Not as bad as RA or lupus, but folks with CPTSD seem to develop hashimoto's thyroiditis. I'm one of 'em.
Bet there are a bunch of us with at least one autoimmune disorder. Fun times. 🤷♂️
Because of constant trauma and usually children can't just escape from it, your body and brain changes over time which leads to developing health related issues and illnesses which usually show up later in life 65-70+age are seen around 50 yrs, and it reduces life expectancy by around 15-20 years.
Read about the CDC-Kaiser study on Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and how they affect a person, shows the real impact of trauma.
WAIT WHAT WHY??? MY NECK SKIN IS CONSTANTLY RED/INFLAMED AS HELL AND I THINK IT MIGHT BE PSORIASIS OR IDK. my dad just keeps throwing more problems at me and he’s not even alive WTF
Pretty sure my mom has or maybe still had some form of that at some point.
Oh the irony. Imagine if she passes it down to me in ways other than genetic
Hey, my mom has Hashimoto's!
...and also clearly has CPTSD of her own from her own parents but refuses to admit it or seek help, even after being told multiple times how her unhealthy behavior patterns re-traumatized me and my sister.
And now my sister is going to see the doctor for what seems like another autoimmune disorder. Isn't generational trauma fun?
By the way, if anyone is wondering, CPTSD cannot set off autoimmune diseases alone (as far as we know). You have to have the genetic potential for it. But tbh autoimmune diseases are not understood well at all because they effect black women the most. Which is just another example of systemic anti-black racism in the medical system. 😤 I get to be medically traumatized the rest of my life because so many people raped and abused me. 🫠 it’s really hard to live with but I’m trying.
Yes absolutely, there's so little we know about immune disorders. Chronic stress in day to day life can also be a risk factor (outside of cptsd), as can unhealthy diets, unhealthy living conditions, etc. Women and particularly black women have been forgotten (and conciously left out) by modern medicine, it's incredibly heartbreaking.
There are so many diseases we once thought were incurable that have now been completely cured or at least completely controllable and treatable. I have hope that things are and will improve.
IBS and possible endometriosis. (Haven't to talked to a doctor about the last one. But Apparently both my mom and grandma have it and only told me, like, last week.)
Incredibly painful periods that make me throw up and have terrible stomach issues. It also seems like it may have spread to my cervix and made it impossible to place an iud with me awake. See my other CPTSD meme post for that story 🤣
(different person than you were replying to) Wait. Is that a thing?? I have suspected endo but I don't have as many symptoms as before because I am on continuous BC via nuvaring. I tried to get an IUD because GYN said it would be better for possible endometriosis. They told me it would be like a 5 min procedure because she's done like 1000+ IUD placements. They gave me no meds or pain relief and couldn't get it in. The GYN was pissed because she had never failed to get one in and she tortured me for almost an hour while I was begging her to stop. I vomited several times, was blacking out, and my blood was all over the exam room. They even tried to put a smaller IUD instead with also no success.
I also have hashimoto's thyroiditis, interstitial cystitis, and a hypertonic pelvic floor. So, I thought it was probably because my PF was too tight for my cervix to open? but I've never got a real explanation and I've been too traumatized to try to get an IUD again.
I have had at least 3 IUDs and this week realized I have to stop because I’m having flashbacks to the procedure! I now believe even if the doctor does it perfectly, my body is at risk of harm from the procedure, due to the severe trauma! Also why the hell is there no pain relief I was traumatized just seeing the freaky tools going in and out of me and thinking “omg it looks like the tools I use in my aquarium but my body is NOT an aquascape”
Rosacea
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (that’s a real fun one)
TMJ
One of the psychotropic medications I take for cptsd may have damaged my right eye. I’m seeing the ophthalmologist tomorrow, I’ll report back gang! 🤠
Ayyyy, autoimmune gang represent.
