Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

Looks like that Chelsea girl is being discharged:
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So this Stiff Person Syndrome she is trying to state she has actually is easily diagnosable. It also doesn't work the way she is pretending it does. It affects the trunk and limbs, not the jaw, etc. It also isn't non stop and would not bedbound someone 24/7 until it has progressed a lot.



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When called on saying she has it (which she does often on CaringBridge) she posted:
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So this Stiff Person Syndrome she is trying to state she has actually is easily diagnosable. It also doesn't work the way she is pretending it does. It affects the trunk and limbs, not the jaw, etc. It also isn't non stop and would not bedbound someone 24/7 until it has progressed a lot.



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When called on saying she has it (which she does often on CaringBridge) she posted:
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Chelsea says, "I have never said I have stiff person syndrome," yet she claims to have "stiff attacks." Make it make sense. I'm placing all bets on her never going to Johns Hopkins. I am not a doctor, but I don't see why another specialist (or even PCP) couldn't run some of the indicated tests before sending our stiff kween to another hospital. It sounds like the doctor(s) she sees don't buy it, but are like, "Yeah, no. If you're so dedicated to this diagnosis, go to xyz hospital, who has specialists who will also tell you that you don't have SPS."

ETA: Chelsea posted a TikTok video about her discharge-via-ambulance/stretcher, wherein she is carted by EMTs into her house on a gurney. I'm not entirely sure why she didn't get the usual wheelchair > car > house treatment like all the normies. She even has her own wheelchair and ramp at home, and her mother's car must be accessible since mommy carts her around everywhere. She claims she's gone "10 steps backward" and "has a lot to relearn." Like what, Chelsea?

Highlights:

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Also, in the comments on a previous video, she mentions in a reply to one of her stans that the hospital was getting ready to make her pay out of pocket. At what point does insurance nope their way out of a situation? Also, she's considering a visit to our lord and savior, Mayo Clinic...which she must have burned bridges with previously.
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I reread Chelsea's entry from September 6th to see if she mentioned when she would see Dr. H next. She didn't, but she did mention needing to get digital motion x-rays done and that she was having a hard time finding a local clinic that would do them. She mentioned possibly just getting them done out there and also maybe just visiting the stiff person clinic at John Hopkins while she was out there, too. Makes me wonder if that was related to the rapidly escalating bullshit in the hospital or if her need to be the center of attention was the sole motive.
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(She also was supposed to meet with an ortho for her hip two days before the hysterectomy that I don't think she shared the outcome of. )
Anyway, here's her last couple transport videos.

This crazy chick was in the hospital for 24 days for a hysterectomy. I know she's trying to munch for more surgery, but I can't imagine any surgeon wanting to open her up again if she's going to unnecessarily take up a hospital bed for three weeks afterward.

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ETA: Chelsea posted a TikTok video about her discharge-via-ambulance/stretcher, wherein she is carted by EMTs into her house on a gurney. I'm not entirely sure why she didn't get the usual wheelchair > car > house treatment like all the normies. She even has her own wheelchair and ramp at home, and her mother's car must be accessible since mommy carts her around everywhere. She claims she's gone "10 steps backward" and "has a lot to relearn." Like what, Chelsea?
At one point during her hospital stay, she was claiming that she could no longer sit up due to her stiff person syndrome and that PT was trying to work with her but she kept having stiff attacks. So that would explain the gurney transport. Not sure what she's planning on trying to "relearn" though since I'm sure it won't be a miraculous recovery.
 
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So this Stiff Person Syndrome she is trying to state she has actually is easily diagnosable. It also doesn't work the way she is pretending it does. It affects the trunk and limbs, not the jaw, etc. It also isn't non stop and would not bedbound someone 24/7 until it has progressed a lot.



