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A MED STUDENT‘S THREAD ON WOUND CARE 🧵 1: Disclaimer, general advice, Types of wounds

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after all the recovery attempts I‘ve made since last year, I‘m just waiting for everything to go bad again

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I‘m following a meal plan! Only one b/p relapse in 8 days! Working out regularly! 10k steps a day! I‘m recovering! I‘m healthy! Everything is fine!

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@trainwreckxic I think most of these are probably worth checking, but you‘ll need a doctor to evaluate/explain the results. Each one of these parameters on its own means very little / could change for a number of different reasons, and a professional could interpret them in context

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I‘ve fallen into a rabbit hole of rare complications of bulimia (there are so many and they are so horrific but I can‘t stop researching them)

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Found a new complication of bulimia that I didn‘t know yet: necrotizing sialometaplasia (the picture is not me, thankfully)

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@3rdWolf3 That looks sooo good

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Work in progress

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@trainwreckxic So basically if you really need a test, look for one for Ferritin, but I think you‘d get a clearer picture from a standard blood panel (because the shape/size of your red blood cells changes based on what you‘re deficient in)

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@trainwreckxic I‘ve read that some tests you can buy only test for serum iron (not good because that can fluctuate a lot). The ones that test for Ferritin are probably better, but that parameter alone could change for a lot of reasons (like infection).

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I thought testosterone would keep me from relapsing (because hunger) but that was wrong apparently… 🥲

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@trainwreckxic Nooo seriously they probably just think skeletal=bmi 13 because they don‘t think you could survive with a lower bmi. You don‘t look bmi 13. At all.

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@Yanqui_U_X_O_ Also it‘s really subjective, like of course a surgeon who regularly opens up people‘s intestines will think anything above muscle is superficial

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@Yanqui_U_X_O_ Honestly I don‘t get why people even feel the need to comment on depth/superficiality, it seems so pointless to me (and hurtful of course)

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@slitteraki It‘s actually ok! I don’t think I have any nerve damage, but I was probably just very lucky

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I‘ve decided to delete most pictures of myself (for now at least) - but here‘s a drawing I made

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@slitteraki I am! Just sliced my palm open with a mandoline

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I think I‘m going to delete all my pictures from here idk

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@biggerfishesss + my personal experience with wounds on the abdomen is that every single time I had one they had to surgically ligate a vein because it wouldn‘t stop bleeding

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@biggerfishesss There‘s so many superficial veins in that spot and it‘s really difficult to stop bleeding there because you can’t easily put a pressure bandage on it. Please don‘t do it

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@biggerfishesss