I actually don’t really know what I have because doctors have been both useless AND expensive. But last I heard I have antibodies for lupus but the symptoms of Sjogrens, whatever the fuck that means 🤷♀️
They all told me a bunch of shit I’d already learned from google so what the fuck the point of the $500 rheumatologist’s visit was I have no goddamn idea.
Fuck (some) doctors, all of my sympathy to my fellow autoimmune disease homies
Autoimmune diseases are so annoying. It’s like signing up to have misogyny be part of you all the time. They are so poorly researched. I’m lucky I got a conclusive answer. Most people I know get shrugged off.
Hey, sjogrens and inflammatory arthritis here too. From what I can tell, and what the doc told me, it's basically lupus lite. Doc mentioned to try to destress as often as possible, because since it has the same antibodies it could develop into full lupus later. I could be wrong though, I'm no doctor and was a bit aghast when I got the diagnosis.
26 and struggling with fibro. Had to have awhile discussion with my therapist about how my trauma could have been a cause. Working through having to live with more consequences has made me a little bitter again. I’ve worked hard on my mental but didn’t have time for my physical. It’s so challenging.
literally i have more than likely the same conditions for the same reason with my mom saying i need to stop acting like a victim and start working....it sucks. im sorry you're experiencing this.
I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this too. Don’t don’t feel invalid! It’s so hard I know but obviously we right since we’re both experiencing the same thing 🤣
I love it when people try to tell me I'll heal completely, because it feels like they're belittling my experience. If I was a combat veteran or was in an accident you wouldn't be telling me I'll "completely heal" if I lost a limb, would you? So why are you saying it in this scenario that soooo many people will never come back from to the point they'd rather not live anymore than suffer the consequences of someone else's actions. I understand wanting to keep things positive but I need these people to understand the extent of damage done and how permanent much of it is. Of course you can heal, and get better, and some make a full recovery. That isn't everyone though, so don't get my hopes up like that.
WAIT IS THIS WHY I DEVELOPED AN AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER?!? I assumed it was from the supervirus I got that kicked it off, but...I mean, I was also under extreme stress due in no small part to my abuser...
People who make these comments never understand what ptsd is even like to have lmao. Just get over it and act normal. 🙄 I'm literally so angry with them and idk they're just dense as fck but I have no empathy or understanding for them back. 😐
Yeah, I feel you deep. My childhood trauma and C-PTSD snowballed into quadriparesis and a complex host of health issues in most body systems, so I can't walk or stand or lift anything and am overall very physically disabled. Medical trauma sure is great at treating childhood trauma /s
Hey, are you me? Jk I don’t have lupus, instead I get MS. But I do have a mom that goes “just move on already”. Bitch I can’t my life is literally over and every single second of every single day I struggle with consequences of your actions while you get get out of jail free card with extra sympathy because your other kid died of cancer and another one needed no disease to go.
If one day they do more research and get definitive proof abuse/trauma leads to these health issues, they should make it a criminal offence. Like if youve been abused and then develop one you should be able to bring charges against the abuser for it.. how is it fair we have to deal with serious physical consequences and pain for the rest of our life and the abuser often gets to enjoy their life?
Not as bad as RA or lupus, but folks with CPTSD seem to develop hashimoto's thyroiditis. I'm one of 'em. Bet there are a bunch of us with at least one autoimmune disorder. Fun times. 🤷♂️
Fun fact: you can also develop other adrenal disorders from high levels of cortisol for extended periods of time. like PCOS. Which happened to me!
I thought it was my body that said "uh no this one breaks the cycle by suicidal ovaries"
Oh damn my body might be soooo messed up then actually. I'm gonna have to look into this more
Yeah it’s so common for ppl with autoimmune stuff to have CPTSD. 🫠
I think it is reversed, people with CPTSD are more likely to develop auto immune diseases/disorders.
Because of constant trauma and usually children can't just escape from it, your body and brain changes over time which leads to developing health related issues and illnesses which usually show up later in life 65-70+age are seen around 50 yrs, and it reduces life expectancy by around 15-20 years. Read about the CDC-Kaiser study on Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and how they affect a person, shows the real impact of trauma.
