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

I thought she was discussed on one of the dead subreddits like MunchSnark because this is not the only time she will imply or state she sees what people are saying about her in other places. I got her name from a person who was involved in those subs which I rarely if ever visited. But i asked and they said if she was discussed, they don't remember it.

Sorry for the double post but she was featured in some news article about “chronic illness influencers.”

I’m 90% sure this isn’t the original article but it’s all I can find. I know the daily mail is awful 🥲


ETA: I see you added this to your post. I should have finished reading it before replying
 
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Long time lurker who just created an account so im sorry if my reply is fucked. I have no idea how this shit works.
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But it seems like people in her personal life is calling out her bs. Her former friend posted this a few weeks ago on tiktok. She confirmed that shes talking about her in the comments.
Looks like this person is also friends with my.eds / Rose:
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Her account in general has some questionable vibes - lots of posts showing off her feeding tube, medications, etc, and discussion about having some of the trendy GI problems, but she does seem to have had pediatric leukemia so I'd probably have to dig harder to decide whether she's taken the "genuine medical issue as a child -> learned to seek attention through medical problems -> can't move on past the sick role" route or if she's actually having post-chemo medical problems and is just being very online about it.
 
I think the bulk of the blame here lies on the adults, not just her ultra-enabling mother and the doctors who agreed to cut her up, but in general.

That’s the impression that I got reading this too, this girl was just a dumb child trying to opt out of being an adult and I agree that it’s obvious that a lot of people in her life tried to tell her this and stop her. Unfortunately for her, the people who mattered the most to her decided to enable her tube pulling and sepsis inducing antics instead? She was probably in a lot of pain in the end after all those horrendous surgeries with no way to cope with life nor the pain afflicted upon her apart from massive amounts of drugs and attention towards the end.

I’m not sure if Hsu, Henderson or that creepy German doctor who claims his patients have a trillion totally rare and unique compressions creep me the fuck out more? If her super warrior mother had done any decent research, she would have seen the massive amount of complaints against Hsu (who apparently isn’t even trusted within the MALS “community”?) and it makes me feel all those uncomfortable feels. Poor, stupid and deeply mentally unwell little girl. She was sick but just not in the way she wanted to be.

Don’t go this route, munchies reading this. Opiates aren’t worth it, they aren’t that great. Although if this is the kind of attention you want then go for it? At least you’re entertaining someone.

Thanks again for the excellent write up!
 
What, pray tell, is this debilitating neuromuscular disorder she suffers from? Cretinism?
Real answer: a demyelinating sensorimotor polyneuropathy and she can't be more specific or decide when she first started showing symptoms, when and how she was diagnosed, what she was told at the time of diagnosis re: prognosis (sometimes saying they always knew her mobility would decline and she'd need a wheelchair, other times saying it's a form so rare no one knows what the future holds, and still other times it's a relapsing-remitting condition that allows her to sometimes walk), etc etc. The real answer is Trevino diagnosed her with our standard combo platter he sells to every failure-to-launch with a golden retriever and a Disney pass which was her ticket to her first custom wheelchair referral, but she tried to hide she saw him and wanted to be more special than the Jaquies of the world (even though Jaquie is the one she copied and competed with for the first year or two of her munchie journey.)

Amanda Winig had a similar trajectory. She got the standard diagnoses from our favorite doctor in Clearwater, then in a hospitalization for weakness while starving/purging herself to 90 lbs, they worked her up for Guillaine-Barre syndrome. She started claiming she had it and telling everyone including her family. Her friend who is actually paralyzed after she steroided herself to a spine tumor allegedly saw a her wheelchair referral when she was getting her second one and the only condition it was indicated for was POTS.

Until last year Shelby still lived in a loft apartment with stairs to get to the bedroom lol.

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Natalia Rijos has finally updated on what happened to her. Natalia is the toothless junkie who saw the same doctors as Maya Kowalski and tried to lie about being "medically kidnapped" like Maya when her social media from the time shows it was a normal hospitalization and she had visitors, access to her phone, and her "CPS evidence photos" came from a year later in a different state. Natalia's not too bright, probably because she spent her teen years in a ketamine-benzo-opiate haze.

