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

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It's basically pinch, a nap, and a possible headache. I always laugh when they act like it's major surgery. Besides, their to lower gauge needles that make blood patches even rarer, so what will the munchies do!?
Fun fact: if you don't tell patients they may get a headache when you're doing an LP then they're much less likely to get them.

The human brain is weird. Sometimes I wonder if that's what's going on with munchies who have oh-so-serious POTS and hEDS and shit like that. They go on social media and see a bunch of other people who think they're life-ending and then end up eating a conversion disorder.
 
I am not KFS, but you quoted a more than two-year-old post, so my speculation is: I don't believe so. Paige is, in general, kinda boring. It's all weird melodrama and kind of nebulous.
Thank you so much for the response! I've been trying to create a timeline for Paige from the very beginning (and like you mentioned- it has been very tedious and she has been giving us very little in return lol). I appreciate the advice, thank you!
I responded to this person in DM before I saw the posts here. Answer: I fully archived her twice, in July and November 2019, but never posted them entirely. One or both of them probably still exists and I can also dig through my IFGW/discord archives for treasure, but I am away for the weekend and don't have access to my main hard drive. And on the contrary, Paige is one of my favorite munchies and one of the only ones I still check on now that I'm "retired" because she's so batshit crazy.

Until I get home, here's a link index to (almost) every time she was posted in the thread. Hope it helps.
She first came up in the thread on 11 Jun 2019:
original post about Daily Fail article
@Ellesse_warrior archived some of her insta posts here
Why her arms were in casts
Her aunt's socials are found

Kiwifarmers are actually magpies and we all forgot about her until 26 July 2019 when another flurry of posts happened
Initial post.
(first time I said I archived her, but did not post the full archive at the time)
the original sad walrus
trying to find older socials
why she shaves her head

9 Sept 2019 gross pic of infected piss tube
31 Oct 2019 posting about an abscess
2 Nov 2019, discharged to hospice without her tubes and spawned another flurry of interest
3 Nov 2019 Goes to the beach
4 Nov 2019 I did a timeline on her trying to make it make sense, goes from May 2018 up to Nov 2019. Unfortunately it started as just a thing for my own curiosity that I didn't intend to share so I cut her original captions out, but I noted the dates and what the captions contained at least. This would be the second archive I made and the one I'm pretty confident is still extant.
Some pics from high school surfaced
More old pics surface
8 Nov 2019 attends a charity event
9 Nov 2019 random comment about hospice
her weird friend with the goose takes a bath
11 Nov 2019 discussion of her superbugs
12 Nov 2019 hospitalized for dehydration
13 Nov 2019 needs shoulder surgery because of abscess
16 Nov 2019 hospitalized again
17 Nov 2019 abscess update

21 Nov 2019:
quitting the internet
posting while high
catheter selfie

25 Nov 2019 wants to live to see christmas
27 Nov 2019 needs another surgery
14 Dec 2019 proof of life after almost three weeks of silence and #epilepsy
15 Dec 2019 still starving herself and ana-chan posing
20 Dec 2019 health declining
26 Dec 2019 sent home on a pass, returns with new infections
27 Dec 2019 high christmas post
28 Dec 2019 four active MRSA infections
1 Jan 2020 survived another year
17 Jan 2020 needs multiple surgeries

24 January 2020 Her mom's ED forum posts are found. This is a must-read for anyone planning to fully timeline Paige albeit fucking heartbreaking. It starts in May 2015, 18 months after Paige is diagnosed with anorexia. She is a "super refuser" who at her worst won't swallow her own saliva. The injuries Paige claimed were caused by EDS on her Insta were actually from overexercise and self-harm. At one point Paige even admits it's all a lie for attention when she is scheduled for an NJ tube and realizes she won't be able to purge her feeds anymore. Over the course of almost five years her mother waffles on whether she's really sick or if it's the ED and finds out Paige is addicted to and abusing medications including morphine. At different points she is put on 24/7 observation during which her weight increases and her various health problems disappear. Ends with mom realizing Paige has Munchausen and there's nothing that can be done to save her.

