[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Not everyone with depression has anxiety!”]

Oddly enough, it’s only doctors who seem to believe the myth that anxiety+depression always go hand in hand. “So, how is your anxiety?” I don’t have anxiety. “Okay, this new medication will help with your anxiety.” …but I don’t have anxiety. “Wow, your test scores show you’re surprisingly low on anxiety!” YOU DON’T SAY?!

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Went to the ER after a bad reaction to a nerve block BOTTOM: “Why didn’t you call your PCP first?”]

Insurance, please kiss my sickly ass. If my head explodes in blurry pain after having lidocaine injected into the base of my skull, I’m not going to wait til the normal business hours of my PCP who I see maybe once a year to make sure that it’s “something serious.”  Funny how I think calling the emergency line of the neurologist who actually DID it makes more sense, but they apparently don’t….

Every time a doctor sends me to the hospital or ER they have to question it. Knowing that these people have literally no medical background on which to base their judgments disgusts me.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Stairs and stares”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: “Finally find med that doesn’t give you panic attacks.” Bottom text reads: “ALLERGIC REACTION” ]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Top: Orthopedist tells you to see a rheumatologist, rheumatologist tells you to see an orthopedist.  Bottom: Lather, rinse, repeat”]

I wish that House hadn’t invented the “diagnostition,” because it’s getting a little old being shuffled from doctor to doctor, and never getting answers.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Not sure if shaking is because it is cold or because of medicine”]

This happened to me today (I have hand tremors as a side effect of the medicine I’m on). :)

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “painful and slow to use stairs: also get elevator anxiety]

So, you can chose between hobbling up stairs with people bumping you and being rude and hissing things at you

or take the elevator, and get a panic attack.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Stress induced IBS - anxiety is my laxative”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “CONGRATULATIONS!: *has symptoms attack*”]

you know, it’s not just ‘bad’ stressful things that trigger these attacks TT n TT (any kind of excitement or adrenaline too)

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “TURNING 18, SWITCHING TO ADULT SYSTEM. TERRIFIED.”]

I was diagnosed with Lupus just after my 15th birthday, so I’ve gotten comfortable with the pediatric system and I’ve gotten to know all my doctors/nurses really well. However, as soon as I turn 18, I have to switch into the adult care system which I’ve heard can be less than accommodating. I’m not looking forward to it.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “”What do you do?” Uhhh…”]

Anyone else sick of introducing themselves as what they used to do?

You know at parties and stuff. “I’m Bob, I golf and go to University for Cat Studies and blahblahblah.. So, what do you do?“”Well, I’m Fluffy and I used to go to University for Dramatic Arts, I used to dance and act and ride horses and sing and enjoy hiking and adventure and the great outdoors… and then I took a Fibromyalgia to the knee.”

That’s just what I’m going to say from now own. “I used to do stuff, but then I took a Fibromyalgia to the knee.”

God bless the cat who submitted that earlier post, it was hilarious!

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Too tired to sleep, Cry”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Learn sloths poop only once per week. Jealous of sloths.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Lose short term memory because of Cymbalta, can’t remember that you lost short term memory.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Cymbalta gives you short term memory loss, “I forgot to take my meds” “You can’t take your meds” “……. I forgot to take my meds.” ”]