Natalia was last seen hospitalized on Easter after fucking with her cecostomy tube until she made a giant shit-pus pocket inside her body. Her colon had to be resected and she kept creating new problems to try to stay hospitalized or put in a rehab claiming she needed a hoist and other specialty equipment and she was too weak to go home. She was last seen freaking out because the compliant neurologist who greenlit her staying in the hospital until she felt she was well enough to go home had been taken off her case and couldn't protect her anymore. That was April 21.

On the 12th she finally came back to update on what happened. On the 25th she was booted out of the hospital and sent to Adventcare Connerton, a long-term acute care facility aka a vent farm. The overworked staff do not treat her like a special little princess. She's now claiming spasms so severe she's at risk of launching herself out of her chair and yes, they let her play paralyzed in the hoyer lift. The wound vac is gone and she's just getting her nasty poo-pus-pit cleaned and dressed.

Natalia remains real fucking stupid as somehow having part of her colon resected gave her a disease that happens with congenital or surgical shortening of the small intestine. The small intestine is where the bulk of digestion and nutrient absorption goes. Your colon just turns that digested material to poop and pushes it out. This has become her latest reason she can't get off TPN and onto tube feeds. She's being "honest" and telling them she should be discharged on TPN and she'll figure it out later. She's supposed to be released back into the wild like Free Willy on the 18th.
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@Kate Farms Shill yeah, she clearly has no idea what the fuck she is talking about.

As far as I know, there is absolutely no way that a colectomy would cause short gut syndrome. It does play a role in fluid management and electrolyte absorption. Folks who have had a colectomy or diverted their digestion by means of an ileostomy can (in rare cases, such as with CIPO or other enteric neuropathies) be unable to balance fluid (no matter how much they consume orally) and will rely on palliative IV hydration for the rest of their life to prevent kidney failure (note - I’m not talking about precious-POTS-patsys who insist that they can’t possibly drink water and need saline). But, this is nowhere near the same as needing TPN.

If I am feeling kind, perhaps she has a case of post-operative ileus and so she is reliant on TPN until the ileus resolves.

It does take time for the small intestine to adjust post-ileostomy (and assume it would be the same post colectomy) but not to the point where they would rely on TPN. Typically they work with a dietician to slowly adapt back to normal foods (with some exceptions) as their gut adapts.

Further reading on post operative adaptation

Standard disclaimer: not a doctor, so someone with actual knowledge please confirm / correct as appropriate!
 
First post here but long time reader, and personally watch some munchies.

There has been an influx of young women (often with a history of eating disorders) in my relatively small european country travelling to Malaga, Spain to see a certain vascular doctor (dr. Morata). They all have had fundraisers that range from €30.000 to €138.000. Every girl who goes to this doctor ends up with the same 5 diagnoses (mals, nutcracker syndrome, wilkie/smas, gastroparesis, may-thurner syndrome). He then proceeds to tell them they need “life saving surgery”. This life saving surgery consists of cutting open the whole stomach, kidney autotransplantation, placing stents, removing of organs (gallbladder and appendix), widening the stomach opening, duodenojejunostomy and median arcuate ligament release.

In all the cases i have followed (7 as of now) this does not come without risks. At the hospital in malaga there has now been at least one young woman who got a central line infection, bladder infection and wound infection. They get send home quite quickly which leaves doctors of the home country to deal with the complications made in Spain. The young woman who has had the most done by this doctor ended up with a severe ileus after just arriving back, and needed surgery to remove “strings of scar tissue” from her stomach.

They all say he saved their lives, but the thing he can’t seem to fix with any of them is the food issue. They are all still tube fed, along with the of course common puking up of the tube and being underweight. The only thing they do get is a scar and tubes.

Almost all of them seek out newspapers. The first case sounded sketchy to me, but i chose the benefit of the doubt. But when more and more girls in the same demographic, physical appearance and history started fundraisers and went to this doctor it started to get suspicious. Especially when a vascular specialist called out the Spanish doctor. Roughly translated “there is no justification for what this doctor is doing. The surgeries do not fit within the ethic of doctors. We aren’t crazy here in {country}” “here the health inspection would step in. I get that people want help and go on desperate searches, but i try to warn them against these kinds of doctors. I have multiple patients who went to Malaga and got operated on, who don’t even have compression syndromes. As long as you give him his money (at least €50.000) he will do whatever you want”.

