#but going to a doctor?? in THIS pandemic ???

[genderqueerpositivity]

The Biden administration on Friday proposed tighter limits on the online prescription of some medications, including the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder drug Adderall and highly addictive opioids such as oxycodone, a partial reversal of policy changes made during the coronavirus pandemic.

The new regulations, which would require health care providers to have at least one in-person visit with patients before prescribing or refilling certain drugs, would take effect after the public health emergency for Covid ends on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement.

The proposal will undergo a 30-day period of public comment, after which the D.E.A. will issue a final rule, the agency said.

Heads up: If you started testosterone (a schedule III controlled substance) via telehealth during the pandemic and you've never seen your provider in person, the Biden administration is probably going to fuck you over later this year.

Go to the link below for more info:

There is a link at the bottom you can follow to submit a comment on the proposal (but at this time the link doesn't appear to be working, for me at least).

Edit to update:

It has been pointed out to me that the MSN article above misrepresents the DEA proposal on telehealth regulations; the proposal is NOT a ban.

Please check out the most recent reblog of this post and the link below for clarification on the proposal:

#hrt #trans #covid tw #pandemic tw #this means i would literally have to go see my doctor in person in another state to continue to get my hrt #this year keeps getting more fucked #medication tw #opioids tw

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

so im listening to the potd audio commentary and jodie's talking about covid restrictions and filming flux and how the restrictions were more intense at the start of filming (was that end of 2020/start of 2021?) and she says "by the time we finished, we could hug" and damn they took that opportunity didnt they

#itS OnLY BeEn A dAy FoR tHe DOcToR wHY dOeS ShE hUg YaZ LikE ThAt #well maybe sometimes you havent been able to hug your friends for six months because of a pandemic have you thought about that dfhkgjhkjgh #i make myself guilty of this too tho i forget about covid all the time #or not forget im the only one in my town still wearing a fucking mask but like #i find it hard to factor in here #bc i dont know when they filmed + theres no covid in dwniverse #or you know. this part of it #but like you dont SEE anyone wearing masks and idk #in like quarantaine times you'd get these visceral reactions to crowd shots on tv right? #but personally ive lost that #i dont go into public places without a mask but everybody else does so like the visual of crowds has become nrmal again #dont think theres crowds in doctor who but like #it doesnt Register so viscerally if people are stnading close to each other #at least to me

[savage-rhi]

Magggennnttaaaa!

#before the pandemic i sold a lot of original paintings and such at conventions and shows in my area #well some locals at a gathering today kindly informed me someone has been selling copies of my plague doctor piece #and some of my mini prints and presenting them as their own same with stickers #its not only ai we gotta worry about now even the damn locals are doing this shit #i got a show in may coming around the corner and I'm thinking i might not even sell paintings and stuff anymore if this is going to happen #im a creator that loves collaboration and thinks art should be free to enjoy #if this person approached and asked if they could sell my work i wouldn't give a fuck personally provided they give me credit and or a link #back to my stuff hell if people want to print my work if they cant afford it go for it #but fuck dude you don't just claim you did all that work as if it was yours #this was disheartening news #and several other local artists found out too at this venue that their work had been turned into stickers that vendors bought off amazon #ill hop off the soap box in a minute #still scrambling to get kofi stuff set and donation links prepared #thanks for your patience everyone #im getting out of a depressive funk too with what happened at my work place #and im gonna be speaking with a legal aid rep next week #magenta is my safe word for venting

[dreamlogic]

2024 year of charlie gets a fucking break (hopefully. maybe. tbd.)