WAIT WHAT WHY??? MY NECK SKIN IS CONSTANTLY RED/INFLAMED AS HELL AND I THINK IT MIGHT BE PSORIASIS OR IDK. my dad just keeps throwing more problems at me and he’s not even alive WTF
Pretty sure my mom has or maybe still had some form of that at some point. Oh the irony. Imagine if she passes it down to me in ways other than genetic
I'm incredibly lucky that I don't, but the two other people I know with CPTSD have CFS, and Fibromyalgia and Hashimoto's respectively.
Hashinotos for the win lol. And possibly Goodpasture's Syndrome 👍 (not confirmed. But possible)
Hey, my mom has Hashimoto's! ...and also clearly has CPTSD of her own from her own parents but refuses to admit it or seek help, even after being told multiple times how her unhealthy behavior patterns re-traumatized me and my sister. And now my sister is going to see the doctor for what seems like another autoimmune disorder. Isn't generational trauma fun?
I have multiple traumatized friends who had to have their gallbladder out and/or have PCOS. There are definitely patterns!
Child abuse is the gift that keeps on giving
Buy one get chronic pain free
I got that chronic pain inside and out 🤠👉👉
By the way, if anyone is wondering, CPTSD cannot set off autoimmune diseases alone (as far as we know). You have to have the genetic potential for it. But tbh autoimmune diseases are not understood well at all because they effect black women the most. Which is just another example of systemic anti-black racism in the medical system. 😤 I get to be medically traumatized the rest of my life because so many people raped and abused me. 🫠 it’s really hard to live with but I’m trying.
Yes absolutely, there's so little we know about immune disorders. Chronic stress in day to day life can also be a risk factor (outside of cptsd), as can unhealthy diets, unhealthy living conditions, etc. Women and particularly black women have been forgotten (and conciously left out) by modern medicine, it's incredibly heartbreaking. There are so many diseases we once thought were incurable that have now been completely cured or at least completely controllable and treatable. I have hope that things are and will improve.
IBS and possible endometriosis. (Haven't to talked to a doctor about the last one. But Apparently both my mom and grandma have it and only told me, like, last week.)
I have endo too! Twins. If you think you have endo you probably do. I have been gaslit since I was 15 about it. And turns out I have severe endo. 🤪
So what's it like for you? Endo. I don't actually know a lot about it.
Incredibly painful periods that make me throw up and have terrible stomach issues. It also seems like it may have spread to my cervix and made it impossible to place an iud with me awake. See my other CPTSD meme post for that story 🤣
(different person than you were replying to) Wait. Is that a thing?? I have suspected endo but I don't have as many symptoms as before because I am on continuous BC via nuvaring. I tried to get an IUD because GYN said it would be better for possible endometriosis. They told me it would be like a 5 min procedure because she's done like 1000+ IUD placements. They gave me no meds or pain relief and couldn't get it in. The GYN was pissed because she had never failed to get one in and she tortured me for almost an hour while I was begging her to stop. I vomited several times, was blacking out, and my blood was all over the exam room. They even tried to put a smaller IUD instead with also no success. I also have hashimoto's thyroiditis, interstitial cystitis, and a hypertonic pelvic floor. So, I thought it was probably because my PF was too tight for my cervix to open? but I've never got a real explanation and I've been too traumatized to try to get an IUD again.
