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#tw medical trauma
rhinexstone · 4 days
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My fav version of poison ivys power origin story is a lá Thorns (medically tortured as a kid) and when she learns about a literal child following batman around she FREAKS OUT.
Ivy gets batman alone then serves him a total curveball: she wants to vaccinate Robin from most of her toxins. Bruce thinks it’s a trap until word on the street is that Scarecrow and joker had multiple poisons stolen. He confronts ivy and she admits to stealing them but it’s for the proposed vaccine for Robin.
The rules are that he’s not allowed any samples of the vaccine, and Robin stays with her for three hours for the vaccine to fully absorb into his system. Batman can stay with him, but only in the same room as she might need to use lab equipment.
So every Robin gets the very odd experience of having their biannual vaccine from Dr. Poison Ivy, where they are all on their best behavior and get biodegradable stickers while Bruce just very patiently sits next to them like >:| with one of those temperature guns aimed at their heads
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identitty-dickruption · 9 months
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the other thing you lot need to keep in mind is that being intersex isn’t entirely about genitalia, and many intersex people have roughly “normal-looking” genitals
when people talk about our bodies, a lot of the time they’re still using the fetishised version of the intersex body. they’re still thinking of us as having both a fully functioning penis and a fully functioning vagina, and that’s just NOT the case
yes, it’s possible for intersex people to have genital differences, but even then. it’s the least interesting part of my intersex experience. when you choose to just focus on the genitals, you’re forgetting:
the trauma that often happens to those of us with genital differences (e.g. IGM)
the hormonal differences (which can also result in medical trauma, as well as bullying and shame)
the resulting and/or comorbid chronic illnesses that often come about due to being intersex
being intersex is not 100% traumatic or anything. I actually have come to love my intersex body and my intersex community. but for all that is holy. please stop acting like being intersex is just “cool quirky genitals”
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catmat · 1 year
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It is shocking how quickly appointments are being scheduled and how kind medical staff are being to me after being diagnosed with a tumor. I know a brain tumor is a serious thing but I can't help but think of being discarded by the medical system for over a decade with a disability/chronic illness only to now be treated like gold because they can "see" what's wrong with me. It's incredibly disheartening.
I feel like I'm on some other planet - I'm getting personal calls from doctors, appointments are scheduled quickly, staff is being super kind to me, they're taking initiative to input me into the system just in case meds need to be prescribed, etc. This isn't like the neglect and ridicule I'm used to. Why is everyone so kind now that they can treat me? It's wrong.
It breaks my heart for the millions out there with chronic illnesses and disabilities whose doctors don't take them seriously. The diagnosis and prognosis shouldn't matter.
Patients are equal, we all need help. Don't treat me differently because you can treat my problem. My chronic illnesses and disability warrant the same care.
Treat us all equally like we deserve.
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tometen · 3 months
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sketchie of... a vashie for after eden by @noaafishfieldguide
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“Doctor shopping.” Let’s talk about her.
If you’re disabled you’ve probably heard of this before— if you haven’t, or you’re just unfamiliar in general, or an ableist who says this shit, let’s talk about it <3 because the definition has been overtaken and pissed on by more ableist bitches than the ones who demonized addiction within the medical field and caused this term to exist.
So, “doctor shopping” is actually originated from the people who oversee healthcare, which includes any non medical professionals who are involved in the process as well, like big pharma. It’s been defined (in medical related research journals, not just on social media/ the internet), as “a patient consultation with multiple physicians in a short time frame with the explicit intent to deceive them in order to obtain controlled substances.”
However, you hear in the community, from ableist ableds or even ableist disabled people who are like fucking rabid and frothing at the mouth, gnashing their teeth while flipping over the tiniest of pebbles to find “fakers”, (which is usually an AFAB person with multiple conditions that are followed by a slew of symptoms ranging in prevalence and severity, or someone that doesn’t “seem disabled” who becomes a target). So they call it “doctor shopping” when they see chronically ill or disabled people continue to advocate for themselves by going to countless appointments to try to find out what is causing their health to decline. They (ableists) think that by changing providers or continuing to pursue a diagnosis between multiple providers constitutes doctor shopping. It isn’t our desire, and it’s absolutely exhausting and painful when you’re left with no answers.
