Dvixen @ Dvixen @lemmy.world

Whatever, I don't exist.

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It's entirely possible. I've been prescribed lyrica and cymbalta for neuralgia, and they were the absolute worst. (Cymbalta made everything smell like vomit and food tasted like ash. I had trouble keeping anything down.)

Managing chronic pain is a beast.

Good luck with the Mayo clinic, I wish I had access to something like that where I am. The medical professionals here are beyond worthless.

Multi tonal tinnitus is a real thing.

Source: My right ear has two tones, and the left ear has different from the right two.

I'm jealous! Mine only is tuned out if I listen to something loud, and I don't enjoy the headaches more than the tinnitus.

Not as a rule, no. I end up with a bigger headache and more ringing.

I've had tinnitus for decades, and it SUCKS. I've always been careful for my hearing, but after a concussion it arrived and never went away.

I play games with most sounds off. I can't use headphones, wearing them gives me a migraine no matter the volume.

I've had hearing tests, seen a specialist. I have no hearing loss, but I do have misaphonia and tinnitus. The combination is pure hell, there is no respite.

I can't distinguish voices in chats well enough to follow what's being said if more than one person is talking. It's even worse online when I can't lip read to decode what's being said.

Project your earholes.

I have noticed this. I have a few searches that I do regularly, and over time I've watched the results get less and less relevant for the same keywords.

One of the more recent searches was for a set of data I had been building. I had the keywords from my notes, and when I went to search for it again, using the same keywords that found it the previous times, it was no longer a result. I knew the dates of one event in particular, so I narrowed to that, and still google served me results for ten years before the specified date range. A bit more fine tuning, and Google continued to serve the same results, all not even remotely close to what I was after, and results that were found even as recently as last week are not longer there.

I go to a sports physiotherapy group. Much better results when the goal is to help me recover so I don't need to come to them.

I used to see a chiro, stopped while I was pregnant after he 'treated' PGP. (I'm hypermobile, and pregnancy made everything ready to dislocate.) Daily pain went from 5/6 (manageable, barely) to a 9 and severe mobility limitations.

I was slowly moving, but able to move before that appointment. Could barely walk, and climbing stairs was not happening for months after.

A physio realigned everything, and I walked out of the first appointment and could take stairs again. Ended up at a specialist dealing with the aftermath of that chiros treatment.

Physiotherapy is my first stop now, and I will never set foot in a chiropractor's office ever again.

The year of exclusion and wanting to cease existing.

Not easily. :(

Current list is Path of Exile, Sea of Thieves, Satisfactory, and Warframe. Aust timezone.

No argument there. Just have to find a new place to game from.

It's incredibly isolating when there is a game you are super keen to play, but your gaming group powers through as a group to end game, leaving you on your own to play catch-up.

They make promises to help, but magically they are always to busy even for a ten minute assist to help kill that boss it took them five people to take down.

A little empathy would have gone a long way, perhaps an invite to a group when they've rerolled their fourth character while I'm still levelling my first.

The people I'd been playing games with for the past few years stopped including me even on a token level. 'We thought you were in guild/server/discord already.' Never did get those invites.

In Australia, wall socket switches are pretty much standard. Couldn't imagine going back to not having them.

Ours does this as well. I've resorted to physically unplugging it when not in use.

Path of Exiles. Been many years since I last played, so it's pretty much a new game to me.

Also playing Sea of Thieves, but not as much as I'd like - it's boring sailing solo.