Nausea ,weak, headache

I just feel so sad. I work for a company in Scotland that provides care and education for people with a wide range of serious neurodivergency, including autism. I'm a social worker there and when I interviewed for the position I expressed that I was undiagnosed, but I'm pretty sure I have autism and shared a little about my needs when asked. It took everything to tell them that because my needs embarrass me and I have masked all my life.
Things have been going fine and all my risk paperwork was done, detailing my triggers and responses and what needs I have. I have detailed what overstimulation feels like and how I cope, including that I stim in different ways to help me feel calm.
That was until I got pregnant and HR came for me. I have been having some extreme symptoms, bad nausea and vomiting, aches and pains, headaches. Because of my sensory needs, feeling nauseous or sore is incredibly hard to ignore and I know when I'm not able to go in to work. Sometimes I just need the day to get better. I've taken a lot of absences because of vomiting several times during the morning. HR are not happy about this.
They pulled me up about my several absences and I explained that I am pregnant and sickness is normal. They've been trying to convince me that there's something wrong with my health, and I've been to several doctors at their request. They all came back and told me that what was happening to me was normal and that rest is the best cure. I'm on a medication now to help with the sickness and it's been working. My absences have significantly improved since then.
But it feels like since then they've been looking for every excuse to pull me up and give me into bother. From 8:30am to 9:00am is the time we get to prepare for clients coming to the center. So normally I take whatever I'm working on, my phone or laptop, and I go into the sensory tent or sensory room. This helps me because getting to work can be a really overestimating experience in the morning, especially when my pregnant self is feeling like crap. Bundling into a loud vehicle, as much as I love jam time in the morning with my partner, is still pretty loud. I just use that time to be in a dark quiet space and do like a... Reset I guess! To help me get ready for the day. A few of my fellow neurodiverse colleagues also use that space in the mornings. I've now been pulled up and told that being in the tent in the mornings is not "mature" or "professional". I genuinely don't know what the problem is if its not affecting the work I'm doing?
I was left pretty flat after that conversation to be honest, but I got some reassurance from my colleagues that being in the tent is a non issue and they'll back me up if I continue using it with them. Today was worse. I am having a rough time mentally today. Everything is too loud. My head hurts. But I came in anyways because despite this I felt strong. I brought my favourite plush with me because my coworker often brings in a squishmallow so I wasn't feeling to embarrassed about it. He's a tardigrade build a bear and he smells like birthday cake. He's a soft squishy sensory and smell sensory item all in one. His name is Lenny and I found him to he incredibly helpful. So I was just holding him and squishing him and smelling him. Generally having a nice sensory time whilst my very independent client asked me to give him some space. I was prepared to put Lenny away once we were starting his timetable for the day! All the clients and staff love Lenny.
I didn't realise whilst i was holding Lenny that I was stimming. A common stim for me is rocking. I have expressed this to management that stimming for me looks like rocking, facial movement or my hands moving. Well HR called me into their office and asked me if I was well. I thought they were just concerned about pregnancy stuff and mental health stuff so I told them I was okay! I was just feeling a little overwhelmed today but it was okay because I brought in a sensory item. They told me that was the issue and that I couldn't use Lenny. They told me that rocking and clutching a teddybear made me look insane basically. I don't know if that's exactly what they meant thinking back on it, but that's what I think she meant. She said it made me look "unwell".
They asked me over and over again if I really thought I was fit to be here and I kept telling them yes, that I'm just overwhelmed. They repeated again that they need to have a mature and professional environment and said that my teddy bear was neither of those things. They asked me until I got a little frustrated if I needed to go home. I kept saying no and eventually they let up and let me leave the meeting. I cried in the bathroom for 10 minutes and got back out on the floor.
I masked up for today and I got through it. My manager just sat there and let her day those things to me. I thought my manager would have my back, having been the one to document my symptoms. I've just been left so drained. I get the feeling they were trying to make me say I wasn't fit to work so they could log another absence and get me into trouble again. It's causing me so much stress, and I think stressing me out like this when I'm pregnant is just... Mean.
I guess what I'm asking is how am I supposed to stand up for myself with no union and no diagnosis. I can't PROVE I have needs, but I thought they took me seriously when I outlined them. I guess I'll just have to mask back up at work so they don't clap me with anything else, but it just hurts because I thought as an organisation that deals with autism and it's quirks on a daily basis they'd do better for their neurodiverse staff. I'm not really doing anything that other neurodiverse staff aren't doing. I just don't know what I'm doing differently that is such a problem. My stimming and holding Lenny and sitting in sensory areas doesn't stop me from working and doing my job.
Sorry this was so long I guess I'm just seeking anything you can give me. Advice? Reassurance? I just want to know if what I'm doing is normal. Is HR right? I just don't know

