The transformation is complete: canefaced Lens Dunham IS Annie Wilkes

I actually think she comes across as sympathetic here.

I'm just trying to walk to the cock-a-doody car!

She does appear to have some genuine health issues, but she's been such a loon and attention whore for so long, it's hard to give credibility to anything she says. But perhaps she's finally developing a sense of humor about herself....

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No cane the night before...

[quote]No cane the night before...

Which means she could have had a flare-up during the night which is why she is going to the doctor.

I LOVE that she doesn't give a FUCK

R7 if she truly didn't give a fuck, she wouldn't be fishing for sympathy with a long, rambling, self-pitying internet post. Most of the population who deal with chronic pain and illness just shut up and deal with it.

Not really proof of anything r5, could have been sitting just out of the frame. Or maybe she partied too hard and had a flare-up the next day.

Call me crazy but the housedress and cardigan look does her more favors than most of the poorly tailored dresses she wears.

Her doctors cringe when they see this mentally ill loon on the appointment list.

I have that same outfit!

Just a little sick............ but I'm a survivor.

I thought she claimed to have Fibromyalgia?

Now she claims to have Ehler-Danlos?

What she actually has is Narcissistic Personality Disorder, aka “attention-whoring”.

[quote]if she truly didn't give a fuck, she wouldn't be fishing for sympathy with a long, rambling, self-pitying internet post. Most of the population who deal with chronic pain and illness just shut up and deal with it.

And most of the population aren't photographed at their most vulnerable, not feeling well, going to the doctor and having the pictures plastered all over the net.

The Frau is strong in this thread....all the Lens defending is nauseating.

Imma back outta here slowly.

Is this DL? Most of the comments are defending this tedious cow.

Again, curse her parents for either, a. Encouraging her special snowflakeness and making her think she’s worthy of public attention, no matter how embarrassing, inane or pointless; OR, b. Not giving her the attention she is now begging from us.

Whatever will this desperate, pathetic attention whore stoop to next? If she wants to jump on the bandwagon, start identifying as non-binary and transition to some indeterminate gender, she needs to do it now before that ship sails and it becomes unfashionable.

Maybe a few failed suicide attempts as well. "Lens Dunham has committed suicide.....again!" (as Aunt Alicia would have said to Mamita)

It must be very very depressing to so easily look like shit.

Depending on the subtype, some EDS people end up in a wheelchair by the time they're forty, so this is no joke.

She doesn't dress for her doctor? How gauche!

She doesn't dress for her doctor? How gauche!

Isn't this the disease the Evie Oddly had?

It is a shame that she is plagued by so many mental and physical health issues. I actually do think she's incredibly talented as a writer.

Ehlers-danloss (spelling?), is the new chronic fatigue syndrome: evert nutjob who wants to stay in bed all day, preferably with opiates on board, claims to have this. What they seem never to take into account or comment on, is that E-D has a genetic cause that can now be unequivocally identified.

Ironically the people who DO have it? They try to overcompensate in the other direction. They try never to appear sick. They look scary though. Like aquaman. Skin that stretches unbelievably, joints that that bend in unnatural ways.

There was an amazing episode of intervention about 15 years ago, i think, with the craziest bitch of all time claimed to have EDS. Linda Li, i believe. Chinese woman with an addiction to fentanyl lollipops. She set the standard for crazy EDS. Lens is a piker by comparison.

[quote]Ironically the people who DO have it. They try to overcompensate in the other direction. They try never to appear sick.

That poor doctor. You know this cow didn't bathe before she went for her exam still wearing her nightgown.

This is a controversial illness; many clinicians believe it's a phantom illness. Perfect for an attention-seeker like Lens. Lena is everything her detractors say she is, but she would still be fun to hang out with.

Is that a wig she's wearing? Her hair looks halfway normal.

Ehler-Danlos syndrome? What happened to Fibro?

The "SICK" neck tattoo at R26 wasn't enough, so now a pill rosary has been added.

Special diseases for special people.

Thank God she can't reproduce.

OK, Lens, just how good an actress are you anyway?

Lens is like thrush: irritating, disgusting to look at and has a faint whiff of cottage cheese. x

She's so full of shit. She WAS suffering with "Endometriosis" or some other Pelvic disorder for which she received multiple procedures, medicines and treatments for- all publically documented over the years. NOW she has the Equally brutal ED Syndrome? What are the chances? Such a Joan-of- Arc Champion of Patients.

Fibro as well, R36.

[quote]It felt like every cell in my neck was singing. My ankles and wrists were weak and my fingers didn’t do their assigned job. Yesterday I felt like I was suspended in gel, and when I meditated a line of pain zipped from my neck to my foot. I’m sorry if I don’t answer your text or email, or if I can’t show up the way someone else would. I am just trying to do everything required to maintain a life of joy and service. My work costs me everything I have. This is fibromyalgia. It’s little understood and so even though I have a lot of knowledge and support it’s hard to shake the feeling that I am crazy. But I’m not (at least not in this particular way!) and you’re not. Your pain, whatever shape it takes, is yours and so it is real. I believe you when you say you hurt. I have learned time and time again how important it is to believe.

