Carly Pops 🍓 · @carlwhyz
87 followers · 50 posts · Server aus.social

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I am and if you're interested in , shit, and , here comes some brain food 🧠

I already did an post, but here's one introducing my .
I'm the only person (it seems) to have ever mentioned it on Mastodon.

I challenge you to find a worse disease with a more ridiculous name than 😂

Because nobody has heard of this disease, I ask people to imagine , a baby. That's what it is like.

It is a , usually caused by antibodies which attack the protein in the central nervous system.
The antibodies are usually associated with and diabetes.

include extreme muscle stiffness, rigidity and painful spasms, tremors, shakes, weakness, and cramps which can generate enough force to fracture bones. Mine are not this bad and I hope they never will be.

Those of us with have heightened sensitivity to noise, sudden movements, and emotional distress, which can set off spasms and pain.

I'm only 40 and it's been almost 2 years since I was diagnosed.
I try to stay pretty because I don't see any other choice. I still try to stay and so the things I , even though the consequence is always pain.

is key to life.

Use it my . Use it because you never know when you may lose it ❤

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