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My physical health

Jane mcqueen
6 min readApr 30, 2021

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With the exception of childhood asthma, my physical health has been surprisingly good given what I have put my body through during the years. Since I have been an adult the most serious thing I have had to deal with were either urinary tract infections or the odd broken toe. The years of abuse that I have subjected my body to when I have had problems with my mental health never really caused any physical conditions to deal with.

My body has been remarkably resilient on this front, even at the lowest points my physical health remained good much to the surprise of my doctors. From extreme calorie restriction through to self-medicating with things that were not prescribed anything had an impact on my physical health. My body was rather resilient on this front; even with two major suicide attempts, my body managed to deal with them without any problems.

The last one did show a minor issue when I was in the hospital back in November when a blood test they did showed that my normally mildly anima was at a level where they were concerned as I had a very low haemoglobin score, but when they repeated the test two days later things were all back to normal for me and they were no longer concerned.

After the follow-up test showed my levels to be where they normally were for me they didn’t have any medical concerns about discharging me from the hospital. It was rather…

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Jane mcqueen
Jane mcqueen

Written by Jane mcqueen

Manic depressive, Anorexic, socially liberal transsexual woman

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