Because trolling sick people is fun!

fibromyalgia is an lj community for people interested in and usually who suffer from fibromyalgia.

rake_blackguard makes post asking:

"So what does it say that a medication effective for the treatment of Fibromyalgia is an antidepressant?

Could it possibly be that Fibromyalgia is an ultimately psychosomatic disorder?"

People respond and OP responds to every comment with sunshine and joy. Or totally flamey sarcasm...

disclaimer: I was unsure where to put this because I did initially post on the thread before we knew it was a troll. Once s/h/it started reponding to every comment it was clearly flamebaiting. It is definitely unfunny to troll a bunch of sick people and tell them their illness is imaginary.

(I'm

imaginarycircus on the thread, in the interest of full disclosure.) Apologies if you think should be moved to

i_wank I'll move it.

ETA: bahleeted.

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eleutheria
2008-06-17 07:00 am UTC (link)

Oh, for the love of... I just went through this nonsense with some cuntmuffin on one of the Childfree comms. WTF is up with the fibro-bashing all of a sudden? Really, I'd quite like for it to be all in my head and I could just wish and it would automagically get better. I could do these traveling and working outside of the home and going to see movies in theaters things, it would be good. No, I'd much rather sit at home, be in pain, and talk about it on the internet just so as I can oppress abled people with my existence.

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ari_o
2008-06-17 07:04 am UTC (link)

You know the worst thing people say to me is "You don't look sick." And I'm like I'm sorry I don't have leprosy. *eyeroll*

I find I push myself to do too many things and then I fall apart and have to take days off. I'm finally learning I can do X or Y, but not X, Y, and Z. So annoying. I used to do rock and mountain climbing and ran long distance. I can manage a two mile walk if I take it slow and take breaks. But I am so dead afterward. Its depressing.

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silrana
2008-06-17 11:59 am UTC (link)

You're not alone in that. I have a chronic health problem (my adrenal glands have turned traitor) and because I can't say I have cancer or something my bosses have actually heard of, I've never been able to completely convince them that there are days I can't move as fast as others. At least a lot of people have heard of fibromyalgia. You say hyperaldosteronism and you get a glazed look.

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	ari_o 2008-06-17 05:39 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah I can imagine. Hyperprolactinemia gets me the same look. I just tell people I have a pituitary tumor that makes produces 1000 times the amount of a certain hormone unless I take medicine that makes me dizzy and queasy. There must be a way for you to say my hormones don't work right (or whatever the specifics are) or something that people can grasp? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

silrana
2008-06-17 07:11 pm UTC (link)

Mine is similar in that my glands make way too much of a hormone that, if left untreated, will have blood shooting out of my eyes. No, really, I first learned that I was sick when I went to my OB/GYN for a poke and prod and he sent me to the emergency room because of my blood pressure. I had been walking around for heaven knows how long with stroke level BP. You know it's bad when the emergency room nurses keep popping into your little pod just to stare at you.

The pills I take control things most days, but I am subject to occasional severe blood pressure spikes, which mess me up. A lot.

Actually, I've started blaming most of my bad days on my heart. It was damaged in the time before I knew what was happening, and now I just say I have chest pains and they leave me alone. A heart attack they can understand.

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	ari_o 2008-06-17 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	OMG. D: That sounds horrid. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	m_butterfly 2008-06-27 05:39 am UTC (link)
	I am many, many days late on this, but "all of a sudden"? You haven't been getting this since you were diagnosed? Or was it just an unusually intense spurt? I've sort of come to take the disbelief and the jackassery as part and parcel of the diagnosis. Hell, it should be a symptom. Meh. >:( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ari_o 2008-06-27 06:06 am UTC (link)
	My favorite is when people say, "but you don't look sick." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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