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

[TheBigZee]

Interesting - the people I know who has had a spinal fusion (admittedly not many people, but a few) has had pain endlessly from it. Not from the thing itself, like you say that area is fixed, but from areas around it. So one guy who had part of his lumbar spine fixed ended with terrible mobility and leg issues.

I think it really comes down to what someone was dealing with before the fusions/surgeries. It's not garaunteed to reverse anything. If the surgery goes well all it can garauntee is nothing will get worse.


Someone with multisegment substantial spinal cord compression that was giving them difficulty walking, using their hands, continence issues, spacity, widespread numbness and parathesia etc. is going to have a different perspective than someone who couldn't sleep well at night because of the pain and foot drop.


Long fusions over large parts of the back are for pretty awful/debilitating problems. Almost everyone I've met with severe scoliosis, advanced rheumatoid arthritis, or congenital defects come away pretty happy with it overall. If this girl really wanted it done, or any of it was necessary she'll probably get through it ok.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

she seems to be wearing a costume rather than just being a person, and probably has shifted between various costumes in her life.

That's just women in general.

 

[FarmVille]

Spoiler alert: the child is jewish and larry david’s opera cape is trying to confirm his kiwifarms lolocaust fantasy

It’s what they’ll eventually vote for anyway

 

[Thomas Eugene Paris]

The mom who has that quirk chungus mien, flamboyant attire, the dad who is wallpaper paste and completely limp and passive.

I can picture both of them vividly based on this sentence alone.

The mom in this case is this type I recognize readily (alas) : she seems to be wearing a costume rather than just being a person, and probably has shifted between various costumes in her life. Right now it's the Super Cool Disability Mom Tradwife, at some point in the past she was probably a Tumblr girl with dangerhair and problem glasses. Many such cases et cetera.

For what it's worth, this description is screaming "CLUSTER B!!!!" to me.

 

[Free the Pedos]

I can picture both of them vividly based on this sentence alone.


For what it's worth, this description is screaming "CLUSTER B!!!!" to me.

Cluster B’s keep the lights on in this place.

 

[Jupiter Doughnuts]

A 28-year old Dutch woman Lauren is making the rounds in the news for her death by euthanasia. Daily Fail article.
I'm not a medkiwi but looking around her socials it seems likely that she munched herself to death. One doctor diagnosed her with somatic symptom disorder (see below) but she wasn't having that.

Her writing in Dutch is always very dramatic.

Looks like she went through with it and chose a John Green quote for her funeral invitation (are funeral invitations even a thing?). Found on reddit (archive). Something about choosing a John Green quote makes it so blatantly obvious that she was not mature enough to consider euthanasia. The quote is "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?" which is oddly enough not from the cancer kid book, but from a normal moody teenager book.

Spoiler: Photo of Invitation

 

[877-CASH-now]

The 'fancy' treatment for it twenty years ago was metformin, so I would expect your forecast to be right and the GLP-1s to be deployed in due course as well. The weight loss that comes with them also drives down the hormone imbalance, so double win.

Another thing about PCOS is that it tends to cluster in families, but although being a common cause of female infertility, is easily diagnosed and generally fairly easily treated. Antiandrogens as first line, then clomifene, then IVF if everything really won't happen.

So more folk with PCOS are having kids - daughters - now than they might have done before. It is probably passed on significantly more than it used to be.

PL but I'm a second generation PCOS haver - my grandma used DES (diethylstilbestrol) when pregnant with my mom, and we know that's what caused ours. It blows my mind that researchers haven't found a host of other similar endocrine disruptors but I guess that spironolactone and hormonal birth control don't make the big bucks like ozempic does.

 

[Cassandra Says]

Do we remember Dr Spark, the surgeon who helped that little Australian girl munch her way to the big ICU in the sky after horribly botching her vascular surgery for nutcracker syndrome?

