#cancer comorbidities

[desperatecheesecubes]

Told my coworker today that all 4 of my grandparents died of cancer and he went ‘woohoo! Won the lottery!’ Which was not the response I expected tbh

[diabetesreversalprograminindia]

10 Health Conditions Often Found with Diabetes

This article is originally published on Freedom from Diabetes website, available here. Unhealthy diets combined with lack of physical exercise and high-stress levels are known to trigger a phenomenon known as insulin resistance. The big issue of diabetes is a damage to organs. Without treatment, it worsens and causes many health issues.

10 Common Conditions That Follow Diabetes:

Heart disease Atleast 50% diabetics are suffering from the heart disease. It has some common risk. Smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, high-fat diets, and alcohol overconsumption are commonly seen in both these conditions. That also means that the measures that work to manage blood sugar levels (BSL) are equally effective in lowering the risk of heart damage. In this condition your first priority should be take care of your diabetes, and try to maintain normal blood sugar levels. So try to follow proper diet inlcuding healthy eating, low GI fruits, carbs, fiber, protein, and micronutrients like antioxidants are considered good for both the heart and BSL. Including your dialy routine exercise, meditation can help reduce stress and lower the risk of heart disease.

Joint Pain

Uncontrolled BSL can cause significant damage to the musculoskeletal system leading to compromised mobility and pain. Almost half of all adults with diabetes end up with arthritis as well. This is a result of high BSL that damages nerves and blood vessels, which goes on to erode the cartilage that cushions joints.

Muscle mass loss Everyone wants to build muscle, but it's especially important for diabetics. While walking used to be the main exercise recommended, doctors now recognize that muscle mass is crucial. Muscles burn glucose, so having more muscle helps burn more calories.

Slow-healing wounds

This is the most common symptoms of mismanaged diabetes is slow-healing wounds. Lack of sensitivity—caused by nerve damage—most often seen in the lower extremities means that cuts, blisters, and small sores can go unnoticed, becoming a breeding ground for harmful bacteria. This leads to open wounds, which the body is unable to quickly fight off owing to its compromised immunity, due to high BSL.

5.Hypertension (High BP)- Like diabetes, hypertension does not noticed easily. Many diabetics also have high blood pressure, often due to insulin resistance. Regularly check your blood pressure; if it's over 120/80, you may be at risk for hypertension. One of the primary causes of diabetic hypertension is plaque build-up on arterial walls, which is caused by high LDL cholesterol (aka, “bad” cholesterol). Losing weight is the first step in reducing risk and preventing complications. And this means, switching to a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, managing stress, stopping smoking, and reducing alcohol consumption.

Do you want to know more about, Skin Problems, High Cholesterol, Cancer, Memory loss, Fragile bones, and joint problems, visit our Article. To read more about this, please visit our Article. Also please connect with me on my website, Facebook page, and YouTube if you want to stay in touch or give me any feedback!

[diabetes-health-corner]

10 Common comorbidities of diabetes

Diabetes is the first domino in the pile of disorders. Once it falls, a host of health complications inevitably follow. Managing BSL helps reduce the risks, but you don’t have to stop there. Over time, and if left untreated, diabetes invariably gets worse, bringing myriad health complications.

Read more: https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/10-common-comorbidities-of-diabetes/2959

[yrfemmehusband]

Female reproductive health terms you should know!

(terfs not welcome)

Dysmenorrhea: Period pain that isn't normal, i.e. any pain more than Mild cramping.

Dyspareunia: painful intercourse

Oligomenorrhea: lighter, shorter menstrual flow.

Menorrhagia: heavier, longer menstrual flow.

Ovarian cysts: a mass on or in one's ovary, can be resolved on its own, or can remain and cause complications such as a rupture.

Polycystic ovary syndrome: a chronic condition causing cysts to reoccur on the ovaries and enlarging them. Symptoms include:

Irregular periods

hormonal imbalance

facial hair

weight gain

painful periods/ ovulation

infertility

People with PCOS are at higher risk for endometrial cancer, type II diabetes heart problems and high blood pressure.

Endometriosis: A chronic condition in which a tissue similar to, but different than, the endometrial lining grows outside of the uterus instead of inside. During menstruation this tissue sheds and has nowhere to go, thus irritating surrounding organs.

