Name: Porochista Khakpour
Born: 17 January 1978
Address: moves every few weeks but currently in brooklyn
Claims: late-stage lyme; EDS, POTS, MCAS; chronic inflammatory response syndrome (aka mold toxicity), craniocervical instability, tethered cord, osteopenia, dysphagia (undiagnosed but mentions not being able to swallow all the time and since all her problems are in her head...), TBI, IBS, malabsorption, a hiatal hernia, multiple chemical sensitivity, fibromyalgia, valley fever, PTSD, OCD, biotoxin illness, reactive hypoglycemia, MARCoNS (Multiple Antibiotic-Resistant Coagulase Negative Staphylococci); fishing for Sjøgrens and/or antiphospholipid syndrome (alternately claims she has been diagnosed with or she “highly suspects” it is APA) and Addison’s.
Porochista Khakpour is a 41 year old compulsive liar and GFM scammer who lives a very comfortable lifestyle funded by people she tricks into believing she is gravely ill, on the verge of death. She was born in Tehran, Iran and witnessed the Iranian Revolution and subsequent Iraq-Iran war before fleeing the country with her family at age 5. Her family settled in South Pasedena, California where she was raised in a tiny shitty apartment.
Khakpour claims to have been sick since she was a youngster and to have become much worse while living in Pasedena, leading her to have fainting spells and hand tremors, which sound a lot like anxiety caused by living through a fucking violent fundamentalist theocratic revolution wherein women went from having rights to being property of men and unable to even leave their house without a dumb costume covering every inch of them, then a bloody terrifying war, then moving to a new country as a child. She admits to having PTSD from the experience, as is to be expected when your childhood is watching people die and not knowing if the parked car next to you is rigged to explode. However, this is, according to her, not the real source of her problems and rejects any suggestion that she might be a lil’ psychosomatic.
She attended Sarah Lawrence College for her BA and Johns Hopkins for her MA. While in school, she did an ass-ton of drugs, especially cocaine, and fucked anything that moved. She admits living off of “coffee, cigarettes, and bagels,” clearly a well-balanced diet that would not at all make a person feel like shit on toast. One night she landed in the emergency room after smoking a joint laced with something or other, and the ER nurses ask if she’s been sick because her vitals are off. Rather than realize that doing anass-ton of drugs, eating a shit diet, not sleeping, and fucking everyone she meets is not good for your body, Porochista latched onto this and decided to get to the bottom of her health problems once and for all.
Now here’s the part where I admit I have never read and likely will never read her masturbatory memoir, but from what I gather through Professor Google, she traveled all over the country trying to get a diagnosis. Her complaints included insomnia, pain, nausea, unexplained fevers, neuropathy, and other likely psychiatric symptoms. She essentially gives away that she was just a drug seeker at first, realizing that claiming a random illness would get her access to all sorts of fun controlled substances in this innocent pre-Opiate Crisis world. And access she got! Whenever she would get bored of being addicted to one drug, she’d shop around and get addicted to a new one. She was particularly fond of Xanax and gabapentin.
Despite this (or perhaps because of it) she became a successful and well-connected novelist who won awards and shit.
In 2012, she got diagnosed with late-stage lyme with an IGeneX battery. IGeneX misuses already ridiculously unreliable tests like the Western Blot, which the CDC explicitly advises against using to diagnose lyme disease without further testing because it is extremely likely to give false positives. They furthermore interpret these tests extremely liberally, such that nearly anyone who gets this test will be told they have lyme disease. Since other meanie poo poo head doctors had ignored her when she asked if she suffered from a made-up disease that isn’t real, she believes that she was the victim of medical racism and sexism and that a white man would not have been treated this way or whatever.
She likes to cry racism and sexism whenever she doesn’t get what she wants. Just in case you didn’t guess that.
She has no idea when she got lyme, didn't have a tick bite or rash she could pinpoint, but has narrowed it down to around 2006. Except when she needs to cry at you, then she claims she had it since she was a child. Every once in a while she claims to pick up a new, more terrible strain of lyme, right when she's about to be healed finally.
In 2018, she wrote her memoir,
Sick, where she details her life of addiction, misdiagnosis, and finally the magical lyme dx that changed everything. The fact that she's a
fiction writer didn't seem to factor into people's opinion of this book. Rather than suggesting she maybe dramatized or outright fabricated some things, the reviews praised her for raw honesty. Flashbacks to
A Million Little Pieces anyone? Except no one's going to call an allegedly "queer" opportunistically muzzie refugee pee-oh-cee disabled woman of making shit up because something something woke points.
In her journey she has opened multiple GoFundMe accounts, raking in close to $80,000 by claiming to be poor and unable to live. Despite this, she lives in New York City, where she moved recently after the place she had been living before proved unsuitable. See, with her terrible mold sensitivity she moved to the desert where she would not contact spores. This proved “too cold and dry” for Poor Old Chista, so she complained about mold there, too, then moved to fucking New York, which is way colder than Santa Fe or Marin County where she moved temporarily after Santa Fe, and which is full of decaying 100+ year old buildings full of mold, dust, mice, rats, and cockroaches and their assorted bodily wastes and all sorts of fun shit that could cause serious problems to someone who is actually sensitive to anything. She basically made her followers on social media find her a place to live, begging them to send her recommendations for “safe” houses that had low mold scores (but ultimately said the mold score didn’t really matter, she just wanted a place to live. Exactly what someone who was actually dying would do.) She constantly pimps out her GFM accounts, mooches off of people, symptom shops, and begs for rides places because trains/buses/taxis/uber are too dangerous for this fragile princess.
