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

[Occam's Epilady]

It's a tube holder.

Your post was very informative, so thank you for that, but I kind of can't get past the site you linked and the fact that anyone can just order these supplies online -- I'm honestly surprised we don't see more girls just straight-up cosplaying for Instagram and not even bothering with doctors. It seems like it would be a lot easier, no? And actually now that I think about it, I'm remembering @Kate Farms Shill, you said you had at one point curated a list of spoonie supplies or something, I think? Has there been a munchie who just, like, taped tubes to themselves? If so can someone please share some details so I can laugh at them?

Edit: after looking around for a bit, all I could find were some old Reddit posts about cancergirl88 and a fake PICC. I don't remember her; it looks like she DFE'd almost immediately after being called out.

Pic of "PICC:"

Post calling it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/illnessfak...owing_on_from_another_post_cancergirl88_asks/

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Your post was very informative, so thank you for that, but I kind of can't get past the site you linked and the fact that anyone can just order these supplies online -- I'm honestly surprised we don't see more girls just straight-up cosplaying for Instagram and not even bothering with doctors. It seems like it would be a lot easier, no? And actually now that I think about it, I'm remembering @Kate Farms Shill, you said you had at one point curated a list of spoonie supplies or something, I think? Has there been a munchie who just, like, taped tubes to themselves? If so can someone please share some details so I can laugh at them?

Spoiler: Why, yes, you can fake nearly every medical toy you wish to fake!

Until recently I had a fake instagram where my model and I would try to come up with ways to fake things like feeding tubes and ports. The answer is: it is entirely possible to make these things look realistic enough to pass the Instagram test just with supplies you can purchase on Amazon for a not-unreasonable amount of money, or can beg off of a friend who has leftovers from when they had cancer or something. It is also really easy to get munchies to send you free supplies if you pretend your home health shipment is fucked up and you can't do your lifesaving treatments. Craigslist is also a good place to find people giving away boxes of assorted medical junk from Grandpa.

Faking an NG is incredibly easy. Purchase NG tube, cut it so it's just resting inside the nostril, tape to cheek. It'll be uncomfortable as all hell and you probably won't be able to stand it too long but it'll look like it's inserted unless you open your mouth wide and let people see there's nothing down your throat. PEG tubes are easy. Cut to fit, tape in place, cover with tubie pad. The difficulty is getting a PEG tube to tape in the first place, which might necessitate asking someone who is due for a tube change to ask to keep the old one for whatever reason, as these girls often do. (bonus: it will be realistically gross-looking). You can easily buy gravity bags and tube formula online as well as IV poles. Pumps you can purchase but they're expensive.

Want a port but mean doctor won't give you one? Find someone who has one and does their own access, obtain access set, break needle off, stick to chest with tegaderm. PICCs are decidedly harder to fake although pretty easy to obtain the proper supplies like statlocks, just because it's more difficult to conceal where it enters the skin without raising suspicion. Never tried a hickman. Couldn't figure out how to do the "straight into the chest" thing without taping it.

The only real problem is you can't actually hook them up/show them in use because they're not actually in your body. Running a feed through the NG that's just resting in your nostril is a good way to give yourself aspiration pneumonia, though, for extra munchie points!

I'm sure a doctor could spot our fakes but no one ever called us on any of them.

edit: I should note that the feeding tubes only really worked in photos. If you flex your cheek too much it'll pop out of your nose and trust me, the itch/tickle is so irresistible that flexing your cheek is nearly impossible. The stomach ones flop around oddly if you don't tape the end of the "dangler" to your belly too and that risks that the part under the tubie pad gets pulled off when you move. The port was solid enough to survive a Disney trip with much video footage and many photos, so that's pretty legit.

All that said, I don't know anyone specifically who is faking their devices right now, but I have known quite a few who did in the past - poorly. Amanda/Ren used a bandaid to secure a "peripheral IV" to her forearm and then staged her living room to vaguely look like an ER. CancerGirl88 had a fake PICC multiple times. She would just tuck an extension set into a picc cover most of the times and not actually show where it entered the skin. I also seem to remember someone faking an NG/NJ tube by putting the jack of a pair of iPhone headphones in their nose, but fuck me if I can remember who that was.

 

[Occam's Epilady]

Spoiler: Why, yes, you can fake nearly every medical toy you wish to fake!