Symptoms include:

Irregular periods

Dysmenorrhea

Widespread pain

Painful ovulation

Vomiting, fainting, chills, sweating, fever and brain fog during menstruation

Infertility

Severe bloating

This also puts people at a higher risk for endometrial and ovarian cancer. There are four stages to Endo as it is a progressive disease, with 3/4 being more severe. The average time it takes to be diagnosed is 7 years.

Adenomyosis: A chronic disease similar and comorbid to endometriosis in which a tissue similar to the endometrial lining grows inside of the uterine wall. Symptoms are nearly identical to endometriosis but more difficult to detect.

Many people are diagnosed post menopause, by fault of the medical system, but it can and does develop much before then.

Ovarian cancer: cancer of the ovary(ies).

Endometrial cancer: cancer of the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus.

Endometrial cyst, or chocolate cyst: cystic lesions from endometriosis.

Tilted uterus: the uterus is positioned pointing towards the back or severely to the front of the pelvis instead of a slight tilt towards at the cervix. Can cause painful sex and periods.

Pelvic floor dysfunction: inability to control your pelvic muscles. Comorbid with many things and is highly comorbid with endometriosis. Can cause pain and incontinence.

Vulvodynia: chronic and unexplained pain at the opening of the vagina.

Interstitial cystitis: a chronic condition where cysts form on the inside of the bladder and urinary tract and cause symptoms similar to that of a UTI.

Pre-eclampsia: a condition occurring in pregnancy where the blood supply between the fetus and the pregnant person is affected and can cause irregular blood pressure, swelling, and in more severe cases headache, nausea and vomiting, a burning sensation behind the sternum, shortness of breath and potentially death if untreated.

Endometritis: an infection or irritation of the uterine lining. Is not the same as endometriosis and is treatable but can cause pain, bleeding, swelling, general discomfort and fever, and more.

Pelvic inflammatory disease: an infection of the reproductive organs

Ectopic pregnancy: a pregnancy that is attached to the outside of the uterus. Can be fatal if left untreated.

There are many more I could probably add but if you see something missing, please add it!

[cripplecharacters]

Hi, I'm working on a character who has vitiligo, is there any more information concerning makeup and skincare you can give me to add in the story?

Hi!

Generally for "research questions" I recommend using good old Google! You can very quickly (or at least infinitely faster than by asking us) answer them by visiting sites like the Vitiligo Society. Most disabilities have some sort of organization that offers the basic information about the condition itself. We are here more to provide writing advice.

With that said:

Vitiligo is one of the disabilities that are often much more socially disabling than medically (doesn't mean it that doesn't cause physical issues, though). There's not that many things that you can do about it, but one that you should consider:

Sunblock. Non-pigmented skin is much more susceptible to sunburn, sunburn is a huge factor in skin cancer, etc. The character can also try staying out of the sun.

The type of vitiligo your character has will somewhat affect it, e.g. localized vitiligo will be easier to protect from the sun than the very rare universal vitiligo just based on the % of skin being affected. Also, vitiligo often appears in areas that are hidden, like armpits or the inside of the mouth. Not everyone will have vitiligo patches on their face.

Sometimes people will experience itching before a new vitiligo patch appears, but this will also depend on the type; some cause new patches to happen more frequently than others. If you know the specifics of your character's condition, research should be much easier.

I'm not sure what you exactly mean by makeup? I can tell you that you shouldn't use makeup to hide your character's vitiligo spots, but that's kinda it? Feel free to send more information if you have something specific on your mind.

If you're writing a character with vitiligo, I would also encourage you to look into comorbidities. As many as 30% of people with vitiligo are hard of hearing or d/Deaf, and they develop autoimmune conditions (especially thyroid ones) more often than people without vitiligo, with 15-25% having at least one.

If your character has their vitiligo on their face or other very visible body part, I recommend my guide on writing characters with facial differences (and the #face difference tag in general) as well.

I hope this helps!

mod Sasza

[reality-detective]

How OPERATION SCARIANT 2023 is being used to launch Plandemic 2.0 Plandemic 2.o is an integral piece of the Great Reset implementation plan and New World Order agenda to be executed in earnest this Fall of 2023. OPERATION SCARIANT, which features the extremely ‘scary’ Omincron subvariant known as Eris, is the main show for folks who are still captivated by this ridiculous government-sponsored but extremely serious genocidal enterprise.

