Ashley Swims

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

Hot take, but if patients with chronic pain were treated with the same urgency as an 8 year old needing experimental drugs for “gender affirming care”, or given the same bodily autonomy as a woman getting an abortion because “my body, my choice”, we could be pain free.

•Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: States that "no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." This principle is fundamental to international human rights law and is incorporated into the Geneva Conventions.

•Article 75 of Additional Protocol I: Prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment at any time and in any place, whether committed by civilian or military agents. 

By that measure, when CDC and DEA policies knowingly leave the chronically ill and disabled to suffer without adequate medical care, they are committing human-rights violations every day.

They may not face a war-crimes tribunal, but that doesn’t make the suffering less real or the violation less grave

You shouldn’t have to carry a DNA test to prove your allergy to a medication.

You shouldn’t have to have your kidneys and liver destroyed for pain relief.

You shouldn’t have to watch dozens in these communities you have formed take their lives because the pain is just too much to take, and then watch that death be labeled ANYTHING but related to uncontrolled pain.

“They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights… Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

How much life are you living?
What liberty do you have?
What happiness are you truly pursuing when you’re forced to suffer to satisfy policy optics?

#chronicillness #chronicpain #hEDS #Disabled #MedTwitter #HumanRights

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

In the U.S. approximately 50 million Americans are not being treated for chronic pain. Up to 50% of chronic pain patients in active pain management treatment are receiving inadequate pain management. Is your pain being properly treated? Share your story with me! #chronicillness

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

Living with #chronicillness is no joke. Bonus points if you suffer from a rare disease that the doctor has never heard of, then they take you even less seriously. I have the privilege of having #hypermobileehlersdanlossyndrome and #autonomicdysfunction.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

For days I have laid at home with worsening neurological symptoms. Extreme tinnitus, electric-like shock sensations to my hands and feet causing my limbs to jerk in abnormal ways, and constant muscle twitching, muscle spasms, and dystonia that makes me look like I’m in an exorcist film. Then there is the issues with my vocal cord spasms causing me to lose my voice, sound hoarse, and choke on my food, spit, and drinks. My Gastroparesis is in a flare unlike any other I have ever experienced. My autonomic dysfunction/POTS is in full force causing abnormal syncope events, plus the usual at alarmingly high rates. To add to all of this, I can’t breathe. I am swollen to the size of a Goodyear Blimp, topping the charts with an 85lb weight gain in 18 weeks with 4+ pitting edema. I went to the ER once, and was literally told, no bull shit word for word “Well, you look perfect on paper. I can’t find any reason to keep you here if I wanted. If it would make you feel better I can give you a dose of IV Lasix before we send you home.”

Ladies and gentlemen, how has our healthcare system failed so horribly that a 34 year old mother of 3 will sit at home and die in agony because basic medical care is unattainable? This isn’t an insurance issue, I am well insured with private insurance. Going back to the ER because I am having a full blown medical emergency is a waste of time and money, because obviously the paperwork says otherwise. This is a system issue. If you are wondering why people snap, this is it. As a nurse of 13 years and a chronic illness warrior things have got to change. Otherwise we are all fighting a battle we are destined to lose on both sides. #chronicillness #hypermobileehlersdanlossyndrome #spoonie #healthcarecrisis

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

At what point do you take a person with complex chronic illnesses that is suffering immensely and say “It’s time to be compassionate and kind and offer some sort of treatment to ease your pain.”? The opioid epidemic has destroyed pain management for those that are suffering beyond comprehension. It should be illegal for medical professionals to allow their patients to live in a state such as this and not do anything about it, especially when those patients cannot take NSAIDs at home for pain relief. If that patient had cancer they would have been offered morphine and a fentanyl patch the day of their diagnosis, but when it’s a diagnosis they don’t fully understand they won’t research it. They just say “take some Ibuprofen” even though you can’t. Palliative care shouldn’t just be for the dying. #PalliativeCare #chronicillness #PainManagement #EhlersDanlosAwareness #Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain #Dysautonomia

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

I remember being a teenage daughter singing Martina McBride’s song “Teenage Daughters” at the top of my lungs like I was relating to that on some deep level. I get it now 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ #teenagers #daughters #daughtermom #momlife “I Ain’t Complaining, But I’m Tired So I’m Just Saying What I Think”

