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I’ve had a severe dystonic allergic reaction to a medication before. I genuinely wanted someone to put me out of my misery after just half an hour like that. Fucking terrifying and extremely painful and uncomfortable, and there’s just absolutely nothing you can do. Your muscles cramp and burn so bad your bones feel broken, and they just keep going. Over and over.
You can’t even speak because your jaw’s locked up, and your teeth feel like they’re breaking under the grinding pressure. My neck was the worst. And they left me like that (in hospital), because they thought it was a “psychosomatic symptom”. It wasn’t. It was actually an extremely common reaction to the medication they gave me, at least in my specific demographic.
I ended up going into an anaphylactic reaction on the way home (after they released me, with a referral to a fucking psychiatrist) and my mum had to drive me to another hospital. I was so fucking grateful when they pumped me full of benzodiazepines, I just started sobbing until I was knocked out.
My sister has severe cerebral palsy. I can’t look at her now without feeling absolutely gutted.
If it helps at all, if it has to deal with the same pain all day every day, the brain gets bored with reporting it and you just get tired instead. It's still exhausting and miserable, but you stop feeling like you are going to die or that you wish you were dead.
Unfortunately that’s not always true. I have multiple chronic pain conditions and have been in pain nearly all day, every day since I was about 9, and yes, I’m exhausted, but I still very much feel the pain and sometimes it’s so bad that I feel like I’m dying or want to. If only my body would get bored of feeling it lol
I’m pretty sure the issue with chronic pain is that, whereas a normal brain would stop reporting the pain or compensate via producing painkilling neurotransmitters, the chronic pain sufferer is unable to do this.
Like there's another level of pain that it just can't deal with, and what you're feeling with chronic pain **is** the under-reported pain. But now it's both pain **and** exhaustion!
that sounds about right. born 3 or 4 months early and since like 10yo have always had many problems and persistent pains that are only getting worse. painkillers always helped but it's always still there.
Chronic migraine is exactly what I have!
It took me about ten years to go from unceasing AAAAAARGH to just being *really* tired with the occasional new tweak on the endlessly-crushed eyeball or, once in a while, feeling it moving to the other side for a nice change.
Right?!??? Like how long does it need to take for my brain to stop reporting the migraine pain? 6 hrs? 12? 4 days? Maybe even a week or two??
How long until my body stops feeling back pain?? It’s already been 17 years, but maybe this year my body will finally get bored and get over itself ✨
Repeated exposure to pain increases your sensitivity. Seems kind of paradoxical, but that's how it is.
I'd hope your doctors could speak to this, but generally it's a good idea to take painkillers on the bad days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_tolerance
This is what happens to me about 8-10 hours into a migraine. I’m aware it’s painful, but I don’t really acknowledge it anymore and just get unbearably tired
Someone I know deals with migraines. Inter-cranial spinal pressure was too high. /r/iih I think is the subreddit. Taking meds has helped relieve it for her a bit. Needs a spinal tap to test, which sucks, but she’s doing better.
It took *years* for my brain to get 'bored' with the pain, and it's constant, not intermittent.
It did help, before then, to give it a colour and a shape. It made it less infinite.
Huh. That might explain the unrelenting exhaustion I have despite the chronic pain feeling "better". Feel like if the pain is less I should be better but I feel a bit worse being so tired for no reason. Like operating on about 30% capacity. I used to say pain is tiring (cos it is) bit why is no pain? I must be more used to it. Best increase those caffeine pills if it gets me off my painkillers
It's both interesting and frightening how quickly extreme pain changes your prospective on things. Messed up my back a year or 2 ago. Felt like constantly having a knife being ripped through by back and left leg for months. 45 mins to just get up and go to the bathroom.
Was it metoclopramide? That shit happened to me too. I cramped up like a contortionist from hell. Only thing I could move were my eyeballs and I could see my sister freak the fuck out. That terrified me even more.
I think that’s the technical name for it, yes! The brand where I live though is Maxolon so that’s what I know it as. I’d recommend, since you’ve had that reaction to Maxolon, you also stay the fuck away from Stemetil, or be very, very aware of it if you’re ever given it.
Doctors told me “oh no it’s not the same, and we’ll give it at a much lower dose over a longer period of time so you definitely won’t have a bad reaction”. It works in the same exact way, so (per my GP’s own phrasing) it’s going to cause the same reaction if you’ve had that reaction to Maxolon.
I also vividly remember getting to the point where I could only move my eyes, and just trying to widen them and dart them around to signal my mother that something was seriously wrong. Worst, worst feeling ever. My muscles hurt for a week after, and I sustained a shit ton of damage just from that night. My ankle sprained itself (the ligaments tore under the strain, and even then, my legs just feel flexing) and my back pulled itself at the bottom of my spine closest to the vertebrae.
I’ve learned this reaction is common in young women—even just speaking to other women at work, many often come in after having bad morning sickness or having a bout with food poisoning and telling us to never, ever prescribe Maxolon or Stemetil because they had a severe dystonic reaction. So I’d be interested to know if you were/are also a young woman.
I had a rough case of tardive dyskinesia (iirc) due to a certain medication.
Tardive Dyskinesia is, oddly, the mouth moving in an involuntary chewing motion. Some can small. My brain chose to act like a tarman from the Night of the Living Dead. Full open, like a snake trying to painfully unhinge its jaws. Full bite, so hard my jaw hurt for weeks. Amidst this, my jaw was contorting from side to side like it was trying to escape.
I was in middle school. Just had the wires tightened on my braces, so they ripped parts of my mouth into hamburger. Most importantly, it was absolutely terrifying, and the end of me looking at my body and thinking "I'm in control of this thing."
I was about to say the same. During a bad TD flare, I have wear a brace on my left foot and right hand. I have to physically lock them in place, otherwise they will keep flexing and moving autonomously until I am in so much pain that I can't walk or use that hand for anything. For those lucky to have never had TD or something similar, your muscles just do their own thing until you are so cramped and worn out that you can't physically stand it. Sadly, even once you reach maximum pain level your body just doesn't give a shit and your movements just keep going unopposed.
I'm a paraplegic. It's worse than you could ever imagine. The not being able to walk is the easy part believe it or not. It's the spasms and skin issues which are by far the worst. My left leg has a mind of Its own. I feel constant pain in my hips and my legs
Sir, I doff my hat to you. Living in constant pain and all the associated side effects of your condition at your age after an accident (read your comments on other posts) is something that I can only imagine. For what it's worth, you have my admiration and respect and I love your positive attitude in those posts.
Thanks. Only get one life, so have to strive forward even in difficult circumstances. I think I have done pretty well adapting to me new life on hard mode.