If I had not gone to the ER multiple times within two months, I would have died. The fluids kept me alive, and the medicine helped. My mom was preparing my dad for my death, and my fiancée was petrified of losing me because my condition continued to declined. But the entire time I was there, I was terrified of asking for medicine because I didn’t want to be labeled a drug seeker, especially because I’ve been open (for my safety) about using marijuana products. I was crying from how bad it was, my blood pressure was in stage two hypertension from the stress on my body.
They said it was, “nothing to worry about” when I saw my nutrition levels were low. My doctor wants a comprehensive metabolic panel because it is something to worry about because my symptoms were severe. And I had to see another doctor, but that facility ignored me for two months while my pcp and I tried working it out with them. They fucked around with my health for two fucking months. So I had to find a different person, and when I went to her she ordered a procedure, which meant a different facility, which means, yet again a different provider. I even had to go to a different hospital at one point for more tests.
Believe me, we don’t want to go to all of these appointments or see all of these doctors because, half of the time, even though there is something wrong with us, they don’t listen. We don’t want to go back and forth and get more medical trauma just for fun or for a silly little made up diagnosis competition bullshit.
People don’t change their doctors because they want to collect diagnoses like Pokémon, people do it because they want to live comfortably, or at the very least suffer less by finding some sort of direction to move towards to better their own health. I was literally preparing to die from medical neglect, because I did my absolute best and still, to this day, don’t have answers. If I hadn’t sought out more providers, I probably wouldn’t have been able to write this post. I’d be dead already.
This desperate desire to cherry pick what someone shares on the internet about their health and literally fucking stalk people on their social media accounts while looking for any sign that someone could potentially be faking their symptoms is, unfortunately, accepted due to disabled people hating themselves, and ableds hating disabled people. It’s that simple, in my mind.
Other peoples’ bodies, disabilities or symptoms are none of your fucking business, and, yes, this includes the things we decide to share. Disabled people share what we want to, and we live in our bodies 24/7. And some of you really need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up about how disabled people manage their health care.
I’m not saying there aren’t people who fake conditions, but I am saying that it’s far less than what you choose to believe. You say you want to protect “actually” disabled people by weeding out fakers, when all you’re doing is harming actually disabled people by playing Sick Olympics™️ and accusing them of faking when they’re just trying to seek out life saving treatment— which includes seeing multiple providers to dig deeper for a diagnosis, no matter how rare or outlandish you think it is. You don’t get a medal for harassing disabled people, you’re just a piece of shit.
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bones-and-earth · 1 month
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To ignorant fucking doctors/psychiatrist /therapist:
thanks for:
- Assuming/insinuating that I am semiverbal and slowly losing whatever ability to have to speak from pain ON PURPOSE.
-Assuming that I am over reacting by using a mobility aid- because I'm in so much pain. (I can barely fucking stand let alone walk at all. I am shaking so severely that it hurts to even use a Cane )
-Assuming after displaying obvious traits of autism, and being disabled mentally to the point it not only impedes my speech but my ability to socialize and work- that I was not only delusional from my BPD but also a hypochondriac and liar looking for attention. And seemingly thinking I am less likely to be autistic because I'm AFAB and got good grades.
-Assuming when I was literally sobbing from migraines since age 6 that I was a hypochondriac (later diagnosed with chronic tension migraines)
-THANK YOU for not realizing that ptsd and c-ptsd was a actual diagnosis and asked me to define the diagnosis and list its symptoms. (Literally asked me: "What is post traumatic stress disorder?" Apparently he never even heard of it despite being a psychiatrist)
-Assuming I've gone to inpatient so many times because he assumed I "refused to take any medications in the past 3 years." (Which is a actual blatant lie )
-saying I can not use my aac despite me having mentioned my speech loss episodes.
-dismissing all my experiences and thoughts on my own mental health as delusions because at the time I had a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
-telling me it was my fault I was being verbally and mentally abused because I was "ungrateful despite living under her [the abusive family member] roof."
This all actually happened!!
I understand doctors are human and not perfect but at bare minimum actually listen.
So to all the medical professionals: stop dismissing patients, assuming things about them and actually listen.
And to anyone who has experienced this or similar situations I'm sorry.
(Just to clarify for those who can not easily read tone - the thank you is heavily sarcastic in this post. I am quite frustrated.)
