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

[Rabid Weasels]

Rectal ozone therapy???? Intravenous lasers???? Wow.

 

[ADHD]

Temperature of 107? Nope nope nope nope.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Ozone Therapy (rectally)

I love how quack med always eventually involves shoving something up your ass.

 

[simulated goat]

Ozone Therapy (rectally)

I love how quack med always eventually involves shoving something up your ass.

Jethro Kloss would be so proud.

 

[Candidae]

Temperature of 107? Nope nope nope nope.

I love how they keep it right under 110 which is where you have to be hospitalized, at least in North America. I assume the body temp you're supposed to be hospitalized in varies by country to country but it can't be too different there. I'm sure munchies love that place cause they likely actually get seriously ill from going there

 

[ComputerWife]

I love how they keep it right under 110 which is where you have to be hospitalized, at least in North America. I assume the body temp you're supposed to be hospitalized in varies by country to country but it can't be too different there. I'm sure munchies love that place cause they likely actually get seriously ill from going there

lol 107 will most likely kill you


Also what do you mean “country to country”? Humans stay around 98.7 degrees (give or take a bit) no matter their location.

 

[Candidae]

lol 107 will most likely kill you
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Also what do you mean “country to country”? Humans stay around 98.7 degrees (give or take a bit) no matter their location.

I didn't mean the actual temperature of a person there, just the fever level which a person is forced to go to a hospital at haha. I had a coworker be forced to go to the hospital instead of sent home because their fever was around 110 and later the boss said by 110 they were legally obligated as an establishment to send them to the ER. I assume different countries have different rulings on when an establishment is forced to send people to the ER based on their fever. Granted it's possible this was a company policy but I'm hoping it's a government thing due to places like munchie paradise

 

[UT 514]

I didn't mean the actual temperature of a person there, just the fever level which a person is forced to go to a hospital at haha. I had a coworker be forced to go to the hospital instead of sent home because their fever was around 110 and later the boss said by 110 they were legally obligated as an establishment to send them to the ER. I assume different countries have different rulings on when an establishment is forced to send people to the ER based on their fever. Granted it's possible this was a company policy but I'm hoping it's a government thing due to places like munchie paradise

That person lied to you, you get admitted immediately at 106-107, for heat stroke if anything.

They use those extra high temps to show how CRITICAL! and REAL! their illness is, though it's unlikely but I guess not impossible.

 

[Bees]

I'm going to market special thermometers that only read over 104. They will be designated as extra sensitive to detect CHRONIC LYME and FIBRO and CANDIDA OVERGROWTH and EDS and that paralyzed stomach thing. They will be super duper expensive and only work rectally. Does anyone want to go on Shark Tank with me?

 

[yasscat]

I'm going to market special thermometers that only read over 104. They will be designated as extra sensitive to detect CHRONIC LYME and FIBRO and CANDIDA OVERGROWTH and EDS and that paralyzed stomach thing. They will be super duper expensive and only work rectally. Does anyone want to go on Shark Tank with me?

I'm in.

 

[HereForTheLaughs]

That person lied to you, you get admitted immediately at 106-107, for heat stroke if anything.

I went to the ER with a temp of 106.9. Was sent home with antibiotics after an hour. No admission.

 

[UT 514]

I went to the ER with a temp of 106.9. Was sent home with antibiotics after an hour. No admission.

Glad you didn't die! I admit I only know what I've seen, my bad. Though 110 still seems improbable to me.

 

[Toohottotrot]

I'm going to market special thermometers that only read over 104. They will be designated as extra sensitive to detect CHRONIC LYME and FIBRO and CANDIDA OVERGROWTH and EDS and that paralyzed stomach thing. They will be super duper expensive and only work rectally. Does anyone want to go on Shark Tank with me?

I'm in.

me 3

I love how quack med always eventually involves shoving something up your ass.

maybe we need to start teaching in schools that we dont let people shove things up our butts

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I went to the ER with a temp of 106.9. Was sent home with antibiotics after an hour. No admission.

Here we admit adults at 107.6, kids at 105.4 and infants at 101.2.

I've seen temps as high as 110 but that's usually exogenous hyperthermia (like heat stroke) and patients are seizing and hallucinating at that point. Like, there'd be something very obviously wrong with the dude before you even took his temp.

 

[HereForTheLaughs]

Here we admit adults at 107.6, kids at 105.4 and infants at 101.2.

I've seen temps as high as 110 but that's usually exogenous hyperthermia (like heat stroke) and patients are seizing and hallucinating at that point. Like, there'd be something very obviously wrong with the dude before you even took his temp.

I was 14 years old. No obvious signs of anything. Wasn’t sick, felt fine. It was December and the temps were in the 20s. Even at that age I found it disturbing that no tests were run. They said take these antibiotics and the fever should go away. Luckily, it did.

 

[There_is_no_Dana]

I've had a very high temperature before, hallucinations kick in when you get so far up there and it's very scary. Nobody with a temp of 110 is going to be walking into the ER on their own, they're going to be unconscious and it's likely they'd be suffering from brain damage after. Someone here is exaggerating, people love doing that for attention.

