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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 421238" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I find Muchhausen's interesting. And I do agree that sites such as ours are vulnerable to "fakes" but eventually it's usually not too hard to weed them out. </p><p></p><p>I've had the thought of Katie possibly having this issue more than once, both for herself and possibly with Alex. Growing up katie's biomom made the sniffles into a life threatening event, not kidding, and being sick she was doted on to the nth degree from being run to docs to being over medicated.......otherwise she was cared for but otherwise pretty much ignored much of the time. The first time she came to us as an adult we were told she has horrid migraines. I'm still iffy over the migraines. I'm not saying I haven't seen her with a bad headaches a few times......but there is a difference. And she refuses to do anything that would make them less/better.....which also makes you wonder. This time it wasn't only migraines but seizures and supposed chiari malformation. The chiair malformation diagnosis fell apart before she even got here this time. And when she arrived and tried to gain sympathy for it I called her out on it big time. No more talk of it. Seizures......well unless she's been in an accident or used drugs there is no reason for her to have seizures. She has no hx of seizures......and I'd know because biomom called me even if the kid had the sniffles. After seeing ER staff's reactions to her (and I know these people/have worked with them) seizures are faked......and yeah you can fake a seizure up to a point.....enough to fool the untrained eye. Her seizure medications.........have been scripted for the "migraines" not seizures. She originally got those scripts here ten years ago. ugh I have called her out on both the migraines and the seizures. Funny........neither has occurred since. So, yes, makes you really stop and think.</p><p></p><p>husband is a full blown hypochondriac. Not kidding. If you give him the slightest bit of attention or sympathy when he's faking an illness/injury or even if he has one? OMG he runs with it milking it for all it's worth. He's bad enough when I ignore him, which I do nearly 99.9 percent of the time. Now, this could be katie too.......lord knows she has every other trait of her dad as well as being his female twin. And both her biomom and I know M fall for the sympathy routine in a huge way.......others probably do too up to a point. </p><p></p><p>So.....here is where I have the dilemma. How do you decide hypochondria vs muchhausen's? Or are they somewhat the same?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 421238, member: 84"] I find Muchhausen's interesting. And I do agree that sites such as ours are vulnerable to "fakes" but eventually it's usually not too hard to weed them out. I've had the thought of Katie possibly having this issue more than once, both for herself and possibly with Alex. Growing up katie's biomom made the sniffles into a life threatening event, not kidding, and being sick she was doted on to the nth degree from being run to docs to being over medicated.......otherwise she was cared for but otherwise pretty much ignored much of the time. The first time she came to us as an adult we were told she has horrid migraines. I'm still iffy over the migraines. I'm not saying I haven't seen her with a bad headaches a few times......but there is a difference. And she refuses to do anything that would make them less/better.....which also makes you wonder. This time it wasn't only migraines but seizures and supposed chiari malformation. The chiair malformation diagnosis fell apart before she even got here this time. And when she arrived and tried to gain sympathy for it I called her out on it big time. No more talk of it. Seizures......well unless she's been in an accident or used drugs there is no reason for her to have seizures. She has no hx of seizures......and I'd know because biomom called me even if the kid had the sniffles. After seeing ER staff's reactions to her (and I know these people/have worked with them) seizures are faked......and yeah you can fake a seizure up to a point.....enough to fool the untrained eye. Her seizure medications.........have been scripted for the "migraines" not seizures. She originally got those scripts here ten years ago. ugh I have called her out on both the migraines and the seizures. Funny........neither has occurred since. So, yes, makes you really stop and think. husband is a full blown hypochondriac. Not kidding. If you give him the slightest bit of attention or sympathy when he's faking an illness/injury or even if he has one? OMG he runs with it milking it for all it's worth. He's bad enough when I ignore him, which I do nearly 99.9 percent of the time. Now, this could be katie too.......lord knows she has every other trait of her dad as well as being his female twin. And both her biomom and I know M fall for the sympathy routine in a huge way.......others probably do too up to a point. So.....here is where I have the dilemma. How do you decide hypochondria vs muchhausen's? Or are they somewhat the same? [/QUOTE]
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