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Marie, Meg, Lilly, She/TheyHyperiontrails@tech.lgbt
2025-05-04

Yay so today my right shoulder and arm decided to be cranky I have significant joint pain and muscle aches and I don’t think I’m going to sleep at all well my hips are pinging and I have what feels like muscle strain/doms in my legs (both) and my left leg keeps giving way so that’s fun, I’m under a heated blanket and I’m rattling from the pills 🫣
#fibromyalgia
But hey at least it’s just the pain it’s not like there’s anything wrong 🥺🥸

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2025-05-04


1st panel dog in the fire meme - a pain/ailment that would cripped a normal person 2nd panel - closeup of dog (me) 'this is fine. I'm used to it.
Chronic Illness Humor FunnyChronicIllnessHumor
2025-05-04

shrek reading a book on his bed called how to transfer my illnesses to my enemies
Tom Kindlontomkindlon@disabled.social
2025-05-04

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From Chronic Living Therapy e-newsletter:

"Round up of articles spotted online in March/April 2025 that focus on the experiences of people with ‘psychologised’ or hard to diagnose health conditions."

chroniclivingtherapy.com/1-els

@chronicillness
@spoonies @mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS @pots #OI @longcovid
#LongCovid @fibromyalgia
#Fibromyalgia #Fibro #FMS #FM
#chronicillness #chroniclife #spoonie

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Spotted in the news / online Read any articles or research of interest to therapists and counsellors? Please share them with us! We've rounded recent ones up up and added them to our website. Here's what we have from March and April 2025: Physiology for Psychology by Emily Cochrane of POTSUK on how this physiological condition gets misinterpreted and treated as 'anxiety'. #ThereforME published a piece by Ella Barnard who is lost for words trying to describe the reality of ME/CFS. The Smithsonian published an excellent article about how mental illness has become a scapegoat diagnosis for many women with serious physical health problems. And a fantastic piece of research from Australia looking at young people with ME/CFS and exploring how they face challenges building independence and forming their own identities when their paths diverge so much from those of their peers. Can't recommend this one enough! Read our roundup of March/April publications: https://chroniclivingtherapy.com/1-elsewhere-web/
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2025-05-04

New Version of Operation Just Has Players Use Essential Oils Instead Of Performing A Medical Procedure [someone pouring essential oils into one of the Operation holes]
Tom Kindlontomkindlon@disabled.social
2025-05-04

From Canada:

The gut microbiota promotes pain in fibromyalgia

cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896

"Transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain. It also induces immune activation, metabolomic changes, and reduced skin innervation"

@fibromyalgia
#Fibromyalgia #Fibro #FMS #FM #ChronicPain

Highlights • Transplanting gut microbiota from women with fibromyalgia into mice induces pain • It also induces immune activation, metabolomic changes, and reduced skin innervation • Gut microbiota promotes pain through several mechanisms Summary Fibromyalgia is a prevalent syndrome characterized by widespread pain in the absence of evident tissue injury or pathology, making it one of the most mysterious chronic pain conditions. The composition of the gut microbiota in individuals with fibromyalgia differs from that of healthy controls, but its functional role in the syndrome is unknown. Here, we show that fecal microbiota transplantation from fibromyalgia patients, but not from healthy controls, into germ-free mice induces pain and numerous molecular phenotypes that parallel known changes in fibromyalgia patients, including immune activation and metabolomic profile alterations. Replacing the fibromyalgia microbiota with a healthy microbiota substantially alleviated pain in mice. An open-label trial in women with fibromyalgia (Registry MOH_2021-11-04_010374) showed that transplantation of a healthy microbiota is associated with reduced pain and improved quality of life. We conclude that altered gut microbiota has a role in fibromyalgia pain, highlighting it as a promising target for therapeutic interventions.
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2025-05-04

Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a mountain then arrows starting at I'll feel better once I do it ... then clockwise arrow ... feel too sick .... clockwise arrow ... I'll do it when I feel better ... still too sick ... clockwise arrow back to ... I'll feel better once I do it
Alice. 🇨🇦Ratoncita
2025-05-04

Feeling pretty crappy due to weather related . Welcome the rain showers as the gardens need it. Might be the same tomorrow. Think I may be in bed early.

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2025-05-03


People when they hear about any of my chronic genetic health issues [alien guy from history channel saying "yoga"]
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2025-05-03


wicked witch with black and white stockers and red shoes under the fallen house in Wizard of Oz "I'm okay, it's just a flare."
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2025-05-03

My doctor, not sure what the fuck to do with me [a guy holding an ugly blob fish (labeled me)]
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2025-05-03

Chronically Ill Woman Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity She Signed Up For [pic of woman]
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2025-05-03

My unhealthy coping strategies have become my whole personality at this point.

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2025-05-03

Artist: Boolbaga.com

1st panel-doctor says the good news is it's not deadly 2nd panel - he continues you'll just suffer from severe pain and disabling symptoms for the rest of your life - the kid fake smiles and says oh 3rd panel - kid says 'good news thru gritted teeth 4th panel - the kid has tears in his eyes and is shaking with that fake smile on - good news indeed boolbaga.com
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2025-05-03


1st panel - guy saying 'i want to be healthy!' and a guy with a big lemon over his head (life) saying 'did someone say lemons?' 2nd panel - annoyed guy says 'no...health!' and Life starts juggling lemons and says 'no health ... only lemons!'
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2025-05-03

Sometimes the universe puts you in the same situations again to see if you'll still push yourself too hard like a dumbass
FibroJediFibroJedi@gamepad.club
2025-05-02

Hey all,

I've had a rather awful day with my #Fibromyalgia pain and head coldy-ness. So I've only just turned my computer on and it's after midnight.

I've done a bit of woodwork and pattern planning/designing but that's about it today.

Not much else to say as I'm kinda in "just making it through the day" mode.

Be careful out there.

#StaySafe and #BeKind

Tom Kindlontomkindlon@disabled.social
2025-05-02

"'Twirl With Me, Mama!' by Melissa Beardall & Rebecca Nichols is a moving children’s book that shines a compassionate light on families living with #chronicillness ."

hazymaybooks.com/about-the-boo

See next post for more information on this book

@chronicillness
@spoonies #parenting #chroniclife #ChronicPain #Spoonielife
#hiddenillness #invisibleillness #ChronicIllnesses #Spoonies #Spoonie
#ChronicallyIll @mecfs
#MEcfs @longcovid
#LongCovid @fibromyalgia
#Fibromyalgia #Fibro #FMS #FM #POTS @pots

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Drawing of a young girl using a stethoscope on her mother who is in bed. Has the following text: "Mama says she sick. She doesn't look sick to me. She isn't coughing or sneezing like I do when I'm sick. "You need to go to the doctor so you can get better," I say. But mama isn't getting better.
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2025-05-02

Artist @RoundComics on Insta

1st panel - 2 guys talking at water cooler with cups in their hands - 1st guy says - how come you never take sick days? 2nd panel - 2nd guy says my mental and physical health are so poor that I find it difficult to distinguish any particular day as 'sick' 3rd panel - he continues 'i fear I will only rest when the choice is no longer mine' 4th panel - back to both guys at water cooler - 1st guy says 'here's hoping you have an incapacitating breakdown soon' 2nd guy says 'thanks' @RoundComics on Twitter and Insta
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2025-05-02

VCR Tape for Dude's Where's my Car? but changed it to Dude, Where's my spoons

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