#medical issues

[thebusylilbee]

saw someone say "endometriosis is not fully linked to having a uterus so people without one can still have it" and I thought they were lying bc I didn't see how that was possible but I looked it up and... well i'll be damned !?!

still an extremely rare occurence as there are only 20 cases reported for AMAB people (all cis men from what I read) so far, against around 180 million AFAB people, but I'm assuming that with transfem and transwomen now having access to proper hormonal treatment in way more places in the world than ever before in history the probability of this issue occuring will increase. it'll probably remain extremely rare though but damn... you do learn things every day in this world

#endometriosis is so fucking evil #endometriosis #amab #transfem #transwoman #I think this is knowledge that should be spread just in case. based on the probability no need to fear this too much but u never know #medical issues #bee tries to talk

[penvisions]

dev's hip is lame

i really hate to do this but....i am asking for help. but only if it's within anyone's abilities.

i've talked about it a bit by i have pretty bad hip dysplasia and will need to get a replacement surgery in the next five years, i unfortunately cannot afford to refill my pain meds and muscle relaxers this month and i'm already feeling the effects of cutting my remaining doses in half. anything will help and be so greatly appreciated. but i know it's a lot to even think of asking with everyone having their own stuff going on ♡

ko-fi account

seriously, anything will help. even just a signal boost or a reblog, i appreciate y'all so much and don't want to be a worry wart with this.

#dev talks #personal #medical stuff #mobility issues #pain management #life sucks sometimes #medical issues #healthcare is a joke #pedro pascal fandom

[homosociallyyours]

This is a post for one of my best friends who's been going through a lot for the past few years. I'll go into more details below, but here's the heart of the matter: My friend has a serious auto-immune condition resulting from the long term after effects of cancer treatments (worsened now by the addition of long COVID to her long list of diagnoses). Over the past few years, she's gotten sicker and sicker and has been forced to change her diet from a vegetarian anti-cancer diet (she's a breast cancer survivor, and fought HARD for her health) to one that's become more and more limited as her body becomes allergic to every food one by one. She's now reached a point where one of the last 2 foods that she was able to eat safely, chicken, is causing an allergic reaction; she has to eat it anyway to survive, so is now very sick all the time.

What can you do?

One of the last hopes that she has to turn things around is something called a fecal microbiome transplant, which has worked miracles for other people with similar issues, but cannot currently be accessed through medical channels in the US for any but one (unrelated) condition. It's really easy to do as a DIY treatment though, it's just hard to find a donor: so we are putting it out there to see if one of you might be able and willing to be that person, or know someone who could do it.

Here is what she has to say about the ask:

Finding the right person to do this is difficult, but actually doing the helping is extremely easy and quick if someone was that person! If you live in the continental US and are fortunate enough to have both physical and mental good health (or know someone or have a child who fit the criteria) and are willing, you might be able to change my life! Please consider clicking through to read more and maybe even come aboard...  (For clarity: this isn't a medical procedure or anything, it is literally just donating poop, there are a few specifics but it is very much from the comfort of your home on your own time.)

You can click here to fill out a google form to see if you might be able to be a donor. The questionaire is detailed: fecal transplant is a bizarre and magical thing in which the patient sometimes can even end up acquiring personal preferences from the donor- the gut microbiome (sometimes called the second brain) is incredible! But this means that any illness, chronic issues, or risk factors you carry may also be transferred to the recipient so while it may feel invasive, getting detailed info in very necessary; I am just too sick already to take on any more problems.

A note- yes, it is possible to buy screened and processed treatments even in the US: unfortunately the cost (~$2k per round of treatment) is way outside my reach, particularly given that it isn't really any better than just getting poop directly from a good candidate (proven via studies), and that often it takes trying a couple donors/ rounds to find a match that gets results. If anyone wants to just buy me that stuff, I sure wouldn't say no to that, but given the severity of my situation (medical and financial; I cannot work due to disability) it is likely I will need to do medical fundraising at some point and I am trying to save that for an even worse point. Also if you have that kind of money to help out honestly it would be better spent on specialists or my astronomical food costs. I will cover all costs associated with this process if I find someone though, of course!

Thank you for reading/boosting/etc, please consider sending the link to possible healthy friends or family who might be a fit, or consider whether you have a child fitting the bill you might be willing to enlist- young microbiomes are the best ones, as children's systems have had less time to be ravaged by the effects of the modern world or the simple deterioration of age.

#signal boost #medical issues #health #please fill out the form at the link that's below the read more #and share this post and/or the survey link with anyone you know who might be a good fit #i'm not exaggerating when i say that the worsening of her condition is really fucking scary #genuinely don't know what i would do without her #also how great would it be to tell everyone your shit is LIFE SAVING??

[comehellorhighwatertheywillwrite]

Can you submit your own insanity? Because looking back to when I posted this, I realize just how crazy it was that I was so blasé about the situation!

Holy fucking god man

#medical issues #come hell or high water they will write #illness tw #the devil works hard but fic writers work harder #archive of our own #fanfiction #ao3 #ao3 notes #fanfic #submission #writing #fanfiction.net

[ofsappho]

Medical update (TW)

Hi everyone. Thank you guys so so so much for your patience, well wishes, and support. I am incredibly sorry and disappointed in myself that I haven’t been able to update recently because of my myriad of health issues and crises.

