Medfags, is this happening as she describes, or is her healthy bladder trying its best to function normally in spite of her determined attempts to never pee again?
That DV shelter arc is amazing, thank you for bringing such an outstanding treat to us, @Systems All The Way Down.
This might be the stupidest series of questions ever, but how do the spoonies determine how many spoons they start with..are they all assigned a predetermined amount or is it different for each one? Like when you decide you're a spoonie do you sign up and get a welcome kit? How do they know how many spoons each activity uses? I'm so confused about the spoonie lifestyle. I'm guessing, though, that being online incessantly either costs no spoons or maybe increases the supply? 1 asspat=1 spoon?
I guess it's the way she phrased it. Or I've been around the "if you shave you're bush you aren't a real woman" crowd too much and don't think about (more likely).
This might be the stupidest series of questions ever, but how do the spoonies determine how many spoons they start with..are they all assigned a predetermined amount or is it different for each one? Like when you decide you're a spoonie do you sign up and get a welcome kit? How do they know how many spoons each activity uses? I'm so confused about the spoonie lifestyle. I'm guessing, though, that being online incessantly either costs no spoons or maybe increases the supply? 1 asspat=1 spoon?
Ace talks about white people like a stereotypical black crack addict from an 80s movie or something. "I oughta wring her cracker ass neck" get the fuck outta here lmao
The ordering on this part is less accurate than other parts, as Aster started doing a better job of hiding her personal blogs, and I was too lazy to document the original timestamps on each and every post. It's still more-or-less accurate.
They don't find anything at the ER. Aster thinks that they missed a partial bowel obstruction on the CT.
She definitely doesn't want an NG tube
Aster's reasoning behind rescheduling her appointment
She eats eggs and potatoes
Aster gets approved for $261 dollars of food stamps per month.
Someone at the DV shelter steals Aster's food
Aster asks for a replacement for her brand new rollator
Her DV shelter roommate thinks she should try to sell her old one. Aster complains about her a bunch.
Sunny's father also has bedbugs. Aster's mom isn't as strict with him as she is with Aster.
Aster can't stand long enough to wait in line for her food stamp card, so she just leaves.
But otherwise Aster has been doing well. She upped her lamictal recently and is taking multiple showers a week
Three days after her previous ER trip, Aster wants to go back. She still thinks she has an intestinal blockage.
Aster is worried she might need to get parts of her intestines removed.
Aster eats a breakfast quesadilla in preparation for being made NPO before a potential intestine surgery.
She gets diagnosed with a bowel impaction.
Aster has to wait three hours for wheelchair transit to come
Aster asks for $100 for new prescription sunglasses
Someone requests money from Aster on cashapp and she gets mad
Aster's food stamps are helping her get more nutrition.
Aster accidentally reveals her personal blog in an even more obvious way than usual. She remakes her personal blog twice.
Aster wants to travel to California to buy a used ez lite cruiser
Aster presumably offers the seller nearly $400 for delivery, as the price of the wheelchair has mysteriously changed, and the guy is now offering to deliver it. She starts fundraising.
Aster finds out her UTIs are kidney infections via doctor's notes.
She doesn't want to go to the ER for antibiotics, though.
Aster gets her new rollator.
She starts hanging her clothes on it and cluttering up her shared room at the DV shelter. One of her roommates gets mad. Aster accuses her of "concern trolling."
She texts the DV shelter staff about her roommate.
Aster's roommates have started assuming that all spills they see are pee. Aster thinks this is unfair.
Aster sees a new urologist. He doesn't want to let Aster keep her suprapubic catheter forever.
A day later, Aster tells her urologist that she's having kidney infection symptoms. She needs $85 dollars for an uber so she can drop off a sample.
Aster gets enough money for the wheelchair
Aster gets a new roommate! She loves her.
Nevermind.
Aster diagnoses both of her roommates with autism because they don't like the bright overhead light.