Until recently I had a fake instagram where my model and I would try to come up with ways to fake things like feeding tubes and ports. The answer is: it is entirely possible to make these things look realistic enough to pass the Instagram test just with supplies you can purchase on Amazon for a not-unreasonable amount of money, or can beg off of a friend who has leftovers from when they had cancer or something. It is also really easy to get munchies to send you free supplies if you pretend your home health shipment is fucked up and you can't do your lifesaving treatments. Craigslist is also a good place to find people giving away boxes of assorted medical junk from Grandpa.

Faking an NG is incredibly easy. Purchase NG tube, cut it so it's just resting inside the nostril, tape to cheek. It'll be uncomfortable as all hell and you probably won't be able to stand it too long but it'll look like it's inserted unless you open your mouth wide and let people see there's nothing down your throat. PEG tubes are easy. Cut to fit, tape in place, cover with tubie pad. The difficulty is getting a PEG tube to tape in the first place, which might necessitate asking someone who is due for a tube change to ask to keep the old one for whatever reason, as these girls often do. (bonus: it will be realistically gross-looking). You can easily buy gravity bags and tube formula online as well as IV poles. Pumps you can purchase but they're expensive.

Want a port but mean doctor won't give you one? Find someone who has one and does their own access, obtain access set, break needle off, stick to chest with tegaderm. PICCs are decidedly harder to fake although pretty easy to obtain the proper supplies like statlocks, just because it's more difficult to conceal where it enters the skin without raising suspicion. Never tried a hickman. Couldn't figure out how to do the "straight into the chest" thing without taping it.

The only real problem is you can't actually hook them up/show them in use because they're not actually in your body. Running a feed through the NG that's just resting in your nostril is a good way to give yourself aspiration pneumonia, though, for extra munchie points!

I'm sure a doctor could spot our fakes but no one ever called us on any of them.

All that said, I don't know anyone specifically who is faking their devices right now, but I have known quite a few who did in the past - poorly. Amanda/Ren used a bandaid to secure a "peripheral IV" to her forearm and then staged her living room to vaguely look like an ER. CancerGirl88 had a fake PICC multiple times. She would just tuck an extension set into a picc cover most of the times and not actually show where it entered the skin. I also seem to remember someone faking an NG/NJ tube by putting the jack of a pair of iPhone headphones in their nose, but fuck me if I can remember who that was.

I remember the headphone thing! I searched here and Reddit for it and didn't find anything, and then thought I must have dreamed it or something, so I'm glad someone else remembers it.

Edit: having spent an embarrassing amount of time searching for various permutations of "earbuds in nose," I'm wondering if we didn't both see this and just mentally file it under "munchies:"



I see the Ren stuff now that I'm looking, and it's every bit as hilarious as it sounds. Thank you for making my Monday. https://www.reddit.com/r/illnessfakers/comments/cbpg24/is_it_wrong_to_laugh/etk32qz/

Also that insta sounds like fucking gold and I think you should bring it back.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Medical suppliers in the US aren't supposed to sell things without vetting but it's not like medical logistics at the hospital are physicians or the suppliers have time to.

You can also order whatever the fuck you want from China and it's not like they give a shit. So yeah I'm surprised munchies don't go down the route of faking medical equipment.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

I remember the headphone thing! I searched here and Reddit for it and didn't find anything, and then thought I must have dreamed it or something, so I'm glad someone else remembers it.

I see the Ren stuff now that I'm looking, and it's every bit as hilarious as it sounds. Thank you for making my Monday. https://www.reddit.com/r/illnessfakers/comments/cbpg24/is_it_wrong_to_laugh/etk32qz/

Also that insta sounds like fucking gold and I think you should bring it back.

Spoiler

I would have to radically rewrite all of the captions and that's a lot of work. The reason I deactivated it in the first place was that I was claiming a rare disease that 0 of the munchie crew claim, trying to see if I could make a random thing trend. No, but I can scare the bejeezus out of newly diagnosed people who went to Instagram hoping to find typical upbeat CI shit about how life goes on after diagnosis and instead found our frankentubie.

I wish I could remember who the headphone person was. Why do I think it was a male (or a female who thought she was a male)? I just remember scrutinizing the photo forever and being like "nope that is definitely a headphone jack he stuck up his nose."

