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

[eternal dog mongler]

You're in luck... Ashley claimed to have post-covid symptoms or rebound covid or whatever before even finishing her course of antivirals. She's been waiting for long covid, just had to catch it first.

Based on a few papers I've seen, you don't even have to GET covid to have long covid. It's just that powerful.

 

[Reddit Refugee]

So Evie Toombs has a website now:

https://www.evietoombespararider.com/about-evie

Archive:

https://archive.ph/6HkqV

Apparently she needs a cath to pee and had fecal incontinence she had ACE for. Which is what I figured when she posted the picture of the diaper on her head. I'm going to guess she's got mental health issues/an eating disorder too.

slight PL

Spoiler

I've got a lot of spine issues. Her issues always sounded legit to me, and I've experiences like what she's described from my my stenosis. Fortunately I was just able to have decompressions, but it sounds like the fatty tumor makes that risky/impossible for her.

My problems at least, I could do everything normally for a little while. But after about two hours of continuous activity my legs would be a writhing, uncoordinated, painful, twitching mess from the knees down for a day or two. I'd also have to cath if I pushed things further than that. I could do whatever I wanted, but dear god would I pay for it later.

Doesn't mean she isn't a munchie, just means that part seems legit to me.

I covered Evie's blog in my first long post about her here. Anyways the spina bifida and resulting problems are legit but she has milked it, which helped her along in court. We are supposed to think the malnutrition and TPN requirement is a part of her neurological issues. She's had stoma surgery now so I don't think she wears diapers anymore and besides that would really hurt her sexy-but-sick modelling aesthetic she's trying to put on for the grift. There was once a really horrible picture from years back where she was wearing one underneath skin-tight leggings in public.

Spoiler: A note on neuromunching

Munchies with neuro problems fascinate me because neurology isn't straightforward. When it comes to neurology and how nerves work there is much less room for creativity. Neurology is hard and offputting even for medical professionals, so it gets to a point where they can just say "x problem has something to do with my (confirmed) neurological diagnosis" and expect people to take that at face value. But when a person who maybe came across neurology in their education or work hears the explanation, though they might think "this doesn't sound like how this would work" they may not have the knowledge or confidence to outright prove it either way. Thus I'm ambivalent picking apart Evie's spina bifida symptoms (they are legitimate, but she is milking the mobility aspect and I also suspect she is hiding some less glamorous symptoms from public), or the experiences of Tokyo blood patch girl below. Regardless, nerve issues can be genuinely debilitating and the effect that has on mental health can be potent. For those seeking attention a little legitimacy goes a long way.

Lili (@ninjacatgirl) is a Swede living in Japan where it appears she did modelling work before her neurological nightmare. Hate to mix replies on different subjects but I had almost finished working on this one. Posts are few and far between so I don't know if anything interesting will come out of it but some of her claims are a bit ridiculous.

Life was pretty sugoi until April 22nd:

I was hospitalized on April 22. The neurologist there Insisted on preforming a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) on me, without any guidance. After puncturing my dura it didn’t heal on its own and I woke up with a soul sucking brain pulling pain at the back of my skull that left me gasping for air. My body was leaking CSF (Cerebrospinal fluid), which the brain needs to stay afloat in our heads. A loss of spinal fluid affects everything. Still they told me my case is rare and sent me home.⁣⁣
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Three weeks later still in agony and unable to be upright, I was referred to the only doctor who preforms so called blood patches in Tokyo in an attempt to trigger self-healing of the dura. The doctor was very rough when pushing the blood into my back. I think he either made a new hole or made the current whole bigger because I was left feeling even worse. It felt like he gave me a traumatic brain injury. The blood patch and pressure in my head also triggered POTS which has effected my heart. Day and night I have nerve pain, numbing and spasms in my legs/back/stomach. My body and brain feels constantly inflamed and I can barely eat since I can’t stand or sit. I am leaking spinal fluid fast and it’s terrifying.⁣⁣
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There is very little research and information about CSF leaks and their high risk of long-term treatment and complications. I deeply wish I could go back in time and never have had the procedure done in the first place. It feels like my life is ruined and I’m left lying here disabled in unbearable pain without any help. ⁣⁣
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Completely traumatized by the treatment and all the needles in my spine causing so much damage I don’t want to risk going to random hospitals anymore. The only expert clinics are located in the US.⁣
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Since I’m unable to work I can not afford travel, hospital fees on my own.⁣ I am pushing away my pride to ask people to HELP ME financially get to the help I need. I hope to get to any of the experts to lessen the risk of more damage.⁣
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Thank you all for taking your time to read until the end. I love you all
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If you want to help my medical fundraiser and/or spread it to others please see the link in my profile.⁣

GoFundMe:

A lumbar puncture changed my life.

