Chronic Illness

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A community for chronically ill people.

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Absolutely no ableism, although good faith questions that take an ableist stance will be left up pending moderator discretion.
No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.

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Let's put her on saline & discharge right away (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/chronicillness

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discharge = discharge from hospital

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[–] bassomitron 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

TIL about MCAS. How horrible, I hope they can cure it someday.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought MCAS was the thing that was crashing the 737 Max 8 planes by pushing the nose down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

No that's called short term gains

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It's looking to be possibly more common than was thought, around one in twenty people, so you probably know someone with it. The symptoms vary significantly in type and severity. Some people are completely disabled, others have no idea they have it. I have it and mine is medium spicy - I can manage it with a shit ton of drugs and lifestyle changes. Still hoping for a cure as it fucking sucks.