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carmillatism · 9 months

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hello! i hope this ask finds you well <3

i’m just looking for a bit of advice and i saw one of your posts about being disabled so i figured i might ask;

(to preface: i am not disabled) but sometimes my right hip does a weird thing and hurts for a bit on and off and i can’t really walk (my hips have always been weird - they pop really easily and hurt if i lay down on them for too long) and i was curious if you might have advice on how to deal with that? (though granted i don’t actually know what kind of physical disability you have so this might just be headed out into the aether)

(sorry if this is the wrong blog to ask!)

hello! sorry for getting back so late; i had school! and yes, you came to the right place! want to preface this with a disclaimer by saying i'm not a professional, and i recommend you talk with a doctor if possible. i also recommend doing your own research as i don't know you like you know you!

that aside, i have pots and hsd, both which cause me chronic pain. hsd, or hypermobikity spectrum disorder, causes me chronic joint pain. and good for you, my most common place of pain is in my hips, so i have a lot of experience with what your describing.

my biggest recommendation, other than talking with a doctor, is for you to try and stay off of it when it hurts. you can also apply heat or cold (with an ice pack, heating pad, etc.) to the area that hurts. that usually makes me feel better. i also recommend taking otc (over-the-counter) pain meds. take the dose it tells you to take, and that will usually help soothe the pain!

i also recommend that you keep your mind open to the idea that you could be disabled. if this pain is pretty common for you (as in it happens a couple times a week) and has lasted for at least 3 months with common occurrences, then it's considered chronic pain. if you have chronic pain, you are disabled. ofc i don't know you and can't say for certain! but keeping your mind open to the idea can help you more easily make that transition in the future if you are diagnosed with a disability or your symptoms become disabilitating.

i also recommend getting a cane if possible! canes help a lot with getting weight off of the leg that's hurting, thus allowing the pain to decrease. do not worry about "faking" being disabled. if you need a cane to lessen the pain you feel whilst walking or to support your walking, then use it! you would use your left (opposite of hurt leg) hand for the cane. you don't have to get one, of course, but they are a pretty cheap investment if you get them at a pharmacy or online, and they are extremely helpful.

but again, i can't recommend it anymore for you to see a medical professional. what you are describing sounds similar to my experiences with chronic pain, plus having pain flareups for seemingly no reason pretty consistently along with your hip feeling out of place or popping out of place, sounds like something to bring up to your doctor. based on the limited symptoms you gave, i recommend looking into heds, hypermobile ehlers-danlos syndromes (plus the other versions of eds), or hsd (which is what i have. both are hypermobility from a connective tissue disorder that causes a slew of symptoms, but a major one is joint instability and chronic pain. hsd is sort of a different part of the spectrum of eds, or just a different but similar disorder (scientists really don't know)).

some good medical websites that i use a lot for info on my own health as well as my medical science interst are the cleveland clinic, the nhs website, and mayo clinic. these have digestible pages of information about many different disorders and problems.

i also recommend keeping a list of your symptoms that don't seem entirely normal or healthy. also, keeping a journal of your pain flares and describing when and why it happens can help you track it and see if it worsens or gets better. i also recommend using these to look into possible disorders that you may have. advice given for any type of similar disorders with symptoms similar to yours (or that you might have) can greatly benefit you if you want more advice!

if you have any more questions you can dm me, use my ask box again, or ask someone else for another point of view! talking about it with many different people can give you many different and helpful perspectives that can help you figure out what's going on. i wish you all the best!

#physical disability #chronic pain #hsd #heds #hypermobility #hypermobility spectrum disorder #hypermobile ehlers danlos #answered #disability help #wish you all the best anon #<333 #hip pain #hypermobile eds #hypermobile joints #hypermobile problems #hypermobile

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bnyrbt · 7 months

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did u ever find out if u were experiencing subluxation in ur joints? im dealin w the same thing is why i ask n im curious if it is too 😭😭

my mom + another anon with hypermobility both said my description sounded like their subluxations, and on physical examination the doctor said my kneecap was "moving laterally," so the answer is all but yes. i'll probably be going back to the doctor at least several more times about this, and hopefully get officially diagnosed with something, or prescribed something that makes it go away completely

#op #ask #personal #subluxation #hypermobility #disability #<- try the ask/subluxation/hypermobility tags to find the previous anon #i can't remember if or how i tagged it but it should definitely be in the ask tag #edit: just found it & added the subluxation & hypermobility tags

