YOU DON'T LOOK ANOREXIC"New research shows that our assumptions about eating disorders are often wrong - and that many larger-bodied people are starving themselves ( Read more... )

It was the first time I've entered a store since the pandemic began. Masks are not required now but I wore one anyway.

Then I figured why not and went next door to a health food store and got some cut fruit. Living dangerously!

Maggie Stiefvater wrote:

I had to delete so many chapters of the Dreamer Trilogy, right up to the last book, because I was too angry ( Read more... )

Dave and I got our first COVID vaccination yesterday, took us nearly half the day because we drove to another town an hour away. Those were the first appointments we could register for online. We were also waiting thirty minutes after our shots by their request to be very sure I had no adverse reaction. Felt fine. Took a long nap when I got back ( Read more... )

"I had been sick for YEARS. Permanent damage had been done to my bones, my eyes, my heart."Women of all ages experience medical bias. The younger you are, the more trouble you may have asserting yourself. We are taught that doctors are authority figures and we should trust their judgment. But sometimes their judgment is skewed by their unconscious ( Read more... )

Fat Patients’ Bias Epidemic: https://medium.com/@thefatshadow/the-bias-epidemic-8f27e79bd21c

Excerpt:

"Have you ever been misdiagnosed by a doctor due to your size? What were the repercussions of your misdiagnosis?” I asked on Twitter. I had become ( Read more... )

I was sent to radiology for x-rays of my feet, primarily my big toe joints. Over the last decade I've grown increasingly anxious because my back has grown more painful on a good day and often the positions I'm asked to move into hurt. Both my lumbar and cervical spine have problems and I cannot lie flat without severe pain. Yet that is what was ( Read more... )

The same doc who spent a long time trying to talk me into gastric bypass surgery also brushed off my mention of abdominal pain as a likely symptom of my depression. (Note that I have had depression off and on for decades so I'm likely to know what the symptoms I typically suffer are ( Read more... )

From her obituary ( Read more... )

I've modified my diet as much as possible to reduce inflammation, can't tolerate the level of Vit E suggested below but can tolerate 200 IU with food. I still have pain in the vicinity of my liver nearly every day, sometimes severe, and the area of my spleen sometimes has pain and is always tender. (When I went in to Urgent Care last summer with ( Read more... )