Aster complains about being seen as an "endearingly clueless absent minded professor" because of her autism symptoms
Aster's catheter is clogged. She can pee on her own a little, but she doesn't think it's enough.
Aster has auditory processing disorder
Aster asks for money for a treat and for her overdrafted bank account
One of the DV shelter staff members talks to Aster. The staff member says that one of Aster's roommates claimed that Aster left shit on the toilet, and she sat on it.
Because Aster's DV shelter is in a rural area, she's able to cash in on some disadvantaged rural person clout.
Aster is done trying to be friends with her roommates.
Aster has purchased three new pairs of prescription glasses.
Aster goes to a disability benefits appointment. She lady gets annoyed with her.
Aster gets upset at her roommate because she made her feel fat.
Aster measures her stress on her smartwatch.
More roommate troubles.
They think she's disgusting. Aster wants to kill herself.
Aster finds out she has left ventricular hypertrophy
Aster talks about her samsung watch results
Aster has still been successfully fundraising for two storage units this whole time, by the way.
Aster remembers that having a port still means getting poked over and over.
Aster wants to go on T so her voice gets deeper.
Aster thinks she'd prefer staying with her mom over the DV shelter.
She wants to kill herself.
Aster looks into section 8 housing
She thinks about living in rural subsidized housing
Aster is shopping for $150 purple doc martens
Aster is obsessing over the readings from her new smartwatch.
Aster goes to a GI appointment. She gets scheduled for a colonoscopy and endoscopy
Aster's bully roommate speaks with her again.
The rental assistance program only covers 3 months of a lease. Aster considers getting a job to help her pay for a lease.
Aster implies the DV shelter has already gotten upset at her for purchasing too many household items. She considers buying more anyways.
She wants to transfer to another DV shelter.
She schedules a gender affirming care appointment for april.
Aster misses food delivery, which she isn't allowed to order at the DV shelter.
Aster's catheter is blocked.
Aster apparently lent her roommate $200.
Aster calls herself a habitual people-pleaser
She asks for money to go the ER. She maybe doxes her location and the location of the DV shelter. (Censoring is hers, I didn't screencap the whole image.)
Aster wants a urostomy
She's diagnosed with a kidney infection. She spends some time exploring the city.
Aster wants a central venous catheter instead of a port.
Aster gets back to the DV shelter, and a bunch of her stuff is missing: a dresser and two shower chairs.
Aster goes to the ER
but nothing comes of it
Aster almost goes back to the ER, but luckily, realizes that her catheter was just clamped.
Aster is taking a break from the DV shelter to go to the ren faire with her mom, who is supposed to be the reason she is staying in the DV shelter.
But she cancels for unrelated reasons
Aster's intestinal blockage has been cured by stool softeners and tea. This is actually a super special interaction with her caffeine sensitivity, and not just a totally normal effect of caffeine.
Aster gets in a fight with her mom over the phone.
Aster's DV shelter roommates still hate her
Aster goes to urgent care to get her nose piercing looked at.
Aster compares the way she looks to a toddler.
Aster dances so hard to Dylan Mulvaney's Days of Girlhood song that she almost passes out.
Aster is a self-admitted ableist towards people with paraphilias.
Aster asks her followers if anybody is willing to help her commit fraud
Aster's roommate gets mad at her again.
Aster shows off all the shit she has
Aster gets evaluated for serious mental illness
Aster doesn't like her headphones
A week later, she says she broke her headphones and needs a new pair.
Aster can't transfer into another DV shelter because they're all full.
Aster drops her grilled cheese sandwich and wants to kill herself.
Aster disregards care instructions for her piercing infection, and the infection gets worse.
She asks for money to go to the ER.
In order to get away from her roommates, Aster sits outside in the cold April Phoenix weather for 40 minutes. Her feet turn purple and her hands stop working.
The low was 50 that day.
