Aeryn's Profile
- Sex: Female
- Age: 43
- Location:
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Recent Questions Aeryn is Interested In
Issues Aeryn is Interested In
- Dysfunctional Family - It gives me some funny stories to tell, but not many.
- Folliculitis - I was diagnosed with this for 20 years when all along I've had Hidradenitis suppurativa.
- GERD - It only bothers me when I eat. Anything.
- Smoking - Cigarettes are my self-treatment for anxiety.
- Depression - I get depressed because I'm always dealing with pain and medical stuff.
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - It reminds me often of my dysfunctional family.
- Back Pain - Uhm, well... it hurts. I have capsulitis in my shoulders and something in my lower back that needs surgery.
- Fibromyalgia - How does this condition affect you? It gives doctors an excuse not to investigate things like back pain. It makes them feel better to say you have it if they can't figure out what else is wrong with you and haven't been able to help you manage pain and swelling.
- Food Allergy - See IBS and GERD
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome - It irritates the heck out of me!
- Raynaud's Disease - My fingers and toes turn blue when it's cold because the blood vessels constrict and cut off blood flow. It hurts when this happens. I have been trying a new medication, some sort of blood thinner that seems to be helping. I was told I developed Raynaud's after having a touch of frostbite in 1998. When I went to have it diagnosed the first time, I was told it's Buerger's(sp) syndrome which is caused by an over-abundance of nicotine in my body. I didn't believe the doctor since she had not even looked at my fingers or toes before telling me this, so I went to another doctor who tested me to make sure. BTW, I smoke about 10 cigarettes a day, it's not as if I'm a chain smoker!
- Lactose Intolerance - Ice cream I scream.
- Chronic Pain - This affects everything I do, my whole body and has a variety of causes. There is this one part of my back, just below the shoulder blades and above the lower back, that doesn't hurt. I think I need to go see the doctor about that, lol. I have pain killers but I hate taking them, so usually I'm fighting it by distracting myself with something. Then I get distracted from my distraction and that irks me. It's hard to be happy when everything hurts all the time, but I try.
- Traumatic Injury - It's where it all started...
Aeryn's Story
My story? Where do I start? (yikes)
Presently, I feel like a freak. I am as healthy as a person can be, on my medical lab reports, but I live in constant pain from a bunch of different medical causes. As I get older, it gets worse but I've been this way since the age of 7 after a motor vehicle accident. (I wasn't driving, honest, I was walking.) It's affected every part of my life since then and made it really hard to do even the most basic, normal things associated with having a life. I'm frustrated!
My dysfunctional family consists of religious fundamentalists. I've been told I am devil possessed, not right with God and just plain evil because I have so many aches and pains. Because of this, I can be a little sensitive to religious comments directed to me, even though I truly believe that most people aren't totally whacked out extremists, like those that I've known, I still get scared. So bear with me... I do try to respect everyone's views and experiences. Has anyone ever experienced a cult? Is it something that we can talk about here? Could be about as popular as a paper cut, if so I apologize.
The Hope Cube! What a cool place. What nice people I've seen here! I look forward to getting to know you.
Aeryn isn't my real name, but it means peace. :)