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PSC | Crohns Cannabis Advocate 26 | F | Bi

[cocasugar]

I have been losing my mind trying to decide what to do about health insurance. Being in the hospital with a burst appendix was less painful. BUT THEN THERES THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE!!

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!??

Copay Accumulator Programs Are the Next Major Threat to Patients

Called “copay accumulator” adjustment programs, these insurance plans don’t allow patients to count the coupons toward their deductibles

[papasmoke]

Hi ya’ll my good friend Jules @tokengayfriend‘s state is being a piece of shit and refused to give them unemployment and now their workplace got shutdown because of a covid case there, so they’re in need of help. If you could send some funds to them it’d go a long way. Their venmo is upstartcrow

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

me: I'm worried about Covid-19

everyone: it's okay. only those with previous immune issues are at risk of death.

me: cool. so "those" exist out in public. I am them.

[maa-iingan]

Update:

They think I have late stage Addison’s disease.

I have more testing I have to do.

I’m without words. This is terrifying.

I can’t even let myself grieve or relax because I don’t even have enough money to be diagnosed properly OR treated.

So please, please. If you have anything to spare.. I need it now more than ever ..

I appreciate any and ALL HELP!!!

If you’d like to immediately help me my PayPal is

https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage

I don’t want to die because I can’t afford to get treatment. I’ve come this far.. I’m desperate. I need my community now more than ever. Please don’t let me be forgotten

BOOST THIS

[maa-iingan]

https://www.gofundme.com/f/1s9mcl6neo?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&rcid=40da252734534337a34905a6ced9b9f5

Click here to support Medical emergency, in desperate need of treatment! organized by Kailey Babcock

Kailey Babcock Medical emergency, in desperate need of treatment! Hello, my name is Yves, I’m a young, trans individual who recently moved t

Here’s my GoFundMe to help with everything, I can’t reach the funds fully til I reach my goal or I end it. I’m only at 10% of what I need. SO PLEASE SHARE IT EVERYWHERE!! COPY THE LINK AND SHARE IT TO YOUR FB, TWITTER, IG, everywhere!! It’ll help me tremendously, and it’s the perfect way to help me if you cannot donate anything. It’d be helping survive, thank you

[maa-iingan]

IM RUNNING OUT OF TIME!! , please help in any way that you can. If you’re unable/ not in a place to be able to donate then PLEASE boost, or repost my story!! That helps me just as much !!! and I don’t have much time left to wait and hope for help.

if you’d like to immediately help me with medical funds/survival funds you can donate here:

https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage

https://www.paypal.me/YvesOrage

[starstruck-dandelion]

I'm dying too but hey help this person. Good luck whoever you are. Sorry I have a small blog so I'm not helping much.

[maa-iingan]

I love you, I’m sending you all the positive energy, thank you for your time. I appreciate you ♥️

[maa-iingan]

This is what it’s doing to my body as we speak..

This is what i get all over my body when I get flare ups from stress. It’s extremely painful and leaves open sores, which is dangerous because I have a compromised immune system

My body is shutting down, and I’m fighting my hardest to get a diagnosis to TREAT whatever this is AS SOON AS POSSIBLE because the symptoms are getting more severe by every flare up I have..

I’ve had to have 3 emergency catheters so far because my bladder keeps completely shutting down..

I’ve been rapidly losing weight and having muscle loss. I’m not able to break down protein properly for some reason.

I went from 117 to 97

These are only SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS DEALING WITH, But here it is! As humiliating as it is..here’s what it’s doing to me in full view..

I need help while it’s still possible.

[maa-iingan]

My procedure is in a couple of days!!! This is important!! Please help me! I NEED TREATMENT

[ioniansilk-deactivated20220519]

im guts im a 22 year old trans man im very tired

i lost my seasonal job. im trying to pay my bills and stuff but im in the hospital w kidney probs and i cant afford my prescription n stuff. please help

paypal.me/irlrohan

venmo: bruabba

cashapp $leoneabbacchio

[cocasugar]

Its so stressful to deal with medications to begin with but when cvs decides to jack around and give you old perscriptions you havent touched in years over your life saving medication just to get you to come in an extra time so you might be tempted to spend 2.50 on a bag of chips... when we gonna end this shit?