#ctxt #i'm on medication that's reduced my post-hysterectomy pain by about 70% #i have an intake appointment with a physical therapist in march & a referral to start trigger point injections #to hopefully finally recover as completely as possible from the nightmarish neuropathy that's plagued me since uuuhhhh #going on 2 years ago. holy shit. genuinely can't believe i've been surviving & functioning as well as i have for this long #while suffering a disabling & extremely painful surgical complication. fuck my original surgeon for brushing me off during that time #but the new provider i'm working with is so responsive & thorough in her approach & seems genuinely committed #to helping me finally get relief after all this time. she listens to my feedback & is flexible in her approach #and her assistant is a great communicator who's been handling most of the logistics of care coordination for me #and what a huge fucking relief that is. to not have to drag my doctors kicking & screaming towards maybe treating me eventually #i wanna cry. i finally feel like i'm being taken seriously and cared for. and i'm not BETTER yet (might never be the same as i was pre-op) #but i actually feel optimistic for the first time in over a year that i won't just have to deal with this agonizing pain on my own forever #i might actually see enough improvement that i can start to get back to living my life instead of just surviving it #money is tighter than it's been since i got laid off during early pandemic and that's stressing me out #but i promised myself that i would put my health first in 2024 and that means only working the bare minimum needed to pay my bills for now #genuinely i so fucking needed a break. i felt like i was trying to swim through a meat grinder last year #and it wasn't until i ended up in the ER about it that i finally was able to take my own pain seriously enough #to put my foot down & make some necessary changes that are now letting me focus on Getting Well With Myself at last #in hindsight it's like. really freaking me out how thoroughly i was able to compartmentalize & dissociate from how miserable i was #bc nobody who had the ability to help me would take me seriously & my shitty boss was like. extremely textbook emotionally abusive #and on one hand that was a survival mechanism that kept me on my feet during one of the worst times of my life. so props to myself there #but it was also very maladaptive how long & unnecessarily it went on before i snapped out of it & escalated things for my own safety #it was the same helpless frustration i often felt as a kid of like 'well nobody is on my side but me so i gotta suck it up & help myself' #and i think the family trauma shit that was going on last year definitely contributed to that. idk sense of doubling across time? #and things had to get Extremely Bad before they were bad enough for me to realize that although i felt like it #i am no longer an isolated & parentified island of a child who is beholden to the whims of ignorant & indifferent adults #i actually can and should take action to advocate for myself bc i am an adult and i CAN now change my circumstances as needed #instead of just enduring them as if i'm stuck there with no agency or chance to change things #and i have a really solid support system who helped me feel like it was possible to stand up for myself to get the help i desperately need #chronic blogging

[cursedskull-666]

Gonna start screaming from the depths of my very soul I think.

#Life yknow. Just. Life #Cant downgrade my phone for a cheaper contract bc even the downgraded options are more expensive than my current contract #Have to cancel my membership to local pool bc they raised the monthly cost so now itd be cheaper just to pay at time of visit #Trying to find a place to move into is hell bc single occupancy places are going like mad #And i am at an incredible disadvantage as a disabled person who cant work landlords do not want that even tho i know how much i can afford #And trying to get on council housing list? Even more hellish and the wait time is years long anyway #Trying to get taken seriously by doctors as an autistic trans man? When im trying to see them about my chronic issues? HELL #Throw in that im also fat and its just awful #Trying also to get the GP to bloody REFER ME ALREADY to the gender clinic #HELL #JUST DO IT #and thats just the top of the list #So yeah i think im just gonna scream about it #Oh and cost of living in general AAAAAAAAAUGH #People not masking when they should and ignoring that we are still very much in the middle of a pandemic AAAAAH #I feel like i am actually going insane #Personal #Vent #Im gonna start chewing the walls #Maybe ill try biting people and hissing again like I used to when i was a kid #Because i might as well #Fuck

[dazais-guardian-angel]

went to my first con in 4 years on Friday to meet Kaiji Tang and got a Dazai autograph + video recording of him reading to me. He was the sweetest person (as I knew he would be) and interacting with him was lovely, but also at the same time oh boy it sure was an extremely stressful, ugly wake-up call of what it feels like to live in a world now where everyone around you has blissfully moved on from covid and can enjoy things normally and happily, while you'll forever be trapped in a hellscape of perpetual fear 🫠🫠🫠

