[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Feels too cold to sleep. Clothes too irritating to sleep.”

My various chronic disorders often lead to me feeling cold, even in +100 degree weather, while I also get anxious if my clothes are too irritating, even if they’re really not all that seamed or whatever. Leads to rough nights for sure.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Don’t know if the symptoms are due to the same old illness - or a brain tumor”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Picks up key - “What is this and what do I do with it?”]

Happens all the time. My brain can’t connect the dots, and I just stand there, baffled over something as simple as a key or a remote control.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “You should be more active, that will help”]

Thanks for the advice, but I’M IN TOO MUCH PAIN TO MOVE.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “My chi is not the problem.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “90 year old woman offers to help.”]

I’m 20 with a cane. She’s 90 with a walker. This seems backwards.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “I’m not moving. You can’t make me.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Go to ER, doc asks you what meds to give”]

I’m sorry if this has been done before, but this happens every time, and it never fails to crack me up.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Tell pdoc you need a heavy duty tranq for insomnia. Gives you “mild” pill instead. Awake for days”]

Seriously I am so sick of docs not listening to me/taking me seriously. I have lived with this (and all my other illnesses/disabilities) my ENTIRE LIFE. I have not been adequately medicated for my insomnia for months now and I am seriously on the verge of a mental breakdown. If I didn’t have class tomorrow morning I would be in the ER right now. That’s the plan for tomorrow night if this continues. I just can’t deal anymore.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “See doctor to confirm what you already know, even if they can’t do anything about it.”]

long story short, i’ve been doing serious research trying to pin down all of my symptoms for the last seven or so months.  got an appointment with a rheumatologist specifically so i could get a proper diagnosis—and whaddya know, i was right.  it’s fibro.  pain meds and attempting exercise it is, then.

too bad i’m only on my parents’ insurance until i turn 26 in november and then i’m screwed for appointments and pain meds (not to mention my depression meds) until i can afford insurance on my own. :|

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Highlight of holiday to Spain with friends, strong pain killers are cheaper than at home and don’t need a prescription”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Doctor: “Because of your autoimmune disease.” “My what?””]

My allergist said this to me at my last appointment, despite the fact I’m not diagnosed with one and I’d just seen a rheum who had supposedly ruled it out. It was news to me. Now I’m being referred to an immunologist.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Immune system, what’s that?”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Get a cold, spend whole semester getting over it”]