmosshroom]

crying because the more i read about tle and other people's experiences with it, the more i realise about myself and my experiences with tle. l've been less harsh on myself about my memory since i realised my severe memory loss is likely from my tle

But I'm also fucking terrified that one day l'll convulse for the first time and I’ll be out somewhere and possibly in physical danger if crossing the street or just not knowing where i am and not being able to get home etc etc

I’m gonna try to push myself to get professional support for this even tho I’m terrified and broke

[marzipanandminutiae]

ok but what are YOUR favorite and probably real victorian funfacts?

There genuinely were some doctors who thought riding in trains would cause uterine prolapse [uterus falling out], when trains were new. The concern was that the vibrations from travelling so fast would break the fibers connecting the uterus to the abdominal wall. Unsurprisingly, this did not stop women from riding in trains. Because fuck that noise- trains!!!

One time in the 1840s a bunch of doctors shellacked live horses and rabbits and concluded, when the animals died (probably from heat exhaustion after being unable to sweat), that they had suffocated and that mammals breathed partially through our skin.

Some beauty manuals of the era may have created accidental sunscreen. Occasionally you see advice to wear cold cream on your face when going out, to prevent sunburn. This probably mostly didn't work- but some cold cream recipes contained zinc oxide for a "white foundation" effect, due to beauty standards favoring very light skin, which may have created a low-level SPF. Other manuals also advocate sealing the cold cream in with powder...which even more frequently involved zinc oxide.

A dentist may have gotten away with a malpractice death by blaming tightlacing. A 23-year-old maid named Annie Budden, of Preston, England, went to have a tooth pulled in January of 1895 and suffocated after the procedure, during which she had been dosed with nitrous oxide. The dentist said she was tightlaced and therefore the coroner ruled that he was not at fault- however said dentist claimed that her natural waist was 23" and her corset measured 18". Presumably that's the closed measurement, and corsets were commonly worn with at least a 2" lacing gap at the time (one corset ad I've seen mentions that women liked to give the theoretical closed measurement of their corset as their waist measurement, to make it sound smaller, while actually wearing it with the customary gap). Ergo, she was only laced down about 2-3 inches, a difference unlikely to cause asphyxiation. The fact that she worked as a maid similarly calls the assessment into question- how could she have successfully done physical labor while laced down in a way that diminished her lung capacity so much? Her employer vouched for her good character and excessive tightlacing was seen as vanity- and would have been noticed by making Miss Budden look out-of-proportion physically. That doesn't add up either, to me. The dentist went on to become mayor of the town where this all happened.

That thing above started as a fun fact about the only credible death due to tightlacing and then I looked into it more and now I'm just mad.

Justice For Annie Budden

Sorry this has gotten off-track but I'm still mad about the whole Annie Budden thing

[wewrutuwertrer]

[seth-the-giggle-fish]

Got turned away from donating plasma today because my iron was low

time to google search how to increase iron in less than 24 hours so I don’t fuck up the donation schedule I’ve set up

[junipum]

yeah biggest warning i can give is do NOT watch house if you’re neurodivergent. you will not be able to escape its claws. your age or profession or interests do NOT matter. it will take over your life and soon you’ll be making a separate blog just for house and that’s just the start…

[snip-stein]

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