This is a story of a girl

Fibromyalgia. Chronic fatigue. POTS. Anxiety. Psuedotumor Cerebri. PCOS. Complex PTSD. Depression. You know, the basic chronic illness song and dance.

[whatshouldwecallchronicillness]

Me: does nothing

My body:

[cooksforkisses]

Anyone else ready to uhhhhh not live like this anymore

[alicevil]

[stars-and-branches]

Google, how do I uninstall fibromyalgia?

[body-of-ouches]

^ EDS be like

(Credit Florkofcows)

[just-a-scratch-just-a-scar]

[kniivila]

I doodled this out a while ago but it’s always at least a little relevant to life.

[heartbreakhur]

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

From ME Association Facebook

“Chronic illness doesn’t have an end date”

Perfect quote from Miranda Hart who has been an incredible advocate for us all lately. Thank you for using your platform to spread awareness!

[exhaustedborderline]

[mybrainisbroken]

[quietvoiced]

[stars-and-branches]

I despise the way things such as yoga, dieting, exercise, holistic healing, etc are framed and interpreted by the medical and fitness communities, especially when it comes to chronic illness.

They aren’t cures, they’re coping mechanisms, and their effectiveness will vary from person to person, our bodies are all different.

[wildebeestpd]

[throughtheeyesofmyself]

[happy-tofu-block]

Bitches be like "If you are suffering from any mental illnesses you should definitely talk about it with someone and seek professional help asap" and then never tell anyone about their own struggles.

It's me, I am bitches

[lifewithchronicpain-original]

Sex Bias Persists in Pain Research — Pain News Network

By Pat Anson, PNN Editor It’s long been known that women are more likely than men to have chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, r

It’s long been known that women are more likely than men to have chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and migraine. Women are also more likely to feel more severe, recurring and longer lasting pain.

Why then are women less likely to receive pain treatment? And why are some treatments less effective for women?

One obvious reason is that men and women have different biology and process pain differently. Another is a “blind spot” in pain research, which is more focused on studying males than females, according to a new review in published in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

"The pain literature is biased such that, because of the overwhelming use of male animals in experiments, we are increasingly learning about the biology of pain in males. And wrongly concluding that this is the biology of pain. It's only the biology of pain in males," says author Jeffrey Mogil, PhD, a Professor of Psychology and Anesthesia at McGill University in Montreal.

Mogil reviewed over 1,000 research articles publish in the journal Pain between 2015 and 2019 and found a distinct change in the sex of laboratory animals used in research. In 2015, for example, 80 percent of the studies only used male rodents. By 2019, only 50% of studies were male-only. (Read more at link)