There's always the people who take home a nasal cannula set from one of those hippy oxygen bars and then pretend to be on home supplemental oxygen. Bonus points if you can tell they're not actually hooked up to anything.

Oh and Anna Johnson tried to pass off a cheap disposable nebulizer mouthpiece that wasn't hooked up to anything as a CF treatment. Nebs do not make steam, they make a vapor which would be pouring out of this mouthpiece if it was actually connected to a machine. You cannot exhale this vapor like smoke rings. And this is a SideStream mouthpiece which is super shitty and available on Amazon for a few bucks. Surprised she didn't buy an Acapella airway clearance device since they're only about $30 and legit CFers use them.

 

[Occam's Epilady]

Spoiler

I would have to radically rewrite all of the captions and that's a lot of work. The reason I deactivated it in the first place was that I was claiming a rare disease that 0 of the munchie crew claim, trying to see if I could make a random thing trend. No, but I can scare the bejeezus out of newly diagnosed people who went to Instagram hoping to find typical upbeat CI shit about how life goes on after diagnosis and instead found our frankentubie.

Oh my god everything about this is amazing. Thank you for your service. I'm here for it if you ever decide to reactivate, although I can see how you wouldn't want to rewrite everything.

In Munchie news -- have we caught up with disablednotdefeated lately?

Spoiler: Her GFM is at $30k now, Jesus

Some of the below has been posted before, but I can't remember exactly what, and I know I have screenshots that haven't been shared here. I don't think we've talked about Dying Jessi in a while so I'm going to recap from June 15, when she was "dying."


She doesn't say anything about what new answers or treatments she has received; she doesn't even explicitly say that she is doing any better. But just seven days after her "dying" post, she's up and meeting with a lawyer, summarizing his points in an extremely cogent and lengthy post that is, to say the least, much more than one would expect from someone "fading in and out of consciousness."

We do learn that at least one person is onto them.



And evidently her Medicare (edit: MedicAID) keeps getting cancelled? I don't know much about the practicalities of Medicare (dammit MedicAID) eligibility; anybody know why this would happen?



She mostly tags vague stuff like #chronicillness and #deathpositive, and doesn't tend to go into details about what she's supposedly being treated for.

The big news is that she has set up a GFM, which is currently sitting at $30,156.

Archive: http://archive.fo/3PZzR

Spoiler: GFM screenshots

It doesn't look like the archive is grabbing the GFM updates correctly, so I'm putting them here just in case

She's posted a bunch of dramatic stuff about her "mind and body failing," and how she's not sure she'll ever see her friends again . . . interspersed with lengthy explications on service dog training that would be far beyond the writing capabilities of someone as incapacitated as she claims to be.

July 11: desperately doctor-shopping for someone to validate her "conditions."


She eventually enters whatever clinic in Kansas she decided on, and goes inpatient there. Seems to be a huge win for her, as they seem extremely willing to validate her delusions.


August 29: Jessi is somehow back in California and would like you to know that body weight has absolutely no relation to malnutrition thankyouverymuch. Please note that they've actually put her on TPN!?!?? Wtfffffff



She was supposed to be discharged, but her frail body could not survive without intravenous nutrition for even one day.


Totally dying, you guys.



And here's the post that prompted me to catch everyone up on Jessi. She describes her low-dose methotrexate, a common medication that's used for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, as "chemo." This is the one thing that unfailingly gets me mad on the internet. Methotrexate in HIGH doses is toxic enough to be used as chemotherapy. Methotrexate in low doses is fucking child's play. As someone who sometimes interacts with a patient population treated with low-dose methotrexate, and who has had loved ones get ACTUAL chemo, I can tell you the two treatments have a WORLD of difference between them and I will never not call out this "chemo" bullshit from Munchies.



And then, five days ago, an extremely dramatic post about how she'll need infusions every eight weeks. Oh the horror. This is totally not something that thousands of people do without even discussing it, nope.


I had originally refrained from really posting about Jessi because I felt for her a bit -- if you go back to her earliest posts where she's tagging ptsd and anxiety, it's clear that she has some real mental health issues, and I thought she probably really bought into her own illness delusions. But scamming well meaning donors out of money so she can doctor shop around the country and claim she's doing "chemo?" Nuh-uh.

Edit: oh what the actual fuck, look at her goddamn fucking hashtags with all those "chemo hair loss" ones. Give me my fucking top hats, this is pissing me off.