Aster describes the weather as "literally under 50"
Aster needs more catheter bags
Aster makes a donation post so she can escape unbearable ableist abuse happening at the shelter.
She also makes a TikTok
Aster tries the belly bags and makes a review for them.
Aster's roommate tells her to go to the hospital for pneumonia/rsv
She goes to urgent care.
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Aster thinks she probably has "malingerer" in her file, now.
Aster wakes up covered in piss.
Piss spilled everywhere count: 17
Aster's roommate apparently placed a scented pad in front of Aster's fan. Aster takes offense to this and takes it down.
Aster is disappointed when her roommate "doesn't take the bait"
Aster explains why the staff don't do anything to stop the ceaseless bullying
Aster gets punk'd by her roommate.
Aster considers falsifying bank statements for her housing application
The next day, Aster thinks she's having seizures.
THE GASH is furious when she hears that the The Magnus Archives fanfic writer discord server is run by pro-pro-shippers.
One of Aster's roommates leaves the shelter, so she feels better about staying.
Aster qualifies for Serious Mental Illness benefits. Yay!
Aster asks Tumblr for help with her piercing infection. She's seen three doctors and has no answers.
Aster asks for $95 for ubers for her gastroparesis appointment.
Aster's Testosterone plans are foiled because her Serious Mental Illness insurance doesn't cover planned parenthood. She asks for money for a membership to a service called "Plume"
Aster already misses her old insurance. They won't even pay for her long-distance medical transports.
Aster has to sell a pair of like-new Doc Marten Mary Janes.
Aster experiences a transphobia and doesn't want to talk about it.
She talks about it.
Aster talks about internalized racism and viewing her black side as her more angry and aggressive side
Aster doesn't like that she's diagnosed with autism with low support needs, because she needs a lot of support. Even though she'd normally blame her inability to do anything on her physical disabilities.
Aster wants to have her port replaced. She has found a home health company, but her evil domestic violence shelter won't let her have a nurse visit for her saline infusions.
Her friend informs her that the shelter is committing a human rights violation.
Aster gets an emergency infusion
Aster misrepresents this as an interaction with a doctor on TikTok
Aster gets marked as a "high utilizer" by the ER staff.
She's out of food stamps
Aster complains about her roommates some more.
They're definitely stealing her hats and socks, even though they think she's super gross.
Aster already thinks she's going to need a $100,000 surgery to release her tethered cord.
She wants to see the only doctor that knows about occult tethered cord, who is in Rhode Island.
Aster is planning on converting to Judaism
So is THE GASH (@incinerated)
Aster's spinal cord is so fucked up
Aster needs to pay both her storage bills again. She also desperately needs 4-5 pairs of $30 compression socks.
More roommate drama
Aster's vague legal threat against the shelter worked I guess, because they're letting nursing visit her.
Aster's mom doesn't want to be Aster's support for her port surgery.
Aster wants to go no contact with her mom.
Aster's roommate agrees to take her after Aster offers to buy her lunch with money she doesn't have.
Aster later finds out she has go to in earlier than she thought, so now she also needs Uber money.
A roommate, probably a different one, accuses Aster of faking her chronic illness.
Aster posts a vent TikTok
Nothing is actually wrong, so Aster need surgery.
Aster complains about the single mom to an infant and victim of domestic violence who offered to help her with her surgery for just the price of a single meal.
That same lady also helped cut Aster's hair.
(A week later, she suspects her of stealing.)
Aster wants a $31 emotional support chinesium plush for all her trouble.
A few days later, Aster is going back into the ER
Aster plans for first go get an infusion and try to convince the nurses to tell her to go to the ER instead of going on her own.
Aster really wants that urostomy
And feels a bit down.
Aster goes to the ER and nothing is wrong.
The roommate that hates Aster is apparently just racist. Whew! Responsibility avoided.
Aster shows off her blue eyeballs again
Aster is still hung up on being called self-infantilizing. That one must have really stung.
