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

[dopedodo]

It seems although Munch Central is the USA, that the UK and to a lesser extent the rest of Western Europe are getting more and more munchies as time goes on.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

It seems although Munch Central is the USA, that the UK and to a lesser extent the rest of Western Europe are getting more and more munchies as time goes on.

I have a theory that we don't hear about continental munchies that much because it's easier to doctor shop internationally in the EU than for example someone from the USA going to Canada for medical care. I posted a study in this thread a couple of months back that had the specific guidelines the NHS and the HSE have for spotting doctor shopping between the UK and Ireland but there is no such thing in place for tracking people who may be travelling further for medical care. There's a unique relationship there because it's very common for patients to be referred to the UK for procedures that either can't or won't be done in Ireland. EU citizens get an E111 card which for most people means if you go on holidays and hurt yourself or fall sick and end up going to the hospital, you won't be left with a massive medical bill but I have no doubt that munchies take advantage of this.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have a theory that we don't hear about continental munchies that much because it's easier to doctor shop internationally in the EU than for example someone from the USA going to Canada for medical care.

In addition to doctor shopping there has been studies that show that in countries with free healthcare something insane like 70% of the doctors time are spent on a single digit percentage of people that aren't ill. With no barrier for entry some people will take advantage of that. The introduction of a small co-pay(or "entry fee") was at least partially meant to curb that behavior. I remember growing up when it was first introduced here, it was ~$5 up front, if it turns out you were actually sick or actually had a reason to visit a doctor then you got your five bucks back on the way out, if you wasted their time they kept the money. That decreased the amount of people that went to a doctor or the hospital 20 times a week.

I have no idea how this ties into the American system. Maybe if someone has great insurance they will milk it for all it's worth and if they lack insurance they just diagnose themselves?

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

In addition to doctor shopping there has been studies that show that in countries with free healthcare something insane like 70% of the doctors time are spent on a single digit percentage of people that aren't ill. With no barrier for entry some people will take advantage of that. The introduction of a small co-pay(or "entry fee") was at least partially meant to curb that behavior. I remember growing up when it was first introduced here, it was ~$5 up front, if it turns out you were actually sick or actually had a reason to visit a doctor then you got your five bucks back on the way out, if you wasted their time they kept the money. That decreased the amount of people that went to a doctor or the hospital 20 times a week.

I have no idea how this ties into the American system. Maybe if someone has great insurance they will tard cum it for all it's worth and if they lack insurance they just diagnose themselves?

People with Medicaid here will go to the ER just for fun because they pay for nothing. A lot of our bigger munchies (Jaquie, Aubrey) went from good insurance their parents paid for to good insurance their husbands paid for. They don't have a concept of how much money this actually costs because they never see a bill.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

People with Medicaid here will go to the ER just for fun because they pay for nothing. A lot of our bigger munchies (Jaquie, Aubrey) went from good insurance their parents paid for to good insurance their husbands paid for. They don't have a concept of how much money this actually costs because they never see a bill.

Not only money, the waste of time and resources. How many perfectly healthy munchies have nagged their doctors until they get to ride the MRI or take some fancy and special test, they unnecessarily fill up waiting lists and the time going through the result is just a waste.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Not only money, the waste of time and resources. How many perfectly healthy munchies have nagged their doctors until they get to ride the MRI or take some fancy and special test, they unnecessarily fill up waiting lists and the time going through the result is just a waste.

Yeah that goes without saying. Even paying out of pocket, if you're there under false pretenses then you're wasting resources. It's just rare that someone is going to shell out big bucks of their own money for shits n' gigs. I was starting to think LymeisLame Becca really believed her shit until I realized she's been funded by GFM campaigns and conned insurance into covering shit she doesn't need so she, too, isn't really paying for this shit with her own money. Kat the fat GP faker on TPN used to post medical bills but spilled the beans that her parents pay for everything, and I'm wondering if her husband didn't leave partially because she was bankrupting them with her phony medical claims.

 

[iluvmylife]

Kat the fat GP faker

lol I just spit out my drink when I read that

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

@Kate Farms Shill I can't keep staring at your new avatar and I think it's because she looks like a mix between Garth from Waynes World and Bill from Bill and Teds excellent adventures.

 

[IBrokeBob]

People with Medicaid here will go to the ER just for fun because they pay for nothing. A lot of our bigger munchies (Jaquie, Aubrey) went from good insurance their parents paid for to good insurance their husbands paid for. They don't have a concept of how much money this actually costs because they never see a bill.

There is a brisk market of businesses that want to make sure that medicaid recipients are entitled to lots of free goodies. They run commercials touting their " free" stuff that they are offering ( braces, blood glucose monitors, whatever they can sell you. They can even send you a catalog of all of the goodies, like a demented sears catalog for munchies. They play tv commercials telling people to call and find out about all of the FREE stuff. (But we taxpayers pay for it!)

All they need is your medicaid # to get the gravy train started. But bigger ticket items may require a script, prior approval, etc but that is mere childsplay to these con artists.

 

[dopedodo]

In the Adventures of Agony Autie today....




Also has a live-on-IG "breakdown" during her webcast. Very believable.

 

[Cold Waffle]

In the Adventures of Agony Autie today....

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Also has a live-on-IG "breakdown" during her webcast. Very believable.