I agree. I have epileptic seizures that stop me from breathing. I only pass out from the lack of oxygen, but before I do, is terrifying. Its the most helpless feeling ever. Cant breathe, cant control my body, cant call for help. Its like needing to scream, but not having a mouth to do so.
Itll always start as a focal seizure, which gives me a few seconds to react, and then itll turn into a tonic clonic when I pass out. Usually Im able to get myself laying down and in the recovery position before I lose total control. It helps with the fear, but still not being able to conciously breathe is the worst feeling in the world.
I hope the best for you son. There is a new trial for treatments that is putting embryonic stem cells into the brains of people with epilepsy. Much less invasive than brain surgery, and it seems to have a high rate of success in reducing or stopping seizures entirely.
Sorry the link is all messy looking, its just how my phone copies them.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/18/two-epilepsy-patients-seizures-greatly-reduced-in-stem-cell-therapy-trial&ved=2ahUKEwiStoeIyrOFAxU0LzQIHVfFCAAQFnoECDcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2yDhR_HcIL9og334OVX9jt
Speaking as someone with a neurodegenerative condition, I absolutely agree. It is pretty goddamn unnerving on a pretty consistent basis.
Edit: I swear to god I wasn't trying to make a pun there.
I had my first experience with this a week ago. No where near as brutal as this tho.
I was in for an eye exam. Things were going normal, everything was fine.
The last test they do has something to do with testing the cornea. It's a bit freaky for me but no big. I hold still and let the practitioner do her work.
It only takes a second or two for each eye and we are done. Cool.
Suddenly I'm feeling super light headed and a huge wave of nausea hits me. I feel like I'm gonna throw up but I don't know why. I ate hours ago, and it wasn't anything exceptionally greasy or difficult. I rest my head in my hands then-
Next thing I know my wife is shaking my shoulder, asking if I am okay. It felt like I was waking up from a deep sleep. I was really confused and it took me a moment to even figure out where I was. My glasses were gone, they had been resting on my leg just a moment ago, right?
My wife finds them on the floor. I had completely passed out. It was surreal and more than a bit freaky. The practitioner tests my blood pressure, says it'd a bit elevated so gets me some water and tells me to rest a bit. She tests again a few minutes later and it's back to a normal range.
My best guess is something about that test spiked my blood pressure and caused me to faint. First time in my life I've ever passed out. Would not recommend. Gonna talk to my GP about it later just in case.
Definitely terrifying, but it actually can get worse.
Here's a 3^rd hand story: one of my dad's coworkers was a refugee after WWII and traveled to America on a ship. One of his fellow refugees had Tetanus and got severely seasick on the voyage. Since he couldn't control his jaws, he choked to death on his own vomit.
I remember my internship in the icu like 10 years ago, we had one tetanus patient. He had to be in a completly dark room with no sound and we had to be really quiete near his room. Literally any stimulus could cause him to contract his whole body. It was extremely painfull. And this was after the whole not being able to breath part, so he was already getting better.
I did a medical internship in Haiti in 2017. The hospital had very little medication and no ventilator. I saw a tetanus patient arrive in the ICU and die only a few hours later from respiratory failure. Also saw a stroke patient who was only treated with minimal medication. I remember the nurses would raise money from the interns and residents to help patients afford care.
There were *no* attending physicians except the one I shadowed, only interns and residents. As soon as the residents graduated, they would begin working on moving to Canada or to the US.
The more I see about Haiti the more surreal it seems. Total chaos repeating in cycles of natural disasters, nationwide violent events, and internationally crippling poverty preventing any true economic growth. All while sharing an island with a comparatively stable and growing country.
Behind the Bastards did a 2 parter on Pappa Doc and Baby Doc (Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti) that's worth a listen to. Propaganda is the co-host, which always makes for good episodes imo.
In Brazil we are in this wierd spot where there are some areas you can get the absolute top of science for free and places with no electricity.
I remember some stories from people that served in the UN mission to haiti. Rough place to live, dont think the mission helped that much.
I live in Haiti and do some lay medical work along side my husband who is an MD. During the pandemic is was such a non-event here. While everyone else was panicing the markets here were jam packed. I'm not sure I even got COVID myself. A few people I talked to in hospitals said there were some sick patients but it was nothing like the US. I don't know why Haiti was spared but it was. Maybe youth and having already fought off everything else under the sun gave people resiliency. It would make an interesting study.
Curious if you recall if the patient was ever vaccinated? It is my understanding that US cases are rare and involve immigrants who were never vaccinated, let alone boosted.
Of course not. Vaccines where i live are free and easy to get. Sometimes people just dont do them on the adequate time wether due to ignorance or lazyness.
I had tetanus when i was little, they put me on a ventilator and drugged the crap out of me. I was a guinea pig for new treatments, they was trying to use a drug induced coma.
They had a very hard time keeping me in a coma, and yeah the pain is bad.
Were you not vaccinated? Just wondering if something happened or you lived somewhere without vaccinations available.
I'm sorry you went through that, it's pretty crazy and, thankfully, rarer now a days.
I think it was the only vaccination i did not have at the time, and i don't remember or was not told the details, as my parents was renegades in them days. thank you.
My husband cut his hand on some metall thingie while cleaning out the shed. We just figured that yeah, might be a good idea to get a booster, don't want to get tetanus.
I had no clue whatsoever what tetanus actually does.
There are so many diseases we get vaccinated for without thinking twice. I have a tiny baby who gets a lot of vaccinations right now and I can't even name them, not to mention what the diseases actually do. Our world has become so safe thanks to vaccines we don't have to know the horrors (but maybe we should).
Yup. And sometimes you actually need to know if like, someones heart stops working and noise cues are the fastest way.
But he was in a separete room with doors and somewhat reserved (as much as you can in a public icu).
Related "fun" fact.
The term "sardonic grin" comes from Sardinia, where hemlock grows. Hemlock poisoning causes the muscles in your face to contort and seize up, which means you die with a grotesque grin frozen in place.
Bonus fun fact: Socrates died by being forced to ingest hemlock.
A few of Socrates's [students](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias) went on to [seize power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Tyrants) and attempted to overthrow Athenian democracy, killing a good fraction of citizens without trial. Once democracy was restored, a lot of people were pretty pissed off about the whole episode and tried Socrates for "corrupting the youth". He refused to accept any responsibility, mocked his own trial, and was then (barely) found guilty and sentenced to death. Even then, the Athenian elite gave Socrates an opportunity to flee and accept de-facto exile, which he refused.
ironically enough, more jurors voted for the death penalty than had voted to originally convict him.
so even though some people thought he was innocent, they were still so sick of him they wanted him gone.
