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- canadian & other things
- colourblind (tritanomaly)
- biracial (white passing) pronouns:
- he/they orientation:
- aromantic & asexual other:
- hates everything
- aries
- in love & not allowed to discuss
ABOUT ASHTON:
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- 26 years of age
- april 10th
- 5'3"
Researchers have discovered that the lungs play a far more complex role in mammalian bodies than we thought, with new evidence revealing that they don’t just facilitate respiration - they also play a key role in blood production.
In experiments involving mice, the team found that they produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, equating to the majority of platelets in the animals’ circulation. This goes against the decades-long assumption that bone marrow produces all of our blood components.
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco also discovered a previously unknown pool of blood stem cells that makes this happen inside the lung tissue - cells that were incorrectly assumed to mainly reside in bone marrow.
“This finding definitely suggests a more sophisticated view of the lungs - that they’re not just for respiration, but also a key partner in formation of crucial aspects of the blood,” says one of the researchers, Mark R. Looney.
“What we’ve observed here in mice strongly suggests the lung may play a key role in blood formation in humans as well.”
While the lungs have been known to produce a limited amount of platelets - platelet-forming cells called megakaryocytes have been identified in the lungs before - scientists have long assumed that most of the cells responsible for blood production are kept inside the bone marrow.
Here, a process called haematopoiesis was thought to churn out oxygen-laden red blood cells, infection-fighting white blood cells, and platelets - blood components required for the clotting that halts bleeding.
But scientists have now watched megakaryocytes functioning from within the lung tissue to produce not a few, but most of the body’s platelets.
How the fuck is this possible… Why did they discover this just now.. what the fuck is happening…
If you think that’s bad they recently discovered a new organ in the human body. They don’t even know what it does yet.
“While the mesentery’s specific function is still unknown, studying it as an organ could lead to new discoveries about its impact on abdominal diseases.“
It’s really hard to properly explain. I usually just sum it up by telling people my body doesn’t work properly, that it’s a health thing that makes zero sense. Don’t try to understand it, because I don’t understand it.
MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.
This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.
Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.
Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.
The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online.
I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.
I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me.
The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.
Reblog to save a vagina.
Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina
AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT
But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.
FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain
AMEN.
It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.
Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑
I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.
i’m really high and listening to indian summer by jai wolf on repeat and it’s such a relaxing beat, it’s so nice and soothing. but my mind is a toxic place to be, and as great as this feeling is? i just keep thinking about how i’m actually finally dying. and i’m terrified.
but no one really talks to me about it. or wants to talk about it.
one of my front teeth broke today while i was eating a cucumber, so now i have a major lisp. also, when my teeth touch my lower lip, it feels like i have vampire teeth and it keeps on freaking me out? but yeah. so now i’m even MORE self conscious of my teeth.
it’s been two days since my scans and shit at the hospital, and both of my oncologists have emailed me to come in asap to talk. amazing. who wants to bet i’m dying.
okay, so i went to the gynecologist today to get my usual injections and we talked about how i still want a hysterectomy [this doctor wasn’t my actual gyne, he was standing in because mine was out on leave because of something with his arm - not important here]. well, i opened up to him about being trans gender and how that’s another reason why i want a hysterectomy. he said he couldn’t clear that because he has to have a cause,which makes sense. i understood that.
after talking further, he mentioned that if someone came in with a note from a psychologist - and this is where i cut him off and i said, “wait, so if i got a note from my psychiatrist backing me on this, i could get the green light for the surgery?” and he told me that yes, if i got my psychiatrist to write him a letter saying that we had discussed it and yes, i’m sure i want to transition, etc, then yes, he’ll green light it.
i see my psychiatrist on the 19th and then i see that doctor again on the 25th of july. i’m so excited you guys don’t even know igusdfiogkjsfdg!!! this also means i will be bumped up on status listing for the endocrinologist [which was six months] because i’ll need the hormone treatments following my surgery, etc.
NO! i mean yes it’s a good thing. but it’s mostly because i keep forgetting to eat because i’ve been so stressed out this year? it’s bad lmao. or i just have not been hungry. i sometimes go a week without eating a meal. it’s really, really bad of me. don’t ever aspire to be like me, lmao. i have to start taking all these vitamin pills again because i’m so malnourished. i find out more when i go to the doctor tomorrow (: but yeah. like it’s good i’m losing weight because i did need to lose some weight, it’s just not the healthiest way to lose it, you feel? yeah.
