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🤝 Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention
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This whole piece is horribly written with numerous mistakes and filled self-contradictions, you don't hate journalists enough.
>Man who hasn't slept for TWO YEARS
>it’s not merely poor sleep, it’s the virtual obliteration of sleep,’ he says
>But nothing works. Occasionally I sleep for an hour a night but I still feel wired. Not tired at all.’
I agree with unwieldy_object, he is getting some sleep and has definitely been told so by the numerous specialist he's seen, but they’re just not giving him the
He has taken this journalist for a ride with his lies. Taking Xanax, diazepam, zopiclone, and melatonin every night, hmmm sounds like somone one just really loves their benzos. Opioids just magically have no effect on him?? hmm. What doctor is prescribing opioids as a sleep aid in absence of pain or medical supervision??
Also, one big thing I noticed was, no mention of a girlfriend, wife or partner, something here is missing, like he wasn't ugly before this "condition" + he's rich, so he just had a 4-bedroom home for nothing at 30??
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NAD, but I've literally never heard Topiramate described as a painkiller, just a preventative medication for things like migraines (as you mentioned.) Medfags please weigh in though- maybe I'm totally wrong and it is classified as a painkiller, idk. But this screams "grasping as straws for an excuse to hide my ED" and she happened to look up her past meds, noticed one had the side effect of deminished appetite, and rolled with it. But as you mentioned (once again) that side effect is hardly severe. Pretty sure things like stimulants suppress appetite WAY more.
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Topiramite is also used for seizure prevention as well. But paired with phentermine, it is the weight loss drug (it’s a pill or pills if generic) qysimia.
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That makes sense!! Thanks for the clarification. Still doesn't sound like it's classified as a painkiller in either of those cases though, right?
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Yeah, I’ve never heard of it classified as a pain killer officially. But that doesn’t mean it’s not being prescribed off label for it.
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I have seen it used for cluster migraines as an acute treatment, that might be where it's coming from. Have migraine pain, take Topiramate, pain goes away, ergo its a painkiller.
Either she got the wrong end of the stick, she was cagey with the reporter because she had something to hide, or the journo doesn't know anything about medicine. All are plausible.
Either she got the wrong end of the stick, she was cagey with the reporter because she had something to hide, or the journo doesn't know anything about medicine. All are plausible.
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Coincidentally Topiramate is also used to treat PTSD.
Some times a doctor truly discovers a zebra and then starts looking for zebras. I think this can have an effect on patients.
I have heard of providers that routinely suggest patients have celiac disease during the consult and orders a small intestinal biopsy along with upper and lower scopes looking for basic indigestion issues (and sometime first time screening colonoscopies).
Key symptoms- low to deficient B12 - common in Americans, and low to deficient iron - common in women.
They rarely finds celiac disease but many of the patients walk away thinking their bubbly guts are due to their dietary intolerances because the provider suggested this biopsy.
They go gluten free and make their existing deficiencies worse, they feel worse, they have less energy because they are now skipping carbs. Their stomach feels like shit because they are loading up on unnecessary OTC vitamins they’re just pissing out. Oh and now they have a new symptom, their urine is dark and smells bad. A person with health anxiety, or a true munchie can spin out of control like this.
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Feels to me like POTS in particular is being framed as a “chronic condition” when it’s quite often just a symptom that can be easily addressed.
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Do you think it's people over interpreting that thing that happens when you stand up too fast sometimes? I've oft wondered that. Because it's something that can come and go. Periods of time where it happens every time a person stands but then not be happening for long periods too.
I actually seen someone on reddit (I know, I know) claim that their wife has been left permanently disabled by POTS due to the NHS being negligent and not diagnosing her. By the sounds of it the woman "can't work" even though "she wants to". You want to tell the bloke he's being taken for a ride but if he's so deep in he's on a thread about the NHS being shit going to bat for her that he's too far gone.
Good on the NHS for not pandering to her though. Proud of them for that.
Reddit is crawling with it though, you see it everywhere. I'm not on any health related subreddits but in all kinds of unrelated shit you see at least some part of the munchie trifuckta getting mentioned - and they can't all be on the munch. I know reddit is bursting with snowflakes though and it's a skewed sample of people. Maybe it's just that.
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Yep. It doesn't even have to be a symptom of an underlying illness. Depending on the specific type of POTS, it can be caused by something as simple as a medication dose being too high. This is pretty common in elderly people and people who've lost substantial amounts of weight and whose regular medication doses haven't been adjusted.
Postural hypotension (with and without tachycardia) can be caused by a lot of very simple things and isn't generally an issue unless it's persistent or the person experiencing it is already a fall risk. It's unpleasant, but even when it's persistent it's often very simple to manage. While it can be a symptom of something serious, most often it's not.
