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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #landscape #water

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i hope you have a good day today 🫂 ty for this blog and u ✨

#not a reminder #not my gif

[dontforgetyourmedstoday]

#clearing out my drafts #this feels relevant #not a reminder #not mine #lizandmollie

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dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better

#clearing out my drafts #things that might be useful

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Hey I uhh spent a while looking through your health tag and I was wondering how do you manage to have the language to talk about your pain. To describe how it feels and where because right now I am a puddle of pain and can barely think well enough to to type this out let alone talk about my pain in a way that makes sense to someone who might be able to help or give advice.

I'm sorry to hear that :(

Unfortunately, Tumblr wiped out a bunch of the chronic pain tags when they did their NSFW purge, but I learned how to advocate for myself from other chronic illness bloggers, and also by working with a physical therapist (his tag on here is #magic physio man) who helped me to distinguish between different types of pain (sharp vs dull, acute vs chronic, radiating vs localized) and also how to rate them appropriately on those chronic pain chart doctor's have, taking into account that my baseline tolerance is much higher than the average person who doesn't live daily with chronic pain.

So say my baseline is a 5 daily, a new pain might push me to an overall 8, which is what I should relate to my doctor, not that the new pain is only a 3. If that makes sense. He got me to use the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale to describe my pain, which is actually one of the more helpful pain scales out there:

Link to download PDF here (x)

Not every physician will be familiar with this scale, and you don't even need to tell them which scale you're using (I don't. Some doctors get surly over patients bringing this sort of thing to their own appointment, so I wait to see how they handle my care first before I bring my own resources to them), but it gives you the language to better convey your pain in terms the physician will relate to, and also what number you are realistically at.

From what you're describing to me just now, you're in the severe zone where your ability to focus is impeded. If I were telling a physician this, I would let them know my pain is around a 7-8, making it hard to focus, and prevents my ability to do daily tasks.

I would then describe what kind of pain it is, i.e.

Radiating: not in one place, possibly body-wide

Localized: restricted to a certain area, e.g. a toothache

Acute: sudden onset, usually from an illness or injury or surgery

Chronic: has lasted over 12 weeks, possibly a result of injury/illness or an unknown cause. (migraines fall into this category) Followed by a descriptor like:

Achy

Stiff

Burning

Stabbing or piercing

Raw

Cramping

Throbbing

Tiring

Heavy

Tender (sensitive to touch)

Shooting

Sickening

Other things they will ask include:

Does anything make it better/worse? What pain relief methods have you tried? Does it get worse throughout the day? Does it prevent you from getting restful sleep? How does this affect your mood? I'm sure I've missed something, but I hope some of that is helpful for you and maybe gives you some of the language needed to advocate for your pain. Take care, and I hope you get relief soon!

#clearing out my drafts #chronic illness #disability #illness #medication

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I want to thank you for your response — I searched your blog and went back weeks, and found so many without sources, and no mentions of you using creative Commons or free use images. And with two weeks of no response, I decided that that meant you were ignoring the message, and got angry — so many people steal artwork, and so many claim they can't find the source, and then I open tineye, and one sort change later, I have a source for it.

In hindsight I definitely should have waited longer. I'm sorry for that. And that art isn't mine, I just hate seeing unsourced art.

It may be beneficial to specify either in your pinned or in the posts that it's free use/creative Commons.

Thank you for your time, and thank you for this blog <3

Hello again Anon,

I've been thinking about how to reply to these messages for nearly a day now and I've spent more than an hour (make that 3 now) trying to write a reply. I've written and rewritten this multiple times. I'm finding it hard not to see these as a continuation of the accusation that I am deliberately and maliciously stealing other people's work so I'm going to take a step back and just say this:

Despite my early promise to myself that this would always be a safe space where people could anon with questions, queries, wins, worries, or whatever-related to health things, I'm turning off anons. Unfortunately, my various flavours of neurospiciness mean I will always want everyone's approval and for them to like me and so even if I don't respond publically I will still ruminate on things - for, well ever.

I'm going to let my current queue run out and then, most likely, won't be posting again - I may or may not deactivate the blog. This has been in the wind for a while now, I have found that something that was meant to be relaxing for me has become super stressful - particularly with feeling like I have to do it perfectly and not offend anyone, and make sure I give attribution (that I'm giving it to the right person), and add all possible triggers and warnings, include image descriptions, etc. etc.