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megabuild · 3 months

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https://furry(.)engineer/@anomalocarididae/110956052488012311

Etho body part list I compiled and posted to Masto a while back

This is intended as a shitpost not actually trying to figure out what Etho looks like

- 💾 🦝

Okay I laughed at this but also etho confirmed double jointed? My hypermobile king

#anon #asks #ethotism #< because hypermobility and autism are comorbid

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neuroticboyfriend · 6 months

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different anon here -- im also super duper proud of you! addiction is a battle and youve made it through three days sober!!! thats honestly really fucking awesome of you!

thank you!!! 💜💜 it sure as hell is a battle... i keep trying to get all the support i can. this new beartooth album, my therapist, my boyfriend and besties, the relapse prevention group, going back to the lgbt center... and today im going back to PT!

im gonna be honest and say my mental health kinda went off the deep end and that's why i stopped going cuz... i dont see much a reason to lie. my PT already knows i have SMI... but im excited to tell him I went to Weill Cornell to get evaluated for EDS/JHS... my gene test results still isnt in but we'll see what it has to say... might ask my doc to try ordering a test for the TNXB gene too...

so yeah. honestly i dont think I'd be sober rn if i didnt have this support. i dont see a point in staying sober yet but 🤷 it is what it is

#sorry for rambling skhdks #anon #asks #yaybox #addiction #eds #ehlers danlos #joint hypermobility #hypermobility

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disabilityhealth · 2 years

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Hi there, idk if this is weird (and please ignore it if you need to I don’t want to be a bother!) but I’ve been investigating hyper mobility (HSD and hEDS specifically) and I am …. About 99% sure I’m hypermobile? My shoulders are the most hypermobile but my knees DEFINITELY are and hips are too, and my hands/feet seem to be hypermobile as well. I’ve had bad knees and pain with them on and off since I was a child. I’m wondering two things … how do I figure out if this hyper mobility is possibly HSD or hEDS, and even if it’s not, is it offensive or wrong for me to get aids? I’ve seriously considered getting knee braces because my knee popped out of place the other day and it continued hurting for another day after that. I’m tired of joint pain and would like to help it but I don’t want to like …. “Take” the use of aids from physically disabled people? Or is this a case of “actually normalizing the use of aids is good”? Again sorry if this is a bad place to ask :’)

From the sound of it, getting aids would be 100% justified. It sounds like you’ve put a lot of effort into understanding your body, so you know best what you need.

Official diagnoses can take a long time/money, so don’t feel like you need to wait to get the aids you need if you can afford them now. And let me reassure you that you are not encroaching on something that isn’t for you. Mobility aids are for anyone who might need them — and you’re right about normalizing them! But in this case it sounds like you’re exactly the kind of person mobility aids were made to help.

Go get that knee brace and anything else you think might help! Better joint days are ahead of you.

#ask #anon #advice #hypermobility #joint pain #mobility aids

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a-walking-fandom-reference · 7 months

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For random-ass asks to keep tumblr weird: Do you own a backscratcher?

no i don’t actually (or at least i don’t think we do my gramma might have given us one at one point now that i’m thinking about it but idk where it is if we still have it)

#i have hypermobility so i can reach my whole back (not that i should tho because i strain myself)#rey surprisingly gets an ask #anon

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gabessquishytum · 7 months

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Listen. LISTEN. Dream one hundred percent has that hypermobile rizz. And as someone who may or may not have experience with both hypermobility and low self-esteem, I'm just imagining it…

Human au, Hob and Dream finally get together after ages of pining, they're having a good time, and then suddenly whoops, that joint is not supposed to move that way. Dream yelps or whines involuntarily, but Hob thinks it's like a sexy whine, so now Dream feels stuck. Internally he's like 'shit, ow, what do I do, I can't just stop things, it's rude to leave your partner hanging, right? Especially when he seems to be enjoying himself. Maybe we could just stop for a minute? No, what am I supposed to say, 'hey can we pause while I reset my joints?' That's so gross he'll think I'm gross he'll never have sex with me again he'll kick me out immediately why is my body terrible how am I failing at sex I'm going to die alone. Also ow."