He was still practicing (albeit supervised) in spite of this gross conduct. I recall our Hemingway of Munch City, @KateFarmsShill referring to accusations that he had been found guilty of defrauding the medical system by inventing a fictitious patient.

Well he faced court yesterday and got a suspended sentence.

Here’s the link

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Tricia's still alive. We left off with her hospitalized in Denver because she and her yeast colonies decided to go on a little late-season ski trip.

She got a new line on the 29th of March after her cultures came back negative a few times. It took them forever to get the thing in with all her scar tissue and then she bled for two days during which time they tried everything including keeping a sandbag on her chest. That must have been great with her "respiratory failure". She was on another round of the absolutely brutal drug amphotericin B for her yeasty friends and it fucked up her electrolytes until she was having arrhythmias.


On the 10th, she was discharged home and back to vigorously dancing and saying it totally took everything out of her.


For like 5 minutes. She's already culturing yeast again and just waiting for them to send her back. It was worth it! Oooh did someone read my posts? Or is this just the delusions of a woman who hasn't yet realized she's really not going to get better this time, who still refuses to admit she did this all for attention?


Don't worry, she's totally going to see Green Day soon!!!! I'm 50/50 on whether she dies before the concert or is hospitalized and uses it to get her followers to @ the band trying to get special treatment again.

 

[Golden Bat]

I love that she’s clearly checking here frequently or got alerts set for it. Way to prove you are a no life narcissist. She’s really tying herself in knots trying to prove it’s normal to use fucking drills and sanders but need help with anything else. I think keep talking about her, the more she tries to refute things the more she has to lie and leave a trail of munchtastic evidence

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How shitheaded do you have to think your sycophants are to say this BS? How is sanding and drilling not repetitive wrist movements? This woman is a fucking idiot. Dunning Kruger in full effect. I hope her doctors get a clue and cut this bitch off from all her substances

It looks fully edible. Then you read the caption...
suddenly realizing now, you are questioning the ability to know this individual washes her hands if it is so hard to just stir.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

It looks fully edible. Then you read the caption...

I wonder if anyone's ever tried to make beer using a munchie's yeast colonies... oh wait, you meant the rice bowl.

 

[TooManyKittens]

Apparently its my week to be befuddled by med fag stuff.

I get why antibiotic resistance happens and how it's so absolutely brutal for well, everyone.

Is yeast fast evolving enough to pull the same trick?

I guess I'm trying to figure out how Tricia is in the state of ever constant yeast infections near killing her.

I'm also probably not following the munchie trajectory well but... how the actual hell is this girl tiktok dancing? Like I get munchies fake shit and get caught all the time but.... ..all the lines, stitches and scalpels for them which seem real from photos, all the vent shit, and some of the drugs named are brutal to take.

Is it possible shes not lying about line access but is lying somehow about *why* she's in the hospital and isn't actually on all these insane antibiotics and antifungals she claims?

I'm guessing no and she's just living on borrowed time till the infections take over her body and kill her, somehow not bedridden yet.

Edit to add: iconicchronic is insane. Power tools and can't use a knife. Or a spoon. But can fancy plait her hair. Jesus what a fucking liar.

 

[Otterly]

Is yeast fast evolving enough to pull the same trick?

Yes. Yeasts and fungi also evolve drug resistance too. A lot of it is regulating things that pump drugs out of the cell (transporters) or break down drugs, or change the expression of the drug target. Multi drug resistance in fungi is a big problem. Someone earlier said she’s maybe getting the dog to lick her ports and accesses.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I wonder if anyone's ever tried to make beer using a munchie's yeast colonies... oh wait, you meant the rice bowl.

I'm thinking of sourdough starter, since she's so good at maintaining yeast. If you set out water and flour in her house, there'd be no problem at all getting a colony going.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

I'm thinking of sourdough starter, since she's so good at maintaining yeast. If you set out water and flour in her house, there'd be no problem at all getting a colony going.