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

#AutonomicDysfuntion is fun. Like I can’t maintain my own body temperature and live in fucking Missouri. One day it’s summer and my core body temp is 101 and I am physically incapable of sweating a drop. The next day it’s 45 degrees outside and my core body temp is 96 and my whole ass body is in shock. I mean there are like 750 other symptoms that are more debilitating and life threatening, but this one definitely takes the cake for most irritating for the day.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

@Still_Waves @lildante76 @DelusionPosting “Indoctrination Certificates”

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

Processed flour in the U.S. contains numerous additives and chemicals that are banned in the EU that have been linked to gut health issues and are known to cause cancer in lab animals. Glyphosate, Iron, Potassium Bromine, and Azodicarbonamide are a few, also chlorine and peroxide to bleach it. There are many more chemicals that flour is “processed” with.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

@Gen_Vagueness @MichaelCal3302 @AlanLevinovitz @Chad8182 Processed flour, which is not whole grain. The foods that my body can digest require processing. Not sure what is meaningless about that statement?

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

@Lordpandawaffle @RScottDalton @greenmelonstudi Other body fluids doesn’t mean what you think it means. It cannot be spread by coughing or sneezing or kissing a baby. The only other risk factors are sharing razors, toothbrushes because of bleeding gums, open wounds, accidental needle sticks, things like that.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

@RScottDalton @greenmelonstudi @Lordpandawaffle Or give that same 1lb premie a Hep B vaccine. Are they going to be engaging in promiscuous sex and IV drug use? That is one vaccine that could be delayed until a healthy weight is achieved at least unless the mom was positive.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

@greenmelonstudi @RScottDalton @Lordpandawaffle Only the yellow immunizations were counted

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

I’ll start by saying I’m not anti-vax. I am pro science and pro facts. I’ve got bad eyes on white screens. You’re correct. But the argument on the higher counts is that they are different viruses that are being vaccinated against. They do combine them and do them at once so it’s less shots. Most pediatricians mandate covid and influenza to children under 3 because it is a risk to other children in the practice if your child gets sick. HPV is optional but most kids get it because there isn’t truly informed consent when it comes to vaccines. And there could be an argument made that a booster is technically not a new shot, but the child is still getting more of the immunization, and possibly a different one at that, when they are boosted.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

@greenmelonstudi @RScottDalton @Lordpandawaffle No lies. I did miscount, it’s 73.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

Birth-15 months alone listing out the separate immunizations in each injection there are 46. The majority of pediatricians insist that babies up to the age of at least 2 if not 3 are vaccinated against covid and the flu or they will dismiss you from the practice because of the health risk to the other children. If you count only flu and covid vaccines up to the age of 3, separate immunizations from birth to 18 there are 72.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

My husband and I had to get the Covid shots for work. I had a medical exemption, but my healthcare job wouldn’t accept it. The medical director did an override and said I would be fine. If I didn’t take the shot I would lose my job, and in our rural area there weren’t others so I had to. I had a bad reaction to the first but they said it was fine, the second was 50x worse. Within a year I was completely disabled at 32 years old. 2 years later I have had to travel halfway across the country to see doctors for medical care because of how messed up my body is. My husband was fine. The Covid shot is perfectly safe.

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

Right? The vaccine was supposed to completely stop the virus in its tracks if everyone got it. Literally accused people of unaliving hundreds of thousands of people and grandparents if they didn’t!! Now they want everyone to get vaccinated twice a year and you can still get it and spread it. Oh, and you can still get severe illness, and the vaccine can disable you too. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Ashley Swims @ThatSwimsFam]

I am not anti-vax, but I am pro science. This “study” is hardly proof of safety or lack of adverse reactions. Vaccines are exempt from liability. They go out of their way to disclose that VAERS is a vaccine surveillance program only, not a research program. In this article they only used a sample of 5% of non fatal reports. They admit that there was significantly more adverse events in children up to 7 years of age than they expected, so they excluded all adverse events that were described in the package insert of the vaccine. If there were more that 50 reported events they only included 20% of those events. These disclosures to this article on the DTaP vaccine alone hardly scream “no evidence suggesting significant adverse reactions”.