She seethes about many, many other things, one of which is her self-pay EDS consulation. She name-drops a "Dr. Saperstein."
Aster goes back to her EDS-friendly urologist because she at least lets her keep the SPC. However, even she doesn't want to irreversibly surgically remove Aster's bladder.
Aster is getting kicked out of the shelter in 4 weeks.
Aster speaks with her racist roommate and wants to kill herself.
Aster makes a Patreon
Aster re-confirms that she wasn't diagnosed with autism officially until 20
Aster says she's manic
She twirls around in the DV shelter while holding her piss bag. There is something deeply sad about the video. The TikTok sound ends before the end of the video, and you can see her spinning and breathing heavily, alone and in silence.
(This is the same video from the top of this post.)
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She writes two entire chapters of fanfiction and gets thousands of views and hundreds of likes.
Aster talks to her dad and looks into becoming a burden on the Norwegian welfare state.
She wonders if she got Kleine Levin syndrome from him
and later blasts her dad on TikTok.
Aster sees home health. The nurse says the port moves around a lot.
Piss spilled everywhere count: 18
Piss spilled everywhere count: 19
Aster does autonomic testing
Aster gets diagnosed with autonomic neuropathy! Her left hand and left foot didn't respond to the sweat reflex test. Aster is very happy.
(Later, Aster hears back from her neurologist. Her autonomic testing came back normal, and her abnormal qsart was a side effect of meds. The doctor called her "obese" over and over, and he didn't think that her unpracticed toddler-walk was reflective of any neural issue.)
Aster cooks two things and feels fulfilled
And she cleans the stove without gloves. She worries that this might have given her tetanus.
Aster goes to an emergency urology appointment
And she gets a referral for a urostomy
Aster is upset because she has lost so much weight that her ring splint no longer fits well.
Aster eats two ice cream sandwiches, ramen, and lemonade to calm down. Guess she has stopped reacting to things.
Aster has to leave her shelter soon.
Aster sees an immunologist who refers to some diagnoses as "TikTok diagnoses."
.
Aster anticipates her death. She wants her friends to play Mitski in her honor at her virtual funeral.
Aster rounds up black folk for a pride month crowdfunding post.
The Serious Mental Illness clinic has possibly un-diagnosed Aster with everything but depression.
She's still upset that her neurologist said everything was fine. This is partly because she happened to do the tilt table test on a FLUKE vitals week.
Her neurologist also wrote in her chart that Aster doesn't have any of the symptoms she says she has.
Aster has been taking for granted that her mom would let her move back in with her. She finally confronts having to talk to her mom about it.
Blood is pooling in Aster's fingertips (but you can't really tell because she's not white)
Aster goes to the ER for a presumed kidney infection and port issue
The doctor basically steals her blood
The dramatics ensue
They say she doesn't have a UTI and that her port is fine.
The shelter gives Aster a moveout date of June 17th. Aster says she'll need to replace all her belongings again because of bedbugs. However, she hasn't mentioned them being a problem at the shelter.
Aster makes her PCP cringe
Aster finds another ez lite cruiser to replace her current one with, and she starts raising money for that.
Fucked up how money dictates survival
Aster's heart health report comes back, and the results are not good. But her immune system is fine.
Even tumblrinas don't consider Aster a man.
Aster gets locked out of the shelter for an hour and gets bitten by mosquitos. This tests her skin-picking habit.
Aster reflects on her shelter experience
Aster wants tryptase testing
Four days until she's back with her mom.
and gets antibiotics for some reason
Aster gets mad at a tumblr ad. (Do not try to apply her logic to her bladder. Totally different situation!)
Aster recounts as many of her earliest memories as she can.
Aster thinks about Hunter x Hunter a lot.
She makes up a weird DID explanation for her getting back into Hunter x Hunter
Aster thinks she has HC (highly complex) DID
a Smell is coming from Aster's suprapubic catheter
Aster is looking forward to hanging out with her brother.