I went from being active and fully functioning to completely bedridden 24/7 in constant pain. Because of a lumbar puncture I am leaking spinal fluid really fast and I have to constantly lay flat to survive.

I continue to be bedridden without any prognosis. I’m stuck in Japan where they have no knowledge about spinal leaks and they’ve already caused me a lot of harm.

I lost everything to this leak and I am pushing away my pride to ask people to help me financially get to the US where the only expert clinics are located to get treatment. Since I’m unable to work I can not afford travel or hospital fees on my own. Because of this I have no idea how much I will need but I imagine it’s a lot.

I’m completely disabled fighting my hardest not to give up. I lost everything to this leak and I don’t know what else to do but to reach out to you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

She has raised close to 235,000 Swedish Krona (>22,000 USD). Hasn't counted costs but "imagines it's a lot."

Her poor understanding of CSF and CSF leaks aside, my biggest problem with the above was when she claimed that only one doctor in Tokyo, the biggest city in the world, knows how to do blood patches. In the GFM she then claims that the Japanese have "no knowledge about spinal leaks" and that "there is very little research and information about CSF leaks" in general. I have a big problem with those claims:

A cursory Google Scholar search of blood patch and Tokyo finds hundreds of research results. If they're producing research on blood patches, I'll say enough of them know how to do a blood patch. And if there's enough CSF research to corroborate her claim that leaks can cause the secondary POTS she is claiming to have I'm going to say there is plenty of research. Though I'm not sure how terrible the effect of POTS is if you're totally recumbent anyways.

Spoiler: Updates

Update 8th June:

Thank you for all the emotional support and shares/donations. And thank you for your incredible kindness and warmth. Your messages of encouragement makes me feel less alone in this darkness.⁣⁣
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I have been in HELL for the past 7 weeks, every minute feeling like hours. I have forgotten what normality, joy and comfort feels like. I’m spending all my time laying flat. Staring into a wall scared about all the damage done to my body/brain and if it will continue to get worse. Searching for ways to get help. Ways out of this pain. Wondering if I’ll ever be able to take a walk again. Or be able to sit by the window with a cup of tea watching the birds fly by. Heck, even drinking tea sitting up. Scared I’ll never have something to smile about again. I am so badly deconditioned, skin covered in hives. Brain feeling like a electric bowling ball trying to pull me down into the ground. Waking up every hour with severe body tremors. Constant burning pain in my nerves. Thinking of ways to end it all just to make the suffering stop not because I want to die. I’m terrified. But I am still fighting. Thanks to you. You have given me hope. ⁣⁣
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It’s really humiliating having to ask for help. But I know it’s my only chance at life again. ⁣That’s all I can hope for. At least a chance at a new one. So thank you for answering my call for help.

Return to hospital on Jun 12th:

Hospitalized again at the hospital where it all started (lumbar puncture). I have severe ptsd from everything that’s happened since then but I have no choice. ⁣⁣⁣
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I need help keeping the pain levels down. Still asking for steroids (because of the insane burning pain in my lower back, spine and sacrum/tailbone) to no avail. No painkillers can touch it. ⁣⁣⁣
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I have tremors all over. It feels like being electrocuted 24/7. Fever for two months. Trying to endure every minute while taking deep belly breaths. Continuing to pray for a moment of comfort. ⁣⁣⁣
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FYI if I didn’t have you and this platform I wouldn’t be able to cope. Thanks for helping me get through this

Jun 14th:

Appreciation post to all of you who are by my side, supporting me, donating/sharing, giving me encouragement, love, hope, kindness and showing me enough compassion for a lifetime. I cannot thank you enough for your generosity!⁣
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Still a long way to go, but thanks to you all I stay hopeful that I can have a chance at a new life some day ⁣
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(Photo from a shoot a few months before all this happened)

