#medical shit

[shiftythrifting]

No comment.

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #medical shit #stretchers #shiftylisting #nc

[dizzy1ife]

when the effects of a medical condition are also the triggers for that medical condition

#🤌 #chronic illness #chronically ill #fibro #fibromyalgia #spoonie #spoonie problems #disability #disabled #physical disability #physically disabled #medical shit #chronic pain #chronic fatigue

[densewentz]

When half your body has been completely numb from your sternum to your knee for 5 days and your doctor is just like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#I'm going to scream #medical shit #personal #honeslty the feeling is horrible but it doesnt HURT #so i could live with it for now if its just one of Those Things #but the toll its taking on my mental health is just #horrific lol #dense rants

[illustriousseu]

#amazon #amazon favorites #amazon finds #human anatomy #medical stuff #medical shit #medical school #medical studyblr #medical supplies #medical student #medical spa #medical studies #studystudystudy #study studyblr #studyinspo #study space #study aesthetic #study shows #studyabroad #study notes #study session #studyspo #studyblr #bible study #art study #amazon fashion #study stuff

[delphi-dreamin]

Well, my loves, the news is not great.

The fusion was Tuesday, and then my surgeon had to go in again yesterday for a laminectomy and diskectomy. He said that he's glad he went in the order that he did with the surgeries because he could barely tell what was what when he went in through my back. Apparently, the last surgeon did a hack job and took out too much bone, left too much disk, AND I had another herniated disk in August of '22 that no one thought to say anything about. On top of all of that, I had two tears in my dura, so I'm leaking CSF. If those don't heal on their own, I'll have to go in for another surgery next week to repair them.

And my facial piercings all closed. So that's just the icing on top of this shitty cake... I'm unfortunately gonna be out of commission for a while. Right now, I can't even sit up. I have to lay down flat. And they can only tilt me 30° to eat and drink. I've basically got an uphill battle, but I'm fighting. I haven't given up yet.

If you're the praying type, pray for me. If not, send all the good vibes.

Love you all

#the oracle speaks #personal #medical shit #I'm apparently very broken

[tropicalgothships]

Wasn’t able to get the full results of the MRI today but all of the cysts have grown. They’re now in the XL category, and I’ve got to go back to the hospital (not today btw just very soon!) and get them taken out. They’re all extremely painful now and I’m a lot more bloated and tired.

So not great, and everything up in the air but hey.

#status update #medical tw #medical shit #ovarian cysts #uterine cyst

[desert-fern]

The one personal thing that I will be posting about on here: just got clinically diagnosed with anxiety and depression.

Doc isn’t sure about ADHD just yet because the DSM-5 is helpful and there is a shit ton of overlap between things like ADHD, Autism, anxiety, and depression and a whole whack of other things. Guess that’s what happens when you classify illnesses based on symptoms, but whatever.

At least I have an answer? Idk if it will help or hinder me rn

#fern rambles #tw: depression #medical shit

[britcision]

So let me tell you what they do when you’re human and your RBC (red blood cell count) reaches 4 g/dL

1) you are required to report to the hospital for emergency blood transfusion. They did not call me; they called my emergency contacts, because apparently I should not have been driving

Drove myself to the blood test 15 hours before but shhh don’t think about that

Cuz yeah, 2) the lab calls directly

It doesn’t go to your doctor first

You get the call from the lab tech, the second the test has been run. Literally, my doctor was told after we were, because Time Is Of The Essence

I, bad at being up at 8am, kept trying to go back to bed. This was not permitted

3) you get your ass put through the ER at lightning speed, I have never gone through faster including for the chest cramps that I could not stop screaming through

Still haven’t been rushed in with an injury as opposed to chronic illness fucking me up though, so ymmv

I felt significantly better with the extreme anaemia, I was just tired and bad at stairs

I did not even believe I needed to be at the hospital that urgently (literally my dad didn’t wait for me to get dressed he got me out of bed and in the car)

4) they don’t wait for a bed they stick your ass in a chair in the hall it’s fine lying down is optional but blood is not

This may be due to it being the day after New Years, when a lot of people have made the poor hospital very busy from both Christmas and the new year

This is why it is Extra Bad when the local hospital is so underfunded they close their ER doors for the entire month of December and reopen January 3, Doug Ford

5) you get at least 600mL of new blood, sharpish. That’s two bags, and the Standard Blood In Speed is 4 hours per bag and the fastest they’ll go if you haven’t had a transfusion before.

Do not let them put the fucking needle in your hand because those veins are small and require slower speeds but lying bastards will tell you it won’t

They are lying

If you have had a transfusion before and were Good At Blood, you can get it at double speed so each bag only takes 2 hours and you aren’t in the hospital all day on your birthday

Unless aforementioned lying bastards put the needle in your hand, in which case double speed is the same 4 hours as Standard because they are dicks

You can listen to most of 20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea in 8 hours. Receiving blood transfusions does not enhance the experience

It may in fact be detrimental

6) the nurses will not believe you when you come back in 2 weeks after your first transfusion because you have noticed you’re having the same symptoms as the time you were RUSHED WITH ALL HASTE

The hospital will then do their own blood test to decide if they take you seriously, realise your RBC is now 6 g/dL as opposed to a healthy 12-16 g/dL, and suddenly move much faster

Pointing out you were there two weeks ago and they should already be seeing the old test results in your medical history does not help

7) noticeable symptoms of such severe anaemia include hot flashes, for which you should acquire ice cream sandwiches

