I’m so sorry 🫂 that must feel awful. Are there other providers you can go to or is this neuro your only choice?

I’ve been struggling a bit emotionally with everything happening in the news, overdoing the NSAIDs, got into a MOH cycle. Stress is such a huge migraine trigger for me.

Flags spotted in a town that has the last services for 74 miles: “ULTRA MAGA,” “Trump was right about EVERYTHING,” someone with a MAGA and an Israeli flag. Yeah, I think we’re pretty good, we won’t be needing anything for 74 miles thank you.

Neither of my parents seem to remember that I literally came out to them as bi in high school, went on a couple dates with a boy, and asked a boy I’d liked for years to homecoming. Apparently I just oozed enough femininity to be “gay or whatever.”

Oh, just lovely. 🙃 Not at all concerning. Thank you for sharing this

Sending you strength, this is such a real and common struggle. I know I worry my fiancé. They’re worried because they love and care about us and it’s hard to see someone you love in pain even if that’s their daily experience. It’s better than them not caring, right?

Yum, looks delish!

Hemiplegic migraines are awful and scary, I get them rarely and it’s always stressful for the people around me. I’m sorry you deal with them. It’s interesting to me that you were taken more seriously post transition, I had the exact opposite experience. Doctors believe my pain rating less now.

We talk very frankly about bodies and surgery and some explicit things, some of the poems people have posted have been a little steamy. I just worry that the way society is moving will lead to us being silenced. Hope it won’t happen. Getting ready for it though.

Gorgeous tomatoes!

Slime molds are so cool, this is a really neat one

Feels very gaslight-y. Ugh. I don’t blame you for wanting to skip the injection after that, how are you supposed to trust them at all going forward?

I’m so sorry, this whole situation is just awful!! I wouldn’t be trusting this place to even do it right after what happened to you but maybe you don’t have a lot of choices. I hope you can find some answers on when you can get botox, you deserve that!

Thank you, it is wrong! I’m in a state where it’s legally required they cover this procedure, so this feels like an amount where they can say “see, we’ll pay for it” while also ensuring they’ll never have to pay for it. And they’re not letting me appeal! So defeating.

I’m going to be kicked off Medicaid at the end of next year because of the BBB, so lining up another surgery before then feels impossible. Switching to my fiancée’s insurance once we get married, but this kind of gender affirming care isn’t covered on that plan. Very down and hopeless about this.

Oh I would be so mad, injecting you with the wrong medication is so irresponsible. I’m glad they’re cooperating. Now what a hassle you have to go through! I’m so sorry this happened.

I wish they would ask me how it affects my mental health. I bring it up in appointments, but it doesn’t feel like my neurologist really understands or cares about how large an impact migraine has on how I feel about myself and my life.

It’s almost like there’s one demographic here that’s uniquely deserving of all the bad things coming their way.

Not long after that, I lost my housing in a queer house and one of my closest friends because I was apparently an abusive, toxic housemate. All the transfems left because we were all bad apparently, but I got most of it. No great loss, the chaser who assaulted me was our neighbor.