Hello disabled comrades! Sorry the mega is late again. I hope we’re all weathering the COVID surge as best as we can.
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
Rant away, that’s what we’re here for! I know how much it sucks living like this, I have similar issues with my thyroid meds. Dose too low? Extreme exhaustion and brain fogginess to the point of being unable to function or even think clearly. Increase the dose? Now palpitations, drenched in sweat, anxiety and total brain meltdown to the point of delusions. There’s no really comfortable middle ground. It’s no life, needing synthetic chemicals to survive.
I know a few people who’re in the same boat as you are, I have such an insane amount of respect for all of you fighting with the meds. I hope that one day both you and I, and all our fellow thyroid-and-pancreas-meds-needing-people will have comfortable doses of medication that don’t fuck with our brains or bodies anymore than the diseases do. Thank you for your reply, comrade
Thanks. I hope we actually get fully functional replacement parts that work perfectly. But I don’t see that happening in my lifetime, at least not soon enough to make a worthwhile difference to my life.
I don’t hold out much hope either, but who knows, maybe we’ll get lucky.
Maybe in our next lives we’ll have perfect health to make up for this.