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Medicaid or Medication: Having To Choose

If you had to choose between a medication that allowed you to work and thrive or a life of poverty without it, what would you choose?

Apr 30, 2024

Medicaid or Medication: Having To Choose

Apr 30, 2024

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This Isn’t About Saving Lives, It’s About Money: Pain Patients & The ‘Opioid Crisis’

If this were about saving human lives, tobacco and alcohol would be outlawed. According to the WHO, “Almost six million people die from…

Apr 18, 2023

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Apr 18, 2023

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A Pain Patient and Advocate’s Take on Chronic Pain Anonymous

As pain patients, we face things that challenge not only our abilities to function in a day-to-day fashion, but also our abilities to…

Aug 5, 2022

A blackboard sitting next to a journal with a pen next to a pair of folded up glasses. The blackboard reads “PAIN”.

Aug 5, 2022

An Open Letter To Parents Giving Their Children Ivermectin To Treat Autism

Dear parents of autistic children..

Mar 28, 2023

A portrait of the author in a green, blue and yellow tint; a woman wearing glasses

Mar 28, 2023

Fearing My Providers After Medical Neglect

I have EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome), hypermobile type. I was diagnosed with it in 2017 after having been wrongfully diagnosed with…

Mar 22, 2020

Fearing My Providers After Medical Neglect

Mar 22, 2020

Running Out of My Pain Medication

My primary CNP retired recently. She recommended a co-worker to me. I listened to her and scheduled with him. I know his other two…

Jul 2, 2019

Running Out of My Pain Medication

Jul 2, 2019

Generalizing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

I often wonder when it became acceptable to generalize chronic illness patients. It’s been something kicking around in my head for years…

Jun 20, 2019

Generalizing Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Jun 20, 2019

Mikki Maxwell

Mikki Maxwell

I am a writer, an advocate, disabled, autistic and have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I live in intractable pain.

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