Luckily it's Hob, so even if he misinterpreted the first reaction, he definitely notices Dream wincing and trying to hide his discomfort. So of course he stops, even when Dream tries to encourage him to keep going. Eventually, reluctantly, Dream explains the situation, and he expects Hob to be weirded out or disgusted but he's purely concerned, asking how he can help, and then once all joints are back in their assigned sockets, he asks how he can help keep that from happening next time.

Dream is like "next time? 🥺🥺🥺" and Hob is like "yes you foolish wet cat, I didn't stop loving you or being attracted to you just because you have some health issues jfk"

Anyways then Dream cries while Hob sucks him off. You know. For pain relief.

Omg baby anon!! I too have hypermobility!! I am notorious for dislocating my toes during sex!! This isn't something you should ever feel embarrassed about. But I totally understand that it's not the easiest thing to talk about.

I can absolutely 110% imagine that Dream would NOT tell Hob to stop, or that he's hurting. He's got too much pride, and deep down he's very scared that Hob will be disgusted. I also think that Hob would 110% NOTICE that Dream is in pain - even if it takes him a few minutes.

After Dream has been put back together, comforted by Hob’s gentle and loving words, and then brought to a spectacular orgasm by Hob’s mouth - Hob pops out of bed and goes to the bathroom. He's gone for a while (long enough that Dream is worried. Did Hob climb out of a window to get away from him and his weird body? Dream is of course forgetting that they're in Hob’s flat). But he eventually returns, grinning triumphantly.

"It's called kinesiology tape. Dunno if you've ever used it?" He explains, putting a box into Dream’s hands. "I think maybe next time, we could try strapping the bits of you that tend to pop out? It might not be perfect, but it'll give some support."

And Dream cries again, of course. Hob holds him and kisses him over and over, and tells him between kisses that he is so beautiful and lovable. He tells Dream about his own past injuries and how his body is a bit fucked up too. Nobody is perfect, right?

Dream insists that Hob is perfect. He won't be told otherwise. He may have a dodgy knee, but he might be the most lovely person that Dream has ever met (and he gives the most fantastic blowjobs. so there's that too).

#the sandman #dreamling #nsft #cw medical

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a-small-batch-of-dragons · 4 months

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Hypermobility

Okay wait I have a prompt!!! If you wanna So I've been reading a lot of fics recently that are in space aus, with the whole humans are deathworlders concept (idk how this is common across my fandoms but it is so I'm binging them lol). And I had an idea based on recent irl events. – anon (long ask, cut for brevity)

inspired by my lovely @ghostofasecretary who has trained all of our friend group to look for hypermobility on account of our schlorpy joints :)

Read on Ao3

Warnings: none

Pairings: loosely implied analogical i guess, but as with most of my shit can be platonic or romantic you decide

Word Count; 1809

Remus glances up to see Virgil staring at Logan like his abdomen has spontaneously ruptured. He sees Roman out of the corner of his eye do the same. Virgil swallows heavily. "L," he says slowly, "what the fuck is wrong with your arms?" "Nothing is wrong with my arms, what are you talking about?" "Elbows don't bend like that!" Ah. So there was something wrong. Remus was right. Take that, human etiquette manual. Wait, shit, something's wrong with Logan.

Roman clicks at Remus as he comes onto the lab floor. Remus clicks back as he logs onto his station, sighing as he looks at the absolute mess someone's fucking made of the logs—seriously, it's only been one quarter cycle, how are they this fucked up already?—and Roman immediately leans over to see what he's sighing at.

"Wait, what's that?"

"Some xetron made an absolute fucking disaster out of the hadron logs."

Roman winces in sympathy and his carapace shifts. "Are you gonna do yours before you clean that up, or—?"

The last part of his question gest interrupted when Logan comes onto the floor, waving a brief hello with his fingers instead of his antenna—because humans don't have antennae, which was a pretty sharp learning curve for both of them when they'd been so confused as to why this human was refusing to talk to them or even show his feelings, they'd had a few apologetic shifts before Logan realized what was going on and explained everything—and raising an eyebrow when he noticed them clustered around Remus's station.

"Is there something wrong?"

"The shift before us messed up their hadron logs."

Logan rolls his eyes. "You'd think that for life forms insistent that their gravitational curves made them more naturally prepared for graviton scans, they'd have a better sense of how to record them properly."

"You're spellcasting on the acolytes, Logan."

Logan frowns, glancing at his tablet, before the equivalent phrase pings on the screen and he hums. "Ah, I see. Yes, well, if you'd like my help at any point, I only have the routine gamma sweeps to do this shift, so I should be amenable."

