#maybe she'll do me a discount because we were in the same form group when we were 11 lmao

[trans-cuchulainn]

in hindsight it's kind of funny (and also sad) that it took so long for me to realise i had chronic acid reflux due to tuning out the sensation, because my teeth have been absolutely fucked for years. and dentists were always like "oh do you eat a lot of acidic fruit" (i'm allergic to fruit) or "do you throw up a lot" (almost never) but if they asked about acid reflux and i said no they just. took me at my word and didn't say "are you sure bc your tooth enamel shouldn't be doing that spontaneously"

so like. there was clear, hard evidence that this was happening, for years, in the form of my deteriorating teeth, but because Teeth are not considered Health and therefore Teeth Doctors don't talk to Body Doctors, the concerns and questions of dentists never overlapped with the concerns and questions of gastroenterologists and thus nobody figured out that my fucked proprioception, widespread pain sensitisation, and general dislocation from my body's experiences was causing me to erroneously report the absence of acid reflux that was there the whole time

and i mean. they probably couldn't have fixed it. but maybe they could've done something before my front teeth got this bad. and now they're messed up and i foresee expensive dentistry in my future. RIP

(however this post is brought to you by talking to an old school friend who just got her chipped tooth and enamel problems fixed by one of our other former classmates who went into dentistry, for way cheaper than her dentist was quoting her, so it's possible there is hope for my teeth if i can bring myself to slide into the DMs of someone i haven't seen in ten years and be like "hey heard u do Dentist Stuff these days, can i get me in on that")

#maybe she'll do me a discount because we were in the same form group when we were 11 lmao #personal #generalised autoimmune fuckery #except it wasn't it was just a hiatus hernia lol