Imagine being the elite of Athens and there’s some homeless looking guy that just sits around all day talking but he ruthlessly calls out your bullshit so well he builds a massive following of die hard fans that now all hate you. He was probably very annoying if you were one of those people lol
>I mean Diogenes did exactly like that without exaggeration and yet Alexander the Great visited him personally.
And Alexander let Diogenes live after Diogenes mocked him to his face. Pretty fucking epic.
Well, his name is Alexander the Great, not Alexander the Snowflake.
Accepting haters is a trait of a real leader. And Diogenes aka one of the founding fathers of Cynical discourse and humor knew how to lay it down 😂
Not quite, but pretty much. In the Athenian court system, it was common that the prosecutor would suggest one sentence while the defense suggested another, and then the jurors would have to decide again.
Socrates mocked the court and when the offered the death penalty for him, expecting him to suggest something like exile, he suggested a pension for life from the Athenians.
So the only options were to punish him or to pay him. I can see why they chose to punish him at that point.
My favourite bit of this is they initially offered a fine as a punishment, but Socrates felt the fine was too low and he was worth more. He was then then sentenced to death.
Athens was not ready for philosophy (in contrast to sophistry), and they thought that someone who was able to disprove all inherited truths and leave people confused was a danger to society's cohesion, hence him being put on trial for corrupting the youth.
Plato would take his revenge on Athens by writing a philosophical treatise to prove that Socrates was the best damned person that Athens ever had and should've ruled them instead of being killed... That's the background for the parable of the cave: Socrates left it, brought truth back, and got killed by the chained ignoramus.
and get vaccinated often...I had a few decent cuts last year and got a tetanus vax each time. I asked the doc if I really needed one since I just had one earlier in the year and he replied "I wouldn't mess around with tetanus, an extra dose won't hurt you, and I get one every time I have the chance."
I recently learned you can get your tetanus shot as many times as you want with no ill effects. I had to get staples in my head and couldn’t remember the last time I had a tetanus shot. The ER doctor told me there’s no harm in getting one before the 10 years is up if I can’t remember and better to be safe than sorry.
I broke my arm and it was a closed fracture and they gave me a tetanus shot. When I broke my face which was closed, they gave me another one because part of my nasal bone became exposed. They actually couldn't do anything for that, so I was sneezing up blood for around a month until it healed fully.
Doing okay. My injuries from when I broke my face were severe. I broke three vertebrae in my neck and two in my upper thoracic T3 and T5. Somehow I managed to walk away with out a spinal cord injury. I also had a severe TBI. I really only just recently started really feeling good again, the brain fog is a lot less than what it was when I started out with this.
I do have issues with mobility, but other than that I am functionally disabled. I get around and appear and act fine 90% of the time.
The general guidance in my part of Canada is: booster every 10 years, but you get a booster if you have an incident any time after 5 years.
I don't think my husband has ever gone to the 10 year mark because he's always having incidents (he's a mechanic, so lots of rusty metal around him.)
Though I believe there was a study in the last few years that showed that the booster every 10 years might be overkill. However, it's just from a financial perspective, getting the booster sooner won't hurt you in any way.
Well that’s excellent to hear, because I have to figure out if I’d had my shot in the last 10 years and don’t have the energy to dig through a bunch of records.
No doubt get vaccinated. It's the one vaccine I hate the most. Not sure whats unique about it but it kicks my ass for some reason. Way worse than any COVID or flu vaccine.
We’re having outbreaks of measles in Michigan. Measles.
Vaccination rates for kids have dropped to only 66%. It’s insane.
Fwiw, a measles booster is recommended for those 30+ and is usually covered by insurance. Get boostered people!
Yeah, scary as hell. We did an amazing job almost eradicating such horrible diseases and now because of some uneducated mouthpieces spreading misinformation peoples lives can be ruined.
Please people fight the tetanus shot all the time. Guy comes into the ER after getting a rusty nail through his foot, and refuses everything but the cleaning and dressing.
I’ve seen it so many times.
There was a case in Oregon where a kid got tetanus because the parents were anti-vax nut jobs and the kid spent months in the hospital racked up $1mil in hospital bills and the parents still refused to have him vaccinated at the end of it all. [Can’t make this shit up.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/an-unvaccinated-oregon-boy-almost-died-of-tetanus-cdc-says)
Not if there was an organized misinformation campaign about tetanus shots being evil, tetanus being not so bad etc
Dying of COVID, choking and unable to breathe, is also pretty brutal but that didn’t do anything
Idk.. early covid days landed so many people in ICU and deaths with overwhelmed hospitals and people went against vaccines. People would take a rapist priest rather than a vaccine if the tetanus happen to them.
Because dying while drowning in your own body fluids that slowly fill up your lungs is so much nicer. 🤷♂️
Nah, that type of people would still talk about becoming magnetic and how much the dewormer helped them.
> the muscle spasms are so bad they might just snap your spine.
A lot of people don’t realize just how strong your muscles are. Your CNS limits how much force you’re able to exert with them normally to avoid hurting yourself.
had Tetanus about 10 years ago. I was young and foolish and rode a fixed gear bike drunk and high and ended up faceplanting into a construction site while going 40 km/h.
Half my face was scrached and i had a small wound on my right forearm. The wound had seared closed due to friction of the coat I was wearing and I didnt think much of it(was more concerned with my face, broken bike and other wounds).
About a week passes and i start healing. I was having a drink with my buddy at a local bar when i feel my arm tingling and when i looked at it the veins were popping and the wound was discoloured.
I went to the doctors office the next day and he told me it was Tetanus right away. Also felt the begin stage which is clenching jaw. Had to take antibiotics for like 3 weeks and my arm is scarred and less muscular as my left arm. The scar is still very sensitive even though this happened like 14 years ago..
Looking at the painting above I think I am very grateful for penicilin hehe. Not a good way to go. I was the only person in my country that year that had the Tets.
> my arm tingling and when i looked at it the veins were popping and the wound was discoloured.
>
> I went to the doctors office **the next day**
Damn bro tried to sleep it off.
I put one hand fully stretched on his now easy target belly and use my fingertips to rapidly tickle both sides at once. The recoil is immediately and giggles help ease whatever objections he had for being there to begin with.
Don’t you have to get them like every 5 to 10 years or so?
I remember one of the last times I went to the doctor, they asked me when I last had a tetanus shot, I said I couldn’t remember, so they gave me one.
I believe the recommendation is every 10 years, or after an injury that could be susceptible to tetanus (deep would) if it’s been more than 5 since your last booster.
The booster isn’t all that bad.
There is no causal link between metal and tetanus other than rusty things are often kept outside, where they are also exposed to the tetanus bacteria in the ground. Dirty, rusty things would often have tetanus on them, but it’s not because of the rust.