Now this is just in a small country, although i have seen some girls from other european countries travelling to see this doctor and spending thousands of euros to get their stomachs butchered. Wondering if any others have this doctor on their radar? Maybe there are miraculously lots of young girls with these conditions, but i highly doubt it. It reminds me of the other MALS butchers.
 
The way to tell a munchie from a non-munchie with the same diagnosis is in fact remarkably easy, so easy that falling for the act has to be evidence of profound mental retardation:

Non-munchies look fucking miserable in their photos. They fucking hate being unwell, their life plans may be in total ruin, their finances are fucked, they're unlikely to live as long as they hoped. That's before you get to the pain and other symptoms and the sheer terror of invasive surgery. Having a port or tube is an uncomfortable invasion of your bodily integrity. There's something sticking out of you that doesn't belong to you and isn't part of you and you can't get it out. It may as well be a slave collar. A permanent reminder that your body is under the control of doctors, who have the right to open you up and put things into you and you can't refuse. It's almost like being raped. This is the same mix of body horror and psychological torture that The Human Centipede uses to make you squirm in your seat.

If someone is eye-fucking the camera they are probably not dealing with the issues above. If invasive surgery resulting in foreign objects being sewn into you is rape, then these girls are living their rape fetishes. They get joy from being violated, it's a very peculiar state of mind that its very hard to get your head around, and its one that produces a very particular way of looking into the camera.
 
@Factitious fighter can you post some links or screenshots? I don’t understand how these girls claims these medical hack jobs “save” them when they all end up so much worse than before, and the complications are unending. I am highly suspicious of anyone claiming that they need to travel and pay extortionate amounts to get “life saving” medical treatment, unless it is for a recognised clinical trial or has been recommended by a legitimate medical doctor who has been treating them locally.

@Spunt spot on. There’s a difference between someone putting on a brave face and smiling in a pic and the sickfluencer posing like they are in a magazine shoot.

Pod cast of interest for you today: Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down common internet medical myths. Curing Medical Misinformation with Dr. Noc and Scott Hamilton Kennedy

You seemed to appreciate the update on Jessie, the Michelin Man’s less athletic cousin, who has been milking this latest admission for all it is worth. I bring fresh milk for your coco-pops. I don’t have the socials so screenshots are stolen from Reddit, followed by a text-only summary for those who can’t stand to look at Jessie, who is shaped less like a person and more like a geometry problem.

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Our story continues with Jessie still in hospital, one snack away from becoming a celestial body yet also wasting away from malnutrition (yeah, yeah, fat people can be malnourished. Jessie is not one of them).

Masking her narcissism with a PSA Jessie exclaims that she brings some “new” hospital tips and tricks! Looking like someone stuck a pair of eyes on a dinner roll, she strokes her newly blonde hair, looking remarkably well hydrated, with zero visible signs of malnutrition. “Port” continues to look suspiciously well healed. Atlas is enjoying resting on her sumptuous padding, which I’m sure would be super comfortable for someone suffering intractable intestinal pain.

I kid you not, Jessie claims that being blonde is getting her better treatment. My eyes rolled so hard I nearly saw my own brain sighing in despair. She posts a pic of her at home in the basement of regret, prone on her festering foam slab marinating in her own shame and getting her hair dyed. She does look slightly less like a beach ball that gave up on its dreams but it could be the angle and I wouldn’t put it past her to have photoshopped it to make her look thinner. Jessie, aka Marilyn, claims: “No one has treated me like a burden. Everyone has been kind, respectful, and people have gone out of their way to take care of me”. Jessie, with the cognitive horsepower of a wet sponge, calls this an “experiment in accessibility”. Correlation is not causation, Marilyn! Maybe people are humoring you because they are paid to not call you out on your utter bullshit.

Jessie claims that the hospital is “not equipped to take care of someone who is bedbound and functional paraplegic”. For someone who claims to be a seasoned expert in all things medical, she really is a shining example of evolution taking a coffee break. Hospitals are specifically equipped and trained to take care of bedbound and paraplegic patients with a combination of specialized equipment, nursing protocols and interdisciplinary care. Do you know why you aren’t benefitting from any of this, J-crew? It’s because YOU ARE NOT BEDBOUND OR PARAPLEGIC FFS!