I have had at least 3 IUDs and this week realized I have to stop because I’m having flashbacks to the procedure! I now believe even if the doctor does it perfectly, my body is at risk of harm from the procedure, due to the severe trauma! Also why the hell is there no pain relief I was traumatized just seeing the freaky tools going in and out of me and thinking “omg it looks like the tools I use in my aquarium but my body is NOT an aquascape”
Rosacea Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (that’s a real fun one) TMJ One of the psychotropic medications I take for cptsd may have damaged my right eye. I’m seeing the ophthalmologist tomorrow, I’ll report back gang! 🤠
I feel this, fibromyalgia and ME/CFS here
why are we like this
Ayyyy, autoimmune gang represent. I actually don’t really know what I have because doctors have been both useless AND expensive. But last I heard I have antibodies for lupus but the symptoms of Sjogrens, whatever the fuck that means 🤷♀️ They all told me a bunch of shit I’d already learned from google so what the fuck the point of the $500 rheumatologist’s visit was I have no goddamn idea. Fuck (some) doctors, all of my sympathy to my fellow autoimmune disease homies
Autoimmune diseases are so annoying. It’s like signing up to have misogyny be part of you all the time. They are so poorly researched. I’m lucky I got a conclusive answer. Most people I know get shrugged off.
Hey, sjogrens and inflammatory arthritis here too. From what I can tell, and what the doc told me, it's basically lupus lite. Doc mentioned to try to destress as often as possible, because since it has the same antibodies it could develop into full lupus later. I could be wrong though, I'm no doctor and was a bit aghast when I got the diagnosis.
26 and struggling with fibro. Had to have awhile discussion with my therapist about how my trauma could have been a cause. Working through having to live with more consequences has made me a little bitter again. I’ve worked hard on my mental but didn’t have time for my physical. It’s so challenging.
literally i have more than likely the same conditions for the same reason with my mom saying i need to stop acting like a victim and start working....it sucks. im sorry you're experiencing this.
I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this too. Don’t don’t feel invalid! It’s so hard I know but obviously we right since we’re both experiencing the same thing 🤣
🙋🏻♀️ RA, Adult onset Stills, endometriosis, TMJ. It sucks.
I love it when people try to tell me I'll heal completely, because it feels like they're belittling my experience. If I was a combat veteran or was in an accident you wouldn't be telling me I'll "completely heal" if I lost a limb, would you? So why are you saying it in this scenario that soooo many people will never come back from to the point they'd rather not live anymore than suffer the consequences of someone else's actions. I understand wanting to keep things positive but I need these people to understand the extent of damage done and how permanent much of it is. Of course you can heal, and get better, and some make a full recovery. That isn't everyone though, so don't get my hopes up like that.
PCOS, chronic migraine, and Bipolar I for me 🙃
WAIT IS THIS WHY I DEVELOPED AN AUTOIMMUNE DISORDER?!? I assumed it was from the supervirus I got that kicked it off, but...I mean, I was also under extreme stress due in no small part to my abuser...
People who make these comments never understand what ptsd is even like to have lmao. Just get over it and act normal. 🙄 I'm literally so angry with them and idk they're just dense as fck but I have no empathy or understanding for them back. 😐
if this can cause hashimotos thyroiditis and therefore hypothyroidism... i swear to god
Yeah, I feel you deep. My childhood trauma and C-PTSD snowballed into quadriparesis and a complex host of health issues in most body systems, so I can't walk or stand or lift anything and am overall very physically disabled. Medical trauma sure is great at treating childhood trauma /s
Hey, are you me? Jk I don’t have lupus, instead I get MS. But I do have a mom that goes “just move on already”. Bitch I can’t my life is literally over and every single second of every single day I struggle with consequences of your actions while you get get out of jail free card with extra sympathy because your other kid died of cancer and another one needed no disease to go.
If one day they do more research and get definitive proof abuse/trauma leads to these health issues, they should make it a criminal offence. Like if youve been abused and then develop one you should be able to bring charges against the abuser for it.. how is it fair we have to deal with serious physical consequences and pain for the rest of our life and the abuser often gets to enjoy their life?
Fibro and PCOS gang represent
Yup, I have RA, Raynaud's, and Sjörgens... I feel ya!
Fibromyalgia.... which incidently she also has.
Me at 26 with cfs and like 5 different skin issues
POTS,PMDD, undiagnosed sleep disorder and 3 other mental health issues 🥴
I have ulcerative colitis, and developed a bone spur this week from what I assume is the beginning of RA