#neurological

Medication.

We all know insurance is shit when it comes to medical debt, but paying for medications is awful.

I mean life saving medications.

People are dying because they cannot get the medications they need, the biggest one I hear people talk about is things like Insulin.

I am struggling to get my seizure rescue medication. Without insurance it is over $700.

I have been going into status epilepticus during my last 2 times having seizures.

I no longer have rescue medication. My pharmacy cannot fill my prescription until my insurance allows it. If I have another episode I will need to call 911 which further leads me into a rabbit hole of medical debt.

This should not be happening. Myself and everyone else should not be having to fight for life saving medications.

flag id: a flag with 5 stripes, with the third being twice the size of the rest. they are blue-black, indigo, soft blue, indigo, and blue-black. within the larger third stripe is an uneven zigzag stripe, which is dark red-orange. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

a restless leg syndrome flag, both for a request on @mogai-headcanons and for myself!

the regular stripes represent various moments of restfulness during which rls is typically experienced — when one is falling asleep/trying to sleep, lying down, sitting down to relax, etc. — and the jagged stripe in the middle represents the suddenness of restless leg! i used a zigzag stripe to represent energy (and also electricity, which i associate my rls with) and made it orange, a color that can represent energy.

tags: @radiomogai, @dragonpride17, @mad-pride

I live every day with cerebellar tonsillar ectopia a little-known neurological condition where part of the brain presses down into the spinal canal. For me, that means chronic headaches, balance issues, slurred speech, and more. It affects less than 1% of people, yet it remains poorly understood, underdiagnosed, and underfunded. Sharing my story is my way of raising awareness because conditions of the mind deserve more recognition and compassion.