And most recently Jun 23rd:

Hi friends here are a few updates:⁣
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I’m out of the hospital. My mom is finally here, she flew to Japan to take care of me. I’m still 100% bedridden. Still have a lot of neurological issues and pain that started after the blood patch. Still can’t bend my back at all, it’s completely stuck. ⁣
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The doctors at the hospital finally agreed (took them a good week) that my symptoms of burning aching spine/tailbone/lumbar area could be serious. I am on a super low dose of steroids now waiting/hoping for improvement. ⁣
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I am currently sending my imaging to Cedars Senai, Stanford and Dukes. ⁣
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Ps. Thank you all for being so nice. Thank you for your care. I am trying to cope, but it’s really hard as you can imagine. Trying every day not to cry because I’m scared it’ll make my leak worse. Trying to distract myself with audiobooks, so if you have any favorite (and not depressing) audio books please let me know!⁣
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(Selfie from some months back. Mom cut my hair off yesterday, I now have a bob. My hair is really thick and heavy so needed something lighter )

Comments are filled with all the sympathy from the other gaijin (foreigners in Japan) who are also sharing their experiences about mean Japanese doctors:

I don't know much about the Japanese healthcare system but it wouldn't surprise me to find out it's less patient centered than the West. Which also means if she's repeated any of her exaggerations here to the doctors then of course they won't take her seriously.

 

[Flourishing Pinecone ❧]

Does she explain why she had the LP in the first place? I assume they were trying to rule out some organic cause for symptoms (ie. it's all in your head). Also she's at the Keio University Hospital, it's one of the top universities in the country.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

@Reddit Refugee

Yeah the Japanese healthcare system is pretty odd. It's very assembly line and also you can straight up lose access if they think you're malingering. She should be a bit careful.

 

[mooserangerofthenorth]

What is with this recent uptick of CSF leakers? If a blood patch fails, and youre are truely leaking that bad the next step is either a spinal drain or dura glue.

Also, it shows up beautifully in MRI. But the radiologist still has to put arrows and clinically correlate, indeterminate.

 

[Ice Cherry]

I'm still absolutely in awe that none of our munchies seem to be claiming long COVID.

Symptoms? Whatever you feel like. Any objective tests for it? No. It's the perfect fucking munchie condition.

Allison microcatmachine claimed long covid despite having never had covid according to all her many tests.

 

[vondables]

As requested

Bitch got an airplane landing strip in the middle of her forehead and I’m supposed to ignore it? Her eyebrow gap looked at me first!

 

[son of jurassic bark]

She looks like a fish and her idiot fish face makes me lol whenever I see it. Bitch is a beige fish, a lazy, deluded fat-ass, and it is fun to make her stupid beige face in the mirror whenever I am in the bathroom. Chin tucked to body, eyebrows raised, mouth puckered.

 

[TomBradysVagina]

She looks like a fish and her idiot fish face makes me lol whenever I see it. Bitch is a beige fish, a lazy, deluded fat-ass, and it is fun to make her stupid beige face in the mirror whenever I am in the bathroom. Chin tucked to body, eyebrows raised, mouth puckered.

It's even crazier when she talks. I don't know if it's filters, makeup, or just her weird skin, but she looks like she's made of silicone. Then, she talks in this monotone, flat, voice. THEN she just stands still, head barely moving. In videos she literally looks/sounds like an animatronic AI. It's disturbing.

 

[buoyverificationfuel]

1) ash is banned as a subject because she organizes campaigns to mass-report posts about her. That's the whole reason. she's too boring for being that much of a headache.

They have three mods for one subreddit of 118k members. One of those mods apparently works in the medical field and is very busy, and almost everyone hates catete for being a dramatic cunt. I don't know how automod or human mod permissions work, but in theory couldn't they add something (with automod or human mods) just to remove comments and verify reports?

ETA more about u/catetemybrains, I looked at her profile and I'm pretty sure she's a munchie.
OP made a post saying they're afraid of doctors and hospitals and avoid them when it's possible, they know they have to get a checkup though, and their mom made fun of them. Other comments said something along the lines of "wow that was rude of her" or "maybe a friend can go with you" but cat's suggestion was "get the doctors to put you under anesthesia for a blood draw and vaccines!"