...Nevermind.
One of Aster's roommates leaves and gets a new apartment. She says she would invite Aster to stay with her if she could.
The other roommate shittalks her.
Aster thinks about the many signs that she was chronically ill as a child. (The signs are all her being obsessed with medical stuff.)
Aster gets really butthurt when people beat her at her own game
Aster thinks the redness around her SPC is spreading
Aster plans to sleep in a broken car at her mom's house during the Arizona summer.
Aster slept in or something and it fucked with the shelter's plans for her.
Aster goes to her mom's house, and they fight a lot.
Aster gets kicked out.
Aster tells her home infusion company about the domestic violence situation. They say they aren't going to do a visit at a house that has a domestic abuser.
Aster goes crawling back to her mom at some point.
Aster goes to the ER
Aster wants to kill herself.
Her fundraising hasn't been going well lately.
She's still barred from home health visits.
Aster is diagnosed with some virus and sent home.
Aster has to interact with her mom some more.
Aster makes a TikTok asking if anybody anywhere in the US will let her stay with them.
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She transcribes the video for us. In short, several people offered, and she's chosen someone to stay with in Portland.
The next day, Aster goes to the ER
Aster feels like something is wrong
But the doctors say the port looks good
Aster goes back to the ER the next day
Aster's explanation:
Aster gets desperate for donos and whores her cat out
Aster gets mad about American privilege discourse again
Aster finally sets up the air conditioner that she bought for the car. (It came in around 10 days ago).
It doesn't fit. The bedbugs are still a problem.
Aster wants to kill herself.
Aster used Klarna to pay for the AC unit, and this makes her worry she won't be able to fundraise for a plane ticket
Aster spends her money on a pair of noise cancelling headphones
And her relationship with her mom still sucks.
Piss spilled everywhere count: 19
Aster qualifies for Serious Mental Illness services and changes insurance. This causes her some problems, and doesn't even get her free housing like she wanted.
Aster also gets approved for $261 in food stamps each month.
Aster is officially designated as a "high utilizer" by ER staff (causing her to get a talking to from her PCP and insurance) and gets unofficially un-diagnosed by several providers.
Aster goes back to her original EDS-friendly urologist and gets a referral for a urostomy.
Aster wants $100,000 to fly to Rhode Island to have occult tethered cord surgery.
Aster's tumultuous time in the domestic violence shelter is up, and she moves back in with her mom. It doesn't go well.
Aster gets an offer from TikTok to move to a black/native disabled community in Portland. She starts trying to save up.
I love Aster, I hate Aster. I have thoroughly enjoyed her timeline and will also be sad when the saga ends. Thanks so much for literally hours of entertainment, @Systems All The Way Down ! My favorite post of hers so far is this one:
“Her and her partner at the time mocked neogenders, right in front of my salad.”
I just stumbled upon and read through the entire Mem thread last week and kept getting her mixed up in my head with Aster, but Mem is really a worthless waste of oxygen whose entire existence is a drain on society. Aster seems redeemable, or maybe I’m just soft. I think she’d be really pretty if she took better care of herself and although her aesthetic isn’t my cup of tea, she wears appropriate clothes for her body type and isn’t trying to stuff herself into a Lolita dress or wearing crop tops to show off her toobz. She isn’t malingering for drugs. She appears to actually be hypermobile to some degree, although the rest of her issues seem to be a mix of extreme hypochondria and attention-seeking. She’s articulate, but she has no sense of mind, no awareness that her thoughts do not equal reality. The moment she thinks anything (“my port is infected,” “my roommate hates me,” “I’m starving,” “my mom is abusive”) it becomes 100% True and Real to her, and convincing her otherwise is nearly impossible because she is constantly ruminating on her feelings. She might actually benefit from mindfulness therapy and learning how to separate herself from her thoughts, if she has enough intelligence for that.
