damn shit (heart) ouch @thisthingtheycallrecovery

@thisthingtheycallrecovery

Perhaps this is yet another failing of medical training: doctors have no idea what is and isn’t reassuring to a patient. “There’s nothing wrong with you” is reassuring if I have a funny-looking mole and the doctor is telling me it’s not cancer. But if I’m so sick I’ve lost my job and my life is falling apart, then “there’s nothing wrong with you” isn’t reassuring, it’s nightmarish. It’s terrifying. It makes you feel like you’re living in a horror film.

[green pic of body of water with land in the distance] it's not about the destination, it's about the journey. this journey sucks. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

let's talk about our illnesses, i'll go first: i hate them mybodyistryingtokillme.com

It's so cute how our names are touching on the doctor's waitlist

this too shall pass, or it won't, who's to say [background is ocean with rocks in a line and a sunset in the back] mybodyistryingtokillme.com

disabled.badass (i think threads) when I say I'm "too disabled to work" I don't mean I'm too disabled to physically be able to work any job, I'm saying I'm too disabled for the VAST MAJORITY of employers to want to hire me. people need to understand this.

My doctor: How are you?
Me: Good. How are you?
[An endless loop until one of us passes out]

@isabelsteckel - i get so starstruck when the dentist comes in after the dental hygienist

meme featuring a classical, somber painting within a circular frame. The artwork depicts a woman lying in a bed covered with a bright red blanket, looking toward a dark, winged figure—resembling the Angel of Death—sitting at the foot of her bed. The dark figure holds a small lantern. The text at the top of the image reads: "Girl u need to stop asking to die it gets really annoying im a busy person". The watermark "boredpanda.com"

meme featuring a photo of a highly stylized dentist's waiting room. The room is decorated to look like the inside of a giant mouth, with fleshy pink walls and ceiling. Large, white tooth-shaped sculptures serve as both chairs along the floor and decorative moldings hanging from the ceiling. In the background, a doorway is framed by even larger molar-shaped structures. The text above the image reads: "This is my dentist’s waiting room. I just hope my gynecologist won’t decide to decorate following the same concept".

[pic of grover in front of an empty canvas] grover shows a pic of who the f-ck asked for your medical opinion mybodyistryingtokillme.com

classical painting of two muscular men wrestling in an outdoor arena. The top of the image features text that reads: "Anesthesia: invented in 1846 / Doctors in 1845:". In the painting, the wrestler on the right has the wrestler on the left in a tight headlock. White text overlays the figures like a comic strip: the man in the headlock says, "Wtf doc?" while the man performing the hold says, "Nap time!". The watermark "boredpanda.com" is visible in the bottom right corner.

the.chronic.rebel ChronicPainThreads 42m Chronic illness things that sound fake until they happen to you: Needing to lie down after a shower. Sometimes on the bathroom floor Getting irrationally angry because the lights are too bright Canceling because the idea of having to find parking already took too much out of you Being too tired to sleep because your body is buzzing and your anxious about how much the lack of sleep will hurt tomorrow

@the.chronic.rebel

[background is yellow sky with pink flowers in foreground] another day.... another stupid, stupid day. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

RECEPTIONIST: Your surgery will cost $9,014

ME: I have the $14

I'm not sure if I actually want a relationship or just somebody to make appointments for me 🤣

[pic of 2 doctors and a woman shaking hands with one of the doctors] mybodyistryingtokillme.com - local doctor just googles symptoms slightly faster than patients

#satire

please stop asking the universe to give your illnesses to literally anybody else. the universe keeps giving them to me. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

@_thechronicsurvivor chronic illness isn't 'sometimes.' it's every morning, every night. no pause. no escape.

@_thechronicsurvivor

please don't tell me to push myself to do things. i know my limits and you don't. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

Nobody ever prepares you for chronic illness. You grow up thinking that if you ever get ill, there will be a cure and then you’re not ill anymore. But what if that never happens and you just stay sick? Our society really isn’t prepared for this.” -@ReaStrawhill

@ReaStrawhill

@seanclements - if you can't handle me at my worst, u might not be crazy about me at my best either. they're similar.

Please fill out these forms online, then show up 15 minutes early so we can ask you to fill out a form with the same 200 questions when you get here. mybodyistryingtokillme.com

@gianmarcoSoresi - i asked my dr about prescribing me sleep medication and he asked if i had tried 'giving yourself permission to sleep' instead and now i'm so mad i don't think i'll ever sleep again

Oh. So I just have to ask permission? Nope, that didn't work either.

pic of guy with a book or something in front of him saying 'chronic illness stop! i'm trying to work' while a blue guy grabs him and says 'psst. hey. pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeee.' mybodyistryingtokillme.com

can all pills come in these numbered containers so i can remember if i took mine today? - the salty lunch lady [pic of birth control pills that are in a circle pack and there are 2 numbered dials]

@saltylunchlady

are you on prednisone? [multiple choice] yes no [selection] bitch i might be mybodyistryingtokillme.com

1 - a guy mad with crossed arms as someone off screen says 'are you still sick?' 2 - same guy yelling 'i guess' with his arms up in the air artist: kc green mybodyistryingtokillme.com

Artist: KC Green

skyepolk on threads - ChronicIllnessThreads 03/26/25 STOP telling those with a chronic illness that you're jealous that they don't work. Most of us wish we could work, we had dreams just like you before we got sick. Being at home doesn't mean we're having fun. There are days I'm in so much pain/ so tired I can't even do simple things like read a book or watch tv. We are not on vacation.

@skyepolk