“Oh no sweetie, you’re not insane. You’re describing what we now know to be a histamine intolerance disorder…I’m sorry for the way you’ve been treated. But we’re going to help make things better for you going forward.”
So I guess I have a Magic Nutritionist to add to my collection. Also I’ve not been crying on and off all day, you’ve been crying on and off all day.
I’m reading some of the symptoms of this and OH MY GOD.
-Chronic headache
-Unexplained exhaustion
-Sleep problems
-Congested, runny, or itchy nose
-Unexplained anxiety
And MORE.
I’m sitting here like
LIKE NO ONE THOUGHT OF THIS?????
Considering THIS is one of the causes?
-Vitamin B-6, vitamin C, copper, or zinc deficiencies
Along with THIS:
-Extreme or chronic stress
AND
-Injury or trauma
It also says antidepressants can cause it and not one person looked at you and said: “Hmm, maybe it’s THIS”???
GOD WOW.
I am SO glad you got an answer, I am SO happy for you and I wish you a wonderful and painless experience with Magic Nutrition Lady. Magic Physio Man should approve.
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and not one person looked at you and said: “Hmm, maybe it’s THIS”???”
lol, of course they didn’t, they were too busy assuming I was an irrational female and kept upping my valium dosage, which, as a fun aside, valium is linked to an increase of histamine levels in the body. Even the pain killers I’m currently prescribed, are linked to a histamine response.
I literally cannot fucking even right now. But god fuck and damn me I’m alive to seek vengeance so there’s that.
What are the treatments for histamine intolerance?
They’re kind of at a loss cause they don’t really even know how to officially diagnose it let alone treat it. Diagnosis hinges primarily on ruling other things out first and then going “welp, shit.”
Some doctors in the US don’t think it’s even real, but according to my new doctor it’s gaining traction thanks to European research. And the way it’s treated is through low histamine diet for 6 weeks to try and lower body inflammation, and then you find out what you can tolerate and try not to overload your system and trigger a meltdown. So it’s basically just constant lifestyle management, antihistamines, and hoping like fuck they figure something out soon.
There’s also supposed to be some benefits from taking a specific food enzyme? But I haven’t looked much in that yet.
“The medical establishment in particular has been slow to comply with the ADA.“
“The medical establishment in particular has been slow to comply with
the ADA. Dr. Lisa Iezzoni knows why. Not only has she researched the
topic, she has lived it. At the end of her first semester in medical
school in 1980, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which
complicated her future — but not nearly as much as the prejudicial
attitudes that had already shaped the profession she hoped to enter. In
short, she successfully completed her studies and graduated from Harvard
Medical School but was prevented from applying for an internship or
residency by HMS higher-ups, whose biased, uninformed views on her
disability led them to withhold support for credentialing.
Since then, Iezzoni, now a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical
School, has distinguished herself as an expert in healthcare inequities,
especially for the disabled community. In a 2016 American Medical Association Journal of Ethics
article, she writes that physicians “have little understanding about
living with disability or the consequences for daily life or
health-related behaviors.”
She cites a seminal study of the attitudes of
233 doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians toward treating
persons with spinal cord injury. She then compares their responses to
people who actually live with SCI. One statistic stands out starkly: Only 18 percent of the medical personnel said they could imagine being
glad to be alive following SCI, compared to 92 percent of those living
with SCI.”
Chronic pain is pain that is long lasting but does not always need to be present 100% of the time to be considered chronic. To be considered a chronic condition or symptom, it typically has to be present for 3 months or more.
For example, migraines are considered a chronic condition, even though they are (hopefully) not always present. The episodes themselves may be classed as acute attacks, but the condition itself is usually considered chronic as it can be lifelong for a lot of sufferers, even if their symptoms are well managed.
Back pain or knee pain can also be considered chronic, even if it is intermittent and only flares when you over exert yourself. But the thing is, exerting yourself shouldn’t cause that pain to begin with, not if the joint/muscle/area is healthy. A lot of folk don’t realize they’re living with low level chronic pain simply because it’s intermittent and they’ve been conditioned to ignore pain, thinking that if they can power through it’s not serious or necessary to treat (or quite simply, because they can’t afford to go see the doctor for that low level ache that’s always been there.) Which is how a lot of problems can start and manifest later in life as more acute chronic pain that is harder to ignore.
Hopefully that makes sense?
I know some doctors will class it differently, but 3-6 months of pain, even if it’s intermittent, is usually when something becomes classed as chronic, even if it’s “mild”.
{edit} Also thank you! That’s a really sweet thing of you to say 🙂
*looks at article, looks at tumblr fam and years of posts saying exactly this* Hmmm. If ONLY there were a way for the medical and scientific institutions to have known this already. It’s almost like … Selective Deafness or some other bullshit.
I am shocked. Do you see my shocked face? This is my shocked face.