13 February 2020 Paige finds out about her mom's account, DFEs
1 March 2020 bonked her head
10 March 2020 leak who went to school with her sister
20 April 2020 dancing with her nurse
5 Sept 2020 unspecified surgery
20 Sept 2020 speaking to her mother again
1 Oct 2020 brother's insta is found
8 Oct 2020 tiktok archive
20 Oct 2020 surgery on her hand
27 Nov 2020 drug seeking after surgery
1 Dec 2020 MRSA, allergic to antibiotic
20 Dec 2020 escaping the hospital
8 Jan 2021 getting her fingers amputated
4 Feb 2021 might need her hand amputated
9 Jul 2021 fighting for her life
16 Jul 2021 referred to ortho for foot
31 Jul 2021 possible toe amptuation
22 Aug 2021 mom wishes Paige was never born
25 Aug 2021 gets the coof, put in iso
3 Oct 2021 infection in her hip
17 Oct 2021 hospital for hip surgery
29 Jan 2022 sepsis again
30 Jan 2022 dying of sepsis
1 Feb 2022 random tiktoks
 
@Kate Farms Shill - it won't let me quote/reply to your post (buttons are missing -- weird), but you are the MVP for backing some of Paige's nonsense up. She's also one of my favorites (along with now-boring Sarahjean and her iconic tumble from her wheelchair); I just don't find much to post about (and it seems this thread has other shinier people to follow). She's just kinda always dying and making sad faces. If we can exalt her for anything, it is her consistency: a quality lacking in the munch bunch.
 
Sorry I'm on my phone and it stopped uploading, there should be some more attached to this post, according to a recent video she made - I'm spending this evening learning about archiving etc she is moving to a nursing home as of this week, I'm still trawling through her stuff to find out exactly where she is! I don't have a huge amount of time so any help would be great!

Ma'am that dislocation is just you bending your wrist.
 
@Kate Farms Shill - it won't let me quote/reply to your post (buttons are missing -- weird), but you are the MVP for backing some of Paige's nonsense up. She's also one of my favorites (along with now-boring Sarahjean and her iconic tumble from her wheelchair); I just don't find much to post about (and it seems this thread has other shinier people to follow). She's just kinda always dying and making sad faces. If we can exalt her for anything, it is her consistency: a quality lacking in the munch bunch.
I miss Sarah-Jean antics almost as much as I miss Skinwalker. She was so dumb. Every once in a while she posts things that sound like she’s finally groomed the new girlfriend into being her live in nurse and will be back to falling out of wheelchairs, drinking alcohol-free peach schnapps, and spraying diarrhea all over the RV again. Alas, every time I get my heart broken.

I don’t even know who the thread follows these days. I guess people from the various subreddits that keep getting booted. I lost interest when speculating on whether Tess was dead or not took over and most of the ones I still have interest in got boring over coof time. i still have a huge archive of shit I never got around to posting and might just dump it for posterity.

I wonder if a lot of these munchies secretly drink a lot.

From thr fatigue, bloating, flushing, etc...a lot of symptoms sound similar to chronic alcoholism
with the caveat above that I have no idea who the thread follows these days, only three of the ones I introduced ever gave me heavy drinking vibes: Sarah-Jean, Nina Jean, and Fat Kat Loosmore.

SJ made two videos in May 2019 about her BPD diagnosis where she talks about her out-of-control drinking. She claims she drank a pint of liquor per day and would get angry, pick fights with her friends and loved ones, and self-harm after doing so. She checked herself in to psych wards twice at age 20, was stable for a few years, then started drinking again at 24 and resumed her previous behavior. Another voluntary hospitalization. At 26 she had her first real relationship and both of them drank excessively. SJ describes the textbook borderline behavior: accusing her lover of cheating all the time, breaking up with her then lovebombing her, suicide threats, etc, Decided to check into the hospital again but changed her mind. After that she had motivation to clean up her life (she wanted to move to Florida) so she learned to be just a social drinker. In other words, SJ was not an alcoholic, just someone who abused alcohol and used it as an excuse to unleash her BPD shit onto the world. I am still convinced that her digestive woes were a combo of alcohol shits and surreptitious laxative abuse. Archived below.
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER | DIAGNOSIS SERIES (5.19.19)


MY SUICIDAL THOUGHTS | BORDERLINE PERSONALITY (5.19.19)


The second video is extra fun because she showed off her therapy diary from her second hospitalization including a list of symptoms she was experiencing that she was told were all from her BPD and it gives us a lot of insight. 13 minutes in. Hard to get a clear SS because she shows it only briefly but here's the transcript:

