#where's my pain meds

[quartergremlin]

Loose Change: Migraine?

WAS ANYBODY GOING TO TELL ME THAT MIGRAINES CAN HAVE SIMILAR SYMPTOMS AS ALLERGIES AND GET WORSE IN THE WINTER OR-

transcript:

Q: It burns!

2: No it doesn't. Stop being dramatic.

20 years later

Q <- (in hell): Wait a second. Have I been having migraines this entire time?

[dreamlogic]

irritable bc chronic pain or discomfort is flaring up & you're overdue to medicate/take measures to mitigate symptoms? call that paingry.

[myuniverseinabox]

? ¿

[aintgonnatakethis]

whenever i see the view of 'always be 100% honest with the medical professionals providing you with healthcare' i just... how much privilege do you have to have to not see the pitfalls with that statement?

i understand 'always tell first responders what drugs you've taken'. but when it comes down to trans healthcare or people who're disabled or have "scary" mental health conditions. do you really think being honest the entire time is safe?

[tittyinfinity]

ok this recovery process is truly more miserable than i thought it would be

[watermelinoe]

private clinics in costa rica really treat you right, during the vacation portion after classes were over i caught a local stomach bug and i remember one of the nurses touching my arm going pobrecita :( and then they gave me amazing pain meds and sent me home with a giant jug of juice to drink, and anyway i just had my first er visit in appalachia and the vibe was honestly similar

[milkweedman]

The new meds I'm on have, as far as I can tell, caused my hands to be very weak, to the point that I can't tension this thin sock yarn :/ I'm in the gussets of sock 2 but the sock is definitely bigger and a thinner fabric.

Im... not positive what to do (whether to frog or not, or maybe just switch to a worsted weight project?) Other than tell the doctor this shit is not good.

[contentment-of-cats]

58 is not 38, and it's not even 48.

I moved furniture around today.

I probably should not have done that.

I don't need to write whump because I have got it going on.

Edit: How the fuck did I get here? I was 35 just ten minutes ago!

[vacalimpia]

i must say i did not expect getting a chronic illness diagnosed would be of any help, i thought it wouldn't matter since ive already had it unknowingly for 2 years, but it's actually quite helpful... I suddenly can hardly remember the feeling of having moments where I can't do anything because of my fibromyalgia, which is nice☺️☺️ Without it it feels I can be more optimistic.

But at the same time I can't help but feel the dread of having to take antidepressants for the rest of my life so i can get close to functioning like a normal person. I am quite dependant on them to go through the day without pain and be able to sleep properly. Something about that makes me feel a bit lonely😓😓

[hirazuki]

Hira's year in medical review:

Me, August 2023: *experiencing extreme fatigue, fainting spells, mood swings, sudden and drastic increase of suicidal thoughts, and intense hair loss*

P.A: let's do blood work

Me: ok!

Bloodwork: *normal except for prolactin*

Doctor: sometimes that's a fluke so let's retest

Me: ok

Bloodwork: *exactly the same*

Doctor: your values are higher than normal range, but not high enough to be in range for a pituitary gland tumor.

(P.A: go see an endocrinologist and get an MRI, that might be indicative of a pituitary gland tumor.) <- bless this person and only this person in particular

Endocrinologist, seen earliest available which was January 2024: *wants to retest blood work instead of ordering an MRI*

Me: ... ok

Bloodwork: *the same*

Me: can we please do an MRI now?

Endocrinologist: Well. Your values are above the normal limit, but it's highly unlikely that's it's a pituitary gland tumor because they are not high enough for that. Let's retest blood work in four months.

Me: ...................... ok

Bloodwork, May 2024: *THE SAME*

Endocrinologist: hmm, I recommend an MRI

Me: *gesturing angrily*

MRI, June 2024: 🎉 pituitary gland tumor 🎉

Doctor, when I went in for something else: I doubt your endocrinologist will want to treat that, we typically don't treat adenomas that small

Endocrinologist, who took 3 weeks to review my results: I recommend just monitoring. It's highly unlikely that this is causing your symptoms, it's too small for that.

Me, July 2024:

[spinsterennui]

Oliver is having a rough time. I’m so upset. He was doing so well and then last night and today he’s had a lot of issues. I’m so worried bc he’s probably going to need surgery and he’s so old. Plus my vet is out of town, of course.

[heartshattering]

Is there anything that helps with the nighttime panic? :/

[askfullmetalpanic]

Tumblr Community - Full Metal Panic

Tumblr is rolling out this new community feature, and I had applied for an FMP! community a couple weeks back when I saw it pop up, and today it was approved!

I'm still learning my way around communities, but here's some things I've discovered so far:

It doesn't seem like posts in the community will post to the tags. This is good for isolating a post to a limited audience, if you're perhaps shy or worried about negative interactions.

A community can be public, so others can see the posts even if they don't belong to the community, but they cannot interact with the posts.

A community can be private, which would be good for further limiting the possibility of bad actors invading a space. Not my goal as a fandom community, so not a feature I'll use, but useful to know.

Side-blogs can't be invited or posted from in a community right now. Unsure if that will be implemented or not.

Posts from wild tumblr can be reblogged into the community. The reverse is not possible.

Currently, edits to a community are not possible, but they will be implemented in the hopefully-near-future. I didn't have any graphics ready to go when I applied, so the FMP community has default graphics, and I can't change that until this update. Apologies for the sloppiness on my part.

I'm not sure if you can request to be added to a community through it, I don't see any mention of such a feature.

If you have a pending invite to join a community, you may SEE everything a member can, but cannot interact until you accept the invite.

I sent invites earlier to a small handful of people I see in the notes or tags a lot, but then I got distracted so I never finished. Please feel free to send me a message here or @moonlight-at-dawn to request an invite to the community, if this seems like something you wish to join!

EDIT: Also just learned that if you reblog a non-community post to a community, the community-comments do NOT show up in the activity of the original poster. I'm not sure how I feel about that as of right now. I suppose it's ultimately no different than sharing something to a friend group and talking about it away from wherever it is hosted. But at the same time, I kinda feel where this is the *same* site, that the OP has a right to see what comments are made on their posts within the same hosting space? Not sure, I guess it falls into "I don't think this sort of thing should be made any easier, but I also don't think not including it would deter anyone whose goal is that."

[dredshirtroberts]

i think i'm like. really in denial sometimes about how much pain i'm just Casually In...

OH NO WAIT HANG ON WAIT ACTUALLY MY MEDICINE WORE OFF AND I DID LIKE A LOT OF UNANTICIPATED ACTIVITY NEVER MIND I'M DUMB I'M HURTING FOR ACTUAL REASONS THIS TIME

[tittyinfinity]

it's crazy finding out you're autistic as an adult bc then you start to notice the ways it affects you and has affected you throughout life

and then it becomes a hyperfixation bc you're like "omg this makes so much sense now" and you start feeling a bit better about yourself knowing that there's an explanation to everything

[palms-upturned]

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