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

[eternal dog mongler]

I have a hard time believing that Cleveland Clinic, well known for complex motility Disorders (although that may be more pediatric) would not only dx GP, but put a tube in for only 14% delayed emptying. (“Normal” is somewhere around 10% - source is NIH.) I am surprised that Motility specialists find 14% to be alarming. So alarming that absolutely no other interventions for symptoms would be tried for a period of time? Is my information off base?

Gastric emptying time isn't correlated to symptom severity in GP patients, so (disregarding the entire munchie thing for a moment) it would be possible to have a slightly delayed gastric emptying time but have severe GP symptoms.

Toobz are indicated when it's suspected that the patient might die of malnutrition due to GP. Otherwise it'd just be GP diet and medication.

(also the healthcare system in the US is pretty bizarre compared to the rest of the world and goes for invasive interventions first to get your metrics and revenue up. Empty ORs don't make money.)

 

[Fliddaroonie]

Tubby's back in the hospital for another feeding tube site infection, forcing a "drop foot" look, and pissed they won't give her painkillers.
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That's not a drop foot, she's talking crap. Drop foot is a gait related issue where the foot fails to lift properly during the gait cycle. It;s usually caused by paralysis to the muscle in the anterior portion of the lower leg, or by issues with the fibular nerve but that wee photo, as designed as it is to tug at the widdle heartstrings, is *not* a photo of a drop foot.

These people are such morons and their idiot followers are even worse.



Edited to say: What she's showing is inversion of the foot. It's not uncommon when you pop your legs up like that and literally zero reason to be worried.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

That's not a drop foot, she's talking crap. Drop foot is a gait related issue where the foot fails to lift properly during the gait cycle. It;s usually caused by paralysis to the muscle in the anterior portion of the lower leg, or by issues with the fibular nerve but that wee photo, as designed as it is to tug at the widdle heartstrings, is *not* a photo of a drop foot.

These people are such morons and their idiot followers are even worse.



Edited to say: What she's showing is inversion of the foot. It's not uncommon when you pop your legs up like that and literally zero reason to be worried.

Thank you for saying this. I had a busy day and wasn’t able to get to this one, but was going to say the exact same thing. Foot drop only affects the muscles that help you raise your foot. Your foot looks fairly normal while just sitting there. Morons, indeed.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

In one of her Tellonyms (not sure if I capped that specific one) she said she lived with her mother and sister and paid 1/3 of rent. Read literally all of her posts and no mention of a job, so bit of a head scratcher there.

She’s obviously got a entire pretend fake sick girl persona online that she’s terrified of her family discovering - because they know it’s all bullshit.

I highly doubt she pays any rent. These adult losers living with parents always try to claim they are chipping in, but it’s almost never the case. Like everything else in their life, they lie.

I do wonder what parents do when they discover their daughter is leading a munchie double life online? I’m going to bet the Internet lumberjack gets called in for duty.

 

[Forkyourspoons]

The casts look like 'no no's given to toddlers to stop them pulling out tubes lol

Umm ouch!!! After trying to get my iv access continuously since 11pm …

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Got some pretty new casts today 💜💜💕💕 . #gastroparesis #chronicill…

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Fuck GP 😑 - paiges_ds

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Edit: Thank you @Kate Farms Shill for the video archive link
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Ninja'd by @Munchie_Minder I was about to make the same joke.

Paige Donovan-Smith (@paiges_ds) • Instagram photos and videos

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Here's her insta, looks like all of the other girls in this thread. I was trying to find out what the hell was going on with her stomach skin because it looks like an acid burn.

Hypersensitivity and thinned from repeatedly cut open. I've seen a much milder version of this caused by weekly subcut injections but obviously adding repeated infections and scar tissue has left the skin very thin.

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No #ehlershdanlossyndrome posts prior to this one

Back to foot ivs. Without my NJ tube and throwing everything i eat or…

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A week later...

Still waiting for my new NJ placement. It will have been 3 weeks with…

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States she lost her hair 3 years ago but none of her condishuns are ones that would require medication that causes that. Posts of every line site and every symptom gets it's own # regardless of relevance. #chonichypokalemia - can't this one be cured by eating bananas?

Umm ouch!!! After trying to get my iv access continuously since 11pm …

archived 11 Jun 2019 21:34:59 UTC

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Got some pretty new casts today 💜💜💕💕 . #gastroparesis #chronicill…

archived 11 Jun 2019 21:36:57 UTC

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Fuck GP 😑 - paiges_ds

archived 11 Jun 2019 21:29:06 UTC

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Edit: Thank you @Kate Farms Shill for the video archive link

I've not figured individual quoting yet sorry

The casts look like 'no no's given to little kids to stop them pulling out their tubes lol

 

[Underestimated Nutria]

Another question: are these girls All failed athletes??

 

[Otterly]

Another question: are these girls All failed athletes??

It’s an interesting theory. So many are failed ballerinas. Maybe when you think you’re going to be brilliant at something, and it’s a physical thing, and you fail, the coping mechanism is to blame the body for all of your failures? It’s a way of deflecting the blame.

Most of these girls are coddled prima ballerina types. They’ve probably never dealt with failure to develop the grit needed to get back up.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

Another question: are these girls All failed athletes??

People with “real” EDS can have quite athletic abilities, which I’ve mentioned before. Then the joint damage gets severe and they quit. I suppose there are two types of munchies, ones that were used to all the attention they got, then have actual EDS and decide to make a “career” out of that and try to make it into as severe a case as possible. Then there’s probably another set that saw how others are doing that same thing and make up an illness to get the attention they missed from being athletic.

