#acid reflux

[chronicallyillsoup]

My stomach when I eat even just a little: *slams big red wrong buzzer* you must now suffer

My stomach when I don't eat: *slams big red wrong buzzer* also wrong answer

[sinsaholic]

what if i write an acid reflux sequel…………

[tizzychardia]

I'm going to fucking cry.

Mom brought home a big batch of wings, and some were unsauced, so I had a chance of eating them. I asked her if they were baked or fried because I CAN'T eat fried food. It's a super bad trigger food for my GERD which exacerbates my POTS symptoms horribly.

The last time I had any kind of fried food I was bedridden for three days straight.

She reassured me that they were baked.

I am now finding out, after eating three, that they WERE fried. Just "lightly" to where it "shouldn't matter."

My heart is racing so fast, and the brain fog is starting to kick in. If this sends me into a flare, I'm going to be pushed back months in recovery. I'm so unbelievably upset.

[idiosynchratic-anomalocaris]

Every person with acid reflux should be paid $500

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

I think one of the reasons I often discount my own physical and mental health issues, and fear I’m overreacting to pain and discomfort, is just because in the context of my family… my health problems are minor.

Besides having worse vision and more food allergies… I’m better off. I don’t have back problems yet, my joints are less fucked, my acid reflux only acts up when I’m stressed and asthma when I’m really sick, my trauma outwardly presents itself mostly as childhood memory loss instead of larger issues, my sleep apnea is manageable, and my immune system is relatively good.

But I think that gives me the false impression that I’m not really disabled, because I don’t suffer that much compared to my family members.

That’s wrong.

My family is a bad sample group for what is “typical” health wise.

And as I kid… I was just told I was a boy and like all boys… overacting when sick or injured. That my pain tolerance was bad. No… I think I have problems.

[thisis--ableism]

Silly ableism is my acid reflux going up into my nose and being mean to me :(

This is silly ableism!

[v4lerief4ngs]

I feel like people don't talk about how isolating and exhausting having food intolerances/allergies/dietary restrictions. Having to prepare food to go to events with offered food. Having to miss social events because you can't eat ANYTHING where they want to go. Not even bothering to try going to many events. Not being able to try authentic foods from other cultures often. Having a small handful, if that, of restaurants you can actually eat "normal", "proper" food at (still having few options and not being able to order what's directly on the menu). Not relating to people's favourite foods or even knowing what they taste like. Feeling like a burden for needing changes made to everything. Having to SEARCH HARD for recipes you can exactly FOLLOW. Knowing that if you travel it will be very hard to find food in many places. Not even mentioning the extra cost added to everything.

Food is one of the biggest social and cultural connections, as beings who can't eat the same as most people we are left out of so much connection.

-we are vegan (partially intolerance partially morals), gluten intolerant, have other assorted intolerances and ARFID symptoms (not meeting diagnostic criteria). We can't even imagine how much worse it is for beings with full allergies, very few safe foods or who can't eat anything at all.

[snazzy-fox]

that feeling when you get chemical burns in your throat and esophagus because you're vomiting too much 🥰❤️🌸