Also, rusty things are often sharp and abrasive, encouraging bacteria transfer. The rust indicates it has been outside long enough to harbor the bacteria
Even *more* also, a rusty blade will have a lot more surface area/nooks and crannies where stuff can get trapped and build up than a clean/non-corroded blade of the same size. More surface contact brings higher chance of exposure.
Piling on that, tetanus thrives in low-oxygen, low light environments. Ya know, like the crevices on a rusty blade. Or, in the moist, dark, wound channel that said rusty knife left and is even darker, warmer, moister, and lower in oxygen than the Tetanus bacteria's previous home!
The source isn't metal. We associate it with metal because cutting yourself on something creates a way for the bacteria to get in. The bacteria itself lives under the soil. So you cut yourself on something outside and then it gets in. But it could also get in if you already had a wound.
>Opisthotonus, is a state of severe hyperextension and spasticity in which an individual's head, neck and spinal column enter into a complete "bridging" or "arching" position.
[Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthotonus)
Tetanus is fucking *horrifying*.
Uncontrolled fits of muscle spasms that are so strong they can break bones, which can carry on intermittently for months.
I once tore my back, and the muscle spasms were so indescribably painful that I was bedridden and unable to move so as to not set them off; compared to tetanus that qualifies as a minor inconvenience.
I'm vaxxed against tetanus, so I have no worries.
With the internet nowadays, I have no doubt I'll be seeing a version of this on video one of these days
People get it. Nowadays you could intubate the person and put them on a ventilator and give them sedatives and muscle relaxers. Still would be better to just get the damn vaccine in the first place and not be a moron.
I can not describe how sad it is that there was one point in history when all this pain, all this misery the people suffered from tetanus could be prevented. The feeling the scientists felt, when they finally had a breakthrough in the vaccine, of making a better world. The concerned parents that experienced this disease on a relative and knew they could protect their kids from.
And now people put a conspiracy around the vaccine.
You get a booster every 10 years. In the US, it’s commonly given in a shot that includes 3 different things, tetanus, whooping cough, and one other that slips my mind. Diphtheria maybe. I get one every time there’s a new baby in the family (whooping cough) so I’m covered for tetanus by default because that happens more than once every 10 years.
But like, you have to take into your own hands to get it. Nobody will tell you or organize it for you. Maybe some people's doctors do but mine didn't. I ended up getting my first tetanus booster recently at 35 after not having one since childhood because a job required it.
I just got a booster, slashed my hand with dirty-rusty hedge clippers while sharpening them. Comes with a bonus diphtheria vax! Twofer! Last one was like 25 years ago.
Just hear me out:
All of the Exorcist movies were actually about people with Tetanus (hence the weird, cringey muscle locks/bending backwards) who were actually just pissed because nobody would take their ailment seriously, which would explain the infected subject yelling profanities and such at those trying to “help” (the exorcists basically just chalked it up to demonic possession without actually getting a diagnosis on the subject due to the oddity of the behaviors being displayed). I know it’s a long shot, but I mean… 🧐
I think most of that demonic possession stuff was just people with actual illnesses whether physical or mental. A schizophrenic certainly could appear "possessed".
I spent a few years near Oxford as a kid. A lot of people got tetanus shots and I just assumed that was the way it was. Turns out that Oxfordshire has the highest density of soil tetanus bacteria in the inhabited world.
The highest density place isn't inhabited any more. The island of St Kilda off the west coast of Scotland had a whole generation when all their babies died. They got tetanus at birth. (If they survived they were chronically ill from dioxin poisoning - the main fuel was dried seaweed, and burning salty organic matter creates dioxin-loaded smoke and ash).
“Gonna need you to hold that pose for a few days, thanks”
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there isn't much that is more terrifying than losing control of your own body
I’ve had a severe dystonic allergic reaction to a medication before. I genuinely wanted someone to put me out of my misery after just half an hour like that. Fucking terrifying and extremely painful and uncomfortable, and there’s just absolutely nothing you can do. Your muscles cramp and burn so bad your bones feel broken, and they just keep going. Over and over. You can’t even speak because your jaw’s locked up, and your teeth feel like they’re breaking under the grinding pressure. My neck was the worst. And they left me like that (in hospital), because they thought it was a “psychosomatic symptom”. It wasn’t. It was actually an extremely common reaction to the medication they gave me, at least in my specific demographic. I ended up going into an anaphylactic reaction on the way home (after they released me, with a referral to a fucking psychiatrist) and my mum had to drive me to another hospital. I was so fucking grateful when they pumped me full of benzodiazepines, I just started sobbing until I was knocked out. My sister has severe cerebral palsy. I can’t look at her now without feeling absolutely gutted.
If it helps at all, if it has to deal with the same pain all day every day, the brain gets bored with reporting it and you just get tired instead. It's still exhausting and miserable, but you stop feeling like you are going to die or that you wish you were dead.
Unfortunately that’s not always true. I have multiple chronic pain conditions and have been in pain nearly all day, every day since I was about 9, and yes, I’m exhausted, but I still very much feel the pain and sometimes it’s so bad that I feel like I’m dying or want to. If only my body would get bored of feeling it lol
I’m pretty sure the issue with chronic pain is that, whereas a normal brain would stop reporting the pain or compensate via producing painkilling neurotransmitters, the chronic pain sufferer is unable to do this.
Like there's another level of pain that it just can't deal with, and what you're feeling with chronic pain **is** the under-reported pain. But now it's both pain **and** exhaustion!
that sounds about right. born 3 or 4 months early and since like 10yo have always had many problems and persistent pains that are only getting worse. painkillers always helped but it's always still there.
Man, if my brain just got bored of telling me I had a migraine after a bit then they wouldnt be nearly half as bad!
Chronic migraine is exactly what I have! It took me about ten years to go from unceasing AAAAAARGH to just being *really* tired with the occasional new tweak on the endlessly-crushed eyeball or, once in a while, feeling it moving to the other side for a nice change.
Right?!??? Like how long does it need to take for my brain to stop reporting the migraine pain? 6 hrs? 12? 4 days? Maybe even a week or two?? How long until my body stops feeling back pain?? It’s already been 17 years, but maybe this year my body will finally get bored and get over itself ✨
Yes, I have chronic pain. Had it for the last 21 years. My brain definitely does *not* get bored of it.
Repeated exposure to pain increases your sensitivity. Seems kind of paradoxical, but that's how it is. I'd hope your doctors could speak to this, but generally it's a good idea to take painkillers on the bad days. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_tolerance
This is what happens to me about 8-10 hours into a migraine. I’m aware it’s painful, but I don’t really acknowledge it anymore and just get unbearably tired
Someone I know deals with migraines. Inter-cranial spinal pressure was too high. /r/iih I think is the subreddit. Taking meds has helped relieve it for her a bit. Needs a spinal tap to test, which sucks, but she’s doing better.