What’s that? It looks a lot like my “unsurprised and so tired of this shit” face? Yeah. They do look a lot alike don’t they.
Okay, ironically I have no spoons to do the image description rn, but I did this forever ago, and the chaos that is le hell site means that I don’t think you ever got to see the high quality scan of your and another user’s idea of a spoonie skeleton flag. Happy birthday Joy, and I’m wishing you many more trips around the sun, all of them happy as can be. ❤️
Oh and, obviously, it’s a pirate flag bc I am a dork.
Which mainly serves to say for both of us: WTF makeup industry?
EYE MAKEUP WITH PEANUT PROTEIN IN IT
Okay I knew about wheat protein in eye make up but PEANUT?!
MOOD
I’d really like to know why there’s gluten in shampoo. I don’t have celiac but I do end up with a ton of shampoo in my mouth.
Wheat protein is a common ingredient in a ton of cosmetics. In shampoos it can be part as a thickening component (you will find wheat or wheat by product in a lot of thickening and volume shampoos for this reason) but primarily it’s used in its
hydrolyzed form as
emulsifiers and stabilizers which make the products more shelf stable and effective.
It’s also one of the main ways vitamin E oil is manufactured, which a lot of folk don’t realize, including some doctors who will tell you to use vitamin E oil for your allergy related hives, only for you to later find out you’ve been slathering your allergy onto your allergy related hives. So that’s always fun.
This is me with sunscreen, unfortunately. I’m allergic to something in chemical sunscreen, and for years I had no idea.
A lot of makeup has sunscreen in it. Many times, they don’t tell you this. So here’s what I learned the (very) hard way: if makeup says it’s “anti-aging”? That’s code for “sunscreen”.
Wait hold up I respect everyone in this thread but nobody is going to question the fact someone in it said they end up with a lot of shampoo in their mouth?????
Not really *shrug*. There’s any multitude of reasons someone could end up with shampoo in their mouth, ranging from mobility issues to just plain sleep inertia and winding up with a mouthful of suds cause you yawned at the wrong moment lol.
Also @shofie-irl thank you for that heads up about the anti-aging creams. I developed a new allergy to chemical sunscreens last year that put me in the ER so that’s good to know!
Oppy came into the office while I was working, and while she has on occasion bumped into my chair and moved me a whole half inch to the left (wtf, why is it so strong), she’s always given up after a moment of realizing that headbutting the immovable object isn’t a good idea, and goes off under the guest bed in search of dust to consume. Except for right now when she apparently recognized my feet as an obstacle, but rather than go round them like she normally does, she engaged her “I’m stuck and need to hop” function, and quite literally hopped onto my foot.
If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to have an 10lb robot roll over your toes, let me tell you, not good.
So yea, note to self, keep my feet out the way and not assume her sensor will know the difference between “an obstacle I should go around” and “I bet I can climb that”.
She was trying to get on your lap!
We gave the robot too much sentient power when we gave her googly eyes. God knows what the ribbon ETD bought for her is going to do when it arrives.
Computer chairs are an implement of Satan and must be removed from the office, one plastic cracking headbutt at a time.
Humans get in the way a lot.
“Help I have lost my way, oh no wait, it’s just dark under the bed nm.”
The floor fan is an object of much affection and she will woo it one day.
The couch is still unclimable.
Our lifesize cardboard cutout of Legolas is public enemy number one and she did not come here to play y’all. She fucking rammed into him so hard he flipped over the back of grandma’s chair 😂
“New floor map incomplete, this may be because obstacles were encountered or the unit was moved” is code for “pick up your shit or I will destroy myself attempting to eat your socks so help me god. I am 8lbs of mechanical rage and determination and this floor will be clean”.
Ninja Update: Wanna see something fun? Mention Shakespeare in a sentence and see what happens.
Poe kept writing distinctly into my sentences so I wrote ”Edgar, you’re not funny” aND HE BLATANTLY DELETED THE NOT I AM SO DONE WITH THIS ASDFKJL
OH GOD IF YOU TYPE “EDGAR ALLAN POE” POE ADDS A 🙁 AFTER HIS NAME PRECIOUS BABY
Oh my God so I typed ‘Shakespeare’ and Shakespeare butted in and wrote ‘The lovely and handsome Shakespeare’ but Poe burst in saying ‘The dreadful and lonely Shakespeare’.
aND FYODOR DOSTOYVESKY ADDED ‘ I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners.”
I’M DONE.
