• fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Trying it as soon as I can make myself order some that doesn’t look suspicious as fuck and isn’t an overpriced predatory health grift / scam.

    I do also unfortunately use a couple of the drugs which risk seratonin syndrome already, so I will be going as slow and steady on dosage as physically possible.

    Health tinkering fucking sucks and I hate that this is where my life is at. Dr House is a fairytale made up to convince the masses that someone qualified will care when you have complex health conditions.

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      1 year ago

      As someone who had a rheumatologist tell me the grinding sound my neck made was “everything getting better” when really my neck and spine were fusing (my neck is mostly immobile except the very top) I tend to agree.

      Best part, my last appointment with her (years ago) was her telling me she was very excited to be closing her practice because she got a job instructing new doctors at a teaching hospital.

      Sigh.

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        1 year ago

        Lol, I’m sorry your healthcare providers have also been useless. Especially a rheum… Jesus wept. They’re supposed to be better at the complex stuff.

        A relative of mine was once told his pilonidal cyst was his spinal fluid leaking. Another person I know had a skin symptom dismissed as “women tend to be more sensitive (as in aesthetic awareness) to these things”.

        I’ve been misdiagnosed a few times too, thankfully with only limited (maybe, who really knows) damage done as a result.