#like. to be clear this was the first time i've been literally anywhere but doctor's appointments in 4 years #not just because of the pandemic but because of mental and physical exhaustion #so it was a Big Mistake to go from 0 to 100 and not ease myself into it at all #but at the same time........ it was a fucking hellscape of people. i don't think any kind of buildup could have prepared me for it at all. #it was so much less crowded in 2020 (ironically the very last place i ever went; literally on the BRINK of covid) #and now idk what it's become. a monster con. it was unbelievable. #but i was only there for less than an hour but i was so so so terrified that i very nearly left before even seeing him #i couldn't even fully enjoy meeting him as kind as he was because i was so anxious and distracted #and when i got back to the car i just fucking cried......... #the last five days i've just been sitting in fear waiting to feel Any sort of symptoms #i wore two masks and again was barely there for long but Still #and everyone around me was so chill as if everything was normal and No One was wearing a mask :))))) it's not fucking fair man :))))) #insert the 'they don't know' meme; they don't know how much covid can destroy your body even if you get a 'mild' case #i would never want to be that ignorant even if i wasn't disabled and didn't have reason to worry (but everyone has reason to worry!!!) #but also. ignorance is bliss and it just really fucking sucks man. #it really fucking sucks. why do they get to be happy and enjoying life and not /me?/ #why can't i do just ONE thing for myself without having it tainted by anxiety and fear that i'm going to die horribly??? #while they get to do fucking EVERYTHING??? #if they all just wore masks we could all enjoy ourselves much more comfortably than some of us are now #but no that's too much to ask from people 🙃🙃🙃 #shit sucks man. the world sucks. something that should be a happy memory for me was simultaneously the most awful experience #and i don't know how to feel about it now that it's over #he knew that i was afraid and at the end he told me that he hoped to see me again at another event someday #and that made me cry because it felt like dazai telling me to live. and i want to. but i don't know how to when the world is like this now. #i desperately want to be able to see him again someday but right now after how terrifying that was i never want to go to a con ever again.. #i wanted to ask him things about the manga and about dazai but i was being rushed and stressed so i couldn't ugh #(and doing that is hard enough anyway cause disability and i have to talk with my phone bahhhh) #at least i was able to give him my note *sigh*

[beananium]

i think everytime someone mentions i "need to" lose weight / go on a diet or comments on my weight in general (especially if they're seeing me losing weight as a positive thing) i should legally be required to bite them

#ask to tag #vent #nothing happened by the way. i'm just thinking how poorly i've been treated in terms of my weight and got angry again #i was skinny up until the pandemic and thats around the time i notice people treating me a lot shittier :T #the constant selling of diet projects on the tv in the living room. every celebrity going on some sort of drug to lose weight. the blood #don't even get me started on doctors. i hate doctors so much #its so hard to find one that'll actually help you instead of just telling you to go on a diet when thats been proven to Not Work #negative shout out to my ex psychiatrist who basically told me to starve myself even though he was in charge of my mental health meds :^) #argh i just. i am just so tired

[caffeinatedopossum]

Doctors be like "have you experienced a major life event recently", not considering the possibility that every event in my life has been major so honestly nothing feels important from my perspective

#like last time they asked me this im pretty sure i had just moved states cut off contact with most of my family #turned 18 discovered i was chronically ill and disabled AND was just going to doctors for the first time in my life #despite my crushing anxiety of being anywhere in front of anyone #im pretty sure i have/had agoraphobia but ive never been evaluated for it #i just feel absolutely terrified being in public especially any new places or being alone outside at all #like i cant go places alone but that was what i was doing anyway for doctors appointments #because oh yeah this was during covid too lmao #i kinda forgot because once again nothing seems all that important me #like global pandemic? cool cool can i get some severe isolation with this life threatening virus too? awesome #also yeah covid is still a thing but people dont care anymore #oh yeah i had also just lost my pets and my religion and all of my religious friends. this is the type of stuff i forget #what even counts as a major life event anymore #i think if i was to become homeless get hospitalized or my gf died. those are the only three things i can think of that would shake me rn #nvm there are more now because im thinking about it lol i just think those three are more likely scenarios

[abrightandbrittlegrin]

I hate seeing full faces that i’ve only ever seen with masks on 😭😭😭 so disturbing wtf

#both my doctor and a server at a place i’ve been going to regularly the entire pandemic #😭😭😭😭😭😭 #that’s not what you’re supposed to look like put it back

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

learnt on radiolab this morning that coldblooded animals cant get fevers which if i had given it 5 seconds of thought i could have figured out on my own however i didnt so that throws a fucking wrench in all of my sickfic doesnt it

