#'treatment' like waving a magic wand over fucking autoimmune disease
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Somehow always manage to forget how painful a flare is until one hits. And then it's like. yeah. An inflamed and swollen large bowel with ruptured ulcers is agonizing.
#idk why i just keep forgetting how debilitating this is#something to do with seven undiagnosed years of being told it's all in my head ig#mind you this is WITH treatment. My medication keeps flares under control#But people think treatment means getting rid of the inflammation instead of keeping low as possible and flares less frequent#'treatment' like waving a magic wand over fucking autoimmune disease#i have no idea how i lived those seven years without it#imagine shitting blood doubled over with pain while believing it's all psychosomatic and youre just in need of cognitive behavioural therapy#obviously i am still a flaming wreckage of a person several years on. who wouldn't be#knee of huss#tw: gore#tw: medical gaslighting#tw: medical trauma#inflammatory bowel disease#ulcerative colitis#chronic illness#spoonie
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