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this is what long covid feels like [CW: body horror illustration, occasional art nudity]

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2025-7-28 My migraines ignore other negative symptom patterns, and healing patterns.

Symptom: Photosensitivity and Venous Insufficiency

Symptom: MCAS Bucket Explosion

Symptom: Chronic Migraine

Symptom: Migraine Triggers

Treatment: Keeping Myself Warm in the Dark

2025-7-25 Poor posture in car ride home from Neurology, 2 hours away.

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Symptom: Guilt that a treatment is working.

2025-7-17

2025_6_18 Waking up with a migraine

2025_5 and 2025_6 don’t be afraid (to) begin again again

2025_6_9 Today I am happy–happy!!!–to have only two pain places.

Symptom: Headache

Symptom: the repeated retractions of hope

Treatment: The ER’s Embrace

2025_2_20 Before all of this / Now

Symptom: Peripheral Neuropathy

Symptom: Chemo-induced nausea & vomiting.

2025-2-12 Starting imatinib for resistant mast cell symptoms.

Symptom: Icicle Stabbing Spondylitis

Symptom: Derealization

2025_2_6 My body no longer tolerates stress well, and US pol is very stressful

Symptom: Anger

2024_9_17 SPLITTING headache

2024_9_7 Sore throat, chest tension, low back pain

2024_9_5 Hand, Wrist & Low Back Pain

2024_9_4 Fatigue & Aches

2024_9_3 Acupuncture 10?

2024_9_1 I did barely anything yesterday & today, yet I feel my body cracking

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