Now for the update.

- unfortunately I relapsed into self harm on my birthday. It’s a rough day for me and always has been. I lost my 22 week clean streak. But it’s okay, I will make it to 22 weeks again 💗.

- I saw a surgeon last week who specializes in spine surgery and that appointment went really well. I have a lot of hope about the future. I am having epidural steroid injections this coming Tuesday to help calm down my herniated discs and make me immediately comfortable. I have to get some more tests and x rays done for the surgeon to fully see what’s wrong with my spine, but surgery is very much on the table.

- I won’t really get into the full extent of it but these next few days will be really hard for me. Unfortunately, a lot of the trauma I explore in my stories are autobiographical. If my work has ever resonated with you, I hope you know that you’re not alone and you’re resonating with me and what I’ve been through.

Every single adult in my childhood (save for one) neglected/abused/hurt/abandoned me and today I have to go meet one of them for the first time in years. I am doing my very best but… I’m scared. I’m terrified. I’m so anxious. I spent all of last night crying over this person.

It will be alright eventually. I am still working on fic and trying to put down a few words everyday. But please, please, please - continue to have patience and faith in me 💗

Love y’all

- ofsappho aka Ophelia

#personal #medical update #medical issues

[magnetothemagnificent]

I dunno as someone who actually has problems with my urinary system and wants to read fics where characters experience similar experiences to myself, I hate how the only genres of "character has incontinence/urinary dysfunction" are either kink related, age-regression related, or both.

Like how about people can have urinary incontinence/dysfunction without it being fetishized or infantilized?

#sigh #personal #ableism #medical issues #fandom negative #fetishization #infantilization #urinary incontinence #urinary dysfunction

[textk4kira]

pcos as an intersex condition

I believe the reason why many people are resistant to the idea of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) as an intersex condition is because they would have to accept that many people who are AFAB (especially cis women) are in fact, intersex.

I was assigned female at birth and diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 19. It took me some time to come to understand my intersex condition, which includes elevated testosterone levels and irregular periods. I was prescribed birth control to manage my symptoms and received an ultrasound to check for cysts on my ovaries (it was during this ultrasound appointment that I first experienced an instance of medical malpractice.)

I'm also a nonbinary person who struggles with mental health issues.

Overall, I'm proud of being intersex And trans. I stand in solidarity with my trans and intersex friends and family 💗

#I love my intersex body 💗 #actually intersex #pcos #medical issues #medical mistreatment #trans issues #trans rights #trans #queer #lgbtq #mental health #panic disorder with agoraphobia #nonbinary #tme/tma users dni #transmeds dni #anti transmed #intersex positivity #intersex

[zoroshark]

In need of medical help

I know this is mainly an art blog, but I'm in a bit of a bind right now when it comes to my health and need some help. Currently, I don't have the resources I need to get checked out by specialists, so I made a GoFundMe. Even if you can't donate, spreading the word would be appreciated! 

Here’s the link to my GoFundMe

So for a TLDR of all this, I was given multiple antibiotics (five in total) for a UTI, in which it messed up my stomach badly and I have been in pain ranging from uncomfortable to intolerable each day. while I'm UTI free right now, am still having symptoms. Other problems were also discovered and need to be addressed. This was all in a span of about 2 months. 

While I could of done commissions instead, I already have a few needed to be done for friends and want to get them done first. Thankfully all of them are understanding of my situation and have given me time to work on them at my own pace and do more personal art.  Drawing has so far helped me get through the day. Some days are harder than others, but at least on the easier days, I can keep myself distracted. So I'll still be making art and doing what I can to rest while I wait on the resources I need for answers.

#zoro rambles #gofundme #help #crowdfunding #mutual aid #medical issues #personal

[ichangenameseveryfiveseconds]

hey guys help, something hurts

It's like below my chest but above the stomach, around where the ribs end, almost dead center but very slightly to my left

Hurts there in one specific point

Am I about to die???? or am I fine

#medical issues

[wakandama2]

JUST BECAUSE OZEMPIC CAN CAUSE WEIGHT LOSS DOES NOT MEAN IT IS A WEIGHT LOSS MEDICATION. PLS STOP USING IT IF YOU ARE NOT DIAGNOSED TYPE 2 DIABETIC 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

#type 2 diabetes #diabetics #medical issues #medical mistreatment #chronic illness

[perrysoup]

Hey so like, people realize we as a society make fun of larger people like it means nothing right?

Like, it’s really fucked up.

If someone’s an ass, call them an asshole, don’t bring people’s body into this, you have no clue what their life or medical history is like.

If all you can do to make someone be the bad guy is “they so fat!” You aren’t dissing them, you’re being a bad human, and should really think about why you think weight is appropriate,

And just so we are all clear, that was me. I would make fun of larger people, and why? Cause the social stigma about it scared me so much, and having my own weight fears led me to being a terrible person.

I had to accept that and get over it, and some of you need to as well.

You are better than this. WE are better than this.

