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I have no followers so I'm sure this post will be a waste of #TwitterSpace. I have personally been blessed and cursed by the whole medical system most of my life. To start off, my father shot himself when I was 7 due to mental health issues. Back then depression and bipolar 👇🏼
was treated with drugs like Valium. He had a really low moment and boom. “Tell Roger I’m sorry” is what they told me he said. I was introduced to #oxycontin at the ripe age of 15. My first dose was 40mg and I was sick as a dog for hours. That would trigger a lifelong battle 👇🏼
With addiction to #opiods. After my mom abandoned me when I was 16 and after some time in a homeless shelter
then rehab, I began to get my life together at age 22. 23 im married and doing ok and wreck an #ATV (4-wheeler) off a mountain in #NorthCarolina and become #paralyzed👇🏼
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Devouring his favorite #sweets used to leave a young man #paralyzed

1. 33-year old Ravi loved jalebi with rabdi, but there was a problem. Whenever he used to have jalebi-rabdi to his heart's content, his legs & arms would become weak, making him bed bound for several hours.
2. In past 6 months, Ravi faced this problem 3 times. On first two occasions, it was during marriage function, so he passed them off as food poisoning.
A week back, he faced the same problem after having Rabdi-Jalebi hygienically prepared at home. He wanted to exclude a disease.
3.After listening to Ravi, I suspected a medical problem and asked him to return to hospital a few hours after having rabdi-jalebi (after informed consent).
On exam, he had developed weakness of legs & arms. He was unable to get up from squatting position. He couldn't raise arms.
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The health care of tens of millions of Americans is on the line. This lawsuit to undermine the #ACA is personal to me. #CripTheVote #ProtectOurCare #WhatsAtStake /1
15 years ago I was #paralyzed by a random bullet. I woke up from an induced coma to learn I had lost my #healthcare & I was now bankrupt, my family as shattered as my spine. #CripTheVote #ProtectOurCare #WhatsAtStake /2
Over the next several years, I struggled. It was a constant fight to get the equipment, medicines and therapies I needed to survive. I lived in poverty, often having to decide which was more important: medicine or food. #CripTheVote #ProtectOurCare #WhatsAtStake /3
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NO this cannot keep happening 👉 This article describes how 1 in 10 #children with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a severe #polio-like disease☝️...are first incorrectly told the symptoms are “all in their heads” + diagnosed w/ #somatiform disorders
For example, “When 7-year-old Bailey Sheehan arrived at a hospital in Oregon partially #paralyzed, a doctor said the girl was #faking her symptoms to get her parents' attention because she was jealous of her new baby sister 👉 Later, an #MRI showed she had Acute Flaccid Myelitis”
Dr. Allen Frances, former chair of psychiatry at the #Duke University School of #Medicine states 👉 “Mental #disorders become the default position to deal with medical uncertainty. It's widespread, and it's dangerous."
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