The struggle is worse the older you get.

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    18 hours ago

    Jokes on you I got some sort of undiagnosed malabsorption issues and won’t get fat even when I eat burgers and candy and alcohol day after day.

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        15 hours ago

        Sort of and also not. Not getting energy from food also means I have no energy for you know, existing.

        So while I might not need to worry about getting fat, I’ve also nowhere to display not being fat.

        I tend to sleep quite a lot.

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          2 hours ago

          Youve prob tried everything but have you tried modafinil, was hyped up as a limitless pill (is nowhere near it ofch) but you dont feel sleepy on it and thats what the army uses it for or used it for at some point.

          I can vouch that it works, doesnt feel like a stimulant like adderal or energy drinks, just don’t feel sleepy yet can sleep if you choose to.

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        15 hours ago

        no no it is not.

        being a bag of skeletons that do not like each other, eating 5000 calories a day and losing weight, that is not fun.

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah luckily I don’t have it quite that bad, (especially after I went on an exclusion diet and slowly added things to a really plain diet and sort of figured a bit what works what doesn’t) but, yes, I definitely agree with you. Not fun.

          I’d rather be fat and jolly than slim and super cranky from constantly being in some weird state of mild starvation. But it’s so mild and I make sure to supplement vitamins and whatnot so none of my basic lab-work is showing anything too far out of the ordinary, so the busy public doctors can’t be bothered to look into it since to them everything seems fine. Even when I can show them almost a years worth of literally shit pics, me having taken photographs of my stinky and floating orange poo. (I sent them to a spam-email I have so I don’t have to keep them in my phone’s gallery.)

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            5 hours ago

            I had a massive infection when I was that. It wasn’t just the malabsorption with me, but doctors insist you can only have one health problem at a time. I’m down to 3500 now and maintaining a healthy weight, so 👍

            I don’t want to practice medicine online, but if I had started smoking weed I’d middle school I’d have way more organs than I do now. There’s some small literature about it but Jennifer refuses to publish. Thinks she has to wait until I’m dead and we have had that problem before.

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              5 hours ago

              I started smoking weed about around 16 or 18. Not often. But pretty daily from my mid 20’s at least. Definitely helps with eating and nausea or gi-pain. (Sitting on the toilet for an hour or two is much easier when you also have a bong and a phone with you.)

              I don’t have a lot of infections and am generally “within normal parameters” as like you say, the doctors can only think there’s a single problem at a time. And at least here I always get a new doctor for most visits and I get like 30 min meeting every blue moon.

              The public doctors kinda suck for complex, chronic issues. And I can’t afford private ones to that extent.

              I don’t think my malabsorption is quite as bad as yours, but then I also randomly get seizures, to which I’ve gotten zero explanations for. Tested for epilepsy and had and MRI and whatnot, but nothing. But since Finland is kinda backwards when it comes to cannabis, they blamed it on my “drug use”. (Even though I have high CBD strains and they’re literally anti-convulsants to a degree iirc.)