She looks really pleased that her ovarian cyst ruptured. I've never experienced such a thing, but I feel like the standard issue response might be the fetal position. Or at least not taking a cheerful selfie.

 

[dopedodo]

She looks really pleased that her ovarian cyst ruptured. I've never experienced such a thing, but I feel like the standard issue response might be the fetal position. Or at least not taking a cheerful selfie.

Two options - either she stuffed herself full of painkillers and is enjoying the high and the medical emergency, or it didn't happen. I'm going with the latter. No way anything happens to these munchers and they don't go to hospital. Hell this is the exceptional individual who went to hospital after a tonsillectomy because her throat hurt.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

In the Adventures of Agony Autie today....

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Also has a live-on-IG "breakdown" during her webcast. Very believable.

She looks really pleased that her ovarian cyst ruptured. I've never experienced such a thing, but I feel like the standard issue response might be the fetal position. Or at least not taking a cheerful selfie.

The real effing question is how does she know that is what happened? Did she go to the ducking ER? That’s a rule out diagnosis in general unless you’ve had a recent gynecological ultrasound showing a large cyst hours before and then another one with cyst rupture.

If she didn’t go to the ER how does she know? Thunk provoking. Pain depends on the size of the cyst. Could be a “little crampy” could be, “I’m dying, is this appendicitis?”.

 

[dopedodo]

Well she claims to have PCOS (and Endo) so I'm guessing a cyst rupturing for her must be as common as subluxing a shoulder. Oh wait, that doesn't happen either.

Even if you have PCOS, it'll be fucking painful.

 

[Munchie_Minder]

Well she claims to have PCOS (and Endo) so I'm guessing a cyst rupturing for her must be as common as subluxing a shoulder. Oh wait, that doesn't happen either.

Even if you have PCOS, it'll be fucking painful.

Is this one of those incidental findings she then turns into the most stereotypical shit she can think of? It is actually not that common for ovarian cysts to rupture and cause pain, even in PCOS. I’ve seen plenty of patients with the telltale “string of pearls”, dozens of large cysts on ultrasound that rarely or never experience painful cyst breakage. Yes, it happens. But many PCOS patients go years in between episodes of painful cyst rupture. (Eye roll.)

 

[iluvmylife]

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S-J starts vlog with some neurological event that supposedly made her lose time. I don’t know, if anyone can figure out wtf she is talking about, let me know, because I sure as hell cannot. It’s like some Back to the Future shit.
.She makes lunch and waxes poetic on her deleted Instagram and liking her hot food “steamy.” (Not much this chick says and does makes any sense to me). She also discussed her BPD /general mental health and how she isn’t experiencing any symptoms so she forgets that she even has it (Sarah-Jean, THIS IS YOUR MENTAL ILLNESS MANIFESTING IN YOUR ILLNESS FIXATION). She uses a non-sensical example to drive her point home. Again, if anyone else can make sense of what she said, enlighten me please. She pleads her viewers to just go look at her Instagram.
After lunch, she films herself having an episode, saying she is experiencing palpitations and heavy breathing. Wants her Fitbit but evildad won’t answer text to bring it to her bec she doesn’t have the energy to walk up stairs. Say she doesn’t think it’s her heart but then says her BP is high or low. (?????????)
Jump cut to getting ready to go out for the night, talks forever about pants and shorts situation. She thinks she will have to cut the dress off because it’s so tight. Jump cut to morning in bed and complaining about having a hangover. She drank more than she normally does and had shots.
In a nutshell her day consisted of: losing time, eating steamy hot food, explanation of her mental health status and getting drunk. Way to go, Sarah-Jean. Keep up the good work.

 

[medicaidmunch]

There is a brisk market of businesses that want to make sure that medicaid recipients are entitled to lots of free goodies. They run commercials touting their " free" stuff that they are offering ( braces, blood glucose monitors, whatever they can sell you.

That’s actually for Medicare. The one for old people, not the one based on income (Medicaid).

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

@Kate Farms Shill I can't keep staring at your new avatar and I think it's because she looks like a mix between Garth from Waynes World and Bill from Bill and Teds excellent adventures.

Christ I was trying to figure out what it reminded me of, and it's the scene in Wayne's World when they're wearing all the Reebok branded stuff.

In other news, despite having a central line, Dani continues to live in filth. Looks like some gatorade, some kind of "juice" that's really pure sugar water, and a sugarfree monster energy drink. But she totes needs TPN.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

That doesn’t look like a diagnosis from a doctor. That looks like a sheet she made up on her own. The request to change from duloxetine to citalopram (antidepressants) is what is making me think that.

There is simply no way that sheet was prepared by any kind of medical professional, because it doesn't list doses.

 

[Cryptozoology]

Christ I was trying to figure out what it reminded me of, and it's the scene in Wayne's World when they're wearing all the Reebok branded stuff.

In other news, despite having a central line, Dani continues to live in filth. Looks like some gatorade, some kind of "juice" that's really pure sugar water, and a sugarfree monster energy drink. But she totes needs TPN.
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Looks to me like a can of Monster Ultra White. They've got the black tabs on the top like that. The juice bottle is probably Snapple lemonade, since it's shown in an earlier post.

Nothing says, "my digestive system doesn't work" and "I have dysautonomia" quite like crap loads of sugar, artificial sweeteners (which can be rough on even a normal belly) and caffeine. Her blood pressure must be all over the place.