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

The only time we automatically admit someone to hospital at a certain temperature fever is if they're known to be severely immunocompromised. It's just a guideline, but we usually recommend babies and old people get evaluated if their fever stays above 103 for a couple days and average people 105-106, it's usually nothing serious but better to be safe and check. Whether we admit a person depends on how vulnerable or sick they are - Can they walk/talk, are they conscious/alert, are they hallucinating, severely dehydrated? Most importantly, is the fever being caused by a dangerous condition that needs immediate treatment? Healthy people can potentially get a cold/flu and run a fever of 105-106 while being perfectly fine (not super common but some people just get high-ass fevers), but a fever of 100-101 for a 65 year old on chemotherapy is a big fucking deal and the cause needs to be identified immediately. Some doctors might admit someone who seems mostly fine for a 106 degree fever just for observation, but in my experience they're more likely to tell them to go home and rest with some Tylenol. I've never seen someone with a fever of 107 or above who wasn't really sick so I can't say with certainty if they'd do the same.

Heat stroke is totally different (keep in mind I'm not just talking heat exhaustion, full on heat stroke can easily kill you). People can suffer heat stroke with a temperature of 104 - The temperature might be the same or lower than in a high fever, but fevers are caused by the body actually changing its set point temperature and compensating (usually the person actually feels cold), whereas with heat stroke the physiological ability to self-regulate temperature just kinda fails and the temperature will keep climbing if it's not treated. Once it hits 109 you're probably fucked. I'm going to go right ahead and call bullshit on someone walking around with a temperature of 110.

tl;dr Humans are shockingly resilient. High core temperature won't necessarily fuck you up, but heat stroke will.

It's definitely possible to raise someone's core temperature as high as 107 and it won't kill them so long as they're monitored closely for heat exhaustion symptoms, but I don't know why you'd want to. There's some evidence that localized hyperthermia therapy can improve the effects of radiation and chemo but other than that it's all quack doctors in foreign countries exploiting the fuck out of munchies and "muh natural cure" types. The grifters who run these scams are reprehensible but it's hard to feel sorry for people stupid enough to keep throwing money at them,

 

[Dysnomia]

So my sister was moaning about her Lyme disease again. I told her there is no such thing as chronic Lyme and that her joints are just fucked because the Lyme wasn't properly treated. So she tells me that the parasite can morph into another species of parasite.

A spirochete is a bacteria not a parasite. But there is no arguing with her on this. She isn't a munchie. She's just dumb. But she is just the kind of person who will think these munchies are for real. I think a lot of the info she looks up is in this vein and she doesn't really get that these bitches are fakers. Meanwhile she may legit have Crohn's disease and is yet to get any of the tests she was supposed to. A very dumb person indeed.

So I have to wonder how dangerous these munchies can really be when influencing others. Not that they care since it's all about them. But there are so many people who read a blog, see a symptom match and don't get the help they really need.

I finally got her to go to a doctor and now he is not going to take her brand of insurance anymore. I told her to try to switch since he is only three blocks away. But she hasn't even looked into it yet. But she says she doesn't like doctors because they don't believe her Lyme complaints. I don't think it's that they don't believe her. You can clearly tell she has joint issues. They are just trying to explain that there is no such thing as chronic Lyme and she gets upset right away.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

So my sister was moaning about her Lyme disease again. I told her there is no such thing as chronic Lyme and that her joints are just fucked because the Lyme wasn't properly treated. So she tells me that the parasite can morph into another species of parasite.

There's an immunologist I follow on Twatter who has recently - within the last few months - started banging on ad infinitum about she's spent the last 16 years in chronic pain and how she's got endometriosis. No mention - literally not a single peep at all - before about all of this, it's all started in the last 6 months.


Every single test she has had, every diagnostic operation, has come back as negative for endo. Every. Single. One. And she periodically has meltdowns about how she just wants to give up, how awful it is, how alone she is, how her flatmate (who she previously got on fine with) now loathes her. I've been following this bint for a few years and she goes through these cycles - everything is awesome, my life is amazing, I love my flatmate, to everything sucks, my flatmate is awful and my life sucks. A few years back she was all over the bipolar train but I guess Endo is the most popular disease for munchies now

 

[cow4prez2024]

There's an immunologist I follow on Twatter who has recently - within the last few months - started banging on ad infinitum about she's spent the last 16 years in chronic pain and how she's got endometriosis. No mention - literally not a single peep at all - before about all of this, it's all started in the last 6 months.


Every single test she has had, every diagnostic operation, has come back as negative for endo. Every. Single. One. And she periodically has meltdowns about how she just wants to give up, how awful it is, how alone she is, how her flatmate (who she previously got on fine with) now loathes her. I've been following this bint for a few years and she goes through these cycles - everything is awesome, my life is amazing, I love my flatmate, to everything sucks, my flatmate is awful and my life sucks. A few years back she was all over the bipolar train but I guess Endo is the most popular disease for munchies now

This person sounds like she has lolcow potential and I badly want to know more.... Would love a link to her twitter or screencaps if you have them!