#it doesnt really matter though bc my timelords can still do whatever the plot needs them to do #which is exactly canon i think #thats a really fun sorta meta canon trait actually that fits #it was a very interesting episode i didnt realise how we just kidna lucked out on not being that threatened by fungi #and how climate change is changing that #MAYBE shouldnt have listened to this right after starting watching the last of us but hey what can you do #the episode is called fungus amungus if you wanna look it up #anyway so that means that means that timelrods WOULD be threatened by fungi #like where for us it´s viruses for them maybe thats the main plague threat #and gallifrey is hot right? hot and not very wet. they wouldnt have a lot of funguses there #but maybe when they ventured out suddenly there was a lot on other planets and their bodies just arent prepared #i was writing like post-potd yaz/missy yesterday and thinking about how yaz sorta like when they came home in 12x10 #was like maybe a month before lockdown? #they lost the doctor and came home right into a fucking pandemic and yaz lost her mind #like looking for the doctor mustve been like one controllable thing when the entire world became uncontrollable #also a way to get out of the house #shes like im just going for a walk but she just goes to that tardis #anyway but then so i was writing yaz/missy and i had yaz tell her that and missy be like what and yaz was like oh right #you werent on earth then. and then i had yaz ask like you must have seen epidemics #and like have you seen pandemics that spread from planet to planet #and then i realised theres not a lot of that in doctor who? at least not new who idk about old but #theres the girl who waited but there the epidemic or the illness is more of just like a contrivance to create like the actual story right? #about amy and rory and 11 #how different would that be now #i expect we might see some epidemic stuff in doctor who in the next like 10 years #HAS there been a pandemic on earth while doctor who was on? like that it couldve been an influence on the stories? #like you can see climate change as an influence all over the last 60 years in the stories periodically #you know what i mean? #i need to watch more classic #anyway im not gonna change the fic ive already written but this is a fun opportunity to change how i write fever in timelords from now on

[savage-rhi]

I will not be that asshole when I obtain my therapy license. By that I mean not being condescending toward clients and assuming they don't know shit about their physical and mental health. I don't understand how mental health care providers (and medical, let's be real) get so far up their own ass that they forget the crucial bits about their job: LISTENING AND EMPATHY. Even if you know or feel on a gut level that your patient be blowing smoke up your ass, you need to do right by them the best you can. Humans got issues. Even the "good" and "best" ones. You should know that when you sign up with a career that involves interacting with every facet of humanity you can think of. It's some deep dark ice cream with sprinkles and a cherry on top. Sprinkle and cherry people/experiences are rare. Most people are the base. Just the ice cream, and there's nothing wrong with that, but the flavor can get old real fast, and you gotta accept that if you're gonna be a doc or mental health provider. Appreciate the the components, appreciate the damn people who seek YOU for help.

#I get it. Compassion fatigue is huge and the pandemic made it worse. Hell #I get it monthly #I guess this is my law of equivalent exchange for yeeting my uterus and no longer having a period. I don't menstruate I just lose my empathy #for a few days then go back to normal haha bad joke but wtf ever #but it's no excuse to be an asshole just because you can wave a degree over someone's head #if it wasn't obvious doctors and many therapists give me the ick like no tomorrow cause of personal experience #and having to work alongside many of them #and being mad at the fuckitry they pull on my clients #and I'm currently mad af right now at how im being treated at an appointment today #they changed their tune when i brought up I'm a QMHA #it shouldn't take someone going YO I AM IN AN ADJACENT CAREER TO YOU AND BTW I WORKED WITH YOUR EMPLOYER BEFORE #to get people to just be fucking nice to others #i know i vent a lot regarding mental health but i am passionate cause ive been fucked over one too many times #and if i can be that one person that makes this shit easier for people imma do it

[yeslordmyking]

What if my shoulder’s been dislocated for three days but I won’t know because I refuse to go to the doctor? 🤪

#i just went to the stupid doctor i ain't going again #just pop back in and stop hurting. not losing more money for a ten minute session this close to the holidays! #not that i'll be buying any silly material possessions to covet above God (if you guys knew how much i love black friday you'd be so shook) #been made of glass lately. i blame the pandemic #whatever God wants me to learn from suffering back to back ailments tho #suffering is the only way we learn i guess #i wonder what i've failed to learn even tho i've given up everything i enjoy... i'm tired anyway shutting up bue #I MEANT BYE #random #personal

[theamazingannie]

Saw someone on Twitter complaining that tv shows and books and such made during modern times often don’t depict anything having to do with the pandemic and how it’s some big conspiracy about pandemic denial and I can understand why someone would think that considering all the denial irl but personally I don’t want to depict Covid in my work because the pandemic completely affected so many aspects of our lives and by depicting it in my work I’d have to completely change so many parts of my stories because there’s no way the events would go as planned if there was a pandemic happening and I’ve been writing these stories for YEARS, since before the pandemic, and I don’t want to change anything and even if the work was new, how do you incorporate this huge life event into your story without it taking away all the focus?