[mattoidal]

“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

[sharpestscalpel]

I reblog this every time because it is important.

[cocasugar]

Super interesting info on phage therapy for a first line treatment in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. They predict clinical trials for 2021. Phage therapy will also be vital to protecting us from superbugs we are more likely to pick up as immune compromised people who end up in hospitals.

[scaia]

hi, my name is ezra. i’m 21 and terminally ill, and this past week my health has taken a very dangerous turn.

on monday, october 28, i went to work in the morning like usual. everything was fine and normal. i got home and decided to take a nap, since i was pretty tired. this is plenty normal for me, since i suffer from pretty heavy chronic fatigue. however, when i woke up, i didn’t know who i was, where i was, who my partner and roommates were. i could barely stumble out to the living room, and i couldn’t even hold a glass of water to try and sip from it. i suddenly have a lazy eye i’ve never had. ever since that day, i’ve been struggling with basic mobility on my right side and forgetting nearly everything. i wake up most mornings and barely know my own name.

wednesday night, it was bad enough that my roommate made me go to the emergency room. there was and still is high suspicion that i had a stroke. my CT scan came back clear, but i was told that doesn’t mean i didn’t stroke or am not going to have a stroke. i tried to go back to work, but i can barely sit up or type and i worked a desk job. i had no choice but to resign. it sucks, but i worked at a computer and this post already has taken me 3 days to type.

i have to make an emergency neurologist appointment to get an MRI. the biggest worry now is that i had a stroke, but it could be a multitude of serious issues. it’s scary.

i’m using this post to ask for help. i have medical bills now, plus just...the cost of living (rent, electricity, phone, etc) since i’m leaving my job. anything helps, and even if you can’t help a reblog does wonders. kind messages are also very appreciated. i may not respond, but i do keep nice messages to look at when i need them.

here’s my paypal, cashapp, ko-fi, gofundme and my venmo is @scaia.

thank you for reading

[mamoru]

my dear friend is in a lot of trouble and getting worse fast. they are actively trying to get disability and medicaid but keep getting denied due to their age, even though so many sick and disabled people are relatively young. these services are heavily flawed and leave so many to suffer like my friend. please consider helping ezra out. nobody deserves this and they are fighting for every breath in a country that is forcing them to keep begging for the right to even try to live longer

[empty-altars]

A quick reminder for folks in the US: if you haven't seen anything about ACA open enrollment this year, that is by design. Secretary Azar wants to lower enrollment numbers to justify pulling funds from medicare/medicaid. Here are your dates:

And the link.

[cumaeansibyl]

The 2020 Open Enrollment Period runs from Friday, November 1, 2019, to Sunday, December 15, 2019. If you don’t act by December 15, you can’t get 2020 coverage unless you qualify for a special enrollment period. Plans sold during Open Enrollment start January 1, 2020.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[magikal-boy]

I’m on a roll tonight

[ID: A smiling chef labelled “my doctors” holding a cake labelled “we don’t know what’s wrong with you”. End Image Description.]

[thisagain144]

So I’m down $300 for July. 70-rent 130-electric 100 phone 40 health insurance 70 car and renters insurance I could continue, but this is already depressing. I have checks coming from things in 3-4 weeks, so that’ll help with September.

Here’s my link: https://www.gofundme.com/72df2co

If anyone wants to Venmo, cashapp, or paypal instead, lmk. If you can give, I appreciate it. If not, sharing is caring. If you know of a Group that can help, please share that.

I hate more than anything that I’m back to begging for money from friends and strangers. I thought I left that in the MySpace days.

Thank you, people. #donations #gofundme #rentassistance #EdmondOK #okc #help #GivingTuesday #givingFriday

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0qa3eJBdEs/?igshid=l7ilqwcod17r

[ilyajdevorak]

Please stop scrolling, I have cancer and I need help

I never thought it would come to this but I need to ask for help.

My name is Percy, I'm 21 and last year I was diagnosed with Polycythemia Vera (a slow form of blood cancer) as well as many other things that have rendered me disabled. One of which, also being SVT, a heart disease that I was born with and had previously had surgery for and was deemed 'cured of' until last year I had an episode that left me in the hospital for several nights, and with a heart monitor for months.