Is this even a thing? I've never heard of this happening in situations where it would be beneficial, like for example a violent autistic person who tries to drop kick the nurses. Those people just get restrained. But a 19 year old girl (definitely a girl, not an adult woman) with a phobia gets benzos and anesthesia? Why can't they just have her pop a xanax before going in?

The hospital staff are wasting their time and resources on someone who should be getting therapy and maybe some prescription anxiety medication. That whole spectacle used at least two people to meet them and walk them up and wheel her to a procedure room, and apparently also an anesthesiologist. They wasted a procedure room and a recovery room. This could have all taken place at her primary care or specialist's office and lasted 20 minutes maximum.

It also seems really dangerous and kinda sus to tell someone who, in their own words, does not even have a full-fledged phobia (it's just "I really don't like it and avoid it when I can") to get drugged and knocked out for shots instead of working with a therapist. Hopefully that's obvious to anyone who isn't a total munchie.

She looks like a fish and her idiot fish face makes me lol whenever I see it. Bitch is a beige fish, a lazy, deluded fat-ass, and it is fun to make her stupid beige face in the mirror whenever I am in the bathroom. Chin tucked to body, eyebrows raised, mouth puckered.

 

[choccy milk]

She looks like she's made of wax

She’s been on my radar for at least a year now and I have never, NEVER seen her actually smile with teeth. Or even a full closed-mouth smile. Just a perpetual grimace.

edit: time flies when you’re having fun! I just looked and I’ve been a munchie hater for several years now, not “at least a year” haha FUCK I have no life.

 

[usernames can change now!]

I come bringing news from Reddit.
Ashley Carnduff, a munchie known best for her overly beige aesthetic, extreme weed consumption, and lately exposing her infusion center to covid (yes she knew, she is just selfish) has been banned as a subject because moderating the discussion about her is too hard.
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Her "problematic medical antics" are still ongoing. She described dehydration from a kidney infection (which TOTALLY wasn't just a UTI!!) as "soul crushing." She immediately recovered from covid enough to go on vacation to Denver and was sick immediately upon returning home. The mods just think it's too hard to mod the posts about her to stay in compliance with Reddit's strict TOS.

What do the members think?

Spoiler: They think it's bullshit.

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These are just a few of the top comments I scrolled through. There's over 700 right now, so I'm not reading them all.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if she's outed as the next munchie IF mod. She has weird eyebrows and a tiny head, and I am allowed to say that here, and she can't intimidate anyone into not posting about her.

I don't understand how you can see every other subreddit on a topic get banned and honestly believe if you just toe the party line hard enough Reddit will spare you. Anything remotely controversial or right of Lenin will inevitably be banned from Reddit given time. Just jump ship.

 

[Johnny Appleseed]

Am I the only one who misses Chronically Jaquie and all the munchies circa 2017? They were way more interesting, had much more moo juice and Reddit wasn't as bad a suck hole as it is now. On a Jaq side note, Jan her former not/bestie/sister/ and her hubby are on their grift hard. He had a legitimate Crohn's flare, lost part of his colon and is on a temporary bag and due to his hospitalization and poor health. Miraculously with an almost one year old at home and a spouse in the hospital, her illness all have seemingly disappeared as she bounces from hospital to home to baby. No narcolepsy, no POTS, no vestibular migraines, at a healthier weight. It's amazing when life forces you to stop munching. Luckily (in her mind) Paul is sooper sick and they can use him for content. At least it's not the baby.

I've been snarking for 3 years now I just realized.

They have three mods for one subreddit of 118k members. One of those mods apparently works in the medical field and is very busy, and almost everyone hates catete for being a dramatic cunt. I don't know how automod or human mod permissions work, but in theory couldn't they add something (with automod or human mods) just to remove comments and verify reports?

