Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #invisibleillnesses
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When I first began to experience neck & shoulder pain in 2015 and the inability to digest food, I switched my 2016 insurance plan to a barely affordable PPO, determined to find out what was ailing me. Here's a diagnostic thread for #InvisibleIllnesses. - @jenna_payne
Like most people who thought they were healthy (more on that tomorrow?), we've been told that if you feel sick you go to the doctor and they can fix you unless it's something like cancer or Alzheimer's. I was in for a rude awakening....
CW: diet, eating disorder?
This scene from my medical revenge HYSTERIA is more or less lifted from real life. This was my first appointment after starving myself at 1200 calories/day and gaining 40 pounds in 2/3 years. The problem was NOT my diet.
This scene from my medical revenge HYSTERIA is more or less lifted from real life. This was my first appointment after starving myself at 1200 calories/day and gaining 40 pounds in 2/3 years. The problem was NOT my diet.
#chronicillness - a thread
Imagine being 12. A preteen in between 7th and 8th grade. The lower back pain started as a dull annoyance, then a constant vice tightening on my lower half. I was written off as "growing pains." Meanwhile I'm literally crawling to the bathroom so I can
Imagine being 12. A preteen in between 7th and 8th grade. The lower back pain started as a dull annoyance, then a constant vice tightening on my lower half. I was written off as "growing pains." Meanwhile I'm literally crawling to the bathroom so I can
Take a 4 hour scorching hot bath. Daily. ER says constipation sends me home. 2 days later I'm back at the ER in a wheel chair. My uterus almost ruptured because I was written off as over exaggerating. I had to have emergency surgery TERRIFIED AND 12 YEARS OLD. Fast forward 19
Years later.
#Endometriosis
#interstitialcystitis
#Hashimotosthyroiditis
#CRPS
#DiffuseAMPS
#Fibromyalgia
The list goes on.
In walks #COVID19
My immune system is already screwed so #selfisolation here I come. Nearly everyone in my close family is high risk. I put off appts
#Endometriosis
#interstitialcystitis
#Hashimotosthyroiditis
#CRPS
#DiffuseAMPS
#Fibromyalgia
The list goes on.
In walks #COVID19
My immune system is already screwed so #selfisolation here I come. Nearly everyone in my close family is high risk. I put off appts
