May. 4th, 2015 07:12 pm
Medical science please get your shit together and figure out my problems. Mine specifically, start with those. I don't have time for this. I have literary masterpieces to finish, and a sarcastic congressional run to plan out.
I saw a comic where someone yelled "gayyyyyy" on Tumblr, and I have been hearing that in my head in a funny voice for like the past week.

Apr. 13th, 2015 12:00 pm
I was honestly kind of disappointed that I didn't need a shaved spot of significant size the first time I needed my head cut open. It would have given me an excuse to shave my head! One needs an excuse to do that, you understand.

But maybe I'll need surgery again, and maybe this time I'll have my chance! If so, I'm going to get several awful $8 anime wigs in varying unlikely colors and spikiness-levels. It's the only way.

Apr. 12th, 2015 07:58 pm


Let us observe a moment of silence for my vision-correcting prostheses. They were ten years old.

(I’m going to get some Krazy Glue and try to fix them, because I fear change even on so trivial a scale, but the plastic’s gone brittle and weirdly-bubbly. So I just ordered a $10 set of replacements that look as much as possible like them.

For the moment I’m altering between sunglasses and my high-school-era set, which have a slightly-too-weak prescription. My face looks completely wrong. It is someone else’s face.)
I'm basically behind "there should be no prescription drugs, they should all be available OTC" right now. Why is my insurance company refusing to pay for the stuff two different doctors have told me to take, and why does it cost four times more to get it from the pharmacy than to order it from overseas. Why do I need to get a painful unnecessary procedure done and listen to a lecture about diseases I am not at risk for to get a birth control prescription. Why do states keep banning kratom, that stuff is the only thing that works on my fatigue even temporarily.
Remember the post where I said this?

I'm hoping more for something like a benign tumor on a gland. They cut me open and make the problem mostly go away again? ...I'm putting "benign tumor on a gland" on my birthday list.


Happy birthday to me, I have a tumor on my pineal gland! Plus a slight case of something called "cerebellar ectopia," which means basically my cerebellum is, uh, slouching?

I've been digging through medical sites for a few hours, and it doesn't seem like these problems are significantly harder to correct than the meningioma was. I will be seeing a neurologist from whom I will elicit more thorough explanations next week, and then will probably set up an appointment with the neurosurgeon who worked on me the first time.

I'm making plans to get upset about it tonight or tomorrow and start generating worst-case-scenarios, but I'm presently still in the "relief at getting a possible explanation that's not CFS/SEID" stage. And maybe they will do the surgery and the problem will mostly go away!

...This obviously makes me wonder what the fuck my head is up to. Why does it keep making tumors. Is it because I had too many dental x-rays as a kid? Do I have an unfortunate gene up in? Am I an intermediate step towards Jack the Bodiless.

blah blah

Apr. 4th, 2015 04:39 pm
Cut for a person talking about which medications they are taking.

One of the top ten worst topics. )
With the caveat that I only just signed up for this, and that it's only for the US and doesn't cover all states: PocketDerm looks really cool?

You fill out a form and talk to a dermatologist online, and they periodically mail you prescription-strength acne/wrinkle goop, which is included in the $20/month subscription cost. (They'll also write prescriptions for oral stuff, which you take to a pharmacy as normal.) They formulate the creams themselves, but they typically contain Retin-A/tretinoin, which is considered The Best Skin Stuff.

It's $20/month including the cream, which is not much more than I'm currently paying for kinda-functional OTC acne cream. (I live a very sad life.) If you use a referral code (https://pocketderm.com/invite/QSMH6Q6) you get the first month free, and the referrer (me) gets a $10 credit.
1) How well did it work for not being Tired For No Reason?

2) If you've also tried Adrafinil, how about that?

(Psychiatrist was talking about putting me on Modafinil, but insurance probably won't cover it.)

Mar. 3rd, 2015 12:32 am
I had to eat orange dye because modern medicine is confusing.

Mom picked up the orange dye for me. The dude pharmacist had no idea what she was talking about, but the lady pharmacist was just, "ah yes, the orange dye that you eat because modern medicine is confusing, yes it's right over here next to the products with pictures of cranberries on them."

Dec. 10th, 2014 04:24 pm
I have many years of personal experience dealing with both the American health care system and shitty user interfaces. I have literally been paid to help people with these things. And I have no fucking idea what's supposed to be going on with the Kentucky kynect website. Who was the low bidder here, I need to yell at them.

I think I've got Medicaid coverage starting January first, but maybe it actually starts immediately? I don't know! It is impossible to tell.

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