Nevertheless, there are numerous reasons why the Khazarian genocidal bioterrorists are hellbent on rolling out Plandemic 2.0 this Fall. The following list presents only some of the most significant NWO goals, WEF objectives and WHO targets. (1) To cover up the massive excess death numbers directly resulting from the ongoing Covid vaccine genocide across America (and global depopulation scheme)

(2) To stealthily kill vaccinated children who are now much more vulnerable to the bacterial infections associated with Eris (aka Omicron [B.1.1.529] a subvariant of SARS-CoV-2

(3) To intensify the slow-motion slaughter of vaccinated 20 to 45 year-olds who are now much more susceptible to myocarditis, pericarditis, blood clots and other fatal heart ailments

(4) To further turbo-charge the numerous medical ailments and health conditions, chronic diseases and autoimmune syndromes, psychological disorders and psychiatric illnesses across the entire population, all of which have seen HUGE upticks post-Covid vaccination

(5) To murder as many retirees as possible in order to reduce the Social Security & Disability, Medicare and Medicaid rolls

(6) To massacre as many individuals, who suffer from multiple comorbidities and/or terminal diseases, who are still living after Plandemic 1.0

(7) To eliminate as many Baby Boomers as possible as well as the Beat Generation elderly, especially the anti-establishment types

(8) To provide maximum distraction from the many Democrat crime sprees being investigated by the House

(9) To divert the attention of the electorate from the multiple crime waves perpetrated by the Biden Crime Family and especially by the POTUS Imposter and Criminal-in-Chief

(10) To create maximum chaos, confusion and conflict throughout the last year of the 2024 election cycle so that the Democrats can steal yet another POTUS election, as well as to set the stage for a long-planned American Bolshevik revolution

(11) To provide a pretext to deploy yet another highly weaponized and lethal Covid ‘vaccine’ by which to rapidly intensify Plandemic 2.0.

(12) To significantly supercharge the previously administered kill-shots, clot-shots and cancer-shots thereby increasing SADS and SIDS as well as excess deaths across the board

(13) To sufficiently scare the American people back into the same space of extreme fear and anxiety about the COVID-19 contagion so they will fully submit to the Covid Super Vaccination Agenda (and demand that everyone they know get vaxxed to the max)

- Benjamin Fulford 🤔

[eliana-system]

My opinion on the "the brain is an organ so psychological conditions are physical disabilities" argument, as someone who studies psychology

(only means I've read about and studied this subject)

Well, every mental disability has to do with something physical, like hormones, different neuronal paths, etc. However, this isn't how disability are classified as physical or mental. The need for this classifications is because the symptoms are very different. There are physical symptoms and psychological symptoms. Of course, some disabilities have symptoms in the other category, but the difference is still there. Psychological symptoms mostly impact the behaviour and the moods, and thoughts processes. So that means hormones, brain's perception of the world, neuron's paths, brain structure.

Depression can be seen in the brain, but most symptoms are psychological. You can develop physical symptoms with depression (lack of vitamins) but the illness is defined by psychological ones (mood, insomnia, no motivation to do things you love...). Cancer has psychological repercussions (like most of not all physical disabilities; denial, depression, mood swings) but the symptoms diagnosing cancer are physical (presence of a cancerous tumor).

Think of the difference between physical pain and psychological pain. Both can be seen on scans. Both are painful. Both can be disabling. Both can lead to death. But they are not the same and are not healed the same way. They also are not treated the same way by society.

The thing is, yes the brain is an organ, but the difference between physical and psychological disabilities is important in many ways. Treatment options. How they are viewed by society.

The brain is the chief of the body, and psychological problems often originate only from the brain while physical problems don't. I'm sure there are conter examples and I know some disabilities fall in both categories. However the difference is there, not only scientifically but also created by society. And the difference is relevant today.

A little precision on autism/ADHD/dys, because it's mostly the disabilities I've seen argued on the subject. Most of these neurodivergence's symptoms are psychological. I've yet to see physical symptoms except guts problems (which btw should be looked at to make sure it isn't due to something comorbid, which there are a lot of)

PS: An example of both physical and psychological disability (I think) would be a thyroid problem, which creates mood swings.

