30 People With Non-Obvious Illnesses Share The Reasons People Get Mad At Them

Oh me too. Are loud noises, sudden noises, big crowds symptomatic of PTSD? I did not know. Now all I need to do is figure out how I got it. I think I know.

Yep you can't stop being trigger

I feel your pain, I have the same x Stressors can still catch me unawares and I had a public meltdown two weeks ago which was very embarrassing to me

Same here

Me also. Started when I was 28 and as a nursery school helper, I couldn't even hold a pair of scissors. I also have IBS, which doesn't sound so bad, but the pain can be debilitating. Add adult-onset Asthma to the mix and I was a basket case during COVID. I also have two titanium hips. Sometimes I just want to sleep and sleep. My family are great, but because I look okay, they sometimes forget and definitely fail to empathise.

I have those too, and maybe I have a "milder" condition but it means that every menial task seems to be a struggle... like dressing, for example... the jeans, the shoes.. getting in the car, I could go on... Healthy individuals don´t see that as an illness, but believe me, it is depressing to see your body being slowly defeated by these afflictions. And, yes, I take my medications daily... but still...

I am right there with you and had the exact same experiences you did, only I have both, so double the "pleasure", double the "fun".

I had the pleasure of speaking to an older man who had Asperger Syndrome. I worked at a crisis hotline and he was quite forward. He used to tell me that the difficult between those who had Asperger vs Autism is that Asperger are ppl who are too brilliant to be constrained by the pointless societal norms while autistic ppl have the mental capacity of a potato that can scream. I later learned he was a professor. He was an extremely intelligent man, but he had no filter.

Same, but I'm from the 70's and a girl when ADHD was only a problem for boys and the only autism was the one that makes 2 year olds stop speaking, so I was just a flakey weird kid for no reason. Just think, if I was born now I could have gotten interventions and not been a high school dropout

Same here. I was only diagnosed as ADHD for the same reasons. It's very common for people with Asperger's (now known as Autism Spectrum Disorder) to have multiple disorders including ADHD. I was going to say that it was more like new tabs constantly opening and then not being able to go back to the one you need.

Sounds familiar. Whenever I got two or more commands that were contradicting like, both tasks had highest priority, my little asperger brain couldn't handle it and gave me the bluescreen that caused me to freeze. My mother wasn't amused about the laziness.

As someone who grew up in the 60s, I can attest to what you are saying. I can't count the number of times I have been called a lazy person who doesn't try hard enough.

I have Asperger and ADD, they can overlap too.

Same here and most of my teachers were nasty and fellow students were worse

Absolutely true for me as well - grew up with “a behavior problem” and My parents thought I was an absolute monster and enjoyed embarrassing them in public, not having any friends, doing poorly in school… And I “only” have ADHD. Also grew up in the 70’s/80’s.

We are Sisters from another mister it seems. ♥️🙏🏼

This is me and my brother growing up we are now understanding that we are both in the spectrum. Neither talk to either parent. The abuse made it worse. Never belonged anywhere and none wanted us around

Yes, ADHD isn't a matter of intelligence. It just makes utilizing that intelligence and education more difficult. Since I can't use the meds, I've had to embrace my ADHD as just part of who I am.

I have a client who told me he has ADHD; he got fired from every job he had as a waiter, so he became a doctor instead. 😳

I get it (at 1 AM after working 10 hrs but needing to be up again in 5.) Can't fall asleep to TV or music either. My brain refuses to hit the off button.

Frequent migraine sufferer here. There is medication both preventative and acute but like all things brain related it doesn’t always work and the mechanism behind migraines still isn’t fully understood. I was on beta blockers for years to try and stop them, didn’t work. Hormonal contraception made them worse. Triptans can sometimes stop one. Botox injections in the head next.

I take a prescription medication just after migraines start. Ideally, I take a tablet, and then sleep for 2 hours. After that I'm normally nice and functional. However, if I don't get the nap I will struggle for the next 12-18 hours. For the last few months, I've been taking magnesium supplements, and this has reduced the number of migraines I've been having.

There's three that I know of, but the side effects aren't worth it in the long run. I take a Tylenol with Sudafed and lay down. Something works for ever one. Finding the trigger and avoiding it is best.

There were no medications for migraines until recently. A few years back, Emgality came out, and it has helped me so much. Prior to that, I would get migraines up to seven days a week. My neurologist put me on seizure medication, because it helped some people with migraines, but it sure didn't help me. Cannabis, OTC meds, botox injections, and birth control pills didn't decrease my migraine pain either. It's only now that there is a drug specifically made for people with migraines that I have my pain under control.