"Phobic symptoms:
  • I feel like everything is closing in on me, can't stand to be in close quarters
  • I panic at the thought of meeting someone new
  • I am afraid i might be losing my mind
  • I am afraid now I will be alone forever
  • I'm losing my looks
  • I'm afraid of getting old alone
  • I want to run away
  • I'm afraid I've ruined my life
  • I'm afraid no one will ever love me in that special way
  • I'm afraid I might kill myself
  • I'm afraid I can't attract someone as good looking, smart or loving again
Psychosomatic symptoms:
  • I feel nauseous at the sight of food
  • I'm impotent or 'frigid'
  • I get aches here or there
  • I have headaches
  • I have pain in my back
  • [something about having to go places?]
  • I loose my temper regularly
  • I can't warm [sic]
  • I can't get cool
  • I want to scream out
  • I feel like smashing + breaking things
  • my emotions flare uncontrollably
  • I go into giggles or uncontrollable laughter
Anxiety symptoms:
  • I am finding it increasingly harder to fall asleep
  • I can't eat
  • I have tension headaches
  • I have "butterflies" in the pit of my stomach
  • I blow things out of proportion"

Kat Loosmore was into her local music scene and in the early years of her social media she had quite a few posts where she was drinking beers/whiskey with her friends. She apparently had a personal social media that she deleted. Her sicksta starts immediately after an unexplained bowel surgery but it was clear the people interacting with her at the time were IRL friends who talked to her on another platform. So we'll never know the extent of her drinking pre-munchausen. I lost track of her after 15 username changes but last time I checked in she was all about prescription drugs and weed so I'd be surprised if she was still drinking.

Nina is well-known for abusing both alcohol and opiates. We have dozens of last.fms of people calling her out for drinking gin all night and she admit to using her prescription painkillers to treat hangovers. She claims to have mostly quit in 2016 because she prefers getting fucked up on codeine and benzos.
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I'm more inclined to think the "alcoholism" you're seeing is just artifacts of shit diets/eating disorders, shockingly sedentary lifestyles, and taking/abusing/being addicted to medications they don't actually need.
 
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@Kate Farms Shill, I literally cannot quote you still, but I can quote others (??), but I agree wholeheartedly on the Sarah-Jean scene. I think it's only a matter of time before she's back to her baseline, and this is just a campaign to get the girlfriend acclimated, comfortable, and attached before she resumes the stunt show. Peach schnapps and her "art" (see my avatar) will forever live in my dusty, miserable heart.

Also, a hard agree on the direction post-Tess-exodus. New contributors seem to bring their own pet munchies and enjoy ruminating on them. I'd rather watch the world burn with the greats, but the internet is made by those who participate in it, so ah well.

Regarding Kat, she's currently @buzzsawandkitty (now private). Nothing much going on, though she fucked up her insides enough to require a colostomy a while back. Also, she recently had a port placed to replace her Hickman. Lots of port shots following that install, along with cat photos and her edgy dangerhair chronicles. Interestingly, her wheelchair seems to have been replaced by a rollator. Not sure what neccessitated or sparked the change. I'm just noticing after clicking over to her; may report back if I find anything worth note. After her stint in that chair and all her coffee wheelchair selfies, it seems she's pulling a Grandpa Joe a la 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Some highlights (in captured chronological order; read bottom-to-top in each cap):

Tube-Fed/Colostomy Selfie Kat and Cat:
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Seasonal Kat with Cat:
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Port Kat and Cat:
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Coffee/Port Selfie Kat and Standing Kat with Cat:
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Standing Selfie Kat Leaving Home (Panini socializing? The absolute RISK-taker in this one); Also, Cat:
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Yeah. Way back I remember some munchie describing her symptoms and I was like "yo that's alcohol withdrawal."

Drunkorexia is kind of a bitch.
I'm probably just putting my own experiences on them, but I've known way too many people who couldn't connect their physical issues to drinking

Anything outside a regular hangover was considered unrelated.

Bitches be like "I'm so fatigued and bloated but I haven't in 2 days after my 3 day a week binger, so I don't know what's wrong!"
 
@Kate Farms Shill, I literally cannot quote you still, but I can quote others (??), but I agree wholeheartedly on the Sarah-Jean scene. I think it's only a matter of time before she's back to her baseline, and this is just a campaign to get the girlfriend acclimated, comfortable, and attached before she resumes the stunt show. Peach schnapps and her "art" (see my avatar) will forever live in my dusty, miserable heart.

Also, a hard agree on the direction post-Tess-exodus. New contributors seem to bring their own pet munchies and enjoy ruminating on them. I'd rather watch the world burn with the greats, but the internet is made by those who participate in it, so ah well.