ETA more about u/catetemybrains, I looked at her profile and I'm pretty sure she's a munchie.
OP made a post saying they're afraid of doctors and hospitals and avoid them when it's possible, they know they have to get a checkup though, and their mom made fun of them. Other comments said something along the lines of "wow that was rude of her" or "maybe a friend can go with you" but cat's suggestion was "get the doctors to put you under anesthesia for a blood draw and vaccines!"
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Is this even a thing? I've never heard of this happening in situations where it would be beneficial, like for example a violent autistic person who tries to drop kick the nurses. Those people just get restrained. But a 19 year old girl (definitely a girl, not an adult woman) with a phobia gets benzos and anesthesia? Why can't they just have her pop a xanax before going in?

The hospital staff are wasting their time and resources on someone who should be getting therapy and maybe some prescription anxiety medication. That whole spectacle used at least two people to meet them and walk them up and wheel her to a procedure room, and apparently also an anesthesiologist. They wasted a procedure room and a recovery room. This could have all taken place at her primary care or specialist's office and lasted 20 minutes maximum.

It also seems really dangerous and kinda sus to tell someone who, in their own words, does not even have a full-fledged phobia (it's just "I really don't like it and avoid it when I can") to get drugged and knocked out for shots instead of working with a therapist. Hopefully that's obvious to anyone who isn't a total munchie.


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This is extremely interesting. I don't know if anybody remembers the voting process after the munchie mods got kicked..but it was very fishy. Many members of IF were upset with the broken promises and lack of transparency.

I can't remember the exact details, maybe a look back would suffice..

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Is this even a thing? I've never heard of this happening in situations where it would be beneficial, like for example a violent autistic person who tries to drop kick the nurses. Those people just get restrained. But a 19 year old girl (definitely a girl, not an adult woman) with a phobia gets benzos and anesthesia? Why can't they just have her pop a xanax before going in?

No this is pretty fucking wild.

And how the fuck is a clinic that knocks you out with midaz and anesthetizes you somehow LESS fucking scary than usual.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

No this is pretty fucking wild.

And how the fuck is a clinic that knocks you out with midaz and anesthetizes you somehow LESS fucking scary than usual.

I got offered benzos if I was scared of the MRI machine, but I wasn't.

 

[Flourishing Pinecone ❧]

Is this even a thing?

Absolutely not. This is mental. If they were horrifically phobic you could maybe chuck them in a k-hole for a while but that's still overkill. Nobody is getting a general anaesthetic for a fucking blood test.

 

[ActivelyComatose]

Is this even a thing?

Apparently it is.

 

[buoyverificationfuel]

Apparently it is.

It's for children though. 19 is an adult woman. Maybe she meant to type 9 instead?

This is extremely interesting. I don't know if anybody remembers the voting process after the munchie mods got kicked..but it was very fishy. Many members of IF were upset with the broken promises and lack of transparency.

I can't remember the exact details, maybe a look back would suffice..

I was definitely confused. I know for a fact that one of the Munchsnark mods got adopted onto the IF team after MS was nuked. They aren't a mod anymore and haven't commented or posted in nine months. What happened there? There wasn't an announcement about a mod retiring, it was never addressed.

And I remember a user from the IFGW days who had said they volunteered to mod on IF, been told their help would be appreciated, then they got ignored by MBIresearcher. Found this comment on the latest post when I was looking for removed comments.

Not sure if this is them or if it's a pattern from the IF mods, but honestly I'm leaning towards the latter.

 

[Itsnotatumor]

Oh my fuck, does Denae think that making a pouty face complete with jutting lower lip in any way resembles swelling from anaphylaxis? Did no adults ever tell her that if she kept making that face it would get stuck that way? What about if she keeps sticking her lip out like that, a bird might fly by and poop on it?

My phone corrects "Denae" to "Dense" and, well...yeah.

A little of a sperge here- I had a pt once who had angioedema so terribly badly from combining ACEI and Entresto that she had to have the majority of her tongue amputated bc it hadn’t resolved within 30 days and was just hanging out of her mouth. It was the most wonderfully frightening thing I’ve ever seen…

 

[eternal dog mongler]

A little of a sperge here- I had a pt once who had angioedema so terribly badly from combining ACEI and Entresto that she had to have the majority of her tongue amputated bc it hadn’t resolved within 30 days and was just hanging out of her mouth. It was the most wonderfully frightening thing I’ve ever seen…

Uhh you're not supposed to rx an ARNI for a pt taking an ACEI so someone fucked up there.

Oh well! How she goes.