#IVE HAD ALL THAT TESTED BUT WHAT THE SHIT

[teaboot]

Regarding migraines:

Pain is one of the symptoms but it's not the only one and, most importantly, it's not necessary for having a migraine + it's not necessary for migraines to be debilitating to the point you can't get up.

Basically the cutoff for 'migraine vs sparkling headache ' is how many boxes if checks, regardless of which symptoms those boxes belong to.

One of the boxes is "if pain then is it pulsing and mostly on one side of the head?" but how much pain is not the cutoff ('silent migraines' exist and they are migraines without the pain.)

Also if you have migraines more than once every couple of months you may want to get your blood pressure checked (along with head/neck injuries blood pressure is one of the most common causes. It definitely is the easiest to check and solve for)

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

I TBOUGHT I GOT ONE EVERY THREE MONTHS OR SO

YOU MEAN IM HAVING THEM EVERY 2-3 WEEKS?????

[fatal-blow]

something i think about constantly is this one guy at the nursing home i used to work at whose hands and fingers had crumpled in on themselves, not as a fist but sorta like an accordian or a zigzag, where one set of joints was pulled into the palm but the tips of the fingers were pulled outwards

and the last time i was at my nana's, i noticed the tips of a couple of her fingers had something similar going on, where it looked like the tip of the middle was permantly pulled to the side, making it crooked at the end

and my mother of course with all the health problems as me has the same crooked fingers, all pulled in similar directions

all of them say that arthritis caused it

if i look at my own hands, the tip of my middle finger peels backwards, which i was told was a symptom of Ehlers-Danlos, hypermobility, where the fingers would overextend themselves. the knuckle of my ring ringer doesn't jut out as much either, and my pinkie fingers are typically stiff and lately, as i continue my treatment, it almost feels like they're getting pulled off to the side as well. ive even developed a small callous on the palm right below the pinkie, where the bone seems to press against (and theres no other reason i would have a callous there)

i also think about how arthritis is supposed to start in the extremities, the hands and feet, and again in my feet it's the pinkie toe that's crunched up and pulled to the side, and the pinkie toe which i first noticed was getting less crunched as i continue treatment

and it all just perfectly aligns with the muscle tension patterns characteristic of neander foot/morton's foot. the primary compensation pattern is turning the feet outwards (to make the big toe reach the ground properly), which overuses the fibularis muscles. the fibularis brevis muscle in particular connects to the beginning of the pinkie toe, like so

...so if that muscle is overtight, which toe is going to get pulled out of place first? the pinkie toe.

and all that would perfectly explain why overusing muscles can lead to arthritis, because that's what arthrtis is: muscles that get so, so, so overtight that the joints themselves can become damaged just from how hard the muscle is pulling on them, damage which accumulates overtime and gets progressively worse because, well, you can't just not use your muscles

and it's??? treatable??? even has a distinct cause???? im curing my own arthritis??????? hello???

[lord-squiggletits]

Speaking of Tyrest. A lot of people forget that he treated Pharma with absolute disdain, not only using him as a test subject for a clearly painful mass murder machine, but talking to Pharma like he saw him as nothing but some henchman to order around that was nothing more than a 'diseased cripple' if Tyrest hadn't come to rescue him.

Like it really is an interesting background dynamic with some curious implications, but when you look at fandom posts from around that issue/the years after, for some reason people just saw "Pharma worked with Tyrest" and concluded Pharma is a card carrying bigot ksjfnskxkd. Like yeah Pharma didn't do anything to stop Tyrest but it seems his main beef with the Autobots was with Ratchet in particular and maybe a general disdain for his ex-comrades. As well as continuing to hate Decepticons which like, not even the "good Autobots" are immune to (even in Pharma's introduction, First Aid says in his journal something like "yeah we all hate Decepticons, but Pharma REALLY hates them"). And despite what fandom likes to construe there's really no evidence in IDW1 that Autobots and Decepticons are different "races" or "types" of Cybertronians, so Pharma hating Decepticons really isn't a bigotry/robot racism thing. And instead probably has something to do with, idk, the 4 million year long galaxy-spanning blood feud war, or maybe being blackmailed and tortured into insanity by the Biggest and Most Decepticon-y of Decepticons.

Tyrest treated Pharma like trash, the other Decepticons working for Tyrest (how come no one ever brings that up btw) also hated him, so if anything it seems that Pharma was more of a rogue element only staying with Tyrest bc he was his best option and probably had no way to even escape.

I'm glad that at least in recent years the fandom has acquired a keen reading eye and good taste to finally recognize Pharma as the (accidentally) complex character he is instead of making him some posh, racist Starscream clone SHSJDGSGDH

[butchlifeguard]

vital part of the Kids Cant Read discourse thats KILLING ME is that the only opinions we see are from english teachers. this is fine when the discussion is ostensibly about literacy but i think we should pass the phone to math teachers and computer science teachers. because im a little suspicious that the focus on stem for the past 20+ years could be a contributing factor

[jils-things]

another thing before i go... i went to the optometrist today (mostly for my mother) but they had me check my eyesight and my mom is especially worried because i... am the most chronically online /j stare at screens all day everyday even in the dark and i am the type to get warned about it constantly. but even despite all that,

doc said i have 20/20 vision......

[ivnscribbles]

leaving secondary school & no longer doing English classes has made me realise that I actually really like English Lit just the stress of a timed essay made me loose my shit so bad that I fully did not want to go to classes for 4 years.

[neuroticboyfriend]

im never going to get quality healthcare am i

[rosecreates]

Raven and Astarion are basically just "Charlatan to Charlatan communication" without either realizing it because neither of them are very open about their pasts at first and in the scenario where Astarion enacts his simple plan on Raven he has no idea he is breaking Rule 0: Don't try to con another conman (or conwoman in this case).

Raven knows exactly what he's doing but she just doesn't tell him she knows until later because the game is fun.

Both of them thought this would stay a game but then they both catch feelings lmao. Absolute losers (affectionate).

[ennuidays]

i actually cant do this

[daforged]

i work really hard to not compare myself to others but it’s so bizarre to me to see other people my age like. going out all the time or travelling or even just living on their own. what do you mean all your money goes to just your own living expenses & your own fun and you aren’t the financial backbone of your family. every time i take vacation days a coworker will ask me if i’m going somewhere and its like no lmfao do you think im made of money. i dont think about it much because it doesn’t really do anything but upset me but deep down im so resentful of every other young adult who doesn’t have to pay their parents bills and just gets to blow their money on whatever the fuck whenever the fuck

[dogbunni]

BRO I AM SO STRESSED AND I AM STARTING TO SUFFER REAL MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[fagulaa]

im a grown ass man and im coming up with wolf 359 ocs. dont look at me

[angelstrawbabie420]

Hey boss, my hypochondria gets better if I try to draw. I don't know why but I draw hundreds of cubes on a piece of paper until my brain is completely occupied by cubes.

oh that’s so interesting ive definitely done similar things in the past but it was more-so drawing/writing abt the hypochondria itself to sort of purge myself of it. like i can distract myself with something unrelated for a bit but it always comes back; ive found during bouts of severe hypochondria i have to ruminate on it until my brain gets so exhausted of it that it short-circuits into “well if i die i die lol.”

however this is incredibly hard to do while sick and feeling like death itself seeing as death is actually much more of a possibility than if im just caught up on something like “what if i have cancer and don’t know” (while having no/unconfirmed to be that symptoms) as i know there’s smth actually wrong with me and im not just being 100% irrational

[29121996]

fucking aroubd and finding out if someones runnint their mouth . results arent in yet

[mechanicalprincette]

hhhhhhhhhhhh