Ocular migraines are so weird! The first time I had one, I didn't know what was happening, I just had to sit there at work while my vision got worse and worse and I was just like "wtf?"

There are several. Normal over the counter painkillers only work with very light pain or at the very start of an attack. Triptans work pretty well, I've used Zolmitriptan for several years now. That's the only thing that might help during a full blown attack. In a nutshell migraines are swollen blood vessels in the brain, so anything that restricts the blood flow and gets the blood pressure up might help. Icepacks on the head (there are special cooling caps for the use during chemotherapy) or very cold air in winter, caffeine etc. Someone mentioned Emgality, which is a preventative immune therapy. Just recently learned about it, and I now keep a strict migraine diary in the hopes that my health insurance will pay for it (it's insanely expensive)

I recently started nurtec. It helps with the headache aspect tremendously. But, I feel like it just keeps pushing hormonal migraines until the next day. And while it super helps with the head pain aspect, I still feel nauseated, drained, and almost all the other aura aspects.

Lightning flashes can be a sign of a retina detaching. If you haven't already, see an eye doctor just to be sure.

Is it possible you are histamine intolerant? 90% of my migraines are caused by eating food with a high amount of histamine in it and 2 anti-histamines help a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histamine_intolerance My main symptom is migraines.

Yes there is medication but eventually it no longer works or it causes rebound migraines. Eventually the medicine causes the migraine (rebound).

You may want to be checked for clotting issues. I had issues with headaches and flashing lights in my vision on and off for a few months. Then I had a heart attack. They were confused as to what was going on until I had a pulmonary embolism and a stroke. The doctor said I had over a dozen clots in my lungs. Since I got on anticoagulants I haven't had a single issue.

They do have some, but not everything works for everyone. I had to try a lot of different things until something did not only help with the pain, the not seeing and the nausea, but also with the frequency of the migraines. I have been at a point where I had 1-2 a week - now I get 3-4 a month and a lot of them are a little "lighter" than the ones I had before. I still have a some really bad ones, that I have to get IV treatment for but luckily by far not as many as before.

Omg, I used to get ocular migraines when I was a teen. Freakiest thing imaginable (especially before I googled my symptoms and found out it was indeed a real thing and I wasn’t just going crazy). I’d lose my peripheral vision and then it would slowly transform into some kind of tear in reality looking thing akin to TV static that eclipsed a good portion of my vision for a scary while. I would then get an intense headache after my vision came back. My poor dad (bless his heart) would hear me complaining about "going blind" and so he decided to take me to an ophthalmologist for them. Yeah, it wasn’t my eyes that were the problem, but he tried.

I have chronic migraines and get the most advanced treatment available here (Sweden) - botox injections and Ajovy shots.

I don't get full blown migraines, but I do get aura. Light sensitivity and 'swollen head' feeling. For me, I've noticed it can be triggered by mineral deficiency, usually potassium. I also have bouts of hypoglycemia, which, I only learned very recently may be connected. Low blood sugar can cause your body to off-load salt, potassium, and magnesium. And I have noticed that about a day or so after letting my blood sugar get too low, I will end up with aura. Taking those three seem to help me quite a bit. Bear in mind that magnesium is pretty hard to absorb in pill form. I use magnesium malate, which works much better than the cheaper kinds usually available in stores (magnesium is a laxative, after all, if not absorbed out of the intestines.)

They do but, in my experience, they don't work for ocular migraines :(

My father's girlfriend told me I just need to pull my hair and drive to an acupuncture place if I was having one. Meanwhile I am constantly projectile vomiting when I am awake and sleep for days to avoid the pain.

I am the same as you. Flashes of light, particularly orange, can trigger mine along with just a changenin the damn weather. Sometimes I can tell Im going to get one before it actually starts.The visual aura sucks but at least it's a warning.The mental "offness" of the kind I get is so much worse.Sometimes I have trouble being able to tell if reality is real...its like I have memories of things that couldn't have happened.

My mom also has cluster headaches. She's had them all my life, but they weren't diagnosed until I was in high school. Every doctor told her she had a torn cornea, and then she saw my doctor when I was getting diagnosed with migraines and he was just like "Yeah, those are cluster headaches, take this prescription". They now no longer make the only medication that worked.

That's awful, sorry you have to deal with that.

I’m thinking that Aspirin wouldn’t even touch a migraine. If it’s actual migraines she has, then surely she’s on some kind of prescription? Because they are excruciating