"Oh, I can do it, it's just a pain in my thorax."

Roman chuckles and heads back to his own station, probably to sneakily-not-so-sneakily ask some of the others on the shift who are fucking competent what the fuck happened. Remus gets himself ready to dive into the long and tedious work of redoing the spin increments and calculating the proper uncertainties for the right variables—honestly, do they even look at the readouts? It has the layout right there! And it's not like the other logs are invisible! Just look at the rows two microns above the empty one you're supposed to be filling out!—and manages to sink into a rhythm for the first half of the shift. Granted, he's absolutely muttering about how stupid it is that they aren't even calculating the basic momentum, let alone the angular velocity to account for the other celestial bodies in the middle of the waveforms, but it's fine, and Roman keeps up his running commentary of the molecular analysis machine that takes its sweet-ass time to do even the most basic of scans, and every so often he'll hear a small huff from Logan as he corrects their probe's trajectory, but for the most part, the lab is a quiet and serene place to be.

God, he can't wait until he gets rotated back to the engineering department full-time.

Like, yeah, he likes spending time with his brother, and the human's cool—he's really funny when he lets himself be, like his wit is drying than the mountain deserts on Cre-Ativa, and his facial expressions are fucking plat when their superiors are being xetrons, but there's only so much he can take of this quiet where not much happens. And he has to deal with the idiots who don't know how to format hadron logs correctly. This is the third time he's had to correct a typo that's rendered the rest of the calculations useless.

"I'm honestly about to recommend them for a review of the training course, that's how fucking serious this is."

"Maybe there's something wrong with how the keyboard is adapted for their limbs?"

"That would explain some of the typos, not all of them. And it definitely wouldn't explain why there's a massive formatting change about halfway through."

"Perhaps there's a shorthand they're using for some of the notes that we don't know about, and they're forgetting to correct them at the end of their shift."

"Yeah, but then they should tell us that, instead of—" Roman trails off and Remus looks up.

Logan is…stretching, yes, that's the right word. His limbs are extended over his head and his back is arched, but his upper limbs are…bending. Not like the way they normally bend, they're bending…too much? Not enough? The wrong way? Yeah, that's it. The wrong way.

Logan notices they've gone quiet and looks over. "Is there something wrong?"

"You're, uh," Remus stammers, "are you—okay?"

"Yes, I'm perfectly fine, what is it?"

"Nothing, nothing."

He and Roman exchange a look—the first rule in the human etiquette training manual was if they get weird, just roll with it for a reason—and get back to minding their own business. Admittedly, some of the errors do make more sense now that he's looking at it like it's some kind of shorthand he doesn't know yet, but that wouldn't explain why some of these variables are straight-up wrong and why they wouldn't bother to tell him what the shorthand is so that he's not trying to do the work of two shifts in the time of one.

Something he does appreciate is that the way the shifts in the lab are set up, opposed to engineering, is that sometimes there will be people whose shifts halfway overlap with theirs. So there's always at least one set of people that are staying in the lab while a changeover is happening and then there's not that risk that the equipment will be left unattended. Apparently they learned that lesson the hard way when the molecular exhibitor decided to go into overload in the five minutes where there wasn't anyone logged in, and nearly destroyed the matter wave projector on the station next to it. The justification was in the name of safety, but really everyone knows it's just so the higher-ups know exactly who to blame when shit goes awry.

Whatever the case may be, the door slides open to reveal the other human down here, Virgil, yawning as he makes his way over to his station.

"Hello, hello, everyone."

"Hi, Virgil!"

Virgil winces. "You are way too chipper this early in the morning."

"It's past the circadian half cycle, Virgil."

"Yeah, and?"

"I'm afraid you're going to have to acclimate to your schedule on your own time," Logan says, stretching again, "even though I'm sure your caffeine tolerance has—what? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Remus glances up to see Virgil staring at Logan like his abdomen has spontaneously ruptured. He sees Roman out of the corner of his eye do the same. Virgil swallows heavily.

"L," he says slowly, "what the fuck is wrong with your arms?"

"Nothing is wrong with my arms, what are you talking about?"

"Elbows don't bend like that!"

Ah. So there was something wrong. Remus was right. Take that, human etiquette manual.

Wait, shit, something's wrong with Logan.

