Fake It til you Break It

My ramblings about my experience with chronic illness and mental health. Hashimoto's, asthma, stomach issues, chronic fatigue, cptsd

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[thoughtportal]

numb hands

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The fact that one of these moves is significantly more difficult for me than the other two at least tells me which nerve is probably the most fucked up

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[thisaliennerd]

chronic pain diagnoses are all like yeah we don't know what this is or why it happens. we also don't know how to treat it. good luck out there soldier

[girl-mercury]

you got symptoms syndrome. yeah it’s permanent. what is it? like… what, is it? well it’s a thing where this set of symptoms usually comes in a variety twelve-pack, what do you want. symptoms syndrome. don’t overuse the ibuprofen

[aralintheobsessive]

you should probably also get checked out for Overlapping Symptoms Syndrome, they often come as a two-for-one kinda deal. what can we do if you've got that too? well we can tell your to exercise. it'll probably make some of the symptoms better but others worse. yeah, worse. it's all we've got so take it or leave it.

[silvergryphonart]

alright fine if you really want a recommendation, we can at least tell you to ignore all the advice your well-meaning friends and family give you. healthy people advice will make most of your symptoms worse. you need advice from other people with symptoms syndrome. lower your standards about peer review because actual data doesn’t exist yet

[girlzero]

brainfog girlies make some noise if you're fuckin uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[teapocolypse]

Other physically disabled people, can you please recommend me non-fiction books about physical disability? Because trying to find them myself is only getting me autism moms and inspiration porn.

[crazycatsiren]

All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness - Charli Clement

How to Do Life with a Chronic Illness - Pippa Stacey

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness - Sarah Ramey

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto - Tiffany Yu

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

your life is not an optimization problem

[dragonsblowingoutbirthdaycandles]

as in you'll never achieve the perfect daily routine, sleep schedule, coping mechanisms, mannerisms, fashion sense etc. even after years and years of healing and improvement and self-discovery. you will never be so good at life that you manage to utilize every waking moment. its great to be productive and all but sometimes you'll suck ass. sometimes you'll take eight hours to be done with a twenty minute job. you'll prioritize the wrong thing. you'll sleep for 12 hrs just to avoid being awake. you'll relapse. and you'll relapse again. you'll forget to turn in the assignment. you'll order too little food. life is far too large and complex for you to even experience it completely, much less try to make sense of and control it. you can't. please give up on that and be at peace with the hours you lose. they are not separate from your life.

[reasonandempathy]

Irish researchers discover underlying cause of ‘brain fog’ linked with long covid

They suggest their discovery is important for the understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline – difficulty with thinking, memory or con

Researchers have discovered that leaky blood vessels, together with a hyperactive immune system may be the underlying cause of brain fog in people with long covid. They suggest their discovery is important for the understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline – difficulty with thinking, memory or concentration – seen in some people with the condition. It is hoped the findings will help with the development of treatments in the future.

To Summarize:

Long Covid sufferers experience symptoms like forgetfulness and concentration issues due to leakiness in brain blood vessels, according to research findings.

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and FutureNeuro confirm that Long Covid patients with brain fog have disrupted blood vessels in their brains, making the neurological symptoms measurable.

Blood vessel leakage in the brain, along with an overactive immune system, may be the key drivers of brain fog in Long Covid patients, leading to potential changes in understanding and treating post-viral conditions.

I can't find a single right-wing news source covering this.

[pluralwizard]

bad circulation gang rise up!!!

[pluralwizard]

but not too fast!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mamoru]

hey before you call something wheelchair accessible just go ahead and invite a wheelchair user or two over because I almost guarantee you that an able-bodied person is not capable of guessing what is accessible without having ever used a wheelchair solo before

some but not all cool things nobody ever thinks of:

put hand sanitizer or a sink in the accessible bathroom stall, or alcohol wipes outside of it. people who cannot use their legs have to use unwashed hands to roll to the sink, and people who can use their legs are afraid to walk out of stalls because they get harassed and even assaulted.

enough space for wheelchair in doorway…AND ARMS. HOW DO YOU THINK THE WHEELCHAIR MOVES! if I cannot roll through it without scraping my arms it is not accessible

brick paths suck the end

gravel paths suck. make it smooth

a ramp is not accessible if it is too steep. not every wheelchair user is ripped enough or capable of using muscles enough to propel themselves up a steep angle safely. some wheelchair users have heart issues. you want heart attacks? this is how you get them

perfect 90 degree turns suck and are often impossible to turn through

some wheelchairs have foot rests. account for them

wheelchair accessible means wheelchair accessible while alone. if you expect someone to have to be helped out to use your facility, that is not acceptable or accessible

yeah

[memewhore]

[ihavenohotcocoa]

babe are you okay you reblogged got that fog in me 11 times

[catgirlanarchist]

wait, i did? i don't remember doing that...

[fibro-memes]

[mamoru]

Your Body Position Impacts How Quickly Pills Kick In, New Study Shows

Laying on your left-hand side may make for slower pill absorption.

oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

[archouai]

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

[still-and-starry-sea]

I was going to reblog this anyway for the useful info but the last addition fucking sent me

[ansitru]

Hey friends, have you taken your medication? 💖

[ckret2]

More How To Manage ADHD

“I never remember to take out the trash until my trash can is full, at which point the trash bag is really heavy and the stuff at the bottom has been rotting a while, and it’s awful!”

Small brain: “Try to train yourself to take out the trash on certain days at certain times.”

Large brain: “Buy a tiny trash can. Now you HAVE to empty it.”

[adhd-community]

That’s genius!

I just put it in front of my door when it’s full so I am physically unable to leave unless I pick it up.

[feamir]

The best advice I’ve ever received about managing my depression/anxiety/adhd is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Accommodations are not about changing yourself to work in your environment — it’s about changing your environment to better work for you.

So yeah, get a tiny trash can and put it by your door. Store your towels in your bathroom so you can immediately change them when they smell funny. Hang a basket by your door for your gloves and earbuds. Leave a box of cliff bars by your door so you never leave without breakfast. Change your environment and change your life!

[adhd-community]

“Change your environment and change your life”

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

The 8 Senses

The Autistic Teacher

[headspace-hotel]

THIS IS SO GOOD. This is so good for explaining what the sensory part of autism is like!!!!

[wildfaeworld]

started calling my executive dysfunction issues my board of dysfunctional executives and treating it like a room of frail old white men and it hasn't fixed everything but it sure is fucking funny

[wildfaeworld]

alright everyone we need to do the dishes! the DISHES. no, ted, it's not in your phone. ted you have so many apps open. ted how did you download a virus. the nice exiled nigerian prince sent you an nft? thats nice ted. now, about those dishes,

[wildfaeworld]

alright on todays agenda: LAUNDRY. yes laundry as in dirty clothes. yeah greg that's a board-level task in this organization. greg its very undignified to throw a tantrum like that at your age.

[autumngracy]