Do better.

#fatphobia #weight #medical issues #change #be better

[mayalaen]

I managed to go this whole time without any of the three of us getting Covid and I caught it from an asshole who went to work sick.

The ONLY place I take off my mask when out (we only go out to doc visits, which has been really inconvenient, but we're careful because of our health issues) is the dentist's office.

While I was on the chair, I heard the dentist off in another room tell a coworker she was "getting over a cold."

I should've left, but she had already been working on me for about 10 minutes and had my braces apart.

Even though the whole office wears masks, it's those shitty paper masks. I wear the N95 into and out of the place, but take it off only when I'm in the room in the chair.

I know people have to make a living, and employers don't let people take time off, but for immunocompromised people who just want to get their fucking teeth taken care of, this totally sucks 😡

It took 2 days for me to notice symptoms, so I had been in the house with 2 other immunocompromised people that whole time.

Not only has my mom got cancer, but she's got that eye issue that she's getting immuneotherapy for, and if she gets sick, she can lose more or possible all of the sight in that eye.

#covid #real life #about me #this is me complaining #ranting #medical issues

[penvisions]

dev’s stressed + commissions?

hey y'all, i'm so sorry to do this and it makes me feel a little uncomfortable after all the help everyone was kind enough to provide for me to get my meds (which i pick up today!). but i'm asking for some help to get groceries now. i feel so lame but the bakery hasn't paid me any of my residual hours i've missed for medical leave like they're supposed to. it's leaving me with very little to get by and i'm so stressed.

ko-fi account

there is absolutely no pressure but any and all help is appreciated beyond words. i really don't know where i would be without y'all here in my phone

i'm even open to doing drabble / one shot commissions (500-2.5k words) if that helps to sweeten the deal? i've entertained the thought in the past but now seems a good time to revisit it. it's about what i can do to improve my situation now while my job takes their time.

payments could be posted to my ko-fi but the conversations can take place here via dms. payment is not required until the prompt is accepted and completed. there will be the offer for a private exchange of the finished fic (email) or for it to be posted on my page here with appropriate tags and mentions. i'm thinking of opening up 5/6 slots and keeping a rotation depending on how this idea works out?

commission criteria:

any pedro boy (even those we haven't seen yet like lucien)

can be 'x reader' or 'x original character'

could be one shots from universes i've already established

any genre

can be a specific prompt / phrase

$20-25?

#dev talks #personal #mobility issues #limited mobility #medical stuff #medical issues #life is hard #ko-fi #ko fi support #artists on kofi #dev writes #commissions #writing commissions #fic writing #fanfiction #pedro pascal #pedro pascal fandom #pedro pascal fanfiction #joel miller #joel miller fanfiction #joel miller x reader #frankie morales #frankie morales fanfiction #frankie morales x you

[mxestro]

Apologies for continuing silence (those of you still wanting to interact, lol) I'm in the process of packing. My wife and I are relocating back to her home state due to a parent having been diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. We're currently in the middle of packing, getting our cards ready for the 2,300 mile trip. Please know that I AM intending to return to this blog. I'm also on my reserve laptop, as my desktop officially died back in the last part of January.

Just, between this, working over forty hours at my job per week. (I'm also losing this job, and looking from WFH- so if anyone has any leads, please let me know.)- and also doing grad school, I'm perpetually exhausted.

Thank you for staying here, and thank you for checking on me.

-regards

Jazzmun.

#o o c« exhausted #cancer mention #tw: cancer #cw: cancer mention #medical issues #help.

[notalizard]

POV: Checking drafts after a mental breakdown

#mental breakdance #? #mental breakdown #why was mental breakdance a tag??? #why was it before mental breakdown????? #anyway #i’m stressed #I’m not blessed #have a day #or some shit #fuck i’m so tired #fuck my body #medical issues #mental illness #tw: mental illness #mental health #tw: mental health #gonna squeeze in all the fucking tags #goodnight whores

[ofsappho]

Medical Update 2

Hello! Cuckoo here again posting on ofsappho's behalf.

After being kept overnight and put on a pre-surgical fast before emergency spine surgery, they were told after the morning shift came in that the surgery was cancelled. They were told they WOULD need the surgery EVENTUALLY, but they are "too young" (ofsappho is an adult who can rent, vote, drink, etc.), and that they are being referred to a specialist or two who will do some treatments ofsappho has already gone through, that demonstrably do not work.

Ofsappho has done a great job documenting and keeping proof of their medical journey to advocate for themselves. But the new shift of doctors decided that despite escalating symptoms and evidence of ongoing damage (not my place to go into super-specifics, but they are CONCERNING), they want some old hoops jumped through a second/third/fourth time.

Is it for insurance reasons? They wouldn't say. Is it reverse ageism? They did cite age before mentioning anything else under pressure. A touch of medical misogyny (afab person in pain = can't be as bad as they say it is)? Likely.

Naturally, there's a lot of frustration now on top of the pain. They sent ofsappho home with a WALKER, folks. Which, considering their refusal to act is vaguely insulting.

Continued thoughts, prayers, and spare favors appreciated.

#personal #medical issues #ageism