Had a disease/injury and failed to realize that you had it?

[Frosty]

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Nothing wrong with hot flashes... when it's -20F and I'm out feeding critters they are actually kind of nice!

 

[booker81]

Finding out about a lot of the disorders/diseases I have was a big O RLY? for me - and more of a "Now that finally makes sense!" Aspergers, Ehlers Danlos, POH, all finally solid reasons and not that I was an anti-social hypochondriac.

Woke up with a weird ache in my back, but I know what it is....my bad rib has popped farther and shifted forward - it's sticking out my front about 2". Dumb thing.

I am fairly ADD as well

 

[ChooksChick]

Not to get entirely off-subject, one of the qualities of ADD often is the fixation on a task once invested. Almost like, once you can focus, you will do anything to stay on-task, bodily functions be darn!! Hungry? Tired? Gotta go potty? Tough...I'm workin' here!!

That also translates to pain and injury, and hyper-focus is often found in the same folks who have ADD...I delivered 2 kids, no drugs, silent, focusing...hubby was really feeling left out.

I just wondered if it's a common thing for those qualities to be present in others who are chicken-addicts...wouldn't it be wild if we weren't a diverse sample of the population, but had some strange trends in our 'type?'

 

[welsummerchicks]

Fixing intensely/exclusively on one task is called Perseveration.

It is not necessarily a part of ADD or ADHD.

I don't have ADD or ADHD, but I do have Perseveration.

In case anyone has not noticed yet.

It has helped me immensely, professionally. At one job one of the ladies called me 'Bulldog', because once I was given a problem I would not let go of it til it was solved. I just cannot stop until I've completely analyzed something and found the solution, even after I find the solution I want to look for more problems in it, LOL.

If there are dozens of levels to a problem most people have had it by the time they get down 2-3 levels. Me, I'm just getting warmed up by then. My one boss said, 'she can build you a rocket ship that will fly you to the moon, but don't ask her to take out the garbage' - he meant stop me to do more of a side task. I look up with a dazed look and say, 'HUH?' It usually takes me several minutes to 'come up for air', resynch and figure out what the person is talking about. 'The what? The shipping bills project? What shipping bills?'

Once at a meeting a problem came up. My boss was there and quipped, 'Give it to Wels, she will have it by the end of the meeting'. I took the writeup, and I started reading, in a few minutes, my boss said, 'Look, there's steam coming off the top of her head'. I didn't get it by the end of the meeting, so when the meeting ended he took ahold of my sleeve and led me down the hall while I've got my head buried in the writeup, going, 'ok, then they hand off the shipment to....' Everyone was walking down the hall by us laughing.

Ever notice how long my posts are? Hm? Hm?

I just gave a ton of examples, and then came back and deleted them. Very, very painful to not include a dozen examples. It makes me nervous, LOL. It's not finished.

 

[WIChookchick]

I have a friend that has had a major rotator cuff tear for at least 10 yrs. He didn't know it, didn't have health insurance.. He knew his shoulder hurt but just didn't go to a doctor.
He became homeless (not his doing though), and went into a veterans asst. program, saw a doctor.. And viola... torn rotator cuff...

I love him... but reallY!!

 

[welsummerchicks]

I knew many homeless people who had all sorts of untreated medical problems, and I think that when a person is on the street they can't show any weakness, so tend to block it out. Some homeless guys I know are mentally ill, have nerve damage due to alcoholism or drug use, or nerve damage from frostbite, and don't always evaluate pain accurately.

 

[ChooksChick]

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OMG...you're me!!! At least on that aspect. Funny thing is, it's inconsistent.

...oh, look! A chicken!

 

[pbjmaker]

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My daughter potentially has sensory integration disorder (school OT was pretty sure but never officially diagnosed)

Anywho - it mimics ADHD. When she was 9 she was in gymnastics and when I picked her up she was like "Oh BTW I stubbed my toe when I was running for the vault but its OK. She already was dressed and ready to go so I took her word for it. The next morning she calmly told me she was having trouble getting her shoe on. Her big toe was twice as big as normal and purple.
Can you say broken?

Yet go to brush tangles out of her hair or cut her nails and she would have flipped from the "pain"

 

[old geezer]

..i,had both knees replaced--the right hip done--a major staph infection in the left leg and had part of muscle removed ,

,a hernia---5 by-pass and arthritis...

..and sometime's i still don't feel quite that good------wife says i'am 1 tough old sob---but i got optical rectivitus .when i asked her what that was---she said that's because my eyeballs are connected to my behind and it give's me a crappy out-look on life .

...aaah , what does she know .

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[welsummerchicks]

I honestly think there's no way out but to 'celebrate our differences'. Everyone seems to have a lot of neurological differences that don't really 'hit the line' (aren't severe enough or disabling enough to require a diagnosis or treatment). Everyone seems to have different strengths and challenges.

The way I look at ADD, ADHD, is "uneven or disrupted attention".

Sometimes they have hard time moving from one activity to another, other times their attention flits around, other times they can't listen to someone and do something else at the same time as much as a more neurologically typical person** - I refer to it as 'disrupted or uneven attention'.

There's a certain amount of variation/inconvenience/unexpectedness to ADD/ADHD.

The description of the child with Sensory integration issues makes perfect sense. They have a very hard time processing all the information when two different types of sensory information are coming in at the same time. My most difficult lesson with a SI kid was when she told me, 'Would you PLEASE stop all the Montessori cr**!', because she couldn't stand that 'feel the letter, see the letter, hear the letter' all at once. It drove her nuts. ALSO switching rapidly from one sensory input to another. She told me 'In first grade, I use to go sit in the closet so I could get my work done without all that distrakshum!'

** I think the term 'more neurologically typical' is not as good as 'chronically normal', coined by Fred Freese.