Chronic Illness
A community/support group for chronically ill people. While anyone is welcome, our number one priority is keeping this a safe space for chronically ill people.
This is a support group, not a place for healthy people to share their opinions on disability.
Rules
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Be excellent to each other
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Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc
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No quackery. Does an up-to date major review in a big journal or a major government guideline come to the conclusion you’re claiming is fact? No? Then don’t claim it’s fact. This applies to potential treatments and disease mechanisms.
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No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.
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No psychosomatising psychosomatisation is a tool used by insurance companies and governments to blame physical illnesses on mental problems, and thereby saving money by not paying benefits. There is no concrete proof psychosomatic or functional disease exists with the vast majority of historical diagnoses turning out to be biomedical illnesses medicine has not discovered yet. Psychosomatics is rooted in misogyny, and consisted up until very recently of blaming women’s health complaints on “hysteria”.
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Respect the Group’s Purpose. It’s a support forum for people with chronic illness to vent and share and talk together. It’s not a place for healthy people to come and give their opinions.
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I can only surmise he was trying to treat both the nausea and my inability to sleep with one medication. I did indeed sleep which was needed because I have not been sleeping well ( averaging a few hours here and there a day) due to the pain and nausea. I will be sure to speak to him concerning all of this on Monday at my Dr's appointment. I am not familiar with what happened with Lil Wayne but will do some research over the weekend. I will also look at the nueral tension stretches. I try to not take any medication I don't have too and held out as long as I could but it was fast becoming to much for me to navigate. Thank you for the very helpful information.
Promethazine is a heavily abused drug, often called "lean" or just "purple drank".
Lil Wayne has actual medical issues that promethazine would treat...
And if he just sipped lean at doctor recommended dosages, he'd be a lot better. Instead he just recreationally chugs a month or so worth at a time, which makes it worse.
I was just hesitant about all that, so my doc just skipped it.
But it's not really "adding" drugs, it's just trying shit till you find one that works with acceptable side effects. There's no way to know what will happen before you try it. So telling your doc you'd rather try something else is rarely an issue.