 

[c6h1206]

is it accurate to call yourself an FT wheelchair user if you can and do walk? Where's the distinction between FT and PT ?

I don't know what occurred but this person is a self-reported FT wheelchair user from a spinal cord injury. I don't know what occurred but to the best of my knowledge they were already looking at part-time use they had some kind of back problem (I don't think they stated anymore than back problem) some kind of surgical intervention was performed and then following the intervention and then after that they were all of a sudden in a wheelchair.

I know this person snarked on a specialist for asking clarification about swimming and "how does that work." Isn't it kind of telling that a specialist would also find this confusing.

to be clear the person stated they swim for exercise as they were specifically asked, they stated that they swam. the rheumatologist asked "how does that work." not sure if she literally said this but her snark answer is "I walk into the pool."

Also, the person only ever says "spinal cord injury" in response to what happened. the previous stuff about a surgery seems to have been scrubbed from the internet.

the person is aware that they have been accused of being a muchie. not sure if she seemingly feigned ignorance on purpose bc when she described it she said that she was accused of having hospital addiction, and her response was she hates hospitals. (and it predated this wheelchair thing)

I think she knows people think there is something janky about the situation. maybe there is nothing janky but any insights welcome.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I don't know what occurred but this person is a self-reported FT wheelchair user from a spinal cord injury. I don't know what occurred but to the best of my knowledge they were already looking at part-time use they had some kind of back problem (I don't think they stated anymore than back problem) some kind of surgical intervention was performed and then following the intervention and then after that they were all of a sudden in a wheelchair.

Intermittent wheelchair use is not recognized as an impairment condition. Orthos can certainly fuck up your spine though. They're more conservative about this these days.

Medicolegal context?

 

[Johnny-Elaine]

is it accurate to call yourself an FT wheelchair user if you can and do walk? Where's the distinction between FT and PT ?

I don't know what occurred but this person is a self-reported FT wheelchair user from a spinal cord injury. I don't know what occurred but to the best of my knowledge they were already looking at part-time use they had some kind of back problem (I don't think they stated anymore than back problem) some kind of surgical intervention was performed and then following the intervention and then after that they were all of a sudden in a wheelchair.

I know this person snarked on a specialist for asking clarification about swimming and "how does that work." Isn't it kind of telling that a specialist would also find this confusing.

to be clear the person stated they swim for exercise as they were specifically asked, they stated that they swam. the rheumatologist asked "how does that work." not sure if she literally said this but her snark answer is "I walk into the pool."

Also, the person only ever says "spinal cord injury" in response to what happened. the previous stuff about a surgery seems to have been scrubbed from the internet.

the person is aware that they have been accused of being a muchie. not sure if she seemingly feigned ignorance on purpose bc when she described it she said that she was accused of having hospital addiction, and her response was she hates hospitals. (and it predated this wheelchair thing)

I think she knows people think there is something janky about the situation. maybe there is nothing janky but any insights welcome.

I *think* most people who use a wheelchair in their average day to day life would be classed full time users, as even full time users can often walk a bit if needed. Whereas part time users would be more people who use their chair occasionally i.e: day trips, when they are going far, for tiredness etc.
But its all self expression stuff I think, so you can sort of just call yourself whatever you wanted to

 

[Sooper Speshul Southerner]

But its all self expression stuff I think, so you can sort of just call yourself whatever you wanted to

So wheelchair munchies are like the gender specials of the speshul tools world?

 

[c6h1206]

Intermittent wheelchair use is not recognized as an impairment condition. Orthos can certainly fuck up your spine though. They're more conservative about this these days.

Medicolegal context?

I posted it before because someone brought up someone who had gradually gone deaf and was diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy with no preexisting disease that typically causes neuropathy. (actually, when she told the story of the diagnosis she said the neurologist said it might be bc she wore jeans that were too tight. (actually she may have outright stated the doctor said it was from wearing jeans that are too tight) it is hard to know how to interpret that story because there was not affect included.)

below is exactly what I left out some details. as I recall she stated that the back problem was a result of cheerleading. don't know cheerleading terminology but she was like a flyer. this probably isn't significant but she is 4'11 or something.
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Jessica Kellgren-Fozard has it


As well as Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder. And she's deaf. And blind in one eye after a lumbar puncture gone bad.

