Being disabled with bladder incontinece and not knowing if your pain is an infection or just other bowel movements..

At this point, all of it is an infection, and i just need to see a doctor to make sure and get anti biotics.

I can't remember the number of times this has happened since i have had chronic UTIs through my life even as a young kid. But now, since it's been a while (a good 7 years), the pain isn't as bad as when i was a kid (or pain tolerance) that i can't tell. I had them in elementary school, then didn't get them again until college. I have seen 3-4 urologists.. 1 being a creepy pediatric urologist, 2 being fatphobic and saying they can't do any surgeries until i lose weight (possibly pcos and other disabilities stopping me from losing weight) and the last one being for me seeing if i can cath myself.. never doing that again cause it was and is painful.

"I don’t mind paying to use public restrooms because the paid ones are cleaner!” Then you clearly do not experience the profound frequency that can make paying-per-pee an itemized travel expense akin to an extra meal in my food budget, nor the level of urgency that has prevented me from ever turning down a restroom opportunity when I need it, which is constantly. We are not the same.

I love when utis overtake me and all I can focus on is the pain and the world is ending and why isn’t my heating pad working

healing

do yall fw pasta dinner and found family. be honest

erm this took 6 hours and 7 minutes and has 7813 strokes made but who cares when you got pasta and a family

Getting diagnosed with a chronic condition is easy! Just follow these steps:

Have symptoms

Schedule doctor visit

Wait indefinitely

Repeat

This is not a joke but men, if you need to see a doctor see a fucking doctor. There is nothing emasculating or shameful about it and you are never less of a man for doing it. Your pride is not worth your health or life. You aren't weak because you didn't tough something out you're strong for tending to the needs of your body. The mindset that it's weak to seek medical care can have deadly consequences

Yes this includes "embarrassing" issues. An object stuck in your ass because you girlbossed too close to the sun trying to have a good time, not only will any person in the ER tell you they've seen it (and probably worse) but people have died from sepsis because they didn't want a doctor to examine them that way or to have to explain their predicament. Not worth dying over

Another person touching you in a medical setting is not sexual in any way shape or form. It implies nothing about your sexuality. Even if your body reacts in a way you don't want it to (it happens, likely won't but if so they don't think you're a perv or some shit). Malpractice of course exists and often a witness will accompany the doctor for such examinations to keep you safe and ensure you are treated professionally.

Strict laws exist to protect your right to privacy. Anything you say to your doctor stays confidential.

If you are trans your doctor should know this as it can be vital to you receiving proper care. And you are again, no less of a man. Dysphoria can be unbearable and acknowledging your anatomy can be awful for some but sometimes it's just something you need to get through for the sake of your physical health. Also trans or cis or in between there's no such thing as a "girl illness/disability". Get checked for whatever's going on

STIs and UTIs and the likes are not shameful. If Planned Parenthood is an available resource in your area you'll probably find that more comfortable and safe than you expected. And if you're a minor they will allow anyone confidential and typically free care (tell them you have no insurance). It's not just a lady clinic that only does abortions, they do everything from trans care to routine exams and birth control (many also provide free condoms). However many doctors specialize in/treat this shit, see it every day, and sometimes the treatment is so simple and can prevent something so much worse.

Ceroba is the Alphys of Undertale Yellow.

The character that gets way more hate then she actually deserves from the fandom.

Fight me.

so if you wanna know how my day's going. I'm crying over the singing of two anthropomorphized oars at a puppet funeral. normal and fine

Any update on Reprieve part 2? 🙂

hey hi hello! i'm so sorry it's taking me so long to post part 2 🙇🏻‍♀️ thank you and everyone else for your patience, i really appreciate it, you have no ideaaa 💕

I had a couple of things pop up that made me sorta put my art and the comic on hold. Namely, some health stuff and a brief period where maybe I had burnt out slightly(?) and everything I was drawing wasn't turning out quite right (though it could also just be that my skills likely aren't up to par with how I would hope for this to look 😵‍💫) so I took a week or two off to shake off the art block.

Then my friend introduced me to the Magic Poser app last week which has been a SAVING GRACE for a good chunk of the things I had been struggling with and it's gotten me back on track with part 2 in the last few days (bless her 🙌)

I'm hoping that I'll finally be able post part 2 sometime next week now that I'm back on a roll with this (and now that my health finally seems to be cooperating with me once again lol) 💗

hey besties if you’re every experiencing a chronic UTI and a urologist says it’s not a uti but a condition that mimics a uti without the infection (PID) DO NOT believe them go get ur blood checked and ur fucking kidneys checked otherwise you’ll end up with a kidney infection and fucking SEPSIS

Any doctors / medical people wanna tell me what high fevers for 2+ weeks daily, blood work all good besides slightly high MCH & MCV is? Can urinary issues cause high fevers with no positive tests? (I have an embedded UTI). Otherwise my only thing is autoimmune but I bring you back to normal CRP, normal FBC.

In the last few days I've developed a simple cold (not COVID I've triple checked) but the fevers started before that with no other infection signs besides my urinary symptoms being worse.

I have a semi-diagnosis of reactive arthritis when my urinary symptoms are bad (very bad knee & back pain) but never had fevers with this previously.

Only time I've ever had fevers with UTI is when I had suspected sepsis but once again, I bring you to my normal blood results 🙃

you will know when i'm at my breaking point and writing something so extremely self-indulgent if the smut begins with reader downing a bottle of water, then ends with her immediately crawling out of bed in the most unsexy way possible to pee and take her prophylactic antibiotic

theres currently 194 chapter ideas for www. i need... i need to condense... urgkjfdbkjgf

okay this is a shout into the void but does anyone have any advice for staying functional at work/in day to day life when you have recurrent utis/possibly interstitial cystitis? tmi below the cut

i can’t be away from the bathroom for more than five minutes when i’m like this and this happens like once a month for several days. with the nature of my work i can’t leave my workstation this frequently. i literally can’t work under these conditions. idk what to do

chronic pain was ass a few days ago and i made red giant starlo doodles so here’s those (close ups under cut)

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