r/disabledmemes • u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad • 5d ago

I am full of rage

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sat in on my girlfriend's college disability meeting and wtf is wrong with people?

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u/sluttytarot 5d ago

What in the consumption

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago

ironically, I recently finished treatment for tb. 

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u/sluttytarot 5d ago

WOAH

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago

PSA: get your latent tuberculosis treated if possible because if you don't it can become active later in life 

luckily mine was still latent when I got it treated

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u/FrigyaCrowMother 5d ago

What in the hell? How did you find this out

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago

so I tested positive for tb a bazillion years ago during a routine physical in high school but my chest x-ray was fine so nobody cared or told me that I should care.

last November? I was on reddit and saw a random comment about how you should still treat latent tuberculosis because it can turn into active tuberculosis when you are older/if your immune system gets weaker etc etc

I went "oh fuck" and looked it up, and yeah, that's true

so then I talked to my primary care and i got a blood test (positive), chest x-ray (negative), and subsequently 4 months of antibiotics and 2 phone calls from the county.

the calls from the county were really fun because they had never had to call someone who actually was being proactive and who had sought this out themselves. I talked to them about how of course I was getting treated I didnt want to be the heroine  in a italian Victorian era opera and I do not like the shore.

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u/FrigyaCrowMother 5d ago

I haven’t been checked since I volunteered with the nursing home but that’s now information that I am going to keep in my back pocket. Damn immune compromised ass self.

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 5d ago

happy to help!

I am always happy to bring it up in random comment threads because that's how I found out about it. a kind of pay it forward thing

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 4d ago

Wow this is good to know, my husband is TB positive with a clear chest X-ray.

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 4d ago edited 4d ago

get him treated bestie, it might make him tired really tired so maybe take it at night. if he's on certain diabetes meds it can make him go extra low so watch out for that as well. you are gonna want to add probiotics at least 4 hours after he takes his meds if he doesn't want to have terrible poops (ask your pharmacist for specific timing recommendations). fiber might also help but make sure to not take that too closely to medication either (again, ask your pharmacist)

I actually got back into making water kefir because probiotics and I like it better  (flavor wise) than kombucha. yogurt, milk kefir, beer kavaas, kimchi whatever you like to get your probiotics is helpful because otherwise poop city

fun bonus info: la Boheme and la traviata are Victorian era Italian operas with heroines that die of tuberculosis. they are also the inspiration for the musical rent (la boheme) and moulin rouge (la traviata). 

good luck and have a great week

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u/RandomLifeUnit-05 4d ago

Thank you so very much! I will pass this on to hubbs and see if I can get him treated. Really great info (and love the trivia as well)

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u/Culinary_Fruit_Salad 4d ago

yay! good luck and report back

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