And yet, she still works and has a life outside of her health.
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I know someone who had a similar situation they developed peripheral neuropathy bad enough to require treatment with lyrica. She also gradually went deaf. I know she had tubes placed as a kid and had chronic ear infections. I don't exactly think she is a Munchie but she just out of the blue is in a wheelchair. I guess she had spinal surgery for a specific condition and now she states she has a traumatic spine injury but she tends to be cagey with the details of what happened but really wanting to shout it from the rooftop that she is in a wheelchair. She is a part-time user, She was very critical of a doctor (for some reason I think it was a rheumatologist) asking her to clarify "how does that work" in response to her stating she swims for exercise. her response was that he walks into the pool and swims. considering as I understand it she uses the chair bc it lessens her pain and a rheumatologist seemingly was unclear that she could walk I somehow think the practice of part-time wheelchair use is not widely accepted as therapeutically appropriate. came into contact with her bc she was desperately trying to get a diagnosis of diabetes and walk-in clinics and her primary were declining to give one. this went on for years. before going to a doctor she went to Walmart and bought strips and a meter. She saw high #'s but none of the actual lab draws met the cut-offs. she eventually for an official dx of T1. it all just seemed odd to me. also she was originally on disability for the sole reason that she was deaf. but she is not deaf enough to get CI paid for by the government.

also, she is actively trying to conceive but is just trying to conceive with a random that she sleeps with. she can't find someone who will agree to try and impregnate her (I don't mean this as a dig but I find that quite understandable.)

this is the insta link https://www.instagram.com/missaliciamag/?hl=en. It is private but was not private anytime in the past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeD...Rg_murK8H6SmeogJBfaZzIPAU-f95f3eecfYwk4KpAaNQ

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

Oh my god everything about this is amazing. Thank you for your service. I'm here for it if you ever decide to reactivate, although I can see how you wouldn't want to rewrite everything.

In Munchie news -- have we caught up with disablednotdefeated lately?

Spoiler: Her GFM is at $30k now, Jesus

Some of the below has been posted before, but can't remember exactly what, and I know I have screenshots that haven't been shared here. I don't think we've talked about Dying Jessi in a while so I'm going to recap from June 15, when she was "dying."

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She doesn't say anything about what new answers or treatments she has received; she doesn't even explicitly say that she is doing any better. But just seven days after her "dying" post, she's up and meeting with a lawyer, summarizing his points in an extremely cogent and lengthy post that is, to say the least, much more than one would expect from someone "fading in and out of consciousness."
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We do learn that at least one person is onto them.

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And evidently her medicare keeps getting cancelled? I don't know much about the practicalities of Medicare eligibility; anybody know why this would happen?

View attachment 954064

She mostly tags vague stuff like #chronicillness and #deathpositive, and doesn't tend to go into details about what she's supposedly being treated for. View attachment 954077

The big news is that she has set up a GFM, which is currently sitting at $30,156.
View attachment 954043
Archive: http://archive.fo/3PZzR

Spoiler: GFM screenshots

It doesn't look like the archive is grabbing the GFM updates correctly, so I'm putting them here just in case

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She's posted a bunch of dramatic stuff about her "mind and body failing," and how she's not sure she'll ever see her friends again . . . interspersed with lengthy explications on service dog training that would be far beyond the writing capabilities of someone as incapacitated as she claims to be.

July 11: desperately doctor-shopping for someone to validate her "conditions."
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She eventually enters whatever clinic in Kansas she decided on, and goes inpatient there. Seems to be a huge win for her, as they seem extremely willing to validate her delusions.
View attachment 954085View attachment 954086

August 29: Jessi is somehow back in California and would like you to know that body weight has absolutely no relation to malnutrition thankyouverymuch. Please note that they've actually put her on TPN!‽?? Wtfffffff

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She was supposed to be discharged, but her frail body could not survive without intravenous nutrition for even one day.

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Totally dying, you guys.

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And here's the post that prompted me to catch everyone up on Jessi. She describes her low-dose methotrexate, a common medication that's used for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, as "chemo." This is the one thing that unfailingly gets me mad on the internet. Methotrexate in HIGH doses is toxic enough to be used as chemotherapy. Methotrexate in low doses is fucking child's play. As someone who sometimes interacts with a patient population treated with low-dose methotrexate, and who has had loved ones get ACTUAL chemo, I can tell you the two treatments have a WORLD of difference between them and I will never not call out this "chemo" bullshit from Munchies.