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There's every reason in the world to think it's just deconditioning.
So many munchies are like "I bet it's from COVID," and I'm thinking "You mean that period where a huge amount of people sat on their asses all day and patted themselves on the back from eating butter-dipped DoorDash three meals a day?"
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I've noticed that the COVID nutters or the long COVID truthers are the same people that are seemingly allergic to responsibility and would rather die than ever admit fault for anything wrong in their lives. It's way easier for these stunted freaks to blame XYZ, a random factor outside of their control, than it is for them to admit that they may have purposefully done something that causes poor health. It's like when someone that smokes a pack of cigarettes a day blames local air quality for their recurrent cough.
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I was acquainted with this woman who was always “sick” for some reason or other. I asked her fiancée directly what was wrong with her and he couldn’t tell me. He said she went to hospitals and no one could give her answers, poor her.
In my mind, I was thinking “definitely a munchie.”
Then, munchie gets pregnant and they have a baby. Immediately, her ailments seem to vanish and transfer instead to her baby. There’s always “something” wrong with the kid. She took him to the town hospital and was told he was fine, so that upset her and she took him to a bigger hospital an hour or so away. They were willing to waste their time and so did an MRI and brain scans and all sorts of other testing only to tell her “we don’t know what’s wrong” (Her words).
Years later, I still see a post every couple months on facebook saying “So and so at the hospital again. Doing an MRI. Pray for my baby.” Only she takes him to bigger and bigger hospitals each time.
Question for the thread: at what point is it appropriate to call CPS in a situation like this? Is it even appropriate to call CPS? As far as I know and can tell she isn’t harming her child—just treating it like an attention beacon. I suppose that isn’t a crime.
(To be clear I’m not planning to call CPS)
In my mind, I was thinking “definitely a munchie.”
Then, munchie gets pregnant and they have a baby. Immediately, her ailments seem to vanish and transfer instead to her baby. There’s always “something” wrong with the kid. She took him to the town hospital and was told he was fine, so that upset her and she took him to a bigger hospital an hour or so away. They were willing to waste their time and so did an MRI and brain scans and all sorts of other testing only to tell her “we don’t know what’s wrong” (Her words).
Years later, I still see a post every couple months on facebook saying “So and so at the hospital again. Doing an MRI. Pray for my baby.” Only she takes him to bigger and bigger hospitals each time.
Question for the thread: at what point is it appropriate to call CPS in a situation like this? Is it even appropriate to call CPS? As far as I know and can tell she isn’t harming her child—just treating it like an attention beacon. I suppose that isn’t a crime.
(To be clear I’m not planning to call CPS)
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From all I know of the CPS and similar governmental organs, it takes a kid being tortured for them to even consider taking the kid away from the parents. I feel bad for the kids that are the victims of Munchausen's by Proxy, they always end up neurotic or otherwise mentally unwell in adulthood.
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The doctors/nurses/social workers at the hospitals she's going to would report her if they were concerned. I would stay out of it tbh, but she obviously needs help. She probably has terrible anxiety and this is how it's manifesting.
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heres the thread, im a fucking tard and posted it before I finished writing, so there's still some sections missing. any feedback, information, and advice is appreciated. huge apologies for posting an unfinished thread, i've been writing for the past few hours and forgot how to use a keyboard
EMMA JO BEVERLY KENNEDY O'DELL
Introduction:
Emma Jo Beverly Kennedy O'dell is someone new every day, rapidly cycling between names, religions, ethnicities, and disabilities. She has gone by 30+ names and usernames, including seven legal name changes, each one coming with a new identity. At the time of writing this, she is a “Jewish” hijabi who claims to be deaf and blind, have down syndrome, severe autism, POTS, and cerebral palsy, all of which are self-diagnosed. Her “severe autism” has given her a special interest in Anne...
EMMA JO BEVERLY KENNEDY O'DELL
Emma Jo Beverly Kennedy O'dell is someone new every day, rapidly cycling between names, religions, ethnicities, and disabilities. She has gone by 30+ names and usernames, including seven legal name changes, each one coming with a new identity. At the time of writing this, she is a “Jewish” hijabi who claims to be deaf and blind, have down syndrome, severe autism, POTS, and cerebral palsy, all of which are self-diagnosed. Her “severe autism” has given her a special interest in Anne...
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Or God's own sedative, GHB.
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As long as she's just bringing the kid to doctors because "something must be wrong", that's just hypochondria and pretty common among first time moms. Mine took me to urgent care thinking I was rabid once
This degree is obviously not normal or healthy, but the root cause is anxiety, not attention. She needs serious therapy, not cps getting involved. Maybe broach it as someone to talk to about the stress of having a sick kid?