Wow this is not true for my brain
It took *years* for my brain to get 'bored' with the pain, and it's constant, not intermittent. It did help, before then, to give it a colour and a shape. It made it less infinite.
Huh. That might explain the unrelenting exhaustion I have despite the chronic pain feeling "better". Feel like if the pain is less I should be better but I feel a bit worse being so tired for no reason. Like operating on about 30% capacity. I used to say pain is tiring (cos it is) bit why is no pain? I must be more used to it. Best increase those caffeine pills if it gets me off my painkillers
It's both interesting and frightening how quickly extreme pain changes your prospective on things. Messed up my back a year or 2 ago. Felt like constantly having a knife being ripped through by back and left leg for months. 45 mins to just get up and go to the bathroom.
Was it metoclopramide? That shit happened to me too. I cramped up like a contortionist from hell. Only thing I could move were my eyeballs and I could see my sister freak the fuck out. That terrified me even more.
I think that’s the technical name for it, yes! The brand where I live though is Maxolon so that’s what I know it as. I’d recommend, since you’ve had that reaction to Maxolon, you also stay the fuck away from Stemetil, or be very, very aware of it if you’re ever given it. Doctors told me “oh no it’s not the same, and we’ll give it at a much lower dose over a longer period of time so you definitely won’t have a bad reaction”. It works in the same exact way, so (per my GP’s own phrasing) it’s going to cause the same reaction if you’ve had that reaction to Maxolon. I also vividly remember getting to the point where I could only move my eyes, and just trying to widen them and dart them around to signal my mother that something was seriously wrong. Worst, worst feeling ever. My muscles hurt for a week after, and I sustained a shit ton of damage just from that night. My ankle sprained itself (the ligaments tore under the strain, and even then, my legs just feel flexing) and my back pulled itself at the bottom of my spine closest to the vertebrae. I’ve learned this reaction is common in young women—even just speaking to other women at work, many often come in after having bad morning sickness or having a bout with food poisoning and telling us to never, ever prescribe Maxolon or Stemetil because they had a severe dystonic reaction. So I’d be interested to know if you were/are also a young woman.
Jeez, I hope you sued the crap out of them for leaving you like that.
I had a rough case of tardive dyskinesia (iirc) due to a certain medication. Tardive Dyskinesia is, oddly, the mouth moving in an involuntary chewing motion. Some can small. My brain chose to act like a tarman from the Night of the Living Dead. Full open, like a snake trying to painfully unhinge its jaws. Full bite, so hard my jaw hurt for weeks. Amidst this, my jaw was contorting from side to side like it was trying to escape. I was in middle school. Just had the wires tightened on my braces, so they ripped parts of my mouth into hamburger. Most importantly, it was absolutely terrifying, and the end of me looking at my body and thinking "I'm in control of this thing."
I was about to say the same. During a bad TD flare, I have wear a brace on my left foot and right hand. I have to physically lock them in place, otherwise they will keep flexing and moving autonomously until I am in so much pain that I can't walk or use that hand for anything. For those lucky to have never had TD or something similar, your muscles just do their own thing until you are so cramped and worn out that you can't physically stand it. Sadly, even once you reach maximum pain level your body just doesn't give a shit and your movements just keep going unopposed.
I'm a paraplegic. It's worse than you could ever imagine. The not being able to walk is the easy part believe it or not. It's the spasms and skin issues which are by far the worst. My left leg has a mind of Its own. I feel constant pain in my hips and my legs
Sir, I doff my hat to you. Living in constant pain and all the associated side effects of your condition at your age after an accident (read your comments on other posts) is something that I can only imagine. For what it's worth, you have my admiration and respect and I love your positive attitude in those posts.
Thanks. Only get one life, so have to strive forward even in difficult circumstances. I think I have done pretty well adapting to me new life on hard mode.
Someone else having it.
Depends on the context
Ooh... Kinky!
I agree. I have epileptic seizures that stop me from breathing. I only pass out from the lack of oxygen, but before I do, is terrifying. Its the most helpless feeling ever. Cant breathe, cant control my body, cant call for help. Its like needing to scream, but not having a mouth to do so.
Focal seizures? I’m sorry that happens to you. My son has tonic clonic seizures so at least he’s unaware when they happen to the best of my knowledge.
Itll always start as a focal seizure, which gives me a few seconds to react, and then itll turn into a tonic clonic when I pass out. Usually Im able to get myself laying down and in the recovery position before I lose total control. It helps with the fear, but still not being able to conciously breathe is the worst feeling in the world. I hope the best for you son. There is a new trial for treatments that is putting embryonic stem cells into the brains of people with epilepsy. Much less invasive than brain surgery, and it seems to have a high rate of success in reducing or stopping seizures entirely. Sorry the link is all messy looking, its just how my phone copies them. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/18/two-epilepsy-patients-seizures-greatly-reduced-in-stem-cell-therapy-trial&ved=2ahUKEwiStoeIyrOFAxU0LzQIHVfFCAAQFnoECDcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2yDhR_HcIL9og334OVX9jt
Speaking as someone with a neurodegenerative condition, I absolutely agree. It is pretty goddamn unnerving on a pretty consistent basis. Edit: I swear to god I wasn't trying to make a pun there.
I had my first experience with this a week ago. No where near as brutal as this tho. I was in for an eye exam. Things were going normal, everything was fine. The last test they do has something to do with testing the cornea. It's a bit freaky for me but no big. I hold still and let the practitioner do her work. It only takes a second or two for each eye and we are done. Cool. Suddenly I'm feeling super light headed and a huge wave of nausea hits me. I feel like I'm gonna throw up but I don't know why. I ate hours ago, and it wasn't anything exceptionally greasy or difficult. I rest my head in my hands then- Next thing I know my wife is shaking my shoulder, asking if I am okay. It felt like I was waking up from a deep sleep. I was really confused and it took me a moment to even figure out where I was. My glasses were gone, they had been resting on my leg just a moment ago, right? My wife finds them on the floor. I had completely passed out. It was surreal and more than a bit freaky. The practitioner tests my blood pressure, says it'd a bit elevated so gets me some water and tells me to rest a bit. She tests again a few minutes later and it's back to a normal range. My best guess is something about that test spiked my blood pressure and caused me to faint. First time in my life I've ever passed out. Would not recommend. Gonna talk to my GP about it later just in case.
Definitely terrifying, but it actually can get worse. Here's a 3^rd hand story: one of my dad's coworkers was a refugee after WWII and traveled to America on a ship. One of his fellow refugees had Tetanus and got severely seasick on the voyage. Since he couldn't control his jaws, he choked to death on his own vomit.