View attachment 954095

And then, five days ago, an extremely dramatic post about how she'll need infusions every eight weeks. Oh the horror. This is totally not something that thousands of people do without even discussing it, nope.

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I had originally refrained from really posting about Jessi because I felt for her a bit -- if you go back to her earliest posts where she's tagging ptsd and anxiety, it's clear that she has some real mental health issues, and I thought she probably really bought into her own illness delusions. But scamming well meaning donors out of money so she can doctor shop around the country and claim she's doing "chemo?" Nuh-uh.

Edit: oh what the actual fuck, look at her goddamn fucking hashtags with all those "chemo hair loss" ones. Give me my fucking top hats, this is pissing me off.

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Lol describing Methotrexate as Chemo, I guess technically true but obviously worlds apart from actual chemo treatment. It's not even the strongest arthritis medication, it's just the most popular one. They use it for ectopic pregnancies as well. You can experience hair loss with Methotrexate but its not to the extent that you would with actual chemo. It's really only noticeable if you have very fine hair in the first place and even then you wouldn't get actual clumps falling out, it's more excessive shedding

 

[c6h1206]

Lol describing Methotrexate as Chemo, I guess technically true but obviously worlds apart from actual chemo treatment. It's not even the strongest arthritis medication, it's just the most popular one. They use it for ectopic pregnancies as well. You can experience hair loss with Methotrexate but its not to the extent that you would with actual chemo. It's really only noticeable if you have very fine hair in the first place and even then you wouldn't get actual clumps falling out, it's more excessive shedding

I think where I live they just call it cytotoxic. I don't think they ever tell patients it has any relationship to chemo and I think that is deliberate.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

I think where I live they just call it cytotoxic. I don't think they ever tell patients it has any relationship to chemo and I think that is deliberate.

Yeah it's the same where I live. They tell you it's cytotoxic and recommend birth control, they don't really mention any other side effects or what can happen if you do get pregnant while taking it. TBH I think it's a good way to go about it. We're all here reading about girls who know just enough about medicine and treatments to be dangerous.

I'd much rather be told'take this if it doesn't work in two weeks come back and we'll try something else' maybe with a 'oh yeah, this medicine makes you feel really hungry but try not raid the fridge in the middle of the night' (literally what my doc said to me when I had to take a course of prednisone)

 

[Redandvino]

Don’t know if y’all have Netflix, but the new series The Politician (with Ben Platt) has a case of MBP. I’m only on the 2nd episode but that’s clearly where it’s going. It’s quite interesting as it’s not a parent who’s doing it, rather a grandparent as the parents aren’t in the picture

 

[KingQueen]

Oh my god everything about this is amazing. Thank you for your service. I'm here for it if you ever decide to reactivate, although I can see how you wouldn't want to rewrite everything.

In Munchie news -- have we caught up with disablednotdefeated lately?

Spoiler: Her GFM is at $30k now, Jesus

Some of the below has been posted before, but I can't remember exactly what, and I know I have screenshots that haven't been shared here. I don't think we've talked about Dying Jessi in a while so I'm going to recap from June 15, when she was "dying."

View attachment 954046View attachment 954042
She doesn't say anything about what new answers or treatments she has received; she doesn't even explicitly say that she is doing any better. But just seven days after her "dying" post, she's up and meeting with a lawyer, summarizing his points in an extremely cogent and lengthy post that is, to say the least, much more than one would expect from someone "fading in and out of consciousness."
View attachment 954048
We do learn that at least one person is onto them.

View attachment 954052

And evidently her medicare keeps getting cancelled? I don't know much about the practicalities of Medicare eligibility; anybody know why this would happen?

View attachment 954064

She mostly tags vague stuff like #chronicillness and #deathpositive, and doesn't tend to go into details about what she's supposedly being treated for. View attachment 954077

The big news is that she has set up a GFM, which is currently sitting at $30,156.
View attachment 954043
Archive: http://archive.fo/3PZzR

Spoiler: GFM screenshots

It doesn't look like the archive is grabbing the GFM updates correctly, so I'm putting them here just in case

View attachment 954177View attachment 954178View attachment 954179View attachment 954180View attachment 954181View attachment 954187View attachment 954189View attachment 954191

She's posted a bunch of dramatic stuff about her "mind and body failing," and how she's not sure she'll ever see her friends again . . . interspersed with lengthy explications on service dog training that would be far beyond the writing capabilities of someone as incapacitated as she claims to be.

