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

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Maybe I’m reading you incorrectly but there is nothing wrong with showing up to your doctor’s appointment and saying “here are my symptoms, I’m concerned that I have x.” There is everything wrong with stubbornly maintaining that you have x after the doctors have explained to you that why you don’t, but the simple act of confiding what you’re afraid you have and why you think you have it would imo be beneficial for your doctor to understand your symptoms and for you to understand your diagnosis.

WebMD, as memeable as its reputation is, can be a good resource in the case of normal people who want to know what might be going on, even if the answer ends up being nothing. The arrogant people are the ones who use it and other unreliable online resources to prove they have whatever disease they want to have. Just because some people can’t take“you’re wrong”as an answer doesn’t mean that no one should voice their concerns regarding their diagnosis.


Its a god send and a curse now everyone is a doctor, and well...its the munching hand book. "Symptoms of gastroparesis" laid out like a buffet, and what might cause it, like taking too many narcotics....it really is the bullet point guide to munching
 
Sometimes you have to advocate for your own health.

But it should be phrased as "hey I've googled this stuff, these are my symptoms and I think I have this" rather than "MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE"
They (medical professionals) dont ever wanna hear "Hey I googled this" with the amount of false information and ever evolving science they are not hearing you, best you can do is get a second opinion
 
They (medical professionals) dont ever wanna hear "Hey I googled this" with the amount of false information and ever evolving science they are not hearing you, best you can do is get a second opinion
advocacy is the stories of women asserting that the pain they're feeling is real, being told that nothing is wrong, finding a second opinion and being diagnosed with cancer. It's not going into the ER and saying "I think I have cancer."
 
They (medical professionals) dont ever wanna hear "Hey I googled this" with the amount of false information and ever evolving science they are not hearing you, best you can do is get a second opinion

It's really not that uncommon these days, so I'm usually fine with it. Smart patients will print out published studies for me to read.

Munchies are....not that smart. I'm surprised they haven't latched onto SIBO yet en masse since the test for it has such a low specificity.
 
They (medical professionals) dont ever wanna hear "Hey I googled this" with the amount of false information and ever evolving science they are not hearing you, best you can do is get a second opinion
The problem with self-diagnosing is that symptoms can be very varied and or are very different to what the professionals know. They may also be unaware of other symptoms without their supervision. To add insult to injury, it just trivializes the condition.
 
The problem with self-diagnosing is that symptoms can be very varied and or are very different to what the professionals know. They may also be unaware of other symptoms without their supervision. To add insult to injury, it just trivializes the condition.

Because they're not using the right sites. WebMD and Healthline are bad, and actually have incorrect info on them sometimes.

What you really want is UpToDate (which I think is free now) or Merck.
 
Morgan drama incoming
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Sounds like someone sick of dealing with her shit said "if you're that bad off I guess we should call APS" because there's nothing else left to say at this point. Eventually when you're dealing with these kinds of people, blowing them off and getting APS or the cops to deal with it is the way to go because you're still covering your ass as far as due diligence goes, but they don't get the coddling they are accustomed to. What I don't understand are the emergency physicians who indulge this shit beyond "you're not gonna die in the next hour, bob's your uncle, gtfo" because it's annoying enough to deal with hysterical people wasting your time in good faith.
 
What I don't understand are the emergency physicians who indulge this shit beyond "you're not gonna die in the next hour, bob's your uncle, gtfo" because it's annoying enough to deal with hysterical people wasting your time in good faith.

Because admin yells at me for that.

Honestly the munchies, hypochondriacs and drug-seekers aren't really a huge deal anyway. They take up very little of my time. The nurses hate them though, since they have to deal with them more.
 
I remember watching that Blaire White video about a ''trans blind'' person where a woman wanted to be blind so badly that she poured bleach on her eyes. Who on Earth would want to be blind?

I think there was more going on with that person than just plain munchausens. Munchies are perfectly happy to just buy a cane and dog vest from Amazon and pretend their "night blindness" makes them 100% blind if the sun isn't shining or if they enter a dimly lit room.
 