Yeah this is the part that makes me doubt if Aster is redeemable. Her mom sounds so reasonable and at her wit’s end in those texts where she’s saying “I love you but I can’t let you infest my house with bedbugs.” Also she’s a nightmare roommate, refusing to clean up her messes and needing rides to the ER all the time.
ETA: Ahhhhh new Aster content while I was typing!!! *flaps hands and squeals in public*
I'm sure you all know this but your doctor or nurse literally doesn't give a shit if you have pubic hair, and it doesn't hinder any kind of exam or procedure*.
*edit to add if you have hair that is in the way for things that need femoral artery access, they will just shave there beforehand. but this is usually only an issue for hairy men anyway.
ATTENTION, for all non-medfags, this is what true real, authentic tardive dyskinesia looks like. This complex consumer, presents with tardive dyskinesia, sub-type TAD (Tardive Ahegao dyskinesia) this is noted by her crossed eyes and uncontrolled opening of the mouth as seen here:
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Please give her endless respect and attention for being so brave to share her TAD with us today <3
For further education on TD per UpToDate:
TD is a medication-induced hyperkinetic movement disorder caused by exposure to dopamine receptor-blocking agents, most often antipsychotic drugs, that persists for at least a month after discontinuation of the offending agent. Dyskinesia encompasses a variety of involuntary movements and postures, including chorea, athetosis, stereotyped behaviors, dystonia, akathisia, tics, respiratory dyskinesias, and very rarely tremor.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) defines TD as involuntary athetoid or choreiform movements (lasting at least a few weeks), generally of the tongue, lower face and jaw, and extremities (but sometimes involving the pharyngeal, diaphragmatic, or trunk muscles), developing in association with the use of a neuroleptic medication for at least a few months [1]. Symptoms may develop after a shorter period of medication use in older persons.
The term "tardive," or late, differentiates TD from other medication-induced extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) that usually appear either acutely or very soon after exposure to dopamine receptor-blocking agents and that resolve after the drug is discontinued. Whereas parkinsonism may arise while using a dopamine-blocking agent (in what is known as drug-induced parkinsonism), it should never be thought of as a tardive phenomenon. (See 'Other drug-induced movement disorders' below.)
Withdrawal-emergent TD has been used to describe dyskinesia in children that occurs transiently (eg, <1 month) immediately following the discontinuation of an antipsychotic drug. (See 'Children' below.)
Withdrawal dyskinesia is a form of TD in adults that occurs immediately after discontinuing or reducing the dose of a dopamine receptor-blocking agent; the related term "masked TD" refers to tardive movements that resolve when a dopamine receptor-blocking agent is resumed or its dose is increased.
CLINICAL SPECTRUM
Manifestations of TD can include a variable mixture of orofacial dyskinesia, athetosis, dystonia, chorea, and tics. The symptoms most commonly involve the mouth and tongue, but the arms, legs, trunk, and respiratory muscles can also be affected.
Oro-bucco-lingual and facial dyskinesia — Oral, facial, and lingual dyskinesia are the most common manifestations of TD. They are observed in nearly three-quarters of patients, either alone or in combination with other dyskinetic movements. They are especially conspicuous in older adults. Types of perioral movements may include:
●Protruding and twisting movements of the tongue
●Pouting, puckering, or smacking movements of the lips
●Retraction of the corners of the mouth
●Bulging of the cheeks
●Chewing movements
●Blepharospasm
Tongue movements are insidious in onset and at first may be limited to subtle back-and-forth or lateral movements. In other patients, tic-like facial movements or increased blink frequency are initial manifestations. Tardive orolingual movements may worsen with the use of anticholinergic drugs, which should be avoided
Severe orofacial dyskinesia is highly disfiguring and can greatly interfere with speech, eating, swallowing, or breathing Dysarthria due to the orolingual movements is common. Some patients develop temporomandibular pain and problems with dentition related to ongoing jaw and mouth movements.