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When called on saying she has it (which she does often on CaringBridge) she posted:
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I hope this subhuman is never given IVG. It's lifesaving for certain autoimmune disorders but extremely expensive to make and a waste if you use it on someone without a condition that has evidence for IVG treating it. A cool thing about IVG is, unlike almost all other treatments for autoimmunity, it doesn't suppress your immune system. Normally people with those conditions take immune suppressing drugs that make deadly infections more likely.
Stiff person syndrome literally has specific autoantibodies that are almost always only in people with the disorder. If she was tested negative she is 100 percent a faker. Why fake something that can be so easily disproven? Does she really expect people to believe she is a living casestudy medical marvel?
Is faking autoimmune conditions common among munchies? What a stupid thing to do, blood tests can easily rule out or confirm if you have extra inflammation, there are numerous blood tests and some are even hyper-specific auto-antibodies only linked to one or two conditions. I see munchers more using conditions where they aren't exactly sure what causes it and/or have a diagnosis of exclusion and are poorly understood.
 
So this Stiff Person Syndrome she is trying to state she has actually is easily diagnosable. It also doesn't work the way she is pretending it does. It affects the trunk and limbs, not the jaw, etc. It also isn't non stop and would not bedbound someone 24/7 until it has progressed a lot.



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When called on saying she has it (which she does often on CaringBridge) she posted:
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I hope someone will correct me if this is wrong, but I think Chelsea has had at least one spinal tap which was negative for GAD antibodies. I believe that's why she's so pissed at Mayo - they diagnosed her with FND because her spinal tap was not abnormal.

Munchies love a diagnosis of exclusion!
 
Stiff person syndrome literally has specific autoantibodies that are almost always only in people with the disorder. If she was tested negative she is 100 percent a faker. Why fake something that can be so easily disproven? Does she really expect people to believe she is a living casestudy medical marvel?
Because munchies don't know the cool rare diseases.

Like Jumping Frenchmen of Maine or Quebec beer-drinkers' cardiomyopathy
 
So this Stiff Person Syndrome she is trying to state she has actually is easily diagnosable. It also doesn't work the way she is pretending it does. It affects the trunk and limbs, not the jaw, etc. It also isn't non stop and would not bedbound someone 24/7 until it has progressed a lot.



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When called on saying she has it (which she does often on CaringBridge) she posted:
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Treatment may include high dose diazepam. Ding ding ding there it is. Fucking knew it. All I needed to see.
 
Let's look at Chelsea's original FND diagnosis.

According to Chelsea, she had her first seizure on September 13 2019, which was also the day she moved into her mom's house. A week later she had another seizure and it snowballed from there until she was having 15-20 per day. She went to the hospital and, of course, her EEG showed no sign of epilepsy. She ended up being sent home and managed to arrange a visit to Mayo for October 30th. Oh, and HER MOM QUIT HER JOB TO BABYSIT CHELSEA.

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By October 31st, her speech has somehow turned into a horror show. She is completely silent for the first 30 seconds and after that it is fucking painful to listen to. At this point in time, she has an MRI scheduled and Mayo is suspecting FND. She doesn't seem overly upset about the FND yet and talks about the various therapies she would get for it.

By November 12th, she is less happy with Mayo. She doesn't feel like she's being heard. She doesn't think it's safe for her to be home. (Sound familiar?) She wants a wheelchair because she can no longer walk. She complains about her doctor not arranging physical therapy yet.
Also, notice the "tremors" in her one hand that is visible, while the camera manages to be held reasonably still.