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aubeezz · 8 months
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MMMM OC ANGST MMMMMMMMmMm 
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ndcultureis · 3 months
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(medical trauma/neglect tw)
multi self diagnosed neurodivergent culture is
having symptoms thats harming you and your wellbeing, so you go to doctors believing that they and other medical providers can help you
but because you phrased words wrong, you’re always dismissed and told your exaggerating, you’re wrong, and/or you’re really just having a simpler condition.
this makes you avoid doctors because of the things listed and trying to figure out things by yourself and self dx
feeling so overwhelmed with the symptoms that you loom for somebody to talk to
repeat cyle
it’s an endless cycle & i just realized that I’ve been doing this for nearly all my life.
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gummyoworms · 3 months
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New KND OC :]
Dr. Sir Inge, real name Arthur Inge. Based on children being fearful of doctors offices and needles, Sir Inge makes sure everyone takes their right amount of medicine- those who skip cough syrup doses are bound to be visited by Inge during one of his crusades against germs.
Curiously, the medicine in his syringe has the ability to cure most diseases- similar to Knightbrace he could be doing so much more than bully children, but hey, to each their own.
Outside of the office and out of his helm, he's actually quite pleasant to be around! A medieval history nut, he loves studying the dark ages and can recite the Canturbury Tales perfectly. Some of his friends take to calling him "The Very Bright Knight".
Face under the cut! :]
Dork ass red head!!! Blow him up NOWWWW
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Just a note for now,
I'll be avoiding talking about my symptoms to my family from now on because I'm terrified of being sent to a psych institution and getting more trauma again.
They think most of my symptoms are mental. They think my misdiagnosis was *right*.
I'm losing my mind in a depressive episode right now.
Funnily enough my mental illness causes a smaller precentage of physical symptoms. Most of my symptoms are physical disability related, or autism related.
All this is causing too much stress for me.
-Amber (any pronouns)
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nerium-lemontree · 5 months
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About to go into a tomography and I'm fucking shaking because the medical field trauma is strong on this one.
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wishful-seeker · 9 days
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Tw: death talk, traumatic medical procedure
I don't like that ketamine infusions make it hard to remember my bfs face during them. I do not like that at all.
I have to go through the most hellish fucking things sometimes
How do I even explain that to people
"So yeah I have such severe chronic pain that I actively choose to go through a procedure that makes me feel like im dying, for multiple days, every few months for the chance I get to leave bed and go outside."
"Yeah so it feels like im leaving my body and everything I ever knew on earth while I dissappear for an amount of time that is immeasurable and when I come back I don't remember what it feels like, so everytime I do It im not only going through it but actually reliving it like it's the first time because I always forget what it feels like, to almost literally, die."
"Yeah so I if I had to guess what happens to the brain while we are dying my guess would be what I experience during these infusions."
"I feel confident in saying I have gone through the closest thing to death without being literal death countless times."
I could go on.
Like yeah, when it's over, it's over, I move on, 2 months go by, I have a wonderful time, I can walk and stand and play video games everyday and I can write a little a draw a little and have a full life, and yes it's worth it, yes the pain is so bad I would do this as much as I had to, even if it was every day. And when I had to do it for 10 days I wasn't sure I'd make it out alive but I did, and it was so fucking worth it.
And each time I experience something beautiful as I die, I learn something new and very profound, something very valuable about myself.
But that doesn't mean it's not fucking horrible that I HAVE to do this to even use a computer at all or be in a wheelchair for a few more hours, it's fucking shitty that I have to pay an INSANE price for a life that isn't me being stuck in bed only being able to think and watch tv.
I have to DIE over and over and over again just to LIVE
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d0ll-part-s · 9 months
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codeine cradle
i.k.b
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catmat · 30 days
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thirteensinhaler · 2 months
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are you in your first year of medical school?
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p0is0n-is-th3-cur3 · 4 months
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TATO WAR STORIES
when I was like 9 I had to get this kidney “surgery” (idk if it counts as surgery they didn’t yk cut me open but I was sedated and stuff) and one of the nurses was this old lady and I beings the 9 year old with medical trauma I was kicked and screamed when they were giving me the anesthesia and when I woke up I was so out of it I thought I killed her and had a panic attack
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