[sharksandsquirrelsandsnakes-ohmy]

I have recently binge watched Bones and– CONSERVATIVELY SPEAKING– at least a quarter of the 11 inters + Brennan were autistic.

Temperance, Zack, and Vincent were absolutely, 100%, no arguments, autistic. The poor social skills, failing to read the room, slowly having to learn social cues, and the comfort of having a single correct answer at the end of the day to start.

I think Clark and Oliver could go either way but there is a healthy argument to be made that they are autistic. Clark's deep orginization and want for stability sways me. Oliver just had a god complex on top.

Then there's Jessica and Daisy. There is something going on here and I don’t know if it's autism, adhd, or comorbidity but it's something. Daisy reminds me of my sibling who is adhd since she's everywhere until she finds something that catches her attention. Jessica gives comorbid adhd and asd in my opinion but I can't exactly pinpiont why.

I think Fisher and Wendell could be put in the same 'probably not but maybe' area. They both had some odd things to their characters but Fisher had other issues and Wendell had cancer.

Rodolfo was an immigrant. He was not used to American culture and norms so he reads differently than if he were an American or if he'd spent more time in the states. He was just on a learning curve when we met him.

Arastoo and Finn were the most normal interns but that doesn't mean anything. Finn grew up in the south so he had different mannerisms that are pretty normal for what it is. Arastoo was awkward at first but grew into the team do I'd say he might have anxiety but what intern didn’t? (Oliver, the annoying one)

[bookshelfdreams]

OKAY time to ramble BUT

I really hate this recent trend of going "tuberculosis is curable yet it remains the most deadly infectious disease :/"

YEAH it's curable with antibiotics but not like. idk. fucking bronchitis is curable with antibiotics. It's not a matter of taking a round of Amoclav for a week and then you're peachy.

The curability of TBC is more accurately compared to the curability of breast cancer. Yes it's possible; it's also a lengthy and quite grueling process that can (and does!) fail.

The recommended treatment is half a year minimum of highly potent antibiotics. For an easy case. And the side effects? The regimen can fuck up your liver, your kidneys, your peripheral nerves, your ears, your eyesight. AND people in early stages often don't have symptoms so guess how likely patients are to be diligent about taking their daily antibiotics that fuck them up and are expensive!

But hey, an actual outbreak can kill you so better take those pills!

And as mentioned, 6 months is the minimum for an easy case. You better not have a multi-drug resistant strain. You better not have any comorbidities. You better not have any complications at all, or you may be looking at up to a year of treatment. If it can be cured at all.

There's no vaccine*. There's no post-exposure prophylaxis. It's a horrible, highly contagious disease that is quite difficult to catch and even more difficult to treat, especially in people that don't have access to high-tech medicine and socialized healthcare.

You know how exciting, what a relief it would be if there was a way to wipe this disease out? If there was a vaccine, or easy, effective treatment? We have been fighting this enemy since before we became human, and we are not there yet. The fact that TBC still kills so many people isn't due to negligence.

*That's not true; there is a vaccine, but it's not very effective esp not in adults, and afaik not recommended because of that.

[kitausuret]

It's kinda funny, after like ten years of my biggest issues being psychiatric, getting a handle on those, and then having to keep watch for malignancy in my remaining ovary, it was actually kinda nice to talk to a GP about... literally anything else. I told her I'd been having back pain, which has actually been chronic for me for years now, but I just more or less ignored it because I had Bigger Medical Issues. I treated it as an annoyance instead of a comorbid, feeling that, well maybe my back hurts but at least I still don't have ovarian cancer and my depression is manageable! But like, why should my back hurt all the time. There's no reason for that.

So I got a referral for physical therapy, which I do think will really help. If it doesn't, they can do some imaging and see if there's a more serious issue.

I'll be honest though, I do appreciate that she didn't just give me a one off answer like "take some Tylenol" or "lose weight". Everyone deserves a doctor that will listen to their concerns and offer them specific plans of action for a solution!

