#medical problems

Just like GERD, it gives you acid reflux, but you can't modulate it with a diet. The only dietary solution for me is to eat absorbent, gel-creating foods such as oats and bananas before sleep, and more of it when I wake up at night from the acidic taste, or out of habit. Stomach acid, even reduced with proton pump inhibitors, can strip enamel from your teeth, and taking the medicine also diminishes your calcium absorption, which can lead to osteoporosis. The reduced acidity also makes you more susceptible to foodborne infection.

You get gastroptosis from lifting heavy things.

Everyone tells you that your body odour is bad and you need to wash and even when you tell them that you wash more regularly than anyone else and that the smell returns literally 20 seconds after leaving the shower they just say you're just exaggerating.

Your hair is always greasy and you sweat all the time looking like you've run a mile with wet patches on your clothes.

You're constantly adding salt to everything you eat and everyone tells you it's unhealthy, but your meals have to be the most nutritious healthy food they can be just with salt dusted on everything.

fast food tastes like cardboard, so you always have to bring your healthy food selection every time you go out to eat with your friends, which is socially awkward.

if you eat certain fruits and vegetables you start spasming on the floor.

you have constant heartburn and suffer stomach ulcers.

certain corn chips will mess you up.

you feel weak all the time.

you've got no body mass.

your reduced sense of pain means you don't notice how bad injuries are.

you phase out mid conversation with people and have to ask them to repeat part of it.

you can't run anywhere, even for a moment.

you can't carry heavy things.

you can't even hold your arm up for too long.

you spend your childhood and teenage years having doctors say there's nothing wrong with you and you're just acting.

your breath sets off breathalysers so you have to go to the police station for a blood test instead.

if someone touches your skin with their bare skin, it makes them itch.

certain perfumes and air fresheners put you in an asthmatic fit.

everyone says you look fit but you're actually seriously underweight.

freshwater fish hide from you.

you attract sharks. (actually, i like sharks, so that's okay, but for other people...)

ungulates want to eat you. (my persona is relevant) i've been chased by elephants a few times.

butterflies keep trying to go in your mouth.

plants die where you touch them.

you make invertebrates sick.

your kisses taste like vomit.

The food im.. medically supposed to eat? I know theres cheaper options. I cant HAVE those. Ive done nothing to inconvenience anyone else im fully willing to pay so why is this such a problem?

My body has never worked properly

Last year I lost a lot of mobility in my leg, found out Im hypermobile and didn't know and managed to sustain an injury that will now just cause pain and my leg to give out at times.

I thought I had carpal tunnel, but it kept getting worse and so quickly. I have arthritis in both my wrists. We dont know which one yet. The pain is debilitating. I cant lift anything heavy, I cant write for long periods of time, I cant even use a computer without pain some days. Currently we have no way to treat either my leg or my wrists (my doctor is working on a plan for the arthritis bu has given up on my legs)

I tell the people around me, hey I just got diagnosed with this thing, I thought id warn you so you know in case im walking weird or I cant do something you would see as easy.

Get told to stop venting. - I was just telling you but okay.

Get told by in laws that im young and if I dont just "push through" then itll only get worse. Thats not how medicine works actually?

Anytime I bring up my pain or difficulty living because of struggles walking or using my hands it gets ignored and im told im exaggerating.

I know im 23. Has anyone told my body? Because for some reason my body didnt get the memo that apparently only people over 50 can be disabled and even then I hate saying im disabled. Like I know by definition, I need things and other people to help me live so yes, but it feels so weird. I cant open cans, jars, my writing is so disastrous because of pain, I walk with a limp most days just because im too stubborn to use a cane. I cant really have sex ever without pain so bad in my hips I cant actually move my legs, I lose feeling in parts of my body due to inflammation and pain that cant be managed.

But no. Im just exaggerating. Someone who spent over a decade focused on strength building and martial arts - a licensed teacher in martial arts - is just having so much fun pretending to have issues moving and doing things. I ignore it knowing its only going to get worse but at some point I wonder when people will take it seriously.

"When are you going to learn to cook?" I cant even hold my phone steady. Yes lets give me knives and hot pans. I do cook. I CAN cook. I cant cook everyday. Why is that such an issue? Would we rather me hurt myself?

"Can you help move this piece of furniture?" No actually my legs dont work? Then im the burden.