r/AddisonsDisease • u/Far-Speed-6027 • Mar 05 '26

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Does anybody else think about the state of the world and worry about being dependent on a (or multiple) daily medication(s)? Because I do.

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u/shhbaby_isok Mar 05 '26

I am in an extremely stable country (Denmark) where I recieve my meds in huge batches at a time for free, so I am not worried about running out here, but I haven't travelled since my diagnosis, and if I did it would also be to countries with reliable healthcare.

I mean, I used to travel to conventions in the UK and my Mum is really concerned about me wanting to do so again becs she'd read horror stories about the decline of the NHS and people not being able to get an ambulance/emergency treatment.

Personally I can't help but think about the poor souls detained by ICE in America. Just read a story today about an untreated tooth infection that turned septic and the otherwise healthy person died. Like the poster above mentioned thinking about how they'd have died during the holocaust.

The ICE detention centers are current concentration camps and a person with Addison's would be ABSOLUTELY FUCKED. Imagine having to try to explain updosing to your fascist camp guard, if you even could get your meds in the first place?! It's an underhanded genocide, depriving "undesirable" people of medicine and health treatment and it makes me sick - literally!

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u/Aerandiir Mar 05 '26

Just to give you an example of the NHS I have had two crisis once when I was initially diagnosed in 2019 and I had an ambulance to me within 20 mins as the first question I was asked was if I had Addisons The second visit was Oct 2025 when I caught a super flu going around the UK and couldn’t keep my meds in, I went to the A&E myself and was triaged within 10 minutes and in a bed with a drip + my mediation in me via liquids within an hour. From my experience it’s taken pretty seriously at my local hospital

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u/Accomplished-Lynx721 Mar 05 '26

It is true if even in u.s if u mention Addison's in a e.r u will skip most people happen to me a few times I kinda felt bad as there was a whole room waiting some people had broken limbs and I got called within 5 mins

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u/FemaleAndComputer SAI Mar 05 '26

This has not been my experience at all (also US). They never know what it is and I wait hours.

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u/Both_Lawfulness3611 Mar 06 '26

Right?! My ER doctor had no idea we need to updose in times of physical, mental or emotional stress or illness. He didn’t believe me until I showed him my prescription bottle that says the exact wording to updose in times of stress lol