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I’m so mad that doctors and companies are taking away remote access. They finally offer accommodations, and then they take them away. First, the pandemic isn’t over. Second, why is it so hard to offer them all time? They are the most helpful accommodations for me.
The precedent set in Roe v Wade is not just about abortion rights.
It is about medical freedom.
Overturning it will have a chilling affect medical freedom in general. 1/2
Wish we could get stuff like this covered by insurance.
It could really help ppl like me with tmj disorder (or other types of jaw pain/dysfunction).
🥦🍗🍎 “I just have to squish it with my tongue and it just melts away into your throat.”
Having trouble chewing? Japan's $410 @DeliSofter machine is allowing people to enjoy home-cooked meals even in their later years. @rumireports from Kyoto trib.al/EtCtajF
People who don’t want pain patients on opioids:
Cool, let us know when you have something better that we can access (tested/approved for each condition you say it will work for and is affordable/covered by insurance).
We shouldn’t have to suffer in the interim. 1/3
The paper found, “53% of successfully tapered [from opioids] patients and 42% of those transitioned onto buprenorphine reported elevated pain.”
And this is not *incredibly concerning* to the authors?
researchgate.net/profile/Pau…
Curious about how/when the left started supporting the War on Drugs while simultaneously claiming to be “pro-choice.”
Did they delude themselves into thinking that opioid prohibition was different?
It’s not. And like alcohol prohibition, it doesn’t work and it’s killing people.
Insurance: “Looks like X *should* be covered.”
Me: “Okay, so X *will* be covered?”
Insurance: “It *should* be, but we can’t confirm until we get the claim.”
This isn’t how any other industry works. We NEED transparency in pricing and coverage.
I genuinely wanna know if newsmax viewers even believe in evolution.
I grew up in Idaho, and at least as of ~7 years ago, a significant portion of them didn’t think it was real.
And newsmax viewers lean even more conservative than fox viewers (source below).
Newsmax host suggests vaccines are “against nature,” and some diseases are “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people”
mediamatters.org/newsmax/new…
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Opioid hysteria is killing ppl.
The drug war neither helps those suffering from addiction nor those in pain.
If you perpetuate the myth that prohibition helps anyone, you are complicit in every death.
The Drug War moral panic against opioid medication has created a system where the only option left to people w chronic pain is suicide. There is no treatment. There is no hope. CPP are told "just learn to live with it," and some can't. This was a murder.
#ErinGilmerWasMurdered
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Marginalized ppl don’t have to be nice to make oppressors change their behavior. In fact, being nice may not even be the most effective way to create change.
grandmotherafrica.com/love-i…
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…
If white women aren’t getting this then just pretend I’m a straight man that told you to “smile more.”
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Is there anyone here who has/had Alpha-gal (usually induced by a Lone Star Tick bite)?
Do you have known or suspected mast cell issues?
#NEISvoid
Ppl act like those of us that need opioids aren’t willing to try other things.
It took hundreds of thousands of dollars for me to try everything I could (not possible for everyone).
I have stuck with some of those treatments; but without opioids, I’m still in agony.
Where do y’all think the #ChineseRocket will land?
My guess is G5.
ALT Map of the world on a grid. If you can’t see the grid and want to participate, just name a general location.
Imo, this is the best gaming chair, best lab chair, best chair for doing art, and the best chair for doing literally everything else.
I sit with the "back" in front of my body (it is meant to work both ways).
It's my favorite possession.
fully.com/hag-capisco-chair.…
ALT Capisco chair by HAG in Black. Can sit with back piece in front of body or in back.
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If you know ppl from India, ppl in India, and/or that have loved ones in India, check-in with them if you are able.
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It confuses me how pro-choice ppl can support the war on drugs.
Do they not realize that restricting opioids for pain or addiction is perpetuating the war on drugs?
It's still prohibition. It doesn't work and it causes harm.
Support harm reduction if your concern is ODs.
That about sums up why it’s challenging to get diagnoses/treatments for almost any complex chronic illness. THIS. MUST. CHANGE.
Dr. Deeks brings up the fact that #LongCOVID patients are facing a culture of skeptical, incurious doctors, particularly when there is too much focus on depression/anxiety symptoms and not the others.
Was told today I only have to pay the $600 🙏
I still cried during the call bc my treatment is on hold while they figure out how to get Botox from specialty pharm.
If I responded like that to a delay in getting opioids, it would be seen as a sign that I’m addicted. 1/3
My doc office assured me that my Botox + the treatments were covered by my new insurance.
Turns out, they were supposed to use a specialty pharm for the Botox, not in-house Botox.
Now I have to pay $2200 for Botox that cost the doc $600, and none of it goes to my deductible. 🤬
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My doc office assured me that my Botox + the treatments were covered by my new insurance.
Turns out, they were supposed to use a specialty pharm for the Botox, not in-house Botox.
Now I have to pay $2200 for Botox that cost the doc $600, and none of it goes to my deductible. 🤬
It can take more than a decade for medical research to influence clinical practice.
This is why I bring doctors articles. Unfortunately, they are often irritated; but I don’t know how else to move my treatment forward in a timely manner.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…