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

you know i didnt understand what people meant when they said “the idea of people being healthy is all that should matter hurts people who won’t ever really be healthy” until I realized just how much health is conflated with morality and virtue. Additionally, “aesthetically desirable” traits are treated as inherently healthy while “aesthetically undesirable” traits are considered inherently unhealthy, even when when that’s not the case at all.

the steps taken to even achieve what’s considered “healthy” — for example, the methods to lose weight for fat people — is far more hazardous to people’s health. Let’s say you entertain the idea that being fat is a tried and true guarantee for the comorbidities associated with it (hint: it isn’t)… the effects of malnutrition via calorie restriction should scare the fuck out of people who push fat ppl to diet / fast if the actual concern was health related. Hell the increased risk for eating disorders on their own should!!

The biggest loser was considered a pantheon of a TV show for showing that it’s possible for anyone to lose a lot of weight if they just tried really really hard. Well, contestants were essentially starved, malnourished, and forced to exercise to such a brutal degree. This by definition is not considered “healthy” in the same society that weaponizes the word against fat ppl (the dissonance between fear mongering around energy drinks and the contestants having them put on their grocery lists by their trainers blows my fucking mind). Their treatment by the show wouldn’t even be conceived of if the biggest loser was a fitness show that centers around athleticism for skinny people. It’s genuine torture, actually!

Additionally, so many diseases/chronic conditions are treated as a “punishment” for poor decisions, even for ones that can’t be prevented. Hell think about the implications of proper diet and exercise being framed as “preventing cancer” by some medical outlets and the implications of that

Health and wellness is a weaponized concept at its core with the primary concern being virtue and not the well being of others. I’m not saying no one should be allowed to be concerned about their own health, but the way health is enforced by society and medical institutions is actively hostile and often does far more harm than people realize. This also goes for mental illnesses / disorders where the primary concern is over normalcy rather than patient wellbeing and happiness. Who is being helped here

[rubythecrimsonwriter]

I have to say this because I just had a very serious talk with my bestie about weight.

When I first went to college, I was doing acrobatics four days a week and a 15 to 18 hour course load a semester, while spending six months out of the year sick or recovering from such. The bronchitis plus [whatever comorbid illness struck this time] was bad enough, but the recovery took so long because I had so little fat that my body would start eating muscle and tissue.

I had access to a school nutritionist and so I wrote down everything that I tended to eat, how often I did so. My diet was and still is semi-decent, mostly because I have enough texture issues that a lot of junk food and "unhealthy" (I say that loosely) stuff I can only eat very tiny portions of, if at all, and most meat things are completely off the table unless I make it myself.

I was and still am very high energy. I have always been skinny or slender since I started walking, had some body image issues after being sick and I could count every rib. At the time of going to the nutritionist, I was 190 pounds of mostly muscle.

She looked at me like I'd lost my goddamn mind when I said I wanted to gain some fat and I wanted to know why I just wasn't. I was a freshman. I knew about the freshman fifteen. Instead of gaining fifteen pounds, though, I lost it, and it was fifteen pounds I didn't really have to lose. I was eating something ridiculous like almost double what the average woman "should" be, calorie wise, basically constantly snacking because I was always hungry.

Two years later I was in the hospital for a month. A wheelchair for seven. Lost almost eighty pounds in eight months. Died three times.

It's five years past that now. I'll never be able to fly like I used to, but I can pick up unsuspecting coworkers and adoptive siblings again, which is great fun for startling them. I can renovate my house without too much issue. I weigh 160 lbs now, and for the first time in my life, I have fat on me, after seven years of working at it and so many goddamn catastrophes it's ludicrous.

It took me seven years to gain twenty pounds of fat. Of me actively working on it. There's no such fucking thing as "weight gain!" pills, and there's no such thing as "weight loss" pills either, and take it from an Irish woman? Starving yourself doesn't work either. If you feel good in your body, if it works for you regardless of your weight, then you're fine. The only way anything is going to change is a massive force--like illness, or amputation, or cancer, or occupation, or food scarcity.