#writing #like I get that not writing about Covid is like writing a 1930s show without the Great Depression #but even with that I feel like it’s hard to create a story in the 1930s without it being ABOUT the Great Depression #and back then there were significantly less people making art so it affected less people #with our heavily saturated entertainment forms everywhere we looked there would be Covid #any character that’s political would HAVE to talk about the pandemic #any character that’s disabled would HAVE to take precautions to avoid illness #any character that’s a doctor would HAVE to constantly have patients with Covid and talk about Covid #it would take too much focus away from the real story #and if you wanted to write something taking place in 2020 then they’d HAVE to stay indoors if they’re not an inherently selfish character #if you have characters who are teachers they HAVE to do online learning and not actually be in the classroom #there goes your school centered drama #can’t have Abby have an affair with a teacher when they’re never in the same room #can’t have Bridget and Jessica gossiping about Linda sleeping with brad if they never meet face to face #you can have superstore have their essential worker storyline cuz it makes sense #or have your first responders mask up when out on the job cuz it doesn’t take away from the story #but so much of it WOULD and I don’t know how to address it without pulling focus #how am I supposed to write my plotline of x finding out that y slept with z if it takes place in April 2020 #and they wouldn’t be in the same TOWN anymore? #how am I supposed to have y get over x by going out to a club and getting drunk when she’s a leftist who would never DARE go to a club #during fall 2021??? #how do I still write these plotlines without the pandemic? #I can’t #so I imagine my work is in an alternate universe where the pandemic never happened #but also somehow Taylor still wrote folkmore cuz tolerate it works too damn well for Inez for my characters not to mention it #and I get why other writers choose to avoid it too because it just doesn’t work in their world #and that’s not about denying the pandemic that’s recognizing it was too important to depict naturally #ugh anyways here I go on another rant no one will read #if you actually read all this I’m in love with you

[wayward-pocket-dimension]

spoiler alert I was watching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness yesterday and Wanda was talking about diseases and that there is a solution to every problem in the infinite multiverse and this one guy yelled "CORONAVIRUS" right there in the fucking theatre what-

#bro who is this guy #fucking king #people were cracking up lmao #this movie destroyed me #doctor strange mom #where did wandavision go? where did all that character development disappear off to? #I WANT WANDA BACK #marvel #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #marvel mcu #doctor strange 2 #doctor strange spoilers #doctor strange #scarlett witch #corona pandemic #covid #coronavirus

[ritahayworrth]

guess who is stuck in the er waiting room instead of being asleep in her bed

#i'm fine btw!! a doctor has already seen me but gosh there is so much waiting!!!!! #i'm just so sleepy 😭 #also hate that the one time i have to go to the er it's during a pandemic 😐 #and when i've fixed my sleep schedule too!! it is literally a few minutes before midnight rn #personal #not blog related

[holding-infinity-and-a-book]

i love ishu cause I came here to rant abour one (1) topic and they had rhe same shit going on

#anyway. #kid with 210 on 720 gets into gujarats top medical college #My senior with 676 doesn't by one (1) person #kid with 210 was in aakash distance learning AND our private tuitions #The bio classes itself cost 64000 a year #Chem physics combined are 80000 #Youre gonna tell me this bitch needs a reservation??? #Shithead who bunks classes to visit fucking Greece in the middle of a pandemic #Gets in on reservation #And the people who work their asses off gor years dont #Fun. Fucking fun. #And then people arw surprised by the quality of doctors we're producing #Like #My aunt (college prof) told mumma how they're forced to pass everyone #Esp reserved seat kids #AND THOSE ARE TBE KIDS WHO FAIL #and that what kidna doctors will they go to now #Amd it's mo fucking surprise most people who have tje means go and settle abroad #You cant call us deshdrohi the desh has fucking done nothing for us #fucking revise the reservation quota #Si it's not 64% fir the minority #And 36% for the remaining 12 lakh #do not fucking pick a fight with me on this