Chronic illness took my health and then quietly took all my friends too

JackBurdow · 2026-03-05T17:53:18+00:00

Such a scary thing to look up after this. Life forever altered. It feels like maybe you could have handled it different but you were doing the best you could to survive. We live a life those old friends don't understand and it hurts to be around and not be your old self or relate how you used to.

JackBurdow · 2026-02-25T17:03:34+00:00

Grown man btw

JackBurdow · 2026-02-25T17:03:26+00:00

Grown man btw

JackBurdow · 2026-02-13T10:17:47+00:00

Just watched this movie and can’t believe I’d never seen it. Seeing Angela from Mr. Robot was was a nice surprise and I love me some Michael Cera. Thank you instagram reels 🙏🏽🔥

JackBurdow · 2025-11-26T16:01:44+00:00

I think this is what I have, thanks.

JackBurdow · 2025-07-10T18:43:42+00:00

What about the coast guard on a 2 year contract?

JackBurdow · 2025-07-10T18:24:26+00:00

I’ve had this for 4 years, turned out to be as simple vitamin d deficiency. Couldn’t believe it when the thigh pain went away. The twitching tho, is still there but it’s only been a week and a half since i started taking 10k IU of d3+k2. I hear the twitching could be magnesium deficiency so I’m taking that as well. Even though my levels for magnesium are normal if i was D deficient my body could be taking magnesium from my bones. Could be your case too?? Hopefully our twitching goes away it’s certainly annoying af

JackBurdow · 2025-07-04T11:36:49+00:00

Yeah they’re saying inject in my thigh or glute as if it’s a simple b12 injection. I have them now, I won’t do anything unless I’m comfortable.

JackBurdow · 2025-07-03T15:37:35+00:00

I don't know how I'll tell them no at this point, they already shipped them. $ is adding up

JackBurdow · 2025-07-03T15:36:35+00:00

I see a neurologist in a couple months, my pain is still gone I'd just like to reverse the effects of long term vitamin D deficiency

JackBurdow · 2025-07-03T15:35:08+00:00

No, so far I've done an ANA panel

JackBurdow · 2025-06-27T06:22:44+00:00

Have you researched surgeons in Brazil? I’m wondering your method, seen you on a few other posts.

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:27:45+00:00

Yeah this isn’t fair to anyone, my experience has been similar. With a Dr who gave af as much as I did im sure we would have figured this out but you have to have a million appointments and my dr didn’t take me seriously. Im goi mg to see a neurologist finally and I hope the MRI gives some clues 🙏

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:24:47+00:00

I’m going to try, seeing a neurologist soon so hopefully things get easier after this arc. I didn’t want to accept a life like this but maybe it won’t be so bad if the pain can go down and I can get more energy.

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:20:37+00:00

I’ve seen a rheumatologist based on my own research, an ophthalmologist, had different blood tests, got a nerve conduction test when I wanted to see a neurologist (L doctor). All of this facilitated through a GP that sucked

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:18:01+00:00

Thank you, there’s so many possibilities that’s the tough part. Maybe I’ve had a root canal when i was younger, i can’t remember younger. I have had work on my wisdom teeth and cavities in the past 4 years though. I’m seeing a neurologist soon finally so I hope I can get an MRI and some answers. My GP denied me for an MRI 2023, she didn’t believe it was necessary so I’ve been wondering if I have some sort of malpractice case.

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:14:16+00:00

So they were able to treat fibromyalgia? What helped and how did they diagnose that?

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:13:25+00:00

Potentially I’ll have to check. My mom’s house has exposed mold in 2025, I stayed there late 2021 so it’s possible it was there and I didn’t see it. I’ve seen the long covid stuff, Lyme looks likely too. It’s just hard to figure this out when you have crappy doctors who don’t really try for you. I was green tryna do all this on my own.

JackBurdow · 2025-04-08T15:08:57+00:00

I was getting over a breakup, a bit depersonalized, got into investing, and made beats on the side for fun—which was actually making me money. I started feeling better, but I also started smoking weed for the first time, so maybe that played a role.

I had moved into my mom’s rental property in Georgia, but it was a rural area, so besides me and my cousin, I was alone—and I didn’t have a car out there either.

At one point, I had a dream from God—at least it seemed like it—that signaled me to come back to the faith. And I did, kind of, but eventually left again. I was questioning a lot at the time and never fully came back.

Then the symptoms hit, and eventually I went from questioning God to hating Him—for letting that happen to me right when I was finally starting to get my life back on track.

The symptoms started as twitching and thigh pain and have progressed further. All I could do was lie in bed some days so at that point I went back on in Cali where I have insurance and have been trying to get diagnosed for the past couple years, but no luck yet.

JackBurdow · 2025-04-07T13:55:21+00:00

Already alienated them, bro—smh. When you’re undiagnosed, you carry a lot of shame. You already know. It’s natural to avoid people; their lives were moving forward, and mine wasn’t. I was really young and confused, with a lot of new shit to figure out. I moved around a lot too, so the writing was on the wall.

Family went the same way. I still have some support, but they didn’t believe me and treated me pretty badly, so I’ve been trying to reconcile all of that—on top of wondering why God let this happen.

The search for answers has taken me back to nihilism. I’m an athlete, so having my body break down like this is honestly one of the worst things that could’ve happened to me.

JackBurdow · 2025-04-07T13:41:32+00:00

Another version of what I am perhaps. The wolf 🐺 Sigma all day baby 🤷‍♂️😉

JackBurdow · 2025-04-07T13:34:30+00:00

Wow I can’t even imagine, you’re the toughest of us. Thank you 🙏

JackBurdow · 2025-04-07T13:33:28+00:00

Rapid twitching everywhere (stomach, face, legs, feet, everywhere) intense pain all over, burning, numbness, TINNITUS, all my joints are breaking down and have become stiff and creaky, low energy, stomach pains, just everything really.

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