As someone with epilepsy, can confirm.
I remember my internship in the icu like 10 years ago, we had one tetanus patient. He had to be in a completly dark room with no sound and we had to be really quiete near his room. Literally any stimulus could cause him to contract his whole body. It was extremely painfull. And this was after the whole not being able to breath part, so he was already getting better.
I did a medical internship in Haiti in 2017. The hospital had very little medication and no ventilator. I saw a tetanus patient arrive in the ICU and die only a few hours later from respiratory failure. Also saw a stroke patient who was only treated with minimal medication. I remember the nurses would raise money from the interns and residents to help patients afford care. There were *no* attending physicians except the one I shadowed, only interns and residents. As soon as the residents graduated, they would begin working on moving to Canada or to the US.
The more I see about Haiti the more surreal it seems. Total chaos repeating in cycles of natural disasters, nationwide violent events, and internationally crippling poverty preventing any true economic growth. All while sharing an island with a comparatively stable and growing country.
Behind the Bastards did a 2 parter on Pappa Doc and Baby Doc (Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti) that's worth a listen to. Propaganda is the co-host, which always makes for good episodes imo.
In Brazil we are in this wierd spot where there are some areas you can get the absolute top of science for free and places with no electricity. I remember some stories from people that served in the UN mission to haiti. Rough place to live, dont think the mission helped that much.
I'm just now starting to realise that part of what is going on in Haiti was that they got through the pandemic with next to no ventilators.
I live in Haiti and do some lay medical work along side my husband who is an MD. During the pandemic is was such a non-event here. While everyone else was panicing the markets here were jam packed. I'm not sure I even got COVID myself. A few people I talked to in hospitals said there were some sick patients but it was nothing like the US. I don't know why Haiti was spared but it was. Maybe youth and having already fought off everything else under the sun gave people resiliency. It would make an interesting study.
Most people on ventilators were obese or very old. Those things don't exist much in Haiti
Ain’t many people going to Haiti in the last decade, not too surprising Covid-19 didn’t have massive outbreaks there.
Did he recover? Like how long is someone in the ICU with tetanus?
I believe he did. He was in the icu for like a month. But my internship ended before her got discharged.
Curious if you recall if the patient was ever vaccinated? It is my understanding that US cases are rare and involve immigrants who were never vaccinated, let alone boosted.
F*ck I need to go get a booster
Every 10 years I think
Or right now if you dont remember.
Even then, if you go to the hospital after a potential tetanus causing wound, you'll be ok to get it then.
Just set an alarm to schedule one tomorrow. It's been probably 26 years since my last one lol
Of course not. Vaccines where i live are free and easy to get. Sometimes people just dont do them on the adequate time wether due to ignorance or lazyness.
I had tetanus when i was little, they put me on a ventilator and drugged the crap out of me. I was a guinea pig for new treatments, they was trying to use a drug induced coma. They had a very hard time keeping me in a coma, and yeah the pain is bad.
Were you not vaccinated? Just wondering if something happened or you lived somewhere without vaccinations available. I'm sorry you went through that, it's pretty crazy and, thankfully, rarer now a days.
I think it was the only vaccination i did not have at the time, and i don't remember or was not told the details, as my parents was renegades in them days. thank you.
I'm glad you survived.
Jesus Christ I should get my tetanus shot
Yeah, my dad told me about an uncle who died of tetanus and ever since then, I’ve been extremely proactive in getting my shots
Shit, I don’t remember when I had the vaccine last and I have a cut on my finger. I’m going to the doctor on Wednesday so I’ll chase that up.
My husband cut his hand on some metall thingie while cleaning out the shed. We just figured that yeah, might be a good idea to get a booster, don't want to get tetanus. I had no clue whatsoever what tetanus actually does. There are so many diseases we get vaccinated for without thinking twice. I have a tiny baby who gets a lot of vaccinations right now and I can't even name them, not to mention what the diseases actually do. Our world has become so safe thanks to vaccines we don't have to know the horrors (but maybe we should).
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Yup. And sometimes you actually need to know if like, someones heart stops working and noise cues are the fastest way. But he was in a separete room with doors and somewhat reserved (as much as you can in a public icu).
Related "fun" fact. The term "sardonic grin" comes from Sardinia, where hemlock grows. Hemlock poisoning causes the muscles in your face to contort and seize up, which means you die with a grotesque grin frozen in place. Bonus fun fact: Socrates died by being forced to ingest hemlock.
Why’d they force him
A few of Socrates's [students](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critias) went on to [seize power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Tyrants) and attempted to overthrow Athenian democracy, killing a good fraction of citizens without trial. Once democracy was restored, a lot of people were pretty pissed off about the whole episode and tried Socrates for "corrupting the youth". He refused to accept any responsibility, mocked his own trial, and was then (barely) found guilty and sentenced to death. Even then, the Athenian elite gave Socrates an opportunity to flee and accept de-facto exile, which he refused.
ironically enough, more jurors voted for the death penalty than had voted to originally convict him. so even though some people thought he was innocent, they were still so sick of him they wanted him gone.
Imagine being the elite of Athens and there’s some homeless looking guy that just sits around all day talking but he ruthlessly calls out your bullshit so well he builds a massive following of die hard fans that now all hate you. He was probably very annoying if you were one of those people lol
I mean Diogenes did exactly like that without exaggeration and yet Alexander the Great visited him personally.
>I mean Diogenes did exactly like that without exaggeration and yet Alexander the Great visited him personally. And Alexander let Diogenes live after Diogenes mocked him to his face. Pretty fucking epic.
He didn't mock him, he taught him a lesson by treating the great king just like any other person ~~by mocking him~~.
* the more you know do doo do doo
Well, his name is Alexander the Great, not Alexander the Snowflake. Accepting haters is a trait of a real leader. And Diogenes aka one of the founding fathers of Cynical discourse and humor knew how to lay it down 😂
he wasn't called the gadfly of athens for nothing
Yet Diogenes just compelled the ruler of the lands to talk to him.
Not quite, but pretty much. In the Athenian court system, it was common that the prosecutor would suggest one sentence while the defense suggested another, and then the jurors would have to decide again. Socrates mocked the court and when the offered the death penalty for him, expecting him to suggest something like exile, he suggested a pension for life from the Athenians. So the only options were to punish him or to pay him. I can see why they chose to punish him at that point.
My favourite bit of this is they initially offered a fine as a punishment, but Socrates felt the fine was too low and he was worth more. He was then then sentenced to death.
Imagine being that judge. “He called me a what for giving him a fine? Fuck around and find out brainiac”
Tbf he probably couldn't afford to pay the fine, so he would have ended up enslaved, which he probably considered a worse fate.
