#Lowering inflammation

[mehmetyildizmelbourne-blog]

Boosting Mitochondrial Health: How to Tame Chronic Inflammation with DAMPs Know-How

Exploring Mitochondrial Damage Signals and Practical Steps to Reduce Inflammation for Optimal Cellular Health I talk a lot about Mitochondria, as they matter. Every cell needs them, and their dysfunction is associated with all metabolic diseases, cancers, and neurodegenerative disorders. They are extra critical for energy organs like the brain and the heart. So, if our mitochondria malfunction,…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

deep breaths + hugging the little friends. doing what I can for the One Bad Thing so we are celebrating all the good. there is SO much good!!

[bittersweetresilience]

i desperately need to be able to save scum real life. let me save before i nap and then reload if i have bad rng and oversleep

[wiltking]

been trying to do core workouts (cant do situps but i found some other things i can do) and im surprised to report my midsection had actually thickened out a little. its subtle, but i feel closer to how my body looked on T. a little less hourglass, a little closer to tree trunk. it makes me wonder what could happen if i continue

[faithfromanewperspective]

so you guys know how pain is meant to hurt less when your body has high levels of oxytocin? well, what if my pain scale wasn’t. 1-10 how much my body hurts. but either I’m lonely and feel unloved and like everyone hates me why does everything hurt OR I’m bleeding and shit but I can’t feel anything bc. cuddles

[dykesynthezoid]

My nerves compress very easily and now my left hip/thigh is numb and I don’t know whyyyyy which is so fun isn’t it. I probably just somehow put too much pressure on my hip while I was sleeping but it’s not going away which means it’s also probably something my slippery sacroiliac joint and evil tight muscles are continuing to press on. It only starts to go away if I lay completely on my stomach. Fun

[tryhoney-moved]

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[vizthedatum]

Tomorrow is a new day. I took an at-home urinalysis test and I think I’m IC flaring BLAH.

Ugh. I had an amazing vacation but I’ve been so stressed by my life and all the uncertainty I’ve been facing.

Despite my pain and fatigue, I feel a lot more relaxed after some self-care though: showered, sanitized my makeup, cleaned a little, wrote up baking plans for the weekend, moisturized, told myself affirmations, ate more food, journaled, listened to music, and told myself that I am so much happier not being in a relationship where I felt my emotional needs were unfulfilled (and I truly am happier).

Tomorrow: I’ll have lunch out with one really amazing friend, then co-work with my brother the rest of the day, and really try to get my work tasks done. I know I can do this. And it’s not the end of the world if I can’t.

[undeadhousewife]

Sometimes throwing up IS the answer and I'm so tired of fighting it. Especially with how my crohns is, like it affects my stomach way more than most people realize. I just absolutely hate the stigma of throwing up. I constantly see posts from mutuals who have tummy issues who spend time on the toilet and I never, ever see posts about people with my issue.

[galaxae]

i got a good grade in lung inflammation :D but a bad grade in breathing 😔

[amplexadversary]

Those old negative-pressure ventilators (like the famous/infamous Iron Lung) are pretty fascinating in a number of ways.

We favor positive pressure, pumping air into the lungs, via intubation in extreme cases, but that approach has a lot of drawbacks. The emergence of covid increased demand, especially for the kind of extended use that can lead to lung damage. I wonder how fast we could have moved out new negative pressure ventilators (wikipedia page linked to one kind) if we had better public health funding (both in general and not having been fucking gutted right before we ended up needing it.)

The negative pressure machines make it harder to examine a patient, but the relative expense (including training of medical personnel), non-invasive method (and lack of associated side effects, discomfort, and distress), and general quality of life seem like they would have been good to have earlier on (hell, modern technology arguably removes some of the restriction problems that older models had; theoretically you could wire a keyboard or a video game controller in there that could be used to operate a computer, tv, e-reader, and whatnot, which would probably improve prognoses from just the psychological condition of being not in pain and not bored.)

Not a lot of old ventilators like that are still in functional condition, and people who genuinely have needed them indefinitely eventually started having trouble sourcing parts to keep the things working. They do restrict movement but as an alternative to intubation in cases extreme enough to need it, they still seem by far the more comfortable option. Since positive pressure ventilators are so resource-intensive and invasive, I wonder if keeping both kinds around and transferring people to a newer model of negative pressure chamber if extended use is needed would be the ideal protocol. Covid is still a problem even though we're largely ignoring it, we could probably still use a respectable reserve of negative pressure chambers for all their benefits.

[anftherapy]

4 Keys for Diagnosing Spondylolysis or Pars Fractures in Your Adolescent Patients :

1) They're common in adolescents (age 12-18) who play sports that require a spinal extension

2) Low back pain is worse with activity (sporting activities generally) and improves with rest

3) Pain is generally worse with activities that require extension of the spine and better with flexion

4) Clinical tests for spondylolysis or pars fractures are generally unreliable. If these conditions are suspected, a neurological examination should be performed.

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[fingertipsmp3]

Okay I have decided I am going to do the pre-couch to 5k workout because my knee and my ankle are both too messed up to start running again but i’ve gotta do Something

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Aw, I’m sorry you’re not feeling well…

Hopefully you can cuddle up warm under the covers after work and get some sleep. Maybe have a little morsel to feed the cold.

Poor thing, you shouldn’t have to be out and about feeling so awful.

@oh-no-my-hand-slipped

🥺 gonna make me weep while I'm at work 😂😭 I wanna be in bed so bad but I'm still stuck here for at least another 12 hours 😭

[hotlizrd]

my left knee is crunchy, my right knee has a snapping tendon, and both of them buckle out of nowhere. im 26. (: