[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: Top: “Hot shower for aching muscles and joints.” Bottom: “Get nauseous and faint from the heat”]

This was me last night. Thank god it was bedtime… I was gonna lie down anyways!

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Ask advice for current pain level; “Go take a walk.””]

My mom has said this to me so many times lately, and it’s infuriating. I understand that exercise might help with my RA, but I’m pretty sure that taking a walk during a brutal and exhausting flare is a bad idea? And giving the same advice for endo issues? Really?

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “New medication for blocking pain. Side Effect: Weirder dreams than Alice in Wonderland”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Pain-free during slow shift at work. Massive flair during dinner rush.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Wake up in excruciating muscle pain.  Take codeine and fall back asleep.  Wake up in excruciating stomach pain.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Need to go to appointment for condition. Can’t make it to appointment to said condition.”]

Bonus if you have to pay the cancellation fee because your body decided to throw a fit less than 24 hours before that appointment!

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “What’s that noise rattling from your bag?” “Oh, nothing. Just my life force.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “love your long hair; have to cut it because of migraines.”]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Top text reads: Take two of the same pill instead of one of each” Bottom text reads: “Well, let’s see if I live this time]

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “TOP: “Your claim has been denied. Your doctor didn’t state what his examination concluded.” BOTTOM: … I don’t know. Maybe that my lifetime illness hasn’t miraculously cured itself?”]

Because it just isn’t good enough to refer to the fact you have a chronic illness.  It has to be spelled out that the doctor diagnosed you again that day on the form to be approved.

Who knows.  My RA might have suddenly vanished!  How can they know for sure if the doctor doesn’t state AGAIN that I have it? 

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “Upside to having a chronic illness? It’s fun to organize your pill box”]

I hope I’m not the only person who legitimately finds it fun to organize a pill box. (“Upside” part was sarcasm. Obviously I find no “upside” to my Fibromyalgia.)

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “new side effect pops up. is it from the meds, or just another problem?”]

upped my dosage of depression meds just before the school year started. can’t tell if new insomnia problem is that, or stress, or just because my brain decided it didn’t have enough issues already.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat. Text reads: “Finally start feeling better. Relapse horribly.”]

I’d love to put “mild” in front of “chronic illness” but it seems my body has other plans…

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “TOP: Carl Wheezer from Jimmy Neutron BOTTOM: Is your spirit animal”]

You know it’s true.

[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat.Text reads: “FEELS GREAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WEEKS,HAVE SEX, SPEND WEEKS RECOVERING.”]