Ice cream sandwiches are great for short hot flashes 10/10 recommend

Mint flavoured even better menthol tastes like cold

Tl;dr: blood is apparently underrated and you do in fact need a lot of it super urgently

Also red blood cells on their own live about 2 weeks and if your RBC goes right back down after that your bone marrow is no longer making red blood cells

You will not be able to tell where any of the buggers have gone because your RBC can get down to 4g/dL without any blood actually exiting your body so they’re probably re metabolised

#medical shit #red blood cell count: apparently very important #medical #doctors #hospitals #seriously never take a transfusion through your hand if you have a choice #also bring a friend #letting the patient escape to acquire own snacks is in fact frowned on #anaemia #they fixed my bone marrow it’s fine now #i’m just not allowed on imuran #nor are 14-35% of other people #cuz i get all the weird or reverse side effecta #woooooo me

[celtic-crossbow]

My doctor thought I had fibromyalgia, but the rheumatologist says that I have hyper mobility disorder. I don’t even know what the hell that is, but they said the only thing that can fix it is physical therapy, which I can’t do because of my back injury. So I’m screwed?

#personal shit #medical shit

[theunholystromboli]

Guy about to invent the MRI: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be inside a fax machine possessed by a demon?

#medical shit #chronic illness #disability humor #mri scan #actually disabled

[owlbelly]

had a nap, woke up, gave myself a panic attack by reading medical websites & reddit threads on "refractory celiac disease" suggesting that gluten cross-contamination (via kitchen implements used by the rest of my family, or like...any processed foods even including some GF-labeled shit) could be enough to have continued to damage my insides even though i did not consciously consume anything containing gluten in 2023

& the thought of being asked to do a GF regimen so restrictive that it involves sterilizing my kitchen, never touching anything my family uses to cook with and/or never eating any processed or prepackaged food at all ever just sent me into a fucking spiral. i can't live like that. i would not be able to continue to feed myself

i know i should stop reading stuff. i know

i just want someone to tell me how fucking likely it is that i have asymptomatic, seronegative, AND refractory (or hyper-sensitive cross-contamination) celiac disease because my doctor doesn't seem to think it can be anything else & i know i'm gonna get a second opinion but what if the second opinion is "die"

#ailments #medical shit #this is so so so bad for my brain #i've had a miserable relationship with food my entire life #for the love of fuck please do not make it worse

[shiftythrifting]

spotted at value village Chicago

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #medical shit #lmao #yeeterus #housewares #cups #thrift finds

[dizzy1ife]

I just put on a heart monitor, which I have to wear for a week, and I don't like it. I can feel it very consciously, and that bothers me.

Now let's go to school with it on and have people stare at me!

#so excited #i hate high school #i didn’t choose the chronic illness life. the chronic illness life chose me. #chronically ill #chronic illness #medical shit #physical disability #physically disabled #disability #disabled

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I've got PT today and woke up achy due to incoming rain.

Send support, please. I'm gonna go because that's what you do when it's just your body being your body but omg I am gonna be a huge bitch about it.

#physical therapy #medical shit #fun fact the sore hip isn't even the reason for PT. #which is extra annoying

[heysawbones]

Back when I worked in the ER, I learned that people have some pretty unrealistic expectations of medical science. Most of them can be summed up as, if you’ve done everything right, I’ll be healed. This is not true. There are too many variables, too many unknowns and little-knowns at play for doing everything right to definitively solve all medical problems. Still, medical science has gotten good enough at solving enough problems for people to expect iron-clad outcomes.

Aside from being annoying for medical providers, I suspect these expectations have contributed to unrealistic expectations about contagious illness in densely populated areas. As in: if everyone is doing everything right, I will not get sick. I’ve seen this attitude pop up a lot since covid started. I speculate people are subconsciously conflating ideas about masking/social distancing vs. covid, with Being Ill In General: if you mask and social distance properly, I will not get covid becomes if everything is running as it should, I will not get a contagious illness (because modern medicine can cure and prevent everything if they’re trying hard enough and doing it right). I don’t think this is conscious at all, given that it’s ridiculous on its face. It’s between the lines - this weird expectation of perfect health, if only the government did what I wanted it to do! If only institutions worked the way I wanted. If only doctors tried harder.

I think this mindset is going to make life going forward very difficult for a lot of people. Yes, medical science can treat a lot. We’re also heading into an era of superbugs and unprecedented human connectivity. The world keeps getting smaller, in ways. Covid could’ve been a lot worse. This is completely out of left-field and I have no accountability for it, but I… kinda expect we’ll see something worse in our lifetimes. I really do. Just a gut feeling.

It’ll be easier to stomach that if we don’t have this wildly ahistorical idea of baseline human health going into it. And uh. It’ll probably be easier when you get the flu or whatever too. I get flu shots every season, but I still got the goddamn flu. There’s nobody to be mad at. Shit just happens. People get sick. That’s normal and sometimes it’s really not anybody’s fault.

#blah blah blah #covid #medical shit

[delphi-dreamin]

Hey, y'all. So, I have a bit of a life update. I'm uh. Having some pretty severe health problems right now. Like. Worried I may be coming to the end of my walking days severe. So, I'm gonna be taking a bit of a creative break. I'm not putting any pressure on myself to do anything. Just. Taking things as they come.

Luckily this all happened after I started my vacation, but I still feel terrible about it. So um. Yeah. I love you all so very, very much! And uh. If you're the prayin' kind, I'd appreciate 'em.

#the oracle speaks #personal shit #medical shit