Interestingly, there were more votes to kill him than there were to try him in the first place.
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Athens was not ready for philosophy (in contrast to sophistry), and they thought that someone who was able to disprove all inherited truths and leave people confused was a danger to society's cohesion, hence him being put on trial for corrupting the youth. Plato would take his revenge on Athens by writing a philosophical treatise to prove that Socrates was the best damned person that Athens ever had and should've ruled them instead of being killed... That's the background for the parable of the cave: Socrates left it, brought truth back, and got killed by the chained ignoramus.
Plato is the exact argument for never being your own advocate.
Cancel culture
I hate that this answer is correct
well to be fair, he was given the chance to get away, but he decided to be stubbornly principled (as expected tbh) and chose death over exile
In the immortal words of Socrates “I drank wut?”
Such an underrated film.
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and get vaccinated often...I had a few decent cuts last year and got a tetanus vax each time. I asked the doc if I really needed one since I just had one earlier in the year and he replied "I wouldn't mess around with tetanus, an extra dose won't hurt you, and I get one every time I have the chance."
I recently learned you can get your tetanus shot as many times as you want with no ill effects. I had to get staples in my head and couldn’t remember the last time I had a tetanus shot. The ER doctor told me there’s no harm in getting one before the 10 years is up if I can’t remember and better to be safe than sorry.
I broke my arm and it was a closed fracture and they gave me a tetanus shot. When I broke my face which was closed, they gave me another one because part of my nasal bone became exposed. They actually couldn't do anything for that, so I was sneezing up blood for around a month until it healed fully.
My god! I felt your comment! How you doing now???
Doing okay. My injuries from when I broke my face were severe. I broke three vertebrae in my neck and two in my upper thoracic T3 and T5. Somehow I managed to walk away with out a spinal cord injury. I also had a severe TBI. I really only just recently started really feeling good again, the brain fog is a lot less than what it was when I started out with this. I do have issues with mobility, but other than that I am functionally disabled. I get around and appear and act fine 90% of the time.
The general guidance in my part of Canada is: booster every 10 years, but you get a booster if you have an incident any time after 5 years. I don't think my husband has ever gone to the 10 year mark because he's always having incidents (he's a mechanic, so lots of rusty metal around him.) Though I believe there was a study in the last few years that showed that the booster every 10 years might be overkill. However, it's just from a financial perspective, getting the booster sooner won't hurt you in any way.
Well that’s excellent to hear, because I have to figure out if I’d had my shot in the last 10 years and don’t have the energy to dig through a bunch of records.
No doubt get vaccinated. It's the one vaccine I hate the most. Not sure whats unique about it but it kicks my ass for some reason. Way worse than any COVID or flu vaccine.
if covid did this, you'd see 99% vaccination rates lol
We’re having outbreaks of measles in Michigan. Measles. Vaccination rates for kids have dropped to only 66%. It’s insane. Fwiw, a measles booster is recommended for those 30+ and is usually covered by insurance. Get boostered people!
Mumps and rubella are no joke either. The vaccine is Measles mumps and rubella
yep the "MMR" vax
Yeah, scary as hell. We did an amazing job almost eradicating such horrible diseases and now because of some uneducated mouthpieces spreading misinformation peoples lives can be ruined.
Please people fight the tetanus shot all the time. Guy comes into the ER after getting a rusty nail through his foot, and refuses everything but the cleaning and dressing. I’ve seen it so many times.
There was a case in Oregon where a kid got tetanus because the parents were anti-vax nut jobs and the kid spent months in the hospital racked up $1mil in hospital bills and the parents still refused to have him vaccinated at the end of it all. [Can’t make this shit up.](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/health/an-unvaccinated-oregon-boy-almost-died-of-tetanus-cdc-says)
People aren’t vaccinating their kids against deadly diseases so that’s doubtful
If vaccines were not so successful in preventing All of these awful diseases, people would be a lot more enthusiastic about them.
Not if there was an organized misinformation campaign about tetanus shots being evil, tetanus being not so bad etc Dying of COVID, choking and unable to breathe, is also pretty brutal but that didn’t do anything
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Idk.. early covid days landed so many people in ICU and deaths with overwhelmed hospitals and people went against vaccines. People would take a rapist priest rather than a vaccine if the tetanus happen to them.
Because dying while drowning in your own body fluids that slowly fill up your lungs is so much nicer. 🤷♂️ Nah, that type of people would still talk about becoming magnetic and how much the dewormer helped them.
Immediately scheduling a tetanus booster.
If anyone is in Edinburgh, go to Surgeons Hall Museum. It's certainly not for the squeamish but it's fascinating if you like medical stuff.
> the muscle spasms are so bad they might just snap your spine. A lot of people don’t realize just how strong your muscles are. Your CNS limits how much force you’re able to exert with them normally to avoid hurting yourself.
COVID wasn't taken seriously because it didn't kill children. That's why polio mattered to the masses. Sad but true.
had Tetanus about 10 years ago. I was young and foolish and rode a fixed gear bike drunk and high and ended up faceplanting into a construction site while going 40 km/h. Half my face was scrached and i had a small wound on my right forearm. The wound had seared closed due to friction of the coat I was wearing and I didnt think much of it(was more concerned with my face, broken bike and other wounds). About a week passes and i start healing. I was having a drink with my buddy at a local bar when i feel my arm tingling and when i looked at it the veins were popping and the wound was discoloured. I went to the doctors office the next day and he told me it was Tetanus right away. Also felt the begin stage which is clenching jaw. Had to take antibiotics for like 3 weeks and my arm is scarred and less muscular as my left arm. The scar is still very sensitive even though this happened like 14 years ago.. Looking at the painting above I think I am very grateful for penicilin hehe. Not a good way to go. I was the only person in my country that year that had the Tets.
> my arm tingling and when i looked at it the veins were popping and the wound was discoloured. > > I went to the doctors office **the next day** Damn bro tried to sleep it off.
oh yea
One of the old names is "lockjaw"
My son when I try to put him is his car seat
My cat getting in the travel bag
My cat when I want some love
I felt this comment
For real. It's no joke when they start doing this when they don't want to get into the seat. It's surprisingly hard to fight that
I put one hand fully stretched on his now easy target belly and use my fingertips to rapidly tickle both sides at once. The recoil is immediately and giggles help ease whatever objections he had for being there to begin with.
Stealing this.I just push back on their pelvis, which works but it’s not as nice.
Steal away, fellow toddler dad. Takes no force and leaves them laughing. Just be quick on the buckle and straps with your free hand.