Poor Jessie must instead bring with her an entourage of “caregivers” (today’s drinking game - take a shot every time Jessie calls one of her human enablers a care giver). She mostly needs someone to take care of Atlas. How about just not bringing him to hospital with you, you selfish cunt? It is such a huge “financial and emotional ask” to have a “caregiver” stay with her (cue Go Fund Me any minute now), it is LIFE SAVING. She says they “advocate” for her and this stops her being labeled as a “problem patient”. Deluded Jessie, unaware that if you look up Problem Patient, there is a fold-out picture of her balloon-face that they were unable to fit into the standard B6 page along with an archival record of her bad decisions and poor bladder control. She is pictured giving a thumbs up, smirking like a snake in a silk tie.

CUTE DOGGO PIC COMFORT BREAK! Sadly the undeniably adorable dog picture is ruined with Jessie’s no-one-cares monologue on all her amazing “caregivers” and the super essential tasks they perform for her.

Next she bores us with a promo for device holders. Pictured looking like Jabba the Hut got steam-rollered on a conspicuously not designed for bed-bound patients run of the mill hospital bed, with positive teddy bear sign, a bridled nose hose, an adult sippy-cup, and her own blanket, staring gormlessly at her iPad perched precariously on a pole. I really hope one of these devices falls on her fat face and breaks her nose one day. Then she would have something genuine to complain about.

Final tip, NodPods! I don’t know what these are so I had to google. Apparently they are a weighted pillow for your eyes. Doesn’t sound like a good idea to me to put additional weight on a neck that is unable to support the already significant weight of a face so round it should come with orbiting satellites. Jessie is pictured wearing said mask, along with not only her bridled tube, but a nasal cannula for full on sympathy points, snuggling some sort of stuffed toy, wearing smugness like a cheap cologne - obvious, overpowering and entirely unpleasant.

I’ll leave it there for today. I can only stomach Jessie for so long as she is only tolerable in short, heavily medicated intervals.

I really don’t understand her. How is this larp at all benefitting her? She’s been refused all the monies because she was shown to be able to get up, walk, sit at a desk, and has no legitimate medical reason for saying nope to adult responsibility. And who the fuck is believing her? Does she surround herself with people who have all the mental agility of a dropped pie? I’m not sure what this current hospital vacation is actually for, or what she is telling the medical professionals. I’m certain it is different from the story she spouts on her socials. Clearly her ongoing claims of CCI aren’t cutting it any more and she needs to up the ante by taking a page from the books of your common, garden variety “tubie” princesses. Let’s see where she takes this shit show next!
 
Anyone interested in reading about the Auckland case and "P" as she is called in the court documents can read the full decision here


A final conclusion in the document:
"Further, P is not currently suffering from abscesses or infections. That may not be the case indefinitely, but I have already noted that the health professionals appear to accept that she has the capacity to make decisions about particular forms of medical treatment. It will be for her to decide whether to accept or decline treatment should the need arise in the future."

Webpage archive https://archive.md/tjKKx
 
I stumbled across a totally confusing person on instagram and I wanted to ask here if anyone can debunk that they claim deafness and also "legs dont work" and they "dont know why" and they "cant go outside" - just curious if anyone else has stumbled across them: https://www.instagram.com/eliyahusucks/
I was assuming this person already had a thread somewhere on here, I have been following this train wreck for a while now, she just had a faking Down syndrome arc that looks to be deleted.
 
Anyone interested in reading about the Auckland case and "P" as she is called in the court documents can read the full decision here


A final conclusion in the document:
"Further, P is not currently suffering from abscesses or infections. That may not be the case indefinitely, but I have already noted that the health professionals appear to accept that she has the capacity to make decisions about particular forms of medical treatment. It will be for her to decide whether to accept or decline treatment should the need arise in the future."

Webpage archive https://archive.md/tjKKx
Our walrus princess is finally getting her way. I'd love to get my hands on more info from family court, she's one of my heartcows

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home of the anxiety horse! She has not been funny except suddenly she looks like she's pushing 50 and smokes two packs of Luckies a day. I do not know how she managed to age a decade in 6 months. It's almost impressive.
As a crazy horse girl, this makes me wanna vomit. That poor 'lil pony. That's a regular ole' mini pony, not the tiny dwarf ones bred for Muslims as seeing eye-animals/service animals (Muslims cannot own dogs it is haram).

Also, forget about smoking and obesity - she's going to die by being bucked in the head by her pony after it gets spooked while she wanders into the living room one night! Horsies belong outside, OUTSIDE 🌳☀️
 
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