July 11: desperately doctor-shopping for someone to validate her "conditions."
View attachment 954079View attachment 954080

She eventually enters whatever clinic in Kansas she decided on, and goes inpatient there. Seems to be a huge win for her, as they seem extremely willing to validate her delusions.
View attachment 954085View attachment 954086

August 29: Jessi is somehow back in California and would like you to know that body weight has absolutely no relation to malnutrition thankyouverymuch. Please note that they've actually put her on TPN!‽?? Wtfffffff

View attachment 954081View attachment 954082

She was supposed to be discharged, but her frail body could not survive without intravenous nutrition for even one day.

View attachment 954089
Totally dying, you guys.

View attachment 954090

And here's the post that prompted me to catch everyone up on Jessi. She describes her low-dose methotrexate, a common medication that's used for psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis, as "chemo." This is the one thing that unfailingly gets me mad on the internet. Methotrexate in HIGH doses is toxic enough to be used as chemotherapy. Methotrexate in low doses is fucking child's play. As someone who sometimes interacts with a patient population treated with low-dose methotrexate, and who has had loved ones get ACTUAL chemo, I can tell you the two treatments have a WORLD of difference between them and I will never not call out this "chemo" bullshit from Munchies.

View attachment 954095

And then, five days ago, an extremely dramatic post about how she'll need infusions every eight weeks. Oh the horror. This is totally not something that thousands of people do without even discussing it, nope.

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I had originally refrained from really posting about Jessi because I felt for her a bit -- if you go back to her earliest posts where she's tagging ptsd and anxiety, it's clear that she has some real mental health issues, and I thought she probably really bought into her own illness delusions. But scamming well meaning donors out of money so she can doctor shop around the country and claim she's doing "chemo?" Nuh-uh.

Edit: oh what the actual fuck, look at her goddamn fucking hashtags with all those "chemo hair loss" ones. Give me my fucking top hats, this is pissing me off.

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What does she claim the methotrexate supposedly for, RA?

It's easy to make yourself sick on methotrexate if you're munching for new symptoms. It is generally prescribed with Vit D and Folate to mitigate the side effects, so it would be simple to just skip those.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Don’t know if y’all have Netflix, but the new series The Politician (with Ben Platt) has a case of MBP. I’m only on the 2nd episode but that’s clearly where it’s going. It’s quite interesting as it’s not a parent who’s doing it, rather a grandparent as the parents aren’t in the picture

LOL Heather Poole DMd me to tell me about that show.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

What does she claim the methotrexate supposedly for, RA?

It's easy to make yourself sick on methotrexate if you're munching for new symptoms. It is generally prescribed with Vit D and Folate to mitigate the side effects, so it would be simple to just skip those.

I mean if you're going for osteoporosis yeah, it wouldn't really effect anything else. They're prescribed with calcium to patients on Methotrexate because it reduces your ability to absorb calcium.

 

[medicaidmunch]

And evidently her medicare keeps getting cancelled? I don't know much about the practicalities of Medicare eligibility; anybody know why this would happen?

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So she’s on Medicaid, not Medicare. Medicare is for people on SSDI/older than 65. Medicaid is based on income/need. Yes it’s possible to lose it at pretty much any moment because they will cut you off for not turning in paperwork on time. But 8 times in 90 days is a lot so I’d say she’s exaggerating especially because you can appeal the decision and, in the meantime, they reinstate your insurance.

 

[Occam's Epilady]

So she’s on Medicaid, not Medicare. Medicare is for people on SSDI/older than 65. Medicaid is based on income/need. Yes it’s possible to lose it at pretty much any moment because they will cut you off for not turning in paperwork on time. But 8 times in 90 days is a lot so I’d say she’s exaggerating especially because you can appeal the decision and, in the meantime, they reinstate your insurance.

I could swear that she said Medicare, because I remember thinking that that didn't make sense. But nope, it's Medicaid right there in my own screenshot. Whoops. I think I was distracted by trying to figure out how insurance could be active for only a few days at a time.