She probably has been misdiagnosed with ED and actually has fluoroquinolone induced tendon damage (& other permanent muskuloskeletal and central nervous system damage) from Cipro. It is absolutely horrific what Bayer and J&J continue to get away with by poisoning huge swaths of the population with the bio-weapons that are fluoroquinolones.

R38 She probably has nothing at all wrong with her you mean

The fat attention whore

You're a research chemist or doctor, who can also diagnose through the vibrations on the Internet! Fascinating!

Isn't it possible that she's fat and sedentary and this is reflected in her health?

Now she thinks she has EHLERS-FUCKING-DANLOS? Next she'll find a conjoined twin in her armpit.

Narcissism is born from neglect.

"If she wants to jump on the bandwagon, start identifying as non-binary and transition to some indeterminate gender..."

That's already "taken" by her sister, so it just wouldn't do.

R43 Her parents are both extraordinarily precious, self-involved artists

Is there a chronic illness that she doesn't have?

There MUST be a Personality Disorder for this: " Mommy and Daddy were too self- absorbed in their own Fabulousness and now I must feign every ilness possible to get their attention." . But just out of curiosity R38, what's the % of Cipro injury these days? Wouldn't want to end up maimed from my next bladder infection.

I was wondering about R38 was talking about--if Cipro poisoning was the latest fad, but, by golly, there's an FDA warning out about it.

Ehlers-Danlos / Sia too--

As a matter of fact, R46...

[quote]a specialist told me I had been living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, of the hypermobile variety, a genetic disorder that can lead to widespread physical pain. Mixed connective tissue disease, mast cell activation disorder and Lyme disease were also thrown around.

Cipro is really bad stuff. There are people who have taken only 3 pills and they are permanently disabled. My sister had a bladder infection and the side effects page for the medication was two paragraphs. Two months later she has another infection and they prescribed Cipro, the side effects were 8 pages long.

Side effects like ruptured Achilles tendons which could rupture up to six months after taking the medication. I begged her to call her doctor and get a different prescription, a person becomes an invalid from a bladder infection? She was under a ton of stress at the time and she was getting colds and eye infections. A month later the stress was gone and so were the infections. I was so glad she refused the Cipro.

I admire celebs who "come out" about illnesses rather than try to hide the situation. It brings publicity, and it lets regular folks feel like they're not so alone.

Isn't this the same disease that Yvie Oddly has?

Cipro nothing. Attention everything.

[quote] This is fibromyalgia. It’s little understood and so even though I have a lot of knowledge and support it’s hard to shake the feeling that I am crazy.

I would stay with that feeling, Lens.

Only on Datalounge would saying she needs to stick with housedresses instead of the literal junk she wears on the red carpet be considered "defending" her.

[quote]She WAS suffering with "Endometriosis" or some other Pelvic disorder for which she received multiple procedures, medicines and treatments for- all publically documented over the years. NOW she has the Equally brutal ED Syndrome? What are the chances?

Honestly what probably happened is she was diagnosed with endometriosis and had a hysterectomy only to find out afterwards that OOPS she needed those hormones she was producing. One of the treatments for Ehlers-Danlos is supplemental hormones.

Everyone on Datalounge thinks every illness is completely invented but both endometriosis and Ehlers-Danlos can be diagnosed with tests (while fibro is still I believe a rule-everything-else-out-first kind of illness). I mean of course she could be lying about her illnesses, but the illnesses themselves are very real.

How long until Lady Gaga claims to have Ehlers-Danlos??

She could get herself a support animal, but she'll probably give it away after she got bored with it.

R57 — There's no test for hypermobile EDS, which is the one that she (along with an ever-growing contingent of mommy-bloggers) claims to have, and there is no established genetic basis for it.

Joint hypermobility (which is relatively common, heritable, and not necessarily related to EDS) can be diagnosed via the Beighton score, a set of observed movements with a points awarded for things like being able to rest one's palms on the floor when bent forward, extending an elbow more than ten degrees, etc.

Strangely enough, the mere mention of Beighton can result in gasping, sobbing, hyperventilating histrionics about not possibly being able to withstand the pain of bending forward or extending an arm, so the less diligent clinicians will jump straight to a hypermobility questionnaire consisting of questions such as:

Have you ever considered yourself to be double-jointed?

As a child, did you ever make your friends laugh by contorting your body?

Have you ever been able to do a split?

I could go on, but you get the idea.

There's nothing funny about legitimate EDS (dermatosparactic, FKBP14, arthrochalasic, etc., etc., etc.) and no one is denying that it exists. Just look at the pictures below and contrast them with "I have Ehlers-Danlos...that's what makes me so good at sex, LOL!"

[quote][R7] if she truly didn't give a fuck, she wouldn't be fishing for sympathy with a long, rambling, self-pitying internet post. Most of the population who deal with chronic pain and illness just shut up and deal with it.