While I agree with anon that attribution is important, I will not be going back through all my posts to add attribution in a format that works for everyone. Partially because this is Tumblr - the site renowned for being a complete dumpster fire to navigate and just use in general (I say this as someone who had some oranges I crocheted for my niece's Very Hungry Caterpillar present blocked during the great nipple witch hunt). But mostly I'm busy, permanently tired, and filled with forks (It's a variation on spoon theory people - not a swear!). However, if anyone wants to go through the posts and add attributions where they are missing or add them in ways that people on mobiles can see them - great - thanks :)

Lastly, let me just say be kind to yourselves and each other and,

Don't forget your meds today xxoo

#answered ask

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #landscape #trees

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #cracked

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Thank you so much for these!

#thanks friend #needed this today #not a reminder

[dontforgetyourmedstoday]

So you just steal artwork and don't care? Got it. Either that or my ask asking about sources from your posts on April 8th disappeared. Or I guess you could be off tumblr and not have been here for two weeks.

Hi Anon,

I'm assuming this is you:

If it is, yes, I did see your last ask - but life has been a bit shit lately and frankly, I didn't have the emotional bandwidth to deal with an accusatory email that gave me absolutely no details about what you were upset about so I could investigate. So today, despite it being an incredibly long and shit one that isn't over I'm going to reply.

*Takes a deep breath* From this point forward I'm going to assume that, like me, you are just a real-live human with feelings that get hurt and not someone who just likes to yell at people on the internet. So let me apologise that I have used your artwork without attribution, it was in no way my intention. Please take this apology as someone who was just trying to amuse themselves and perhaps help some other people out by reminding them to take their meds too. I absolutely suck at art-type things so in my mind, no one would think I did them or was claiming the actual 'art' part of them as mine. I realise now this is the internet, you guys don't know me, and so I should have been clearer that nearly all of these are edits. (There are a few waaaaay back I actually drew myself). Looking at the 7th, 8th & 9th of April (allowing for time zones and assuming that's when you saw your artwork). All of them except one have a link at the bottom of the image that links back to where I sourced the original image - I don't know if this is visible on mobile so I'll show it below (the bit circled in red)

So I'm assuming this one is yours:

It seems that one doesn't have the link. I don't know why. I haven't made any new reminders for this blog in ages (again - life) - it seems like most of the ones from early April this year were originally posted back in 2021. I got briefly excited about this blog again a few months ago and loaded up a bunch of old ones so this blog was still functional for the people that find it helpful. Going back I have noticed that others seem to not have credit either. It is possible I made a mistake and forgot to add them. It's also possible that Tumblr has a had a glitch/error/weirdness which means it's disappeared. I also used a bunch of images from the editing app I was using to add the reminder message and I wish I could remember what the site was called because I cannot for the life of me remember. Honestly, who knows. I have deleted the post(s) with that image - if it's not the right one please let me know.

I have always gone out of my way to ensure that anything I use is either free use, or non-commercial under Creative Commons. As an aside, I'm an academic and a person who has artist friends and my partner runs a business where our customers are largely designers and artists, so I do actually do my best to give credit. Am I perfect - no I'm not. Part of the reason I stopped making new posts was because of difficulty giving credit even on images that were non-attribution and finding images where I knew what the attribution requirements were (along with trying to remember everything everyone asked me to tag, and doing the image descriptions etc.) If anyone else finds something of theirs in one of my posts and there isn't credit attached please either dm me or send an ask and let me know which post and how you would like to be credited and I'll add it in. If you want it removed, I'm happy to do that too.

Sorry for the long post, hope it helps to clear things up. Finally, let me take this opportunity to say

"Don't forget your meds today my friends"

#attribution #artwork #answered ask

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #bird #parrot

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #water #glass #bottle

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #fox

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #food #fruit

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Don’t forget your meds today.

Want twice daily reminders to take your medications? Follow @dontforgetyourmedstoday​

Questions? Requests? or you can Submit a reminder of your own.

#medication reminders #medication positivity #daily reminders #medication #medical aids #medical devices #chronic illness #mental health #illness #disability #neurodiversity #dontforgetyourmedstoday #my edit #flowers