#med ed

[gigayak]

Unlocking Uveitis mysteries - History, Examination, or Lab Tests?(Pingu X Indiana Jones X Fast Show)

All three of history, examination and lab tests have important roles to play in diagnosing Uveitis. 

This short (featuring a league of extraordinary defectors including Pingu, the Fast Show tailor, Indiana Jones and Sherlock Holmes) focuses on the importance of uncovering the patient's history to identify potential underlying triggers or associated diseases

[neonbodyache]

tis the season

[choixsimple]

Hey you with the chronic hypermobility and/or orthostatic intolerance issues

If you have a menstrual cycle, has anyone told you how it affects your chronic illnesses?

Probably not so I'm gonna!

First here's a basic chart showing the large fluctuation in hormones during your cycle:

If you have hypermobile joints, the level of estrogen in your body will heavily impact the stretchiness of your connective tissue. During ovulation, estrogen has a huge spike, which will make you extra stretchy! You are more prone to injuries, subluxations, dislocations, and general joint issues during this time. There's also a smaller increase in the week before your period, which can also affect joint laxity.

If you have orthostatic issues (or even if you don't, tbh), you'll be interested to hear that both estrogen and progesterone affect your heart rate. Generally your resting heart rate will be higher in the days before your period due to rising progesterone levels, and then drop back to normal after your period starts and progesterone levels fall. Estrogen is also at its lowest level during your period, and with low estrogen levels comes a higher number of heart palpitations and potentially a higher heart rate, depending on the person.

This combo of low estrogen and high (and then low) progesterone, plus the whole bleeding thing, means you're extra susceptible to dizzy spells, presyncope, and fainting in the few days right before your period and the first couple days of your period (and if you have a heavy flow, this can continue longer). It also means you might feel a lot more stable, less dizzy, have less heart palpitations etc around ovulation due to the extra estrogen.

There are a bunch of other bodily functions, chronic illnesses, etc that are affected by hormone levels during our cycles, and there are some good resources online about what these hormones do — I didn't even talk about FSH or LH, the two other big hormones that are part of our cycle! But I didn't want to get too far into the weeds in this post.

PS there's a theory that the reason more AFAB people (even many without a uterus or menstrual cycle, AFAB hormones are Kind Of A Bitch) get diagnosed with things like chronic fatigue syndrome, hypermobile disorders w/chronic pain, POTS etc is because we have a built-in flare up every month (sometimes two, if you flare up at both your period and ovulation). So it's just much more noticeable in AFAB people because AMAB folks don't have to deal with those built-in flare ups every 2-3 weeks.

[inthepalmofmyhand]

trying to stay productive so bad >.<

but I'm getting there...

Today I'll go study in the library, then I'll take part in a study for one of my psychology courses and finally in the evening I have schedualed a dance class with one of the most famous dance teachers in my country. Hope it will turn out good :3

[okaybutmakeitgayer]

Frost usually wakes up in the morning early. It gives him time to meditate, to think in the quiet. He has a routine set and everything. Yet sometimes that routine is interrupted when he wakes to his pain acting up. Sometimes it’s cramps. Sometimes it’s that pain in his legs. Sometimes he just feels like crap. Instead of getting up, Frost will stay there in his bed. Gricko will come find him after a certain point if they aren’t already in the same space. They barely talk, few words exchanged between the two, as Gricko moves to be beside Frost, offering a healing spell for some relief. And they’ll just stay there for a while.

[entropyvoid]

Golden Hour (+ lineart below cut)

I took a picture of the lines for once and did some basic crappy photo editing on my phone, so you could probably print this out and use it as a coloring page or something if you so wish lol. Do with it what you will.

[dkettchen]

[aroaceleovaldez]

hi I just wanna say your hypermobile Nico hcs helped me realize I have EDS so thank you!

Oh yay! EDS can be difficult to identify so I'm glad it helped you figure that out! :D And my condolences to your joints

[gigayak]

Don't let this be a cat-astrophe 

[dec4yingdogteeth]

I think you're so hot except you probably like degrading people in bed

I’m sorry I have Deadass No Idea How to Respond to This

[catchinggmybreath]

this is your reminder to

hydrate

eat a snack or meal

take your meds if you haven't yet

I love you. take care of yourself.

[jezunya]

Anyone with experience taking trazadone (and/or with POTS)

Do you have tips on handling lightheadedness? I don't mean occasional dizziness when getting up, but like I've been sitting here all day, feeling fuzzy and dizzy and vaguely nauseous even when unmoving

My doctor added 25mg of trazadone at bedtime to my meds a few weeks ago, and it was okay at first, but the lightheadedness is getting out of hand. I'm trying to eat salt and drink electrolytes and plenty of water, but I can't seem to get ahead of this now

Any tips from other spoonies, dietary or otherwise, would be much appreciated

[lavendarneverlands]

One of my favorite things about chronic illness is not realizing your sick because you just always feel like shit and assume it’s normal 🙃

[yuribeam]

idk how I feel about providers constantly saying to me I'm sorry you're in so much pain / are so medically complex when you're so young

like yeah. im in mourning. it doesn't feel real. this is only half of it. it feels more like a sentence every time. thank you for trying.

[kattythingz]

OKAY OKAY everyone hear me out: An edling spy x family au. Starring Ling as Loid, Ed as Yor, and Nina as Anya. And ofc Alexander as Bond. Ling plays the fool just looking to marry so his overbearing father can get off his back, while Ed says it's to soothe his little brother's worries about him being alone forever; Al would believe it if Ed got a queerplatonic partner (aroace ed ftw). And Nina just wants a family. Cue the hijinks.

Al acts as a barrier with less of a brother complex (tho the elrics are still kinda co-dependent) and moreso majorly worried that Ed was forced into amatonormativity. He thinks Ling pressured Ed into this somehow or that Ed's holding some internalized aphobia.

Ling, of course, is too down bad to do any of that. Something that Ed slowly finds himself warming up to.

DO YOU SEE THE VISION???

[cerbreus]

I sent an email to the admissions dept for the school with the radiography program I'm interested in (despite it maybe not being feasible for me as the most competitive program in the state outside of MD programs) and they replied sooner than I expected to set up a call talking abt transcripts and I am so crazy nervous