#chronic health condition

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[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 573

Despite the fact I had enough time in my day yesterday to play video games, do my cleaning for the week and even do some journal set-ups, I had forgotten to write anything. I blame it partly on being distracted by the problem of what to bring to my specialist appointment.

Even though it has been four years since Covid first surfaced, not everything has returned to the way it was. Granted, that will never happen, like I am probably never going to go back to working on site full time, but there were also things I hadn’t gotten around to restoring.

Going back to my specialist for maintenance on my condition happens to be one of those things. For those who are perfectly healthy (and may you continue to be perfectly healthy), when you have a chronic condition maintenance appointments are important. They ensure that if or when a complication happens, it is caught early. Specialist appointments, where I live, require a referral from a physician and referrals, even once you’re in service only last about a year or two. This means if I go an extended period of time without seeing my specialist (like four years due to Covid) I need a new referral.

Which is kind of hard, when you have to physically see your family physician, because Covid. So it made things a bit complicated. I could have actually done this last year, but frankly I don’t know if I had the organizational skills last year to even consider doing this. Calling my family doctor to set up an annual appointment actually had been one of my monthly focus tasks last year, and the lead up to the appointment was writing a list of things I wanted to ask and get done. It was a lot.

Unfortunately the catch up isn’t quite done yet. I have at least one test I need to do (because it has been four years). Once that test is done, I can go back to a regular schedule. More or less, I did realize as I sat with my parents over dinner that I am going to have to figure out how to take myself to this appointment. My parents cannot be helping me do this forever, but that is a problem for future me.

[thecouncilofidiots]

Gentle reminder that disabilities are disabling.

You're not some awful, bad person for not doing things that able-bodied people can do without negative consequences.

Sometimes, you haven't showered in a while.

Sometimes, your room is a mess.

Sometimes, the dishes pile up.

That doesn't make you a failure or deserving of less respect, support, and kindness.

Being disabled, having disabilities, and things that result from said disabilities, don't change the fact you deserve to exist. You deserve peace, and love.

[violetsandshrikes]

this poor woman ended up in hospital because she ate cayenne + cinnamon coated orange (unpeeled) because there’s a health and wellness influencer with millions of views who recommends it for digestion - she burned her oesophagus

i always saw a few really good other additions of similar things on the comments

please be so, so careful taking advice from these people online, as many of them are not formally trained or educated, brand ambassadors, deep in pseudoscientific rabbit holes and unfortunately, there are many out there who struggle with disordered eating habits

(not mentioned here but another one worth noting: i have personally known people who have burned their oesophagus with viral apple cider vinegar shots and drinks. don’t do that. a burned oesophagus is not fun)

[healthcaresolutionservicesllc]

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how the body turns food into energy. When the body gets sore and difficult to treat, there might be a need for amputation and Disability Care in Gainesville, Florida. And for us, this is not a good sign as the damages are permanent.

[uncanny-tranny]

I think it would really benefit people to internalize that mental illnesses are often chronic and not acute. Some of us will never be able to jump the hurdle of managing illness, much less sustaining a sense of normalcy. Many of us will never "recover," will never manage symptoms, will never even come close to appearing normal - and this is for any condition, even the ones labeled as "simple" disorders or "easy-to-manage" disorders.

It isn't a failure if you cannot manage your symptoms. It isn't a moral failure, and you aren't an awful person. You are human. There's only so much you can do before recognizing that you cannot lift the world. Give yourself the space to be ill because, functionally, you are.

[traaansfem]

My E-niversary is later today!! Yay!! Yippie!!!!

I'm glad to have made so much progress and found so much more joy and happiness and community!

Unfortunately I'm probably not going to make it to my next one due to chronic health issues that look like they'll be taking a turn for the fatal or worse over the next month if I don't get the medication I need for that, but I'm not going to stress about it. If I survive, I'll have a massive breakdown about it later, but for now, I'm a happy little kitty!

Love all my frens <3

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[she-is-ovarit]

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

me stubbornly forcing myself to drink green tea and rest from my THIRD COLD THIS MONTH

[syn4k]

to be, or not to be (romanticization of the inevitable)

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Can we go ahead and normalize medicine? Taking pills in front of people? Taking pills in public and not getting weird looks? Using alternative medicines or anything other than pills and not being treated like a novelty? Fucking please because first of all literally everyone takes medicine of some kind at some point in life okay and second of all people need medicine to live it’s a thing it’s pretty common and people need to be in public for a lot of reasons actually so can we please

[squarebracket-trickster]

Oh my god for the last time

DO NOT USE AI FOR RESEARCH. DON'T TRUST ANYTHING IT TELLS YOU.

Do not use AI for research even if it cites its sources. Have you verified the credibility of those sources?

Do not use AI for research even if its sources are credible. Have you checked to make sure they have the most up-to-date information?

Do not use AI for research even if the sources are recent. Is this information generally accepted by experts in the field, or is it a controversial stance? Did AI source the 9/10 dentists or the 1/10? You don't know. You have no way of knowing unless you do your own fucking research!

DO NOT USE AI FOR RESEARCH. for the love of god people

"But I'm just doing research for my novel. It's okay if it's not 100% accurate."

ChatGPT told a person to glue the cheese on their pizza to make it stick. It told someone else a poisonous mushroom was safe to eat. It told another kid that Greek was a combination of four different languages. It thought there were 2 r's in strawberry.

Your information will probably not be 100% accurate. It might not be 50% accurate. It might be so completely and utterly false it would make a flat eather look informed. Just use Wikipedia of you want something quick and dirty. It might not be 100% accurate either, but it won't tell you to eat glue.

[tuttle-did-it]

one of the most annoying things about chronic illness and having multiple conditions is that neither you nor your doctor know when to take a new symptom seriously or not. Is it a side-effect from all the meds? is it just a new thing that your body is going to do from now on? is it a new/unrecognised condition that has gone undiagnosed? Is it serious or just a one-off? is it stress? or is it just a Thing That Happens Once In A While with no good reason?