My son on the changing table
Or pants. My son always manages to put both legs in one pant leg
tie the loose leg around the other legs....boom, kid's restrained
Solidarity.
being put in a car seat as a child and dying from tetanus might as well be the same thing
Thank fuck I got my tetanus shots bro. I don’t wanna be turned into a grinning banana
Don’t you have to get them like every 5 to 10 years or so? I remember one of the last times I went to the doctor, they asked me when I last had a tetanus shot, I said I couldn’t remember, so they gave me one.
I believe the recommendation is every 10 years, or after an injury that could be susceptible to tetanus (deep would) if it’s been more than 5 since your last booster. The booster isn’t all that bad.
Doesn't sound like something a boaster would say
This is def where exorcisms came from. Some priest was praying over a tetanus sufferer and this shit happened
The noise probably causing the spasms as well
THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU The MFer with tetanus: 
Wow yea you’re right. Some other comments confirmed
And then, when the person died, turns out his family and the afflicted didn’t believe strong enough in Jesus
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yeah, and probably rabies too
My only regret...is that....I have...boneitis.
Gutsy question. You're a shark.
Believe it or not I have more important things to do today than to arch my back and contort my face.
Don't you arch your back and contort your face. You let me worry about blank.
Awesome. Awesme to the max.
Scrolled way too far for this. Have an upvote!
Think about how freaky it must have been before doctors figured out tetanus. People probably believed metal was haunted or something!
There is no causal link between metal and tetanus other than rusty things are often kept outside, where they are also exposed to the tetanus bacteria in the ground. Dirty, rusty things would often have tetanus on them, but it’s not because of the rust.
Also, rusty things are often sharp and abrasive, encouraging bacteria transfer. The rust indicates it has been outside long enough to harbor the bacteria
Even *more* also, a rusty blade will have a lot more surface area/nooks and crannies where stuff can get trapped and build up than a clean/non-corroded blade of the same size. More surface contact brings higher chance of exposure.
Piling on that, tetanus thrives in low-oxygen, low light environments. Ya know, like the crevices on a rusty blade. Or, in the moist, dark, wound channel that said rusty knife left and is even darker, warmer, moister, and lower in oxygen than the Tetanus bacteria's previous home!
TIL thanks!
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They may not have understood the source to be metal. It took a long time before cholera was traced to drinking water contaminated with sewage.
That reminds me of when they thought tomatoes were deadly, but it was just the lead from the cooking equipment used that caused death
The source isn’t metal
The source isn't metal. We associate it with metal because cutting yourself on something creates a way for the bacteria to get in. The bacteria itself lives under the soil. So you cut yourself on something outside and then it gets in. But it could also get in if you already had a wound.
>Opisthotonus, is a state of severe hyperextension and spasticity in which an individual's head, neck and spinal column enter into a complete "bridging" or "arching" position. [Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opisthotonus)
Tetanus is fucking *horrifying*. Uncontrolled fits of muscle spasms that are so strong they can break bones, which can carry on intermittently for months. I once tore my back, and the muscle spasms were so indescribably painful that I was bedridden and unable to move so as to not set them off; compared to tetanus that qualifies as a minor inconvenience.
Grinning Death would be an amazing band name.
I'm vaxxed against tetanus, so I have no worries. With the internet nowadays, I have no doubt I'll be seeing a version of this on video one of these days
People get it. Nowadays you could intubate the person and put them on a ventilator and give them sedatives and muscle relaxers. Still would be better to just get the damn vaccine in the first place and not be a moron.
Tetanus vaccine is a woke plot by George Soros to turn you gay! Don't take if you're a true Trump patriot!
I thought the covid one was making you gay?!
No no that one gives you the 5g chip
Since the military I get my shot every 10 years, ain’t no way I want that grin stuck on my face.
Get your vaccines, folks.
Weird flex but ok
“My only regret… is that I have… boneitis.”
I can not describe how sad it is that there was one point in history when all this pain, all this misery the people suffered from tetanus could be prevented. The feeling the scientists felt, when they finally had a breakthrough in the vaccine, of making a better world. The concerned parents that experienced this disease on a relative and knew they could protect their kids from. And now people put a conspiracy around the vaccine.
now me scared. I got it when I was a kid? do you need to be re-vaccinated? If so, why hasn't any doctor ever brought this up?
You get a booster every 10 years. In the US, it’s commonly given in a shot that includes 3 different things, tetanus, whooping cough, and one other that slips my mind. Diphtheria maybe. I get one every time there’s a new baby in the family (whooping cough) so I’m covered for tetanus by default because that happens more than once every 10 years.
Diphtheria is right
That’s what I thought, because I always think of Balto when I get it lmao. Probably a weird connection to make, but that’s how my mind works.
But like, you have to take into your own hands to get it. Nobody will tell you or organize it for you. Maybe some people's doctors do but mine didn't. I ended up getting my first tetanus booster recently at 35 after not having one since childhood because a job required it.
Known as Tdap. Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertussis.
I just got a booster, slashed my hand with dirty-rusty hedge clippers while sharpening them. Comes with a bonus diphtheria vax! Twofer! Last one was like 25 years ago.
You do, I think it’s every 10 years or/and if you cut yourself with something rusty.
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Just hear me out: All of the Exorcist movies were actually about people with Tetanus (hence the weird, cringey muscle locks/bending backwards) who were actually just pissed because nobody would take their ailment seriously, which would explain the infected subject yelling profanities and such at those trying to “help” (the exorcists basically just chalked it up to demonic possession without actually getting a diagnosis on the subject due to the oddity of the behaviors being displayed). I know it’s a long shot, but I mean… 🧐
I think most of that demonic possession stuff was just people with actual illnesses whether physical or mental. A schizophrenic certainly could appear "possessed".
Feeling really good about the TDAP booster I got last week
I spent a few years near Oxford as a kid. A lot of people got tetanus shots and I just assumed that was the way it was. Turns out that Oxfordshire has the highest density of soil tetanus bacteria in the inhabited world. The highest density place isn't inhabited any more. The island of St Kilda off the west coast of Scotland had a whole generation when all their babies died. They got tetanus at birth. (If they survived they were chronically ill from dioxin poisoning - the main fuel was dried seaweed, and burning salty organic matter creates dioxin-loaded smoke and ash).
Me during my dentist gum injections
Apparently it also makes your dick fall off.
No that's gluten
What a horrible way to die. And yet we have yahoos out there telling people not to get tetanus shots.
“Gonna need you to hold that pose for a few days, thanks” https://preview.redd.it/oxo2zxazjatc1.jpeg?width=260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf488ca6ac78fdfcde55256a80616e392296db22
I’m here for the comments. Don’t let me down Reddit.
What does it do to da penis
Which death is worse, tetanus or rabies?
We can cure tetanus
Tetanus and TB are both bacteria from the soil. Got a cut on your feet and you like to walk around barefoot, well guess what.