...And most of the population didn’t have a show on HBO, an Instagram with fans or gets photographed by paps. So your argument’s weak and stupid. What YOU see as self-pitying, others who are not as cynical or just all-around assholes, see as an actress wanting to set the narrative to HER fans--some with self-esteem issues, I’m sure--that she’s not embarrassed to be seen in public looking dowdy with a cane despite this publication effort to embarrass her. How DARE she, right?

JESUS. You people are miserable old twats.

^^forgot the apostrophe--s

[Quote] Her parents are both extraordinarily precious, self-involved artists

I figured as much while watching Tiny Furniture.

[quote]There's no test for hypermobile EDS

This is entirely untrue, you're presenting a strawman argument of "gasping, sobbing, hyperventilating mommy bloggers" diagnosing themselves and using that as proof that there is no diagnostic criteria for hEDS.

I mean, why bother? Anyone with an ounce of intelligence and curiosity will look it up for themselves and see that you're wrong. Everyone else already thinks it's fake because they've just decided that it is, regardless of facts.

Good job trying to conflate “test” and “diagnostic criteria” in people’s minds, but you’ll probably have better luck if you actually read the sites you google before posting. Here’s the first sentence under “diagnosis”:

[quote]Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is diagnosed based on the presence of characteristic signs and symptoms because there is no specific test available.

But do go on pretending that a criteria that can be met with largely self-reported symptoms (with “too painful to do it right now,” “used to bend that way,” “had the striae before I gained 100 lbs, I swear,” heavy exfoliation, and torrents of tears covering enough of the others to sail right through) are equal to genetic testing. FDIS in action.

[quote]had the striae before I gained 100 lbs, I swear

😂😂😂

But what I really want to know is was Margot Kidder the poor man's Carrie Fisher?

[quote] of course she could be lying about her illnesses, but the illnesses themselves are very real.

Anyone could be lying about their illnesses. I think several famous people claim they have half the ailments under the sun just for attention.

r61's self-righteous fury at those who dare criticize Lens is so meaningful and yet also so terrifying to behold!

We are all DEEPLY chastened.

Lens has claimed in recent years she suffers from fibromyalgia, endometriosis, and now hypermobile Ehlers-Danos syndrome.

In other ages she would claim to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, neurasthenia, and the vapors.

[quote]There's no test for hypermobile EDS, which is the one that she (along with an ever-growing contingent of mommy-bloggers) claims to have, and there is no established genetic basis for it.

How convenient for her.

She's a mess but she's a talented mess. "Girls" was great.

She also claims to have PTSD from her chronic pain. But no mention of her personality disorders, which I am certain she has.

I would respect her more if she just admitted she was a self obsessed mental cunt

R72 for the first 2 years yes. It died a slow torturous death

What's next? My money's on phantom limb syndrome.

I just discovered I also have Gulf War Syndrome, tennis elbow, Portnoy's complaint, ghost sickness, and sickle cell anemia!

Oh, Lens.

Never change!

I could see her reinventing herself by starring in a one woman show based on the life of Little Edie Bouvier Beale called “Sobriquet: The Little Edie Story.”

I put my money on Lyme Disease as her next ailment.

See the NYT article linked at r50.

I may have Ehlers-Danlos, or just a more benign type of connective tissue disorder (the rheumatologist was sort of waffling on it and wanted me to have more tests many years ago but I didn't bother because there's nothing to be done anyway). Both are real genetic defects with varied severity of expression, but the idea that someone could go along normally and then be 'hit' with symptoms as an adult is absurd. If your connective tissue is structurally bad due to a genetic error, joint hypermobility and skin hyperextensibility are evident from early childhood on. The overall situation does get gradually worse with age, or suddenly worse in some of the more severe types, but there aren't 'flare ups.' That's ridiculous. It's like saying you are having a flare up of your osteogenesis imperfecta, or a flare up of your achondroplastic dwarfism.

Also, people with connective tissue disorders tend to be ectomorphs. As we grow, our wimpy connective tissue doesn't exert enough counter-tension on our long bones so we are usually taller than you would expect looking at the rest of our family. This is why some people think Abraham Lincoln had Marfan Syndrome, another connective tissue disorder. Lanky and gawky is the norm for people with EDS, not dumpy and stubby. I don't know how tall Lens is but she does not have long limbs in proportion to her torso.

In other words, R82 and 83, she's just cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

[quote]Both are real genetic defects with varied severity of expression

Exactly, thank you. I'm sorry you have this though, it sounds awful.

[quote] but the idea that someone could go along normally and then be 'hit' with symptoms as an adult is absurd

She sounds like she's saying she was misdiagnosed for a long time.

Honestly though if I had to guess I'd say she has something related to the hormonal issues that lead to a hysterectomy (which I don't think she lied about) and that it's not EDS at all, but who knows. The people saying EDS doesn't exist are idiots, though.

R69 Good. NOW go kill yourselves.

Love,

The World.