I wonder if we can get some rich weirdo to pay an exorbitant amount of money for this bread?

 

[Dr. Nick Riviera]

Yes. Yeasts and fungi also evolve drug resistance too. A lot of it is regulating things that pump drugs out of the cell (transporters) or break down drugs, or change the expression of the drug target. Multi drug resistance in fungi is a big problem. Someone earlier said she’s maybe getting the dog to lick her ports and accesses.

The other problem is that once you've got yeast growing on your hardware, it is nearly impossible to get rid of. Yeast is difficult to kill for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being that a yeast cell isn't that different, structurally and biochemically speaking, than a human cell. So you've got a limited arsenal of antifungals - drugs that will kill fungus but hopefully not the individual harboring it. Tricia's not profoundly immunocompromised (despite her claims), which is in no small part why she's not dead yet, but without a sustained period of time where she doesn't have a central line, she's never going to clear the yeast.

I am still unclear as to why they're not able to treat her with peripheral IVs, unless she has absolutely destroyed her veins by now. I get that anesthesiologists are not miracle workers, but I've seen them do very impressive things with peripheral IV access in the most hardened IV drug users. And even if she loses her IV on a daily basis, is being stuck with a needle daily worse than death?

 

[Otterly]

Ban the dog, stick a peripheral line in, tape her hands to the bed rails

 

[SNU]

Is yeast fast evolving enough to pull the same trick?

It can happen fast too. If you get athletes foot and use over the counter cream but don't complete the course it'll come back resistant to whatever cream you used. A lot of people have tinea for years because they don't follow the instructions on the tube. It usually says to use it for an extra week after it looks like it's gone. You also have to clean your shower with bleach and clean/throw out anything that's touched your feet. A lot of people stop using the cream too soon and/or reinfect themselves and it keeps coming back stronger. I've seen people who end up with athletes foot in their groin and armpits because they'll keep using the same towel after a shower instead of using a fresh one each time and drying their feet last. So even minor external fungal infections can be hard to get rid of if you don't comply with treatment to the letter.

 

[Turtlebees]

Interesting - the people I know who has had a spinal fusion (admittedly not many people, but a few) has had pain endlessly from it. Not from the thing itself, like you say that area is fixed, but from areas around it. So one guy who had part of his lumbar spine fixed ended with terrible mobility and leg issues - it kind of refers outwards. If there’s no flexibility in one place others need to move more, if that makes sense? Like if you injure your foot running and end up with hip and back problems from distorted gait. If her whole spine is fused she’s going to have problems later with her hips, knees etc becasue it’ll utterly fuck up how her body moves as a whole.

Hi. I have a spinal fusion (L2-L3). It was done in my late teens for legitimate emergency reasons.

It's now many years later and I have near zero pain unless I'm cooking on the stovetop or doing a similar chore such as standing to fold laundry - the combination of standing with small, torso movements is the cause. Otherwise, I've experienced only minor limitations in the range of lower spine flexibility. My lone surgical complication was delayed return of bladder control. I competed at nationals in my sporting discipline within a year of the surgery.

While not everyone has my outcome a spinal fusion isn't always crippling. My primary worry is spinal stenosis; I have narrowing but, so far, it hasn't caused me any issues and I haven't required any sort of revision. I had one round of cortisone injections a few years ago but my pain is so minimal I decided to save them for the future in case my situation changes as I age.

I know, PL, but I wanted to share a positive story in case anyone was facing this sort of intervention. It isn't always a chop shop job for munchies or a lifelong misery. My back is, more or less, fine. Had the surgery not been done, I would be in a wheelchair today.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Yeast is difficult to kill for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being that a yeast cell isn't that different, structurally and biochemically speaking, than a human cell. So you've got a limited arsenal of antifungals - drugs that will kill fungus but hopefully not the individual harboring it.

Forgive my country bumpkin ignorance but isn't the old home remedy for a yeast infection a cream made with garlic and thyme?