"Logan? Do we need to take you to medbay?" Roman's already rushing out from behind his station. "There's a pack in the corner, I can—"

"Oh, for—relax, all of you, I'm fine."

"Uh-huh, yeah, fine, that's what I'd describe elbows that bend all schlorpy as, yeah," Virgil says, "what the—does that not hurt?"

"What? No, it doesn't hurt, look, your joints—"

"My joints suck ass but at least they're fucking bending the amount they're supposed to!"

Remus isn't quite sure how human joints are capable of such a surprising and invasive act, but never let it be said he's not curious. "Your joints are capable of performing anal suction?"

"What the fuck? No! It's a turn of phrase!"

"Oh. Disappointing."

"Ignore him," Roman says, "Logan, are you sure you're—"

"Yes, yes, I'm fine, I'm just—oh," he mumbles, prodding at his tablet, "what's the word for this in Common?"

"There's no word for schlorpy elbows, Logan—"

"Yes, there is!" He pokes around for a few more seconds before he lets out a noise of triumph and says something that the translators don't translate.

"It's what?" Virgil just shakes his head when Logan tries again. "I don't know what that means, bud."

Logan sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Okay, let me try it this way. What's it called when you are in a state of heightened energy and it leads to outbursts of things like running around, or talking too loudly, or being high-strung?"

"Remus," Roman offers helpfully.

"No, Roman."

"Are you talking about being excitable?"

"No, there's a specific word for it. It also serves as a prefix for being too much of something, or an overabundance of something."

"Too much—do you mean the word hyper?"

"Yes! Yes, that's it. And then what's the name of the thing that some people hang over cribs that have little stars or animals?"

Virgil stares at Logan for another moment. "You mean a baby mobile?"

"Yes, but only the second word."

"Mobile?"

"Yes, that's it. Then put the two words together—"

"There were probably so many other ways you could've said you were hypermobile, L, I'm just gonna put that out there—"

"Well, it got you to guess it, didn't it?"

"It's too fucking early for this shit."

"Again, it is afternoon—"

"Shut up."

Roman looks back and forth between the two humans, still twitching as though he's going to be asked to sprint for the medbay at a moment's notice. "So…is Logan…are you alright?"

"Yes, for the fourth time, I'm fine. Virgil's just a little excitable, that's all."

"You try being normal when joints are doing unexpected things," Virgil mumbles, more to his caf than anything else, but he reaches behind himself to pat Roman's carapace. "He's fine, his body just does that."

"But you said it bends the wrong way, how is that fine?"

"There is a thing known as hypermobility," Logan says, "it…oh, dear, it basically means that certain joints will bend…more."

"He's not hurt, that's pretty much all I know."

Roman looks like he's about to protest but Remus just clicks at him. They exchange another look as the humans settle back to work.

Humans are weird, just gotta roll with it.

These hadron logs, on the other hand—

"I'm gonna punt these flimflobbers into the next star we see."

"Can I help? They fucked up the carbon dating program as well."

"How do you fuck that up?"

"Ask them, not me!"

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zebulontheplanet · 4 months

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Hi, can I ask what hypermobility is? Sorry to be a nuisance if you don't want to answer, but I've never heard of it before!

Hey anon! Of course, you’re no trouble at all.

Hypermobility is very very common. Most people know it as simply being double jointed, being able to do party tricks or having parts of their body bend more than the average person.

It’s completely normal for most people! However, for some people it causes pain, and that’s when it’s not normal.

Hypermobility for me means that my joints move in directions they aren’t supposed to, they shift and get subluxations also known as partial dislocations. This causes extreme widespread pain. I hurt from my head to my toes everyday all day. We are pretty sure I have this because I have a connective tissue disorder. We aren’t currently sure which one, but I am in the process of being tested and I’m working with a geneticist.

For me, my Hypermobility disables me greatly. I am a part time forearm crutch user and I am probably going to get a wheelchair for Christmas (yay me!).

I hope this answers your question and if you have anymore questions then let me know! Have a lovely day!