Fat people's positive representation in media is shit, and the way that Americans, at least, tend to see fat people is shit, and I'm sorry. You are worthy of feeling at home in your body, without fear of judgement of yourself or society, of feeling good without reservation. The twenty pounds of fat I've gained has, no joke, changed my life. I don't get cold standing in front of a refrigerator, I'm not utterly terrified of getting sick again and dying of something stupid like bronchitis or strep throat. I feel good, and I hope that you can feel good too, and not continuously damage your body by yoyoing your weight with attempted diets and pills.

[vitiligo-is-not-a-trend]

what other health problems come with having vitiligo and can they be severe?

Vitiligo has about a 15-25% chance of having some sort of comorbidity for other auto-immune disorders; the most common of which (around 12% of those with comorbidity) is hypothyroidism.

But other then that the only real health risk you have to look out for is skin cancer and UV damage due to having no natural defense in the areas affected by vitiligo.

[meadowsystem]

💙 my heart is heavy with this one 💙

I have consistent nervous breakdowns over knowing this is my life. But yet I know many have no idea about the things I'm about to tell you.

Cyclic vomiting syndrome itself is not truely life-threatening but the complications that it creates can be.

I'M BEGGING FOR HELP!!

They do not provide enough accessible treatment. For complications I face from this rare disease.

I am unable to keep a job as I cannot work during vomiting episodes. Lasting anywhere between hours to days. Not including the recovery time needed after the episode is finished.

IT IS DEBILITATING.

Workplaces refuse to hire me when accomodations are asked due to this disability making me "unreliable". If you don't tell your employer and you miss too much work, your let go for being "unreliable". Finding a workplace who will accommodate you and provide consistent wages ... is unobtainable.

Accessing proper insurance coverage needed to make this rare disease manageable is unobtainable due to the plethora of needs we require to have met. Even when on welfare or disability.

Those who are not able to manage the triggers are pushed out of the workforce and forced to fight to get disability. Often unable to obtain federal disability as it isn't "as bad as cancer" as I was told... even with my other plethora of diagnoses that made my doctor feel it was my best course of action.

Not only dose this rare disease have complications of dehydration, damage to the esophagus and tooth decay. Most with this disease also suffer from other conditions (comorbidities), particularly other functional issues. Some of the common functional comorbidities to CVS include migraine headache, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel, gastroparesis, depression, anxiety, POTS and/or other forms of dysautonomia as well as neuromuscular disease include intellectual disabilities, autism, seizures, and/or hypotonia. As well as mitochondria dysfunctions

Incase you don't know mitochondria dysfunctions means your body cannot efficiently turn sugar and oxygen into energy, so the cells do not work correctly. This can affect different parts of the body: the brain, kidneys, muscles, heart, eyes, ears, and others. Organ dysfunction can be a very real possibility. Organ failure is organ dysfunction to such a degree that normal homeostasis cannot be maintained without external clinical intervention.

I have been diagnosed with 8 and counting of the comorbidities. These comorbidities have their own comorbidities that have also been added to my list.

Many doctors are under educated on CVS. Often those with CVS are not properly diagnosed, even with symptoms at a young age.

Many doctors tell us to figure out our CVS triggers to manage the disease. In my case I have so many triggers due to my plethora of diagnoses/comorbidities that my CVS is incredibly difficult, even unrealistic to manage even with proper medical support. (So many overlapping, environmental, situational, medical, life triggers... so many triggers not on this list and still more unknown triggers)

THIS IS MY LIFE! THERE IS NO CURE.

They're are only underfunded small individual research/studies. They have not found a cure. We don't have proper support and thus we suffer. Look at this link ... the lack of information

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/6230/cyclic-vomiting-syndrome

I SUFFER.

My disadvantages have been continually coming to light. My realization I likely won't be able to achieve basic life milestones has been heartbreaking.

Medically assisted suicide is easily achievable even in even minor cases of CVS. While there is little to no support and even less accessibility.

What options do those with this disease have?

Suffer or give up ...

I'd also like to finally note the journey to diagnosis is horrendous. Doctors diagnose cyclic vomiting syndrome based on family and medical history, a physical exam, pattern of symptoms, and medical tests. Your doctor should perform medical tests to rule out other diseases and conditions that may cause nausea and vomiting.

-add on the factors of age, ethnicity, gender, life style, fashion choices, preconceived assumptions ... the list goes on ... the journey to diagnosis often feels unbearable-

If you have read this please comment, I need some validation.

💙