By November 15th she has gotten her wheelchair but is complaining about the stigma of an FND diagnosis. One doctor wants to prioritize mental health treatment for her, but of course that's not what Chelsea wants.
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November 21st, Chelsea gets her MRI while sedated. Predictably, she doesn't have any tremors or seizures while sedated. On November 22, she gets the (normal) MRI results and gets her definite FND diagnosis. Magically, the sedation from the day before just happens to wear off while her doctor is in the room and she's the worst she's ever been. And some whining about the difficulty in find an FND program.
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November 27th, the day before Thanksgiving 2019, Chelsea calls 911 and has her ass carted off to the hospital for seizures so violent that she was injuring herself. They medicate her with the plan to ship her off to transitional care.
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By December 4th, she's feeling well enough to bless the internet with more Caring Bridge bullshit. Her sister, Lacey, brought over her nephews two days before Thanksgiving, which was also the day their mom put up the Christmas tree. The stimulations was too much (or maybe it was her meds) and Chelsea spent the night having violent seizures. She woke up in severe pain and needs to use the restroom, but goes into a "freeze" when her mom rolls her onto her side. A "freeze" according to Chelsea, is "where her body fully locks up like a seizure but her mind is fully alert." Sounds an awful lot like the "stiff attacks" she'll have much later on. Anyway, they complain to Mayo and to Saint Mary's, but call 911 in the end.
Here's the interesting story: Chelsea claims she woke up from a seizure and EMTs were in the room. They were discussing her FND and non-epileptic seizures while Chelsea is still twitching. They get her onto the stretcher and roll her outside. According to Chelsea, she wasn't covered up so the cold triggered her to go into another "freeze" and one of the EMTs says "are you thinking what I’m thinking pseudo-seizure" and Chelsea knew she was in trouble. She then writes "I get inside the ambulance and I feel my arms slam down on the stretcher and I hear the woman yell at me “quit your shit I know you’re fucking faking“. Then I feel her fist slam down into my chest between my breasts multiple times over and over. I had a welt and a bruise for a couple days but it’s still sensitive to touch. I have neuropathy in my left leg and in my house we told everyone please don’t touch. It’s very painful. She took her hand and took her thumb and squeezed the nerve in my leg so hard I still to this day have a thumbprint in my leg." Chelsea then has another seizure, the EMT accuses her of faking and acts like she's going to break her finger, Chelsea's stats drop, and so they take her to the hospital.
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More to come, of course, but she has a long history of being upset that people aren't interpreting her bullshit they way she wants them to and things escalating at convenient times.
 
Yikes.
So no munching ATM for Laura but she’s found a new outlet for yelling on her Facebook.
Singing.
I would embed the videos, but there’s multiple ones and listening to her straining off pitch screamy white girl voice singing Paramore is not something others should be subjected to.
I promise it’s just as bad and cringe as you would expect.
That last picture though got me, it should really be her new profile picture.
There’s your jump scare for the morning.

She’s singing Ignorance because I had no idea what she was trying to sing at first and had to look it up, but the lyrics are very Laura and entirely unsurprising that she’d pick it.
 

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She is trying to make a sternal rub sound like physical abuse. Sounds like a fair consequence of faking to me.
I thought the same thing. A sternal rub is a very good way to tell if someone is faking a seizure, and the fact that she spells it out like this actually hurts her argument that she isn’t.
 
Let's look at Chelsea's original FND diagnosis.

According to Chelsea, she had her first seizure on September 13 2019, which was also the day she moved into her mom's house. A week later she had another seizure and it snowballed from there until she was having 15-20 per day. She went to the hospital and, of course, her EEG showed no sign of epilepsy. She ended up being sent home and managed to arrange a visit to Mayo for October 30th. Oh, and HER MOM QUIT HER JOB TO BABYSIT CHELSEA.
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By October 31st, her speech has somehow turned into a horror show. She is completely silent for the first 30 seconds and after that it is fucking painful to listen to. At this point in time, she has an MRI scheduled and Mayo is suspecting FND. She doesn't seem overly upset about the FND yet and talks about the various therapies she would get for it.
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By November 12th, she is less happy with Mayo. She doesn't feel like she's being heard. She doesn't think it's safe for her to be home. (Sound familiar?) She wants a wheelchair because she can no longer walk. She complains about her doctor not arranging physical therapy yet.
Also, notice the "tremors" in her one hand that is visible, while the camera manages to be held reasonably still.
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By November 15th she has gotten her wheelchair but is complaining about the stigma of an FND diagnosis. One doctor wants to prioritize mental health treatment for her, but of course that's not what Chelsea wants.
November 21st, Chelsea gets her MRI while sedated. Predictably, she doesn't have any tremors or seizures while sedated. On November 22, she gets the (normal) MRI results and gets her definite FND diagnosis. Magically, the sedation from the day before just happens to wear off while her doctor is in the room and she's the worst she's ever been. And some whining about the difficulty in find an FND program.
November 27th, the day before Thanksgiving 2019, Chelsea calls 911 and has her ass carted off to the hospital for seizures so violent that she was injuring herself. They medicate her with the plan to ship her off to transitional care.
By December 4th, she's feeling well enough to bless the internet with more Caring Bridge bullshit. Her sister, Lacey, brought over her nephews two days before Thanksgiving, which was also the day their mom put up the Christmas tree. The stimulations was too much (or maybe it was her meds) and Chelsea spent the night having violent seizures. She woke up in severe pain and needs to use the restroom, but goes into a "freeze" when her mom rolls her onto her side. A "freeze" according to Chelsea, is "where her body fully locks up like a seizure but her mind is fully alert." Sounds an awful lot like the "stiff attacks" she'll have much later on. Anyway, they complain to Mayo and to Saint Mary's, but call 911 in the end.
Here's the interesting story: Chelsea claims she woke up from a seizure and EMTs were in the room. They were discussing her FND and non-epileptic seizures while Chelsea is still twitching. They get her onto the stretcher and roll her outside. According to Chelsea, she wasn't covered up so the cold triggered her to go into another "freeze" and one of the EMTs says "are you thinking what I’m thinking pseudo-seizure" and Chelsea knew she was in trouble. She then writes "I get inside the ambulance and I feel my arms slam down on the stretcher and I hear the woman yell at me “quit your shit I know you’re fucking faking“. Then I feel her fist slam down into my chest between my breasts multiple times over and over. I had a welt and a bruise for a couple days but it’s still sensitive to touch. I have neuropathy in my left leg and in my house we told everyone please don’t touch. It’s very painful. She took her hand and took her thumb and squeezed the nerve in my leg so hard I still to this day have a thumbprint in my leg." Chelsea then has another seizure, the EMT accuses her of faking and acts like she's going to break her finger, Chelsea's stats drop, and so they take her to the hospital.
More to come, of course, but she has a long history of being upset that people aren't interpreting her bullshit they way she wants them to and things escalating at convenient times.
There is something about the phrase "caring bridge" i really hate. Is it the name of the website or something she made up herself?