She moves around the country constantly, staying somewhere for a few weeks and swearing this, THIS city is her healing place. Her demanding, mooching, attention-seeking behavior means she quickly overstays her welcome and starts posting statuses about how she’s about to be homeless!!!! if her followers don’t help her find a large, mold-free (and tested!), apartment in her price range in some of the most expensive cities in the US and also pimps out the old GFM to pay for this place. And she needs a ride there. She moved from temp home to temp home fourteen goddamned times in 2018 alone.
So about that "queer" claim... She likes to say she's “queer” but she hasn’t ever dated a woman and only uses this identity to get more attention and oppression olympic points. Some pearl clutchers on IF said that it was unfair to mention this because she might have just not met another “queer” woman when she was in her fuck-anything-that-moves phase. Despite that she went to
Sarah fucking Lawrence. She also enjoys her status as one of Allah’s Chosen People when it suits her, ending posts where she’s pretending to be hopeful/acting like she’s actually going to help herself out of a situation she’s gotten her dumb ass into with “inshallah!” while other times admitting she doesn’t follow the religion at all/being openly critical of a batshit religion that made her family flee their homeland in terror.
Oh, and she suicide baits, including saying she considered intentional heroin overdose to end her pain or whatever.
Her twitter and insta are private and I can only go by what IF posted/what people send me (if you have access please post receipts as the IF crew are so worried about looking good themselves that they likely skip over all the good stuff.) Her facebook is public but far less active. She still goes from doctor to doctor trying to be healed from this terrible affliction (but only if other people pay for it.) She’s recently claimed to desperately need another 15-20k to be treated in Utah. Or Switzerland. She’s not fussy. Except she is.
Her followers are batshit insane and constantly suggesting new diseases she should have her doctor look into and trying to get her to try Kambo, which is some kind of frog poison that induces intense vomiting. This is not a pill you take, by the way. They burn a hole in your flesh, put the frog poison into the wound, and then you puke your guts up. Oh, and the only way to collect this miracle nectar is to torture the frogs, usually by tying them to sticks with their legs splayed out into a painful unnatural position, and then smashing them into things or holding them near a fire until they panic and secrete it.
Her preferred treatments are ridiculous antibiotics doses, opiates, bee venom, and ozone.
Some receipts, in reverse chrono because I don’t actually follow this annoying twat and am just scrolling her facebook for the first time:
Fishing for a new dx
Moved to NY after whining forever, needs a caretaker until she can recover from the trauma. Never too sick to do whatever she wants to do.
Self-diagnosed MCAS before getting a quack to confirm it. Her self-dx was based on the fact that benadryl works for her allergic reactions. Which are likely anxiety attacks, and benadryl calms her because it’s a sedative.
Crowd sourcing what pain killers she should ask her doctors for and how to act when she does it.
Shitting herself skinny; dairy triggers her lyme; complaining about the cost of woo.
Kate Farms sighting! But PK is far too delicate for God’s Most Perfect Liquid. Fucking blasphemer.
Also Fairuza Balk popped in to pray for Porochista's poop chute, because why not?
And she's harassing Neil Gaiman
Always grifting.
Never updates what this was all about, probably because there was nothing wrong
“...give an ailing cripple a ride to her neurosurgeon.” Girl lay it on a little thicker next time.
“has anyone ever been dehydrated when they don’t drink water and shit their brains out all day because they annihilated their gut flora with unnecessary abx?” Fishing for Sjøgrens.
TBI.
“I want this cheap, but I don’t want to wait for it.”
“I don’t like being here, take me out somewhere and bring snacks that fit my highly specific diet because I am starving myself and making myself shit my brains out with weird supplements and antibiotic overdoses in order to get attention, asspats, and GFM bux.”
Who would have thought that one of the most notoriously expensive areas of the country where a 350 square foot studio goes for thousands would not be the best place for a whiney unemployed leech with high standards?
Fishing for Sjøgrens. Quack treats her for common bacteria that only causes complications in people who have cystic fibrosis or are immunocompromised
Literally every post is begging for something or complaining about her current living situation.
Faking sick is expensive wahhh
Homeless again, naturally.
“anyone want to cart my broke ass around all the time and be at my beck and call? I'll never be grateful and I'll always whine about how much worse my situation is than anyone else's and ask for money.”
Can you watch my dog? I’ll pay a little but really, he’s such a joy you should do it for free!
Found a nice excuse not to visit the folks
“I’m not asking for much! I just need a place to stay that you have tested for mold and chemicals and which meets my standards.”
complaining about the price of doctor shopping and actively seeking new diagnoses.
Claims to have been dx'd APA. Later claims the test is conflicting and it might be Sjøgrens
Lol, even this batshit crazy leech thinks Medical Medium’s ghost diet is dumb
Took a positively stupid amount of antibiotics, gave myself a yeast infection, plz halp.
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