#how do you manage to avoid being prescribed bad meds if you don't have a diagnosis yet??

[hikeyzz]

i really need more disabled friends bc i have so many things i want to talk about and no one that really gets it. i'm not new to being disabled but i have been living on the line between "disabled enough to need accommodations, but not so much i qualify for benefits" which puts me squarely between the disabled and abled communities. so hi um disabled friends that follow me come say hi pls let's be friends???

[medicinemane]

So me? I don't like weed highs at all, it's just kinda... shitty body highs where I can't stop feeling the veins in my head kinda stuff. Don't remotely enjoy it

However, I've found that stuff like tea or CBD gummies are one of the few things that really deals with my pain (for some reason most drugs really don't do much for me, like when I had my wisdom teeth out vicodine did literally nothing to cut the pain, like it just had no effect)

So for me, the goal is to have a pain reliever while absolutely avoiding getting high at all costs because that's a good way to be miserable. Like... honestly at this point if it's got THC in it I just don't take it cause that seems to be what gets me high, and I do not like it

Here's my point in all this... why the fuck do I have to buy weed gummies and take them as pain killers (cause I'll take NSAIDs, but... inflammation, they're king shit at dealing with, but pain... if they do anything it barely takes the edge off)

You have no idea how much I dream of just being able to go to the store (or have prescribed, whatever) some kind of actual CBD (or whatever) pill that's actively designed around pain management and being fast acting and all that good stuff

Literally just want a pain killer, would like if I could maybe use medicaid instead of paying recreational drug prices to self medicate

Also I gotta say as someone who studied as a pharmacy tech, it's fucking stupid marijuana is schedule 1 (highly addictive with no medical uses), even coke is a schedule 2 (highly addictive with medical uses)... like I forget which, but cough syrup with alcohol is a 4 or a 5... weed at worse should be a 2, and really should be like a 5 (that's where a lot of sleep meds and stuff wind up from what I remember... also I think I heard some rumbling about federal changes around weed but... can't remember what)

I literally just want a pain med, that's all, and my ideal pain med is one that treats the pain without messing with my head in anyway (I sometimes wonder if muscle relaxants would actually work for me but... fuck, that's not worth trying to get... don't know how bad my pain is, like if it's actually chronic pain or not, but whatever, I can live with it)

Basically I'd just like to see the pain killing properties of weed researched and refined and I want something that's properly dosed that I can just take which won't get me even a hint of high

...and I feel like that's doable, but not with federal regulations on this stuff, not with the current stance

(And it sucks, cause it'll probably be like a decade after they start working on it that anything commercial comes out)

[misanthropiczombie]

So that I can avoid having to break this up into multiple comments any further I’m going to continue this as a reblog, and likely leave it here. 

For context here’s the convo that’s happened in the comments since:

@agoddamn:

Rather the entire point of this complaint is that the character specifically does NOT have any greater context for their actions. That's the thing that makes it ableist; it shows that the AUTHOR thinks of pain medication as something that you don't need if you're "strong" @misanthropiczombie literally the entire point of this post is that there's no reasoning behind the refusal past a generic "pain medication is for pussies" line

@misanthropiczombie:

 @agoddamn you made a blanket statement that not wanting it because those kind of pain meds make you hazy was ableist. That was the context you provided in your post. Which is, again, not inherently ableist. If you want to add that its only so when it hasn't been contextually supported, then I agree with you, which was the entire point of my addition. Years of medical trauma is a pretty solid fucking reason. ​

And also in my case I was not in such dire pain I could speak or communicate and they were offering opioids before we had the slightest clue what was going on, there was no resistance and it was a defacto conclusion before I even got in the room. Maybe I'm in a an area or system where doctors are less stingy, i have no clue. But your entire post is a lot of blanket statements with zero nuance, about a situation that has a lot of nuance both irl and in terms of writing.

@agoddamn:

 @misanthropiczombie I never made a blanket statement about people, I made a statement about FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, as denoted by the term "MC". You are not a fictional character 

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Obviously I'm not a fictional character, but fictional characters in most cases emulate being a real person. So, again, so long as that kind of decision is properly supported contextually it's not ableist, which was the entire point of the personal story- providing a kind of contextual support one might experience IRL and how a similar or inspired experience could be used for a character. Thus the specific phrasing of 'inherently ableist'. X is Y, is a blanket statement, regardless of whether it's aimed IRL or not, and a binary take on whatever X and Y are. So is All X do/don't want Y. Your entire first post is two blanket statements about situations (fictional character writing) or people (doctor’s willingness or lack thereof to prescribe pain medications which are mind-altering) that are not a monolith, but you portray both as such. It is the lack of allowance for the nuance of individual experience that makes it a blanket statement, even in fiction land where things may or may not reflect real life or lived experiences.  As a real-life disabled person who has had this exact life experience, I simply cannot take your original post as an argument of good faith, because life (real or fictional) is not that cut and dry, and further characters and their experiences shouldn't be either. Not everyone wants to consume escapist content 100% of the time where nobody has ever experienced things like medical trauma or neglect or have control and anxiety issues. These things can happen to characters just the same as they can, and do, happen to real life people. If the writing is good, its highly likely i’d identify with that character refusing pain management, rather than feeling slighted. 

Seeing someone reduce a complex and emotionally charged situation into a paper-thin read on good/bad representation on what are real life situations presented through storytelling makes me feel a hell of a lot more slighted. I’m sorry my personal lived experiences gave me a sour read on your post. I truly, honestly, wish I as a person could have reblogged it uncritically from a situational remove. There are few things more in this world I want than to be able to give up having to balance what things I can or cannot do in any given week or day because the payment is pain and discomfort when I balance it well, and agony when I balance it poorly. I would love to have full trust in the medical industry that I will be taken care of even if I’m not mentally present to advocate or extricate for myself, but life is not that simple and neither must fiction be. And I don’t think it would be ableist to want to see a character with similar life experiences and choices as myself. 

-taps mic- the whole MC going "no pain medication, I don't want to cloud my mind" trope is both ableist and shockingly popular for how plainly ableist it is

(protip: if you're at the point where you're being advised to take pain medication by people who don't want to give you pain medication then your mind is most certainly already clouded by pain)

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