Limb, trunk, and respiratory involvement — Dyskinesia of the limbs also occurs, such as:
●Twisting, spreading, and "piano-playing" finger movements
●Tapping foot movements
●Dystonic extensor postures of the toes
Dyskinesia of the neck and trunk may include the following:
●Shoulder shrugging
●Retrocollis, torticollis, or blepharospasm (see 'Dystonia' below)
●Rocking and swaying movements
●Rotatory or thrusting hip movements
Respiratory dyskinesia can manifest as tachypnea, irregular breathing rhythms, and grunting noises that are commonly misinterpreted as primary respiratory problems. Rarely, these movements can be life threatening.
Limb involvement is often more severe in younger patients in whom dystonic postures and ballistic movements may occur. Truncal dystonia and lower-extremity dyskinesia can interfere with gait, posture, and mobility. Postural instability can lead to problems with balance and increased risk of falls.
Dystonia — Tardive dystonia refers to TD in which dystonic manifestations predominate. Dystonia is sustained or repetitive muscle contractions that result in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures. Types of dystonia that occur as a manifestation of TD include retrocollis (which may be sustained or jerky), torticollis, opisthotonus, shoulder dystonia, hyperextension of the arms or legs, blepharospasm, and jaw dystonia.
Tardive dystonia occurs more frequently in patients younger than age 40; it may have a lower spontaneous remission rate than TD.
Akathisia — Tardive akathisia refers to late-appearing motor restlessness. Manifestations may include repeated leg-crossing, weight-shifting, or stepping in place. Tardive akathisia differs from acute akathisia by the presence of dyskinesia and absence of subjective motor restlessness. Tardive akathisia can be focal or generalized, and is often refractory to treatment.
Tics, tremor, and other rare manifestations — Tardive tics, tardive myoclonus, tardive stereotypy, tardive tremor, and tardive oral pain syndromes have also been described [71], but these are often difficult to distinguish from other manifestations of TD or from effects of the patient's underlying psychosis. Many of these additional manifestations were well described in early reports of TD. They typically coexist with the more common manifestations.
Children — The manifestations of TD in children have been called "withdrawal-emergent symptoms" because they usually first appear as a withdrawal phenomenon when antipsychotic drugs are discontinued. Patients with this often self-limited condition often exhibit choreiform movements below the neck reminiscent of Sydenham chorea.
Medfags, is this happening as she describes, or is her healthy bladder trying its best to function normally in spite of her determined attempts to never pee again?
That DV shelter arc is amazing, thank you for bringing such an outstanding treat to us, @Systems All The Way Down.
Deliberately holding your urine for too long can trigger bladder spasms, which can result in the patient leaking urine.
When someone consistently ignores the signal to go they are forcing the bladder muscle (the detrusor) to stay stretched beyond capacity. This can cause the muscle to twitch involuntarily. Doing this over a long period of time can cause thickening of the bladder wall (hypertrophy) and lack of flexibility.
I think she is deliberately causing these issues for herself because she desperately wants the shiny prize of a suprapubic catheter.
and the classic friendly neighborhood schizo presentation
Two doses of aripiprazol might give sensitive patients a bad time for a day or two (very unpleasant extraapyramidal symptoms (EPS)), which for most people feel like a bad case of restless legs, but whatever that chick’s got going on is definitely just pure retardation. TD takes quite a while to develop.
Abuse potential of the ”cure” she’s petitioning for seems pretty low from what I can gather. Other meds that are used for symptom relief in TD or akathasia like biperiden can give you a lil kick, though, so I don’t even know what this retard’s endgame is. Other than attention, ofc.
ATTENTION, for all non-medfags, this is what true real, authentic tardive dyskinesia looks like. This complex consumer, presents with tardive dyskinesia, sub-type TAD (Tardive Ahegao dyskinesia) this is noted by her crossed eyes and uncontrolled opening of the mouth as seen here