Regarding Kat, she's currently @buzzsawandkitty (now private). Nothing much going on, though she fucked up her insides enough to require a colostomy a while back. Also, she recently had a port placed to replace her Hickman. Lots of port shots following that install, along with cat photos and her edgy dangerhair chronicles. Interestingly, her wheelchair seems to have been replaced by a rollator. Not sure what neccessitated or sparked the change. I'm just noticing after clicking over to her; may report back if I find anything worth note. After her stint in that chair and all her coffee wheelchair selfies, it seems she's pulling a Grandpa Joe a la 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Some highlights (in captured chronological order; read bottom-to-top in each cap):

Tube-Fed/Colostomy Selfie Kat and Cat:
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Seasonal Kat with Cat:
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Port Kat and Cat:
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Coffee/Port Selfie Kat and Standing Kat with Cat:
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Standing Selfie Kat Leaving Home (Panini socializing? The absolute RISK-taker in this one); Also, Cat:
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oh shit she actually lost weight? Did they take her TPN away or something?

I don't blame the redditors for bringing their faves over when they get booted. I mean I ended up here because LCF booted munchie discussion and kittenbread/Nina-Jean was already SJWing the fuck out of r/illnessfakers. I just wish they would take the initiative to actually introduce them to us because if you're not on whatever subreddit they were on it's like jumping into a movie halfway through and trying to follow it. You don't know who these characters are or their history, you're not invested, and they're all sperging away about these people they've been following for months. At least if you jump into a featured thread here you can go back to to the OP and highlights-surf to get the gist. With the reddit refugees, it's almost a given that the content is gone and there's no way to catch up unless someone clues you in.

I have a lot of content I would like to post still but I'm really not interested in keeping up-to-date with their antics anymore. They all started moving the good shit to stories that disappear after 24 hours, "close friends" lists my obvious socks will never pass muster on, and dumbass tiktoks set to shitty music. My kingdom for a good old fashioned shameless Jaquie/Sarah-Jean making wholesome vlogs, posting rarely on Insta, and not deleting anything ever! There's Jan but she's significantly less funny now that there's a baby involved.

oh RE: alcohol. Dani Marina used to drink like a fish. It was one of the things she would threaten to relapse with all the time along with anorexia. i.e. "The doctors don't care if I live or die so i might as well drink this bottle of vodka, why the fuck not relapse on that too?" I don't know if she still is drinking/putting vodka down her tube but it wouldn't surprise me. This is from her old account c. 2016.

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You still aren't traveling for the doctor. It's not uncommon to have to travel to receive a specific treatment or participate in trials/research. Neuropace clinics are still pretty rare, some infused drugs only have approved centers, etc. If a regional specialist feels out of depth they have resources for finding and overseeing the appropriate treatment if it's possible to do it locally. It should give you a lot of pause about what a doctor is going to do to you if you can't find a doctor locally/regionally to do it. I'll stop derailing.
Dude, this is just not true. There are some issues that have only a very few doctors who treat them due the rarity of the illness. People certainly are referred to specific doctors and must travel to get the treatment they need.
 
oh shit she actually lost weight? Did they take her TPN away or something?

I don't blame the redditors for bringing their faves over when they get booted. I mean I ended up here because LCF booted munchie discussion and kittenbread/Nina-Jean was already SJWing the fuck out of r/illnessfakers. I just wish they would take the initiative to actually introduce them to us because if you're not on whatever subreddit they were on it's like jumping into a movie halfway through and trying to follow it. You don't know who these characters are or their history, you're not invested, and they're all sperging away about these people they've been following for months. At least if you jump into a featured thread here you can go back to to the OP and highlights-surf to get the gist. With the reddit refugees, it's almost a given that the content is gone and there's no way to catch up unless someone clues you in.

I have a lot of content I would like to post still but I'm really not interested in keeping up-to-date with their antics anymore. They all started moving the good shit to stories that disappear after 24 hours, "close friends" lists my obvious socks will never pass muster on, and dumbass tiktoks set to shitty music. My kingdom for a good old fashioned shameless Jaquie/Sarah-Jean making wholesome vlogs, posting rarely on Insta, and not deleting anything ever! There's Jan but she's significantly less funny now that there's a baby involved.

oh RE: alcohol. Dani Marina used to drink like a fish. It was one of the things she would threaten to relapse with all the time along with anorexia. i.e. "The doctors don't care if I live or die so i might as well drink this bottle of vodka, why the fuck not relapse on that too?" I don't know if she still is drinking/putting vodka down her tube but it wouldn't surprise me. This is from her old account c. 2016.