I officially became disabled last year after a traumatic brain injury that has left me with short term memory loss, seizures, a cataract, a facial scar, and a crack from the bridge of my nose to the top of my skull following my eye brow bone.

I am unable to work and have been working on a disability case for the past year, after being formerly denied after applying too soon with my diagnosis still not being officially diagnosed yet. And with things JUST NOW finally making progress after getting a social worker, I don't have any hope of an answer or any type of income.

I am a transman, gay, poc (though white passing after being bullied into skin bleaching which I now regret and unfortunately having my native ancestry forced away from my life).

I was homeless before I was lucky enough to have found an unofficial foster family who has unofficially adopted me into their family. My biological family is abusive and I am currently in the process of cutting them from my life.

Right now, the only thing I do have is EBT (food stamps) and I buy food for both myself and my boyfriend who lives with me. He is also disabled, and unable to work, and between the two of us we barely scrape by.

Right now, I haven't been able to have cancer treatment in over 2 months due to lack of money, as well as no medication and other treatments that are LITERALLY NEEDED FOR ME TO LIVE.

I am genuinely growing weaker and weaker by the day, and my adopted family has undergone some serious problems that have left them unable to support me currently.

I am begging you, if you can't send me anything PLEASE spread this so I can raise enough money to get my life saving treatment. Thank you for reading this, and ignore my deadname attached to my PayPal account.

https://www.paypal.me/QPatt

Disclaimer: I can add proof if need be of my medical diagnosis.

[cocasugar]

C DIFF Relief

I've had it for a few days now and heres what has helped me out. (Will continue adding things as I heal)

1. Hug a squishy pillow to sleep! For some reason the light pressure of spooning a soft pillow eases the pain alittle (and anxiety as well)

2. If you are taking liquid venco (waaaay cheaper than the pill version) you are allowed to wash down the nasty taste with water.

3. DRINK WATER. Seriously. This aids the healing process and keeps you from getting other things on top of cdiff (like the sinus infection I caught right before my flare)

4. Cheese. This might sound odd and may not work for everyone but even in the cdiff tag im not alone on this one. Grilled cheese with chicken broth has been my favorite meal and pretty easy to digest.

5. Use google doccuments or whatever you want to type up your medical history and in big bold font put NO ANTIBIOTICS I AM CDIFF (or cdi) REACTIVE!!! Carry said paper in your bag or car for use at ANY place you can think of that might try to give you antibiotics ( this includes places like the dentist ) You never know when something might send you to the hospital so it is best to be prepared so you don't have to go through this again over a doctor that fucked up like mine did.

6. HYGINE!!! WASH YOUR HANDS FOR 20 SECONDS OR MORE!!! PLEASE!!! cdiff is super hard to kill but theres a new medical clorox out there "clorox health care fuzion" claiming it kills cdiff on hard surfaces and then theres a lysol laundry sanitizer for clothes and bedding.

[Edit] Now that the antibiotics are over its time to deep clean EVERYTHING but more importantly supply good stuff to the barren wasteland that is the gut after antibiotics. Taking a probiotic in the morning and eating probiotic rich foods like yogurt or miso soup is SO IMPORTANT to ward off reinfection.

You got this and you are not alone!!!

[the-eldritch-angel]

C.Diff tips

So last night I went through the c.diff tag to see if there was anything positive to help me deal with this sickness that Im going through aaaaaand it just made me more depressed about my condition. So here is some tips that Ive compiled to help others deal with Satan in bacteria form. Theyre mostly tips on preventing the spread though, but somethings better than nothing right? Ill put it under readmore, so apologies for those on mobile: Edit: had to remove some punctuation marks because of tumblr butchering it a bit

Keep reading

[cocasugar]

PSA on C DIFF

If you have any ibd or ibs and you end up going to the hospital for something, DO NOT let a doctor give you antibiotics without consulting a GI first. You can have a C DIFF reaction to antibiotics which is highly contageous and you will be reactive the rest of your life if you test positive. An ER doctor did this to me after I came in with a crohns flare so I left the hospital sicker than I came in and will now have to ask my GI before taking ANY antibiotics or risk another c diff reaction.