I hope kaelijae realizes she's wrecked what's left of her Twitch "career" acting like a cunt on Twitter all month when she could have been streaming. Everybody is home right now and throwing money at anything with a vagina and a webcam.


Came upon this thread and recognized her! You guys are right about Kaelijae! She's at least 40 by now and she's never been able to hold down a job her entire life. You guys are spot on about the make up, because in person she looks much less attractive and shows her age. (especially under her eyes) She looks much older in person and goes through lots of work to photoshops her social media pics to hide her imperfections.

She was friendly with an acquaintance of mine but according to him always had some sob story. How her low blood presure, sleep disorders or whatever she could think of was preventing her from doing things. Yet she never had any issues making it to starbucks or to buy a pack of cigarretes. She was just lazy and couldn't handle responsibilities. To the best of my knowledge she never experienced any health issues. She seemed perfectly healthy, at least physically.

We later found out that she had abandoned her 2 month old kid with her mother and moved to NY. She claimed to have worked as former model and fashion designer in New York, but she's either full of shit or delusional. She would play video games all day, and surf the web obsessing over something. Despite being healthy and always broke, she never even tried applying for a job. She would just manipulate people to get what she could from them until she wore out her welcome. From what I understood of her living situation back then, she was being a squater, was always broke and would break down and cry about her situation to get out of financial responsibilities.

She's a narcissist, just look up the definition and it describes her word for word. At first she charms people with what's left of her looks, but eventually people start to see through her shit. She creates a persona for herself online and some people are stupid enough to buy into it and support her financially.
 
Came upon this thread and recognized her! You guys are right about Kaelijae! She's at least 40 by now and she's never been able to hold down a job her entire life. You guys are spot on about the make up, because in person she looks much less attractive and shows her age. (especially under her eyes) She looks much older in person and goes through lots of work to photoshops her social media pics to hide her imperfections.

She was friendly with an acquaintance of mine but according to him always had some sob story. How her low blood presure, sleep disorders or whatever she could think of was preventing her from doing things. Yet she never had any issues making it to starbucks or to buy a pack of cigarretes. She was just lazy and couldn't handle responsibilities. To the best of my knowledge she never experienced any health issues. She seemed perfectly healthy, at least physically.

We later found out that she had abandoned her 2 month old kid with her mother and moved to NY. She claimed to have worked as former model and fashion designer in New York, but she's either full of shit or delusional. She would play video games all day, and surf the web obsessing over something. Despite being healthy and always broke, she never even tried applying for a job. She would just manipulate people to get what she could from them until she wore out her welcome. From what I understood of her living situation back then, she was being a squater, was always broke and would break down and cry about her situation to get out of financial responsibilities.

She's a narcissist, just look up the definition and it describes her word for word. At first she charms people with what's left of her looks, but eventually people start to see through her shit. She creates a persona for herself online and some people are stupid enough to buy into it and support her financially.
I was the only person who cared about her scam here and I got btfo'd out of this thread.. She did delete damn near everything recently (Even her steam profile) so I assume she's found some other way to exist and mooch. Or she got the coof. Her main simp (Donald losel) also dfe'd everything.

I assume if the modern world doesn't end she'll show up again.
 
I love her dopey selfies, but this kid is giving me the feels… :feels: I hope she gets better, she doesn't seem like a cunt (unlike most of the subjects here).

She's already on antipsychotics, and she got rxed the Oramorph we use for palliative care. I don't know if the Welsh NHS hands that out like candy (probably not) but there's definitely something up with her.

Unfortunately it's really hard to save munchies. The most you can usually do is harm reduction and getting a care plan together where they don't start doctor shopping. We can do tons of non-invasive procedures, and yes this is a waste of medical resources but it's better than having them get their spines chopped up.

In fact I'm not sure there has ever been a case report of someone successfully treating FDIOS.
 
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