A lot of munchies talk in this psudo medicalised saccharine manner, using therapy language and misusing words, and it doesnt surprise me that those with any medical experience see right through it and hate them.
 
By November 15th she has gotten her wheelchair but is complaining about the stigma of an FND diagnosis. One doctor wants to prioritize mental health treatment for her, but of course that's not what Chelsea wants.
She claims her doctors told her that they'd rather she had a brain tumor than FND because brain tumors are "easier to treat and cure".

Fuck this bitch. I don't say this lightly, but she deserves a glioblastoma.

@KiwiFarmerSimulator2021/Not Kellen, I can't quote you, but CaringBridge is a nonprofit organization that allows patients and caregivers to set up a simple blog style journal to keep loved ones updated about their own condition or that of their child. That's the "Bridge" part, I guess. It saves parents or other family members having to give the same, sometimes distressing, information over and over and over and theoretically helps mitigate misunderstandings and miscommunication. It was especially popular in the days before Facebook was a thing.
 
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She is trying to make a sternal rub sound like physical abuse. Sounds like a fair consequence of faking to me.
They won't let me do sternal rubs or precordial thumps anymore. rip

So where I ended up at is loudly ordering 2mg lorazepam for the seizure fakers, and the nurses were in on it. It's amazing how fast seizures ended. It's my miracle cure, and oh what are you doin' floppin around in the exact position for venous access.

They did not get the lorazepam.
 
She claims her doctors told her that they'd rather she had a brain tumor than FND because brain tumors are "easier to treat and cure".

Fuck this bitch. I don't say this lightly, but she deserves a glioblastoma.

@KiwiFarmerSimulator2021/Not Kellen, I can't quote you, but CaringBridge is a nonprofit organization that allows patients and caregivers to set up a simple blog style journal to keep loved ones updated about their own condition or that of their child. That's the "Bridge" part, I guess. It saves parents or other family members having to give the same, sometimes distressing, information over and over and over and theoretically helps mitigate misunderstandings and miscommunication. It was especially popular in the days before Facebook was a thing.

@KiwiFarmerSimulator2021

CaringBridge has been around forever it was used in the 90s for very small sites to show case someone with a disorder or need. It would allow you a bit of text as a rudimentary blog, a guestbook, a counter and 5 image uploads. It is VERY different now and is used as a way to link tons of charity begs together.

That sounds like a really good idea,. So thanks to munchies for doing what they always do, hijack then misuse support mechanisms designed for actually ill people to the point no one takes them seriously.

That paramedic didnt go far enough. Should have jacked up the ambulance and rubbed her sternum with a spinning wheel.
 
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