chronic illness

I have a debilitating chronic illness. It's incurable. My referral to a specialist for management was denied. That's what I was holding out hope for. But they won't help me and I can try getting another referral but even if they accept it it'll take at least a year waiting and they still can't...

I don't care about anything anymore. It's so hard to fall sleep, and it's even harder to get up. I wish I was fucking dead, there really is no solace for me, with all the chronic pain constantly buzzing and buzzing. There are no bad days or good days for me, just pain, and only pain. And I have...

So I already have hEDS and POTS. The past week or so I've had really bad stomach issues, and the past 4 days I haven't been able to keep food down. I'm in a lot of pain. No fever, so it's not a virus. My doctor suspects gastroparesis. I'm being referred to GI, but we probably won't get in before...

I have a list of physical illnesses I deal with (painful bladder, back pain, statis dermatitis in the legs, sleep apnea, and obesity.) On top of those are my alphabet of mental illnesses: depression, anxiety, and OCD. I've been depressed since I was a teenager, probably due to childhood...

This past July, I was hit with ten visits to doctor's offices. Three were for my son (naturopath, physical, and blood work for physical). Everything else was for me. Most of it was that I have periodic appointments and they all happened to fall in July (for example, OB-GYN visit). Chronic...

I’ve had CFS/ME ~30 years, which is progressive neurological illness and can cause one to be slowed or bedridden. It’s relatively obscure, about 10 million cases worldwide. Last month I got 2 new diagnoses which may or not be related but are also neurological. One is peripheral neuropathy in...

I’m 18 years old. Eighteen. Seems pretty young. Yet amazingly, I’m already halfway through my life expectancy. Living with vascular EDS and severe lupus is awful. I’m not going to lie: it is terrible. I’m in the hospital more often than not, I’m in constant pain. Not to mention my grades are...

I am struggling because of major depressive disorder, anxiety, hypomania, chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. I dread every day and cannot find purpose. I feel tremendous guilt and worthlessness because I am not working and on disability. I have five more years until I can get on full...

Good Evening All How are you? I hope you are okay :) Tomorrow is going to be a really tough day for me as it's going to be the day I finally get my chronic pain sorted and finally see a way forward. There's no more hiding this pain any longer and there's no more saying it's psychological or...

What do you guys do when you have low moments? I'm feeling incredibly low tonight, in pain, tired but can't sleep and just feel alone. My hubby is on shift till 1 am tobight then on brekkie shift and I will be in work before he gets back so I won't see him until Saturday now. This month has...

lately even getting out of bed feels like a chore to me. i am tired of dealing with abuse memories and anxiety. i want to die, but at the same time, i already feel like im dead. like perhaps i died after my first suicide attempt and this is just the afterlife (and it really, really sucks)...