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Chronic Illness

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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 people to spout their opinions on disability.

Rules

  1. Be excellent to each other

  2. Absolutely no ableism. This includes harmful stereotypes: lazy/freeloaders etc

  3. 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.

  4. No denialism or minimisation This applies challenges faced by chronically ill people.

  5. 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Problem is, I often have pain, so I try to do all I can to reduce the already significant amount of ibuprofen I use.

[–] Rookwood 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You gotta step up to naproxen, bro. Just make sure you eat something with each dose or it will fuck up your stomach.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They're both bad long term.

NSAIDS are indiscriminate COX inhibitors (which is why they mess with your stomach, COX-1 is part of the stomach lining goo production). COX-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex don't have this issue (or at least significantly less).

Personally I don't find any of the COX inhibitors to be effective at all, and their risks are well above 0.

Makes me wonder if other, supposedly "risky" drugs are actually a better choice.