Look what they did to All Star by Smash Mouth
“Somebody once hushedly told me the world is going to roll me. I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed. She was looking kind of glocky with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a “L” on her forehead. Well, the years start voraciously coming and they don’t stop coming; fed to the rules and I hit the ground running. It didn’t make sense absolutely to live for fun. Thy brain gets smart but your head gets dumb. So much to do, so much to behold. So what’s wrong with taking the back busy thoroughfares? In everything one thing is impossible: rationality. You’ll never know if thou don’t go. “You’ll never shine if you don’t glow”, he growled incoherently. Hey presently, you’re an All Star. Get your game on; go play. Hey now, you’re a Rock Star. Get the show on; get laid. As well as all that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold. ~All Star by Smash Estuary of opinion…”
Imagine putting your research paper in here and letting them go at it.
OH MY GOD I WAS WRITING AND EDGAR WOULDN’T STOP FIXING THINGS SO I WROTE “Edgar shut up I’m trying to write” and he changed it to “Edgar shut up I’m meagerly attempting to write” THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE
I typed in “Hello” and Shakesphere erased it and wrote “Begone with this rubbish.”
HOW R00d
I typed “party in the Usa” and Poe changed party to “ill-fated gathering”
I just used it to yell at Dickens about Tale of Two Cities, I am happy now
I typed in ‘hello other writers’ and Edgar Allen Poe changed it to ‘Hello secondary writers’
After I had been writing for a while Edgar suddenly deleted my last sentence and wrote “THE END.” rude son of a bitch
I have to try this.
Rebageled again but to add if the link above doesn’t work, try this one instead.
I put my author bio into it and Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare started fighting over the werewolf puns.
I simply asked Charles Dickens a question and Emily Dickinson kept erasing his last name and putting her own. They had a fight about it..until finally…Oliver Twist was typed.
Oh boy this is an old post. Tbh I might have done but I’ve switched computers since this so if I did it’s likely gone. Poe kept trying to make them sad if I remember, and good old Bill was pretty much just making up words, as was his want.
I’ll never not be amused by the fact that I can drop the words “crucifix nail nipples” into a conversation and some of you who have been with me since the livejournal days will join me in the flashbacks, screaming and crying all the way.
I require context. Because this is a very interesting start of a story, and now I need the rest of it. Could I get a link, or a summary, or something? Pretty please?
All right buckle the fuck up kids, it’s the year 2012 and I’ve just been handed what should be an easy editing gig by my senior editor. It’s a vampire erotica story because one of the final Twilight movies is about to come out, and everything is vampires. Everything. I haven’t edited a single thing in months which isn’t about vampires. I am ready, I can do this. So I open the file and notice there’s a typo in the title, which really should have been my first inkling that something horrendous was about to go down, but you see I’m not quite dead inside yet so I carry on, bushy tailed and bright eyed with my faith in humanity intact. It’ll be dead by page 24, but I don’t know that yet. I’m just editing one more vampire boner fest.
The MC is a girl who we’ll call Sue. Sue is a Good Girl™, Sue is Not Like Other Girls™, she is pale and awkward and a virgin and has somehow managed to find herself a Bad Boy™ for a boyfriend. We’ll call him Dickhead.
Now Dickhead as previously stated is a bit of dick, he tries to pressure Sue into sex because he knows she is The One™ but he loves her really so it’s okay. Except it’s not okay because Sue is a Good Girl™ and holding out till marriage which he’s fine with except he’s got such a bad case of blue balls that one night walking home an attractive stranger lures him into an alley with the words “hey stud” and he follows, dick out before she’s even finished her sentence. Well turns out that was a mistake for Dickhead because she’s a vampire, but not just any vampire, a Dick Biting Vampire. So what started out as a skeevy blow job behind a club that he’ll feel bad about in the morning, turns into him being bitten on the dick and drained of his life essence and left for dead. Except DBV fucked up and now he’s a vampire. Are you still with me? Good, cause it’s about to get weirder.
Realizing he is now an abomination, Dickhead flees, becoming a creature of the night and feeding on animals rather than humans to repent for being such an asshole in life. Sue meanwhile is heartbroken, but carries on valiantly with her life and goes to bed each night crying for the loss of her One True Love™ who she would do anything to bring back. Well guess what Sue, Dickhead never really left you! He’s been “instinctively protecting her from rapists” by hiding out on her roof and fighting hobos who try to get to her open window via the fire escape for months now. Because that’s not fucking terrifying at all.
Upon learning of his predicament and how it happened, Sue can do nothing but blame herself. Oh if only she’d let him touch her secret places, then perhaps all of this could be avoided! Meanwhile Dickhead is having another dilemma of his own, realizing too late that his vampire powers have given him super senses and now he can smell her blood and he can’t decide whether he wants to get with her or eat her. And I don’t mean in the French sense. But he is strong! And over comes his base manly vampire instincts and neither rapes not kills her. Hurrah! And this is so romantic that Sue gives it up, but not before she launches into a theory about how in all fairy tales, True Love saves the day, so maybe her magical pure vagina that has never been touched by anyone, not even her, can bring him back to life. So Dickhead being a dickhead agrees and rips her clothes off, but not before he takes one last moment to marvel at the beauty of her purity, because he will never again look on her again and know she is Pure.