#zebrambles #hypermobility #disabled talk #connective tissue disorder

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ohmeadows · 1 month

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Hey meadows! Hope you're doing well and (bc of recent hyv happenings) inspired. I know that every writer's process is different, but what is your brainstorming/research personally like when you've got an idea for a piece of work? Do you have a bunch of concepts that you wanna narrow down? Or is it a lot of 'uhhh' and then an 'aha!' moment?

hi anon! i'm doing ok, hope you're having a fine day !

my brainstorming/research process often starts with drawing a wide circle. this isn't very precise, but i want a few images to form in my head before i start researching proper. say for ruanliu, it was "mara as flowers bursting from the body" and "cold sterile hands handling a feral jingliu" and i let that marinate for a few days, letting the images become clearer in my head.

then one day i headed to the local uni library and went browsing the natural sciences shelves, picking out some heavy books (on moss, phylogenetics, a textbook on how classify plants) and brought them to a table to flip thru. i browsed through them, allowing myself to just look for anything i found interesting, jotting down words and phrases as i went along. specifically remember saving this img even though i didn't understand it fully just to let it simmer.

i read a lot in the time between original idea and first publishing, as always when i read i mark words and sentences i like and think about how those words work, what they did in the scene, how can i transport that to my own work. i watched a lot of hannibal. i went to plant nurseries and stores just to touch petals and note down how things felt. i looked up recipes for pastries based on flowers. i bought a floral tea and drank a lot. i have a lot of chronic pain and hypermobility issues, so when it flared up during long walks i'd pretend it was flower buds blooming just to be able to write the sensation.

there's an essay i think about a lot when writing these days, where brandon taylor wrote about embodiment in writing, how to transport the characters out of their heads and into action, physicality, into their bodies, and how to marry the interior and exterior in fiction. even if i don't do it perfectly myself, i think about that a lot: what do the actions signify about their internal states? how do their thoughts translate into bodies?

my ideas don't have to be super-clean when i start writing. about 25% is thought up in advance, and the rest comes forth in writing. whatever idea pops up while i'm in the writing process, fingers on the keyboard, i let it flourish for however many paragraphs it wants to test its wings. i edit out a lot later, but in the first draft, everything goes. pour it in. contradict myself. i prefer to get as much on the page as possible before i start fixing and knitting it together.

this answer got away from me again, sorry, but yes. my brainstorming stage is more a string of ideas dumped into a stew and left to simmer for way too long. i seek out physical sensations connected to the story as a way of grounding it in reality. when i'm too tired to write i browse pinterest and look for quotes, making moodboards (the ruanliu one had a lot of decaying flowers, flash-frozen flowers and fashion photography involving flowers).

#ask meadows anything #meadows writes

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disabled-dragoon · 8 months

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hi! feel free to ignore this but ive been confused about this for a while and i dont really know what other blogs i could ask: for hypermobility, would mobility aids such as forarm crutches, canes, etc. be actually good for the chronic pain that comes with it? ive asked my mother for crutches before but she was super skeptical and and asked a doctor (not sure what they specialized in) and apparently they said that crutches arent really good for hypermobility? but then i see a lot of other hypermobile people on here who do have crutches? im just confused, thank you for answering if you do!

Okay so first of all, if you think an aid will help then it's never a bad idea to look into one and I'll link some stuff at the bottom of this that might help you. And a second opinion from doctors/physiotherapists can't hurt, especially if you didn't know the first one. They should at least tell you what will help, rather than what doesn't.

Secondly, I was going to say that I don't know much about hypermobility so I don't know how much help I can be, but then I found this. That link will take you to a post by hypermobility.org that deals with pain management and goes into a bit of detail about different aids that can help different parts of the body. It's not brilliant, but it might give you a good idea about other things to look into.

Now, I'm not going to say if mobility aids are a viable option for you because, again, I'm not a doctor and I don't know enough to pass that judgement. However! I'm going to list some good resources that will detail the pros and cons of certain aids (canes, crutches, walkers etc.), that should hopefully help ease your confusion, and might give you some things to discuss if you decide to go to a doctor about this:

Hypermobility and Mobility Aids- I was looking through the hypermobility tag and came across this. It's a small post but the notes have some excellent advice about what aids and features to look into when you have hypermobility.

Mobility aid rundown- a basic yet detailed rundown of different mobility aids, when and how you might use them, and a few pros and cons for each

Personal aid rundown- This is is an ask I answered a while ago about hip pain, but I went into some detail about mobility aids, focusing on different crutch types in particular.

Leg pain aids- Again, one from a while ago but people added some excellent advice in the notes which may be of use.

I'm sorry if I can't be of much help to you anon but I did my best. I hope you can find something that works for you!

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