#but its not just the joint pain

[peachykcqt]

Do you have bendy ligaments or some other fresh hell?

I can't imagine how exhausting chronic pain is. Gentle hugs 💚

i sure do 😭 but ive also the "some other fresh hell" too lol, idk what exactly the cause of my chronic pain is i just know theres a lot of it :s ty for the gentle hugs tho 💚

[milkweedman]

It is interesting how much math comes into even the most basic of like. Making things. Making almost anything. And often not numbers necessarily but proportions and geometry. I think all the time about how castles were built with geometry at the heart of it. And I use the same kind of proportional math to make socks fit. And none of my pieces are ever knit with a prime number of stitches--because you use factors to make neat colorwork and ribbing and different stitches. Idk ! I remember constantly thinking 'how the hell is THIS gonna come in useful ?' But it always does. Math is at the heart of everything, and knowing how to apply it is a tool of critical importance to Thinking Up A Shape And Making It.

[sam-not-sammie]

During my last therapy session, I was getting into how much being disabled has affected my mental health, and how at least soon-ish i’ll be getting a surgery that might lead to a diagnosis and treatment plan, and when I told her about the specific conditions they’re looking for, her whole face fell in empathy and sympathy for me.

She began to tell me that considering how painful those conditions were, she totally understands how stressed I’ve been.

(I then had to tell her that the surgery I’m getting won’t even address the issues at the top of my priority list, but it was nice to finally be able to get some treatment/options after about 10 years of trying to figure this out.)

It caught her so off guard, and i just kinda laughed because yeah being chronically ill and disabled is just like that!

[so-very-small]

a friendly giant tries to gently approach tiny me but they don’t know i accidentally lapsed on my antidepressants for a week and i just start biting the shit out of their hand the second its in reach like fucking shredding that thing im like a two inch bundle of knives and claws and i know a rage only held by people who realize they’re acting unmedicated but cannot restrain it. bc of the being unmedicated. get bit idiot.

[tumble-tv]

I love waking up at 2 in the morning when my muscle relaxers wear off and lying in pain while any movement causes my legs to spasm. It's really the best part of my day. /sarcastic

[vespermyotis]

cant stop thinking “edward little moment” whenever something bad happens to me and honestly. affirming

[vampiresconce]

for @bsd-disability-week-2024

prompts: hypermobility

dazai with hEDS is something so important to me actually because before i got actual braces for my hands i literally looked like him

[chiprewington]

peeled

[iamroyalgayness]

Ok, the weirdest thing just happened, I was just sitting on the couch watching random yt vids, and I suddenly got a knock on the door. I answered it, and they said they were looking to rack up some leaves for gas money.

Now that's not necessarily weird in itself, but the weird part was they said that our neighbors across the street first and the neighbor said that a disabled woman lived here, so that's why they wanted to help here if they could. I just politely turned them away and said we had been just busy lately.

Here's the thing, the neighbors aren't entirely wrong, I am not a woman (I'm afab tho) yet I am disabled, but I only have invisible disabilities (hEDS, chronic joint pain, asthma, etc) and I don't use mobility aids (yet) and we don't really talk so I have no idea what led them to not only say there was a disabled person here but to just tell random people who showed up at their door where a disabled person lives.

I know they were probably trying to be nice and help both us and the people in need of gas, but damn that was weird as hell and kinda unsafe. Idk, maybe I'm just reading too much into it...

[nabaath-areng]

In other news despite being knocked out for several hours earlier due to my pulse flipping the fuck out I've finally managed to cook and eat and shower without collapsing!!! Took me the entire day but still!!!!!

[cordyceptic]

does anyone want to send a few dollars to my cashapp so i can afford to get cbd or something like that for pain relief haha... 🧍

[juiceboxthief]

is there a single character that Charlie slimesicle has created that doesn't have some sort of chronic pain? and/or body horror? mostly both.

[saym0-0]

fucked up my knee in the summer somehow and now its RAINING and my KNEE HURTS

[tumble-tv]

Had to leave school early again because the pain was making me nauseous, and I couldn't focus, and I was struggling to stand for more than like 30 seconds. I hate this. I missed a cool assembly because of this. I missed my favorite class because of this. I'm so tired.

[academiccockroach]

it's 1 AM and I have a very specific bone to pick with a very specific thing I consume, enjoy and endorse wholeheartedly

here's the thing about vampire bites. they are depicted as this little unhinged and nasty but mostly sexy thing right. our guy (gender neutral) gets bitten and it's like ah! it hurts but also it hurts good ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). and here im talking about like. proper vampire teeth, non of that twilight bullshit just two to four proper fangs nothing more nothing less

well clearly the person writing the sexy biting smut scene has never been bitten by a cat. I dont mean like 'ah no Scruffy bit me a little' i don't even mean 'oh no Sceuffy bit me a lot' i mean like a fully grown ass feral cat that has never been touched by human in its life and craves the taste of flesh biting thru skin muscle cartilage -even sometimes bone- whatever the fuck you got in your meat sack that tiny needle thin tooth is piercing right through it

and here's the thing. it doesn't hurt at first oh no. okay well it hurts but if doesn't hurt too much ya know what i mean. and it leaves a cute little mark nothing serious at all

but in a day that wound is gonna swell. and it's gunna. hurt like all fuck because it just directly injected about five gazillion bacteria directly into a neat little incubation pouch and then closed it right up. its gona swell its gonna ooze and throb and hurt and if that shits in your neck ur pretty much done for i mean an infection right next to the jugular is just easy mode for the bacteria

so unless your vampire boyfriend gargles with antiseptic beforehand you aint gotta worry about turning or bleeding out or developing a biting kink cus youre gonna be delirious from meningitis with a football sized phlegmone in your neck beggjng for the sweet sweet release of death thank you for coming to my ted talk please ensure your vampire boyfriend employs proper dental hygiene

[caffeinatedopossum]

My constant physical state lately has been like what I assume a healthy person feels doing intense exercise

Like 24/7 just so fucking tired, out of breath, heart is racing, muscles are all sore. Then some other stuff like dizziness, blacking out, and loss of balance/coordination that maybe normal people don't experience from working out unless they really over do it

Add to all of that my other symptoms like joint pain in all my fucking joints and migraines and I'm really not sure how I'm alive some days