I live in one of those sparsely populated states, I have to drive 5 hours one way to see a neurologist. Because the one that is two hours away only sees a small number of veterans due to the way the VA pays them.

Thank you for the offer of help, I now have 100% disability with the VA and I’m also on ssdi. Good luck helping your veteran, and please appeal when the VA gives them a rating. They like to lowball us, I was given 70% after my first c&p.

I have triwest, which is the veteran version of tricare. I’m totally fucked trying to find care in an already sparse Healthcare provider state.

The government says well this service was only worth xxx in 2000 so that’s what we’ll pay. And then they act all shocked when none of us can find care

It went through the book. I don’t know if a bullet proof vest can stop a 50 cal fired from a foot away either tbh, but definitely like you’re saying it won’t prevent injury

Reminds me of that YouTuber that convinced his pregnant partner to shoot him with a desert eagle while holding an encyclopedia in front of his chest. He died, she was sentenced to 180 days for manslaughter

I have hEDS. Moist heat pads are my go to after injury. That sounds gross but I feel like it helps the heat penetrate. A hugely helpful thing was a script for a muscle relaxer though. I get muscle spasms around the joints that slip the most (probably my body trying to hold everything together lol). My friend who also has EDS swears by a passionflower/cbd gummy for muscle relaxing, so maybe try that until you can get a prescription.

Physical therapy helps, too, and you can probably find one who will do video appointments.

Canes are pretty cheap, and they make collapsible ones. My hip and knee heal a lot faster when I use a cane after a dislocation. I don’t really care for braces, but my friend really loves them, so ymmv. I much prefer using kt tape for stabilization. There’s lots of guides on placement online. Just make sure you keep some oil on hand for when you’re ready to remove the tape. Hypermobilty often comes with very sensitive skin that tears easily

Wouldn’t kewpie mayo work? It’s less tangy than American mayo and a tad sweeter

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That might be the case since op and I are both on that instance

About 20% of my feed is missing images right now. I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, because it does seem to be happening more frequently.

I kind of wonder if it’s because the original poster is from an instance I’ve blocked

I’m still waiting for this guy to do something intentionally funny. It’s like he saw the couch meme snowball and decided he wants to match that energy, without understanding why it went viral

Every body/brain is different. I tried three other meds for adhd before I landed on a combo that works for me. Strattera was extremely bad for me, but I know it’s amazing for other people. Sometimes you don’t really have a choice but to go through a few meds before you find one that works and is tolerable

Wellbutrin definitely helped me much more than any other medication classified as an antidepressant. I think if I had known it was helping my undiagnosed adhd at the time I would have stayed on it, but it didn’t do shit for my depression lol.

I have never had to wait for a dose of Adderall or Vyvanse since I got diagnosed 2 years ago, and i actually have an extra month of them at the moment. I’m not sure if this is location or pharmacy specific, all my meds come from the VA.

I have two perspectives to this. I once had several male Indian roommates and I honestly don’t remember them having a scent beyond “male”. I could pick up turmeric from one of them, but I think he used a turmeric toothpaste.

I’m white and afab (not on t at the time) and a decade after having those roomies, I had a half-Indian friend tell me I smell like her dad lol. I think curry odor might just stick to clothing, I make it a few times a week so I’m sure my whole house smells like curry to outsiders at this point

My cat’s prescription wet food is less than half that per can. I often feel guilt for being a cat owner, but her quality of life is high, and she’d be killing so many native birds if she was still feral. I really hope that means something in the long term. Hopefully this becomes popular enough to affect the prescription food side of things, too

Often something like this is published and people don’t use the methods for the materials they are described with. It’s like taking the idea to make dough for baking specifically shaped bread, and using the concept to make specifically shaped ceramics instead

A lot of them didn’t even make sense by the time I saw them in the 90s (my dad is a huge far side fan). What I love about them is how absurd they are. It’s not usually “actually laughing” funny, more like “lmao wut”

Testosterone can increase iron absorption. I don’t think menstruation plays enough of a role reducing that given how little blood is lost for the average person. I’ve read about people who have been recommended that they donate blood to lower theirs. So to put some numbers up, most menstruation is between 25-30ml while a blood donation is about 500ml. You can donate blood a little under every two months

Woah! I really dig this! Thanks for posting. One of the many things I really miss about Seattle is the local availability of wide musical styles.

I used to spend weekends at a music venue/alternative living space there and the random jams were such a great thing to fall asleep to lol. This strongly reminded me of that, though it’s been at least a decade since I was there

Those red squiggles that are under some words break the spell. The only things that are allowed to be in red are thumbprint and specific words written at 45°. They can’t make the red squiggles go away, so they have to write by hand

I asked to be sterilized in my twenties. I have never wanted children, and never was even asked to baby sit when I was a teen because of how awkward I was around babies and small children. I was denied because apparently decades in my own head wasn’t enough, I needed to be married first. (wtf I can’t even tolerate sex how am I going to get married lol)

In my thirties I tried again, but this time asked to have all of my reproductive organs removed because they cause me so much pain. I got denied because I came out as trans before that 🙃 The (American) VA can’t do any surgeries if there’s even a tiny hint that it might be gender affirming for trans and enby folks.