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Find recognition and a way forward.What is a care trap?Rarely one desk. Usually the gap in between.Stuck in care? What you can do nowOwnership with mandate: what it is and why it worksRecognise your situationMap your situationThe personal health environment and ownershipStuck in care in the Utrecht regionSeveral healthcare providers, but nobody coordinates your careConditions & symptomsUnderstand your symptoms
Practical help and rights
Concrete steps when care, support or collaboration gets stuck.
Do you need help right now?Mental health crisis service: who to call in a psychiatric crisis.The municipality points to your insurer. Your insurer sends you back.Social support application rejected? Your next stepWmo assistive device rejected: check what the decision is based onRequest your medical records: get the complete pictureMental health waiting list: your rights and optionsPersonal budget rejected or stopped? Step by stepPassed from desk to desk: how to break itStuck in youth care as a parent? What you can doHow to file a complaint with a care institutionSample objection letter: how to object to a rejectionIndependent client support: free help that stands beside youCare stopped or refused? Here’s what to doLong-term care indication rejected? Here is what you can doInformal caregiver stuck or overburdened? Here is what to doRequesting a second opinion in care: how it worksCreate a bilingual letter after a rejection
Symptoms and conditions
Recognition, treatment, figures and experiences by topic.
Long COVID: when recovery, work and income stall together.Gastric bypass: the risks no one tells you about beforehandThe surgery is well recorded. The years after are not.Most complaints do not happen on the operating tableMany hands at the bedside. But who guards the whole?One story is an anecdote. A hundred stories are a pattern.ACNES: unexplained abdominal pain that goes missed for yearsNot rare. But structurally missed.Recognisable with one finger. And still missed for years.There is a clear route. As long as you are offered it.You are not crazy, and it is not in your head.ADHD diagnosed later in life: when no one adds it all upThe diagnoses are the tip. The rest learned to live with it.It was seen. Just not as ADHD.No miracle cure, but a real differenceNot changing your brain, but your surroundingsFinally a name for a whole lifeMigraine: not 'just a headache'2 million people. A fraction in the picture.Four phases. Most people only know one.A clear ladder. As long as it is offered to you in time.It's not in your head. It's in your brain.IBS: the stomach pain that you keep to yourself1 in 10. And two thirds are silent about it.No scan required. A good conversation.No quick fix, but a tailor-made approachYou're not the only one who doesn't talk about itEndometriosis: a median of more than 7 years to diagnosis89 months. That's the median, not the exception.Pain that does not go away with paracetamolNo cure, but there are options to dampen the symptoms'That's part of it' is not a diagnosisFibromyalgia: symptoms, diagnosis and recognition340,000 people. Not yet a recognised disease.Pain that is everywhere, and yet nowhere to be foundNo cure, but gripRecognised by science, disputed at the counterPTSD: good treatment exists, almost no one gets it completely29.7 percent. That's it.More than just flashbacksA broad palette, if you are offered itThe trauma did not disappear. It waited.Autism in women: missed three times as often as in men1 in 3 instead of 1 in 5. Not yet an equal chance.Adjusted on the outside, exhausted on the insideNo treatment that eliminates autism, but a path to more peaceEverything seemed to be going well from the outsideAutism in men: already visible in childhood, yet only connected lateFrom 4 to 1 to 2 to 1. The assumption was wrong.Characteristics that you already knew, but did not recognise as autismNo cure, but a framework to understand yourselfIt has fit my whole life, I just didn't have a name for itAutism in children: signs at 18 months, diagnosis at 4 or 5 years18 months signals. 20 weeks waiting period. Years in between.From baby to teenager: signals per ageThe earlier the help, the better the chancesWe saw it early. Being heard took longerAutism: choose the approach that suits youCentral sensitisationHeadache and facial painCluster headacheTension-type headacheMedication-overuse headacheFacial pain and trigeminal neuralgia
Medicines and dossiers
Information about effects, risks, withdrawal and aftercare.
The Netherlands takes billions of paracetamol tablets.Pain relief or brushing it off?The medication trapOxycodone: when good care becomes a care trapTemporarily prescribed. Sometimes repeated for years.Pregabalin: effects, dependence and stoppingCitalopram: how long is "just swallowing" necessary?Tramadol: the "mild" opioid that isn't alwaysVenlafaxine: effects, side effects and stoppingMethylphenidate can help. But who monitors the whole pattern?
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News
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News from ZorgfuikNew on Zorgfuik: practical help for anyone stuck in careDealing with a rejection: how to respond without digging yourself deeper into the trapOxycodon.online: a blunt warning about the medication trapZorgfuik has been updated and is now available in EnglishThe petition calls for real ownership with mandateFoundation Zorgfuik officially launched, and you can helpNew dossier: The Netherlands takes billions of paracetamol tabletsACNES: when persistent abdominal pain is investigated in the wrong placeNew on Zorgfuik: several healthcare providers, but nobody coordinates the careNew: create a bilingual objection letter without an account or storageVenlafaxine: what does it do and what might people notice?What is life really like years after bariatric surgery?New: map your situation with short checksFour new Zorgfuik Checks added
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