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3. ugh... try having an autoimmune disease that's not properly diagnnosed till your 30s!!!
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 12:38 PM
Jul 25

THAT's what medicine was like in the 70's-80's... they knew lots less, so the blanket diagnosis was "anemia" that's like now calling the blanket of autoimmune stuff they CAN'T diagnose as fibromyalgia...

If it wasn't for the shot I take once a month, that is biologically made to target the specific genes that activate my illness... I wouldn't be in remission. (btw - those shots are $10K each! good thing I'm "milking the system" on medicaid)
I am worried I'm going to have to start staggering my doses to have a little stockpile when things hit the fan... I can probably get by for about 6 months before things get bad again...then I'd just want to off myself.

I believe in holsitic medicine too, don;t get me wrong... but there's a place for modern medicine
And children deserve to be heard and seen when they have illness and other issues... obesity isn't a moral failure, it's usually a combination of things.

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