How Chronic Illness Affects My Life

For me the hardest part is dealing with drs that dismiss my symptoms, concerns. I've been told many times I am physically fine, it's in my head. Ya, 90% of body covered in hives for years, aseptic meningitis, all in my head.

the fatigue and pain are the worst 😞😞 i just want to feel awake sometimes

All of the above, honestly. Just about every aspect of my life is affected.

I find it affects my endurance, like my physical ability to push through the work day. I'm not exactly fatigued, it just feels like I'm being raked across a cheese grater.

I could have picked a lot more than I choose

All of these

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Most of the above

I struggle to talk to people

I can't work and make my own money

all of the above but mostly interacting with people 😔

And pain too

Fatigue is big one when im really exhausted

Honestly fatigue is my big one, however with fatigue comes chronic pain, then flares, then episodes. So honestly it's all the above😅😅

Definitely all of the above

I have social isolation and loneliness because I'm stressed and I'm stressed because I'm isolated and lonely. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Soooo. I can't win

I decided to go back on medication for my ADHD. At first it seemed to help a lot but now I’m not sure if it’s really helping. I may try to get off after this bottle🤦🏽 I think just really need therapy and some self healing. I picked up reading again and I think this may help a little. I know there are a lot of other natural things that can as well, but does anyone have any pointers?

Most of the options tbh

This is a hard choice because it’s honestly all of the above to some extent, but I said disabilities. I can’t drive for six months if I have a seizure. Thankfully my seizures are few and far between, but when they do happen, it’s like my life goes on hold for six months. It really sucks when I’m seizure free for six months, I start driving again, and then I have a seizure again. 😭

Employment. Employers aren't understanding. They seem to think it's a "rash with some itching" In ALL of my interviews I disclosed that I have multiple psoriatic diseases and that there would be some dr appointments, creams, etc. Two weeks in is the longest they last. People complain about the mess (usually other employees 🙄) Or that my constant scratching "grossed tem out". Employers never stand up and end up firing the emplyee with the condition, because they are "the person causing the disturbance.

Employment. I had to quit my first job because the stress made my tics so bad I couldn't do my job anymore. I haven't gotten another job since because I've been so scared it will happen again.

Basically it affects everything, my ability to function is in the gutter.

I’m bipolar and schizophrenia for my disability

For me, my entire way of thinking has changed, so far as my handwriting has become unrecognizable (from the before times). So having to learn how to learn again has really sucked.

This should have an all of the above option

All of the above as well

All of the above

Allergic to latex and incontinence.

I'm sorry about this. I have tumefactive ms.

There is no part of my life at all that my mental health hasn’t affected, from my ability to hold down a job to my relationships with my wife and others.

Literally all of the above plus more

mental fatigue and physical fatique along with lack of motivation makes it hard to function

Stress mental difficulty and sometimes fatigue

More then likely your inflammation markers are high. Fatigue is the number one symptom of this.

Physical pain is so draining, medication is hard to get.

I think "stress and mental difficulty" could've been broken down quite a lot, but it might've taken a licensed therapist to do so.

I deal with fatigue quite often

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