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Chronic Illness

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A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.

This is a support group, not a place for people to spout their opinions on disability.

Rules

  1. Be excellent to each other

  2. Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc

  3. No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.

  4. No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.

  5. No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.

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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 108 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This sometimes doesn’t work. My wife is severely ill. Has been for years. A couple years ago she developed a wound on her heel that just wouldn’t heal. She spent a week in hospital while doctors tried to figure it out. In the end, they just thought she was fucking nuts given her constellation of symptoms and the fact that she is a woman. This dumbfounded me because she had a fucking wound on her heel. I told her that the wound was finally proof that she was sick and it was a good thing. Man I was fucking so wrong.

We finally found an expert in mcas who was like, yep you have mcas, you are the worst I’ve ever seen and here is a med for it. She is still severely ill, but her heel wound, which inspired no curiosity in the hospital doctors, is finally closing.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

TIL about MCAS. How horrible, I hope they can cure it someday.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I thought MCAS was the thing that was crashing the 737 Max 8 planes by pushing the nose down.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

No that's called short term gains

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

It's looking to be possibly more common than was thought, around one in twenty people, so you probably know someone with it. The symptoms vary significantly in type and severity. Some people are completely disabled, others have no idea they have it. I have it and mine is medium spicy - I can manage it with a shit ton of drugs and lifestyle changes. Still hoping for a cure as it fucking sucks.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have so serious side effects from my anti-seizure medication it literally disables me more than my seizures (note that I rarely had seizures, it was just too scary for my parents), but every complaint of mine was just dismissed.

  • Trouble with sleeping? Just sleep more, you will have more dreams and more health since more sleep means more health.
  • Trouble with memory and concentration? Either just try harder, or take notes about every small detail.
  • Weight gain even with a diet? Give up all your other hobbies and become a full-time sportsman!
[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 9 points 3 months ago

I’m so sorry everyone is so invalidated.

[–] coffeejoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Valproic acid. It's so infamous as a mood stabilizer that Scientologists were using it as their example of "bad medications", but once toxic positivity around mental health care became fashionable, people were forced to wipe the internet on documenting their misfortunes with the medication.

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey! I have MCAS too! Shit sucks

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m sorry. It does blow pretty bad.

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its like my nail in the coffin.

I’m already bedridden because of two other chronic illnesses and then a covid infection somehow made me develop mcas

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

Luckily we haven’t been blessed with Covid (probably because she is home bound and we do not socialize). Her illness started with a virus like ten years ago. I’m her full time caregiver because the illness is so bad. Sucks.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey fellow MCAS person (well, their spouse)! I was reading your comment and was thinking "that's sure as shit MCAS". Surprise!

Glad her heel is doing better. If you ever need any MCAS advice, I've been managing mine for years and know a number of other folks with experience. I'd bet dollars to donuts we're all in the same geographical region too, so I may be able to recommend some doctors if needed.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks for this. She is currently seeing a guy who collaborates with Molderings and Afrin. He has tons of publications and is spending a lot of time with her. She sent him a letter describing her illness because he was closed to new patients. He called her and talked with her for 2 hours on the weekend the day after he got her letter. So we’ve got the Dr thing covered.

She’s real bad. I am her full time care giver because the pain and sensitivities are so debilitating for her.