 

[SourDiesel]

This exceptional individual is trying to say "lesbians" with a fucking emoji, guys. The answer is no though. They are mainly straight girl, ex-dancers and shit.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

Thank you for saying this. I had a busy day and wasn’t able to get to this one, but was going to say the exact same thing. Foot drop only affects the muscles that help you raise your foot. Your foot looks fairly normal while just sitting there. Morons, indeed.

You're very welcome! It really irritated me when I saw it and I'm glad I'm not the only person whose skin it got under!

 

[Fattyroad]

Introductory post for @beyond.bendy AKA Olivia, a 22 year old woman from Denmark, claiming HDS as well as a plethora of other conditions. Part 1 [my computer can't handle this many pics at a time]

Spoiler: caps

Her oldest post (13 Nov 2017) giving a summary of her conditions

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Medical porn
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Chronic illness guilt
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Medical equipment posing
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Talks about her previous health
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Health update
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Talks about clearing out her account
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2017 reflection
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Using "boom and bust pattern" to explain her deterioration
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Increasing prevalence of mobility aids on her feed
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Wheelchair posing
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Using treatment beads AKA an encouragement method for sick kids
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Hospital scare
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Hospital update
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Another intro post
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Another HDS awareness post....and first mention of her shop
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I don't know why, but that shitty cheapass plastic Beads of Courage knockoff thing annoys me more than anything else in this post.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

People with “real” EDS can have quite athletic abilities, which I’ve mentioned before. Then the joint damage gets severe and they quit. I suppose there are two types of munchies, ones that were used to all the attention they got, then have actual EDS and decide to make a “career” out of that and try to make it into as severe a case as possible. Then there’s probably another set that saw how others are doing that same thing and make up an illness to get the attention they missed from being athletic.

There are tons of high-level athletes in dancing, martial arts, etc. that have generalized joint hypermobility without any real problems except for increased risk of injury.

Where this all goes wrong, I think, is that most munchies are completely sedentary and laying in bed all day to play sick princess. That actually causes joint degeneration.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Another question: are these girls All failed athletes??

Nix the emojis, kiddo.

 

[Xrinxo910]

I really wonder about @beyond.bendy and her mum, it seems like her mum goes to most of her international appointments and helps with her disability support applications (though no pics of that last part). Considering all her mobility aids are present on her public insta (where family follow her) she surely shows some degree of sickness to her real life connections?

 

[Fliddaroonie]

Nix the emojis, kiddo.

Like drano, carolina reaper chillis and insults, emojis are best used sparingly :p

I really wonder about @beyond.bendy and her mum, it seems like her mum goes to most of her international appointments and helps with her disability support applications (though no pics of that last part). Considering all her mobility aids are present on her public insta (where family follow her) she surely shows some degree of sickness to her real life connections?

Or maybe the Mum has MBP? And they both exist in this foetid circle jerk of munching/munchying by proxy? I always think the two must coexist pretty well together

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Apparently it was a pet parrot’s poop she used and did it multiple times. Oddly, given how long parrots live it may still be alive. Parrots get a real freak show living alongside humans.

The more I think about it, it probably was a Munchausen case but given the era when she admitted to injecting parrot shit the doctors could only interpret it as suicidal behavior. I’m sure she wasn’t in any hurry to correct them either, and was soon dead anyway.

I initially thought that maybe she was looking to give herself histoplasmosis but if it can kill you and make it look like a heart attack perhaps that's the more logical explanation. Also a good reason to be suspicious of folks who choose to keep birds as pets.
Thanks for the link to Dr. Feldman's article I would love to see what his thoughts are on some of our threads sooper stars.

The casts look like 'no no's given to toddlers to stop them pulling out tubes lol

Thanks for pointing that out. I spent way too much time looking for another social media belonging to her to try and fill in the gaps. It looks like her and her pals mainly use instagram. It also makes me think that her doctors are aware that she's fiddling with her tubes and aggravating the skin on her stomach.

Re @beyondbendy she had a party on the anniversary of her DX. Who does that? Shouldn't that alone be a red flag to her family for munching? These girls are all from middle class families and have in general good family support systems and don't have to worry about bills or going homeless from not being able to work; so getting a DX for a lifelong disease in their late teens early 20s is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to them (unless you're a munchie). To me this is the equivalent of a someone who was the victim of a horrific crime celebrating that their life is forever changed by it.
Apologies if that reads as mad at the internet, I just find it truly bizarre even by this threads standards.

 

[smashms1981]

As someone with autism & multiple chronic illnesses i’d like To say that this person’s comments and thread posts have made me develop stage 10 ADD & terminal brain cancer.

I am writing this comment from my induced coma where I am only dreaming about leaking their information about their “super serious lung problems” from my excessive google searching.

Oops, did that just happen? Sorry, my autism is playing up & I can’t control what i’m saying or doing. Sorry not sorry

#chronicillnesswarrior

FUCK YOU!!!

 

[AT 903]

FUCK YOU!!!

I vote this one to be our new pet resident cow.

 

[smashms1981]

I vote this one to be our new pet resident cow.

fuck off

 

[TwoFiftyTwoPM]

These girls are all from middle class families and have in general good family support systems and don't have to worry about bills or going homeless from not being able to work; so getting a DX for a lifelong disease in their late teens early 20s is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to them (unless you're a munchie).

Munchies get it all backwards. Most adults react to a loss of health in fear because they know being sick is going to make it harder to work and pay bills, which could risk making them and their families homeless. Munchies have no fear of this, and it shows in how they paint the narrative of being sick.