If you’ve only vomited once by now, I applaud your resolve.
So they hop on the good foot and do the nasty, except she is literally so pure in spirit, her flesh burns his. And I quote you from memory because these words are burned into my soul: “her breasts bit into his hands, like crucifix nail nipples tearing at
his flesh, but he did not care because he loved her so and couldn’t
stop”
This phrase haunts me. I dread that it will be the last thing I think about on my death bed and my last words will literally be “god fucking dammit” as I die, carrying that mental image with me into the afterlife. My own solace is in knowing that I inflicted it on other people too, like @ahzuri who is somehow still with me after all these years.
When the magical burning sex fails to heal him and leaves her bruised, battered and broken with “a dainty blue bells of bruises around her secret flower” (I am genuinely quoting this, I could never make something as horrendous as this up without being on acid) Dickhead leaves. Yeah. Off he fucks, leaving her to the mercy of the hobos at her window, and into the night to be the true monster he really is. But wait, there’s more. Remember the dick biting vampire? Well turns out she has figured out she made him into a vampire and has also been stalking HIM and is totally jealous of Sue, so tries to kill her. But again Sues Purity saves her, because sex before marriage which was done out of True Love is not a sin, so she is still a spiritual virgin and I’ll be honest, I started drinking heavily at this point and it’s all a bit of a blur.
A fight ensues some pages later after Dickhead returns, realizing the mistake he has made. And he rescues Sue from the Dick Biter, but not before he assaults Dick Biter, and calls her a slut for luring innocent men into alleys cuts her heart out by cutting her breasts off, at which point i screamed “THAT’S NOT HOW YOU REACH THE HEART” and my brain short circuited completely and I have no idea how it ends because I realized there was 30 pages left and my soul couldn’t take it. I emailed the chief editor like ?????!!!!!!????!!!!!! and the book was immediately pulled from the work line and the author dismissed from the publishing house. Turns out she was a friend of a friend and that was how she got the manuscript past our entry levels for requirement.
And that’s the story of how an author sent me death threats for over a month because I stopped her shitty vampire porn from ever seeing the light of day. You’re all fucking WELCOME.
Sorry to bring this searing back into your lives fam, but I feel it’s worth noting that people are tagging this as an “ancient relic” of tumblr text posts and how they’re so happy they see this every year and like guys, I hate to tell you this, but uh, this post is only six months old. I posted in on March 3rd 2016.
It only seems like years because every time you see it you age five years.
This is maybe my favorite story ever…
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS POST ISN’T AT THE VERY LEAST 5 YEARS OLD??? HOW????
It’s like the reverse Dorian Gray of posts. Every day it exists on this hellsite the power within grows stronger while I wither and age with time.
You’re all just mere casualties to the warping of reality.
Also anyone claiming to have read this on LJ back in the days of yore is likely not being honest. I never wrote about Crucifix Nail Nipples publicly on LJ, it was a friends only locked post shared among a group of maybe 20 mutuals, most of whom I still talk and who are all pissing themselves laughing that this has come back to haunt me through my own folly.
And even then the post I DID share back on LJ, was vague as shit and didn’t go into detail because I had no desire to be fired for bitching about work online. Most of the horror was recounted directly over windows messenger to people like @ahzuri who could be relied upon to scream “What the Fuck” at all the right intervals while I had a minor breakdown over my workload.
Happily I now no longer suffer from such contractual restraints and you all get to suffer with me 🙂
But yea, no. Unless someone else was bitching about it publicly back in 2012 (and I know the other editor who worked on it got fired so it’s not impossible), you saw it here first on my tumblr early 2016.
Which god help me was honestly a simpler, more hopeful timeline than the one we’re currently in.
As for everyone else saying they know I hate this post, I don’t hate this post. How can I hate something that has given so many people both joy, horror and dare I even say it, hope, in equal measures. It has also brought many wonderful and amazing people into my life, so while I might be Tired, I’m not bitter, and I certainly don’t hate it. Any complaining you see me doing is largely amused exasperation at the fact that I was very nearly able to forget this story, and then I made it fucking more popular than if the book had actually been published. I played myself. Like a fool. And god help me I might be in perpetual vampire nipple hell over this post for the rest of my life, but I’ll be damned if I’m not taking all of you screaming with me.
Happy belated two year anniversary of me losing control of my life to this hellsite.
I firmly believe that every time this is reblogged, a tiny bit of positive energy is sent to @thebibliosphere and her health and life improves just a smidge.
Callout post for @amusewithaview for putting this onto my dash again at 3am, I was unprepared.
Also sorry to everyone who started following me for other reasons but I feel it’s only valid you know my origin back story on this hellsite lmao