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Oh, good question -- I'm not sure if she's still on TPN. Seems she isn't as a sole means of nutrition, as she's showing feeding tube shots, so she must have declared at some point that she could do feeds (although those chips or whatever they were on top of her lives-alone fridge were always fun to track). She claims she can only tolerate 300 calories a day, so it may be a combo of TPN and tube? Not sure if that's a thing. I don't know why else she'd need a port, though, since she can tolerate tube action now. I can't seem to figure it out via scrolling and am busy, but will try to dig. Rest assured: She is still rocking the hospital bed setup and rocking the sickbed kween aesthetic.
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Regarding Reddit influx participants, I get it and I understand the desire for the right platform for discussion; the introductions of new cows are just difficult to follow. I started reading after heavy Jaquie suspicions (YouTube insisted on suggesting her to me, despite no common content crossover) -- and then she died. I lurked a while longer and then Sarah Jean was too good to not discuss. It's been a while since we've had an earnest, consistent munchie cow who doesn't engage in evasive maneuvers and use 500 platforms. Some of which are fleeting. I'll add my kingdom into the pot.

In the meantime, Paige suffices as she chronicles the facial expressions of silver application to her festering sepsis wound. This literal kiwi holding her phone in selfie stance while a nurse does wound care is wild. She also whips out the front-facing camera for stints of shortness of breathe secondary to septic shock, I guess. One would think she'd desat and they'd throw an oxygen cannula on her if this were legit SOB from this cause, but I'm no medfag, so feel free to clue us in if anyone in the class knows what she's going on about.
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There are some issues that have only a very few doctors who treat them due the rarity of the illness.

It's paradoxical that the disease could be so rare, yet someone could have enough evidence to know their treatment leads to a better outcome. Guy who died under the knife earlier in this convo could have died under the original surgeons knife, and he might still be alive if he'd never gotten used to the risk of operating on him.

Edit: Conjoined twin seperations for example.
 
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It's paradoxical that the disease could be so rare, yet someone could have enough evidence to know their treatment leads to a better outcome. Guy who died under the knife earlier in this convo could have died under the original surgeons knife, and he might still be alive if he'd never gotten used to the risk of operating on him.

Edit: Conjoined twin seperations for example.
Please just stop lol. I just wanted to point out that traveling for a specific doctor is not a ridiculous thing to do for people with more unusual conditions. I want to make fun of ridiculous behavior too so let’s stick to stuff that is actually ridiculous.

And no, this is not paradoxical at all. There are conditions with known and agreed upon treatments but that require uncommon (read: expensive) medical equipment and someone with experience using it (read: expensive) and treating the issue. There are plenty of issues that doctors in the field of question just don’t treat because they don’t have experience with it or even access to the medical equipment needed and they will send you to someone who does. The treatments don’t have to be dangerous or experimental - some things are just hard to find due to the expense of the care and the relatively few people who need it.
 
Since you brought up the old munchies, does anybody have the 411 on Juniper? I got blocked
A search of this thread for the keyword "Juniper" returns eight results (excluding this comment and your question): two April 2020 posts involving Krissy Klein (who has her own thread now), four December 2020 posts in response to/including @Kate Farms Shill 's timeline for a Disney munch with a service dog named Juniper, and two references to a Juniper discussed elsewhere with pronoun fuckery and something about Munchsnark. Not sure what that was all about, but seemed to be some Reddit conversation spillover. Not sure which you're referring to, but they don't seem to have been timelined or introduced here.
 
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A search of this thread for the keyword "Juniper" returns eight results (excluding this comment and your question): two April 2020 posts involving Krissy Klein (who has her own thread now), four December 2020 posts in response to/including @Kate Farms Shill 's timeline for a Disney munch with a service dog named Juniper, and two references to a Juniper discussed elsewhere with pronoun fuckery and something about Munchsnark. Not sure what that was all about, but seemed to be some Reddit conversation spillover. Not sure which you're referring to, but they don't seem to have been timelined or introduced here.
Juniper was called Junebug. Thread consensus was she was boring as shit and no one over here cared. She was brought up a few times right after Munchsnark got booted, then someone leaked the veganpinkwipes/Kellen connection to me and Tess died and no one ever brought june up again because we are easily distracted. She was a fat SPED "autigender" dangerhair who was constantly chimping out about muh ableism, but that's about all I know about her.

Since you brought up the old munchies, does anybody have the 411 on Juniper? I got blocked
u/EuthGoneWild on Reddit might be able to help you. Her community's private now but last I checked June was still discussed there.
 
I thought the first rule of Euth club is that we don't talk about Bruno?
...what the fuck does any of that mean? Look dude, I don't follow June, I don't know who Bruno is, and I'm not a member of Euth's community. I just know I saw June posted there before it was private and said she might be able to help that person based on what other people said when I asked if they had june updates. I was trying to be helpful and answer this person's question. And this is an example of redditors trying to import their culture here rather than fit into ours.
 
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