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Figured I’d give another update as I keep wheeling the Taco hard. I really should just use these posts as a reference guide to the weak points on the Tacoma which might save you all a headache down the road.
Went to AOAA in PA last weekend… truck is still recovering from abuse endured at Windrock. I noticed rub on my front right tire at hard lock… I normally have about 1 1/2” clearance on 34s. Turned out I severely busted the cam tabs on the passenger side and my entire ISF on the one side shifted back about an inch.
Somehow my alignment was still fine and the Cam gussets would take a week to get here so I made the trip up and decided to stick to blues.
Outside of nonstop rain, the rest of the weekend went well until a Jeep took us through a swimming pool sized mud puddle which submerged the actuator on my transfer case. My 4WD decided it was done working for the day so I took that as a sign to head back to camp.
Actuator dried out by morning and my 4wd started working again just in time to air up and hit the highway home. I’m going to look into options to seal the case better as well as resolder the connections.
Spent the week looking at ways to get my truck on 37s. If anyone has any experience with Marlin Crawlers RCLT HD kit, hit me up. I’m intrigued.

Anyone else not get side effects until their second dose? I felt great my first week- now 24 hours after second shot and I have the worst headache, nausea, and fatigue. 🫠

F, age 26. No meds or underlying med issues.
I had WLE for skin cancer and I’ve been sick.. wound looks fine. Do I need to be concerned?
It’s been 2 weeks as of yesterday. On Saturday i had severe throat pain which continued until Sunday. On Monday, after work, severe headache nausea and chills. Chills caused teeth chattering and bed shaking. Went to work Tuesday, felt mostly ok. Wednesday I had severe diarrhea, every few minutes completely liquid and vomiting. Today I still have diarrhea and nausea but feeling a little better.
I assume this is a coincide since wound looks pretty good. Do I need to let the doctor know? Or coincidence?

Traveled to Mexico, in total probably 10 flights we're taken going around there. Last day I went to a dance club.
Started feeling the neck pain around Sunday very slight thinking I was just sore from all the activities.
Yesterday it got worse: congestion, headaches, lethargy, back of neck pain.
No nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or sinus pain.
I don't have access to check vitals.

Edit: mention the times you have gone into DKA AFTER original diabetic diagnosis!!!!!!
I may be on the verge but confused if I should go in, my main symptom is I have not been under 340 in 2 days (currently on insulin pump) and I’m on a GLP-1 medication which usually causes me to go low but quite the opposite has happened.
I feel a bit weak, balance isn’t as good, some dizziness, more frequent urination, dry mouth I have these symptoms already due to GLP-1 but they’ve gotten a bit worse: stomach pain, no appetite, and somewhat bad nausea. I’ve only had a couple snacks in the last 35 hours.
I can’t check keystones because I ran out, ordered some that will be here tonight hopefully
I just want to hear what made you go in for it or if you “fixed” it yourself
Thank you all in advance for commenting!
Edit: I’ve changed my site 3 times in the past day, I don’t know how much that is affecting me. 10 minutes after posting I came down to 327!

so I started a few weeks ago and was instructed to take half dose for a week and up to full dose if no symptoms. I had a bit of dizziness the first couple days but it went away so I decided to up the dose to full after that week. the next day I had extreme dizziness, fever with chills, nausea in my throat, muscle soreness, and major headache. my doctor told me to stop until symptoms go away, then try again on half. so I waited like 2 days (symptoms literally went away in 24 hours though it was SO BAD I literally had felt like I had aged 70 years) and restarted the half dose a night routine. well, it's been over a week on half and last night about 4 hours after my regular half dose I woke up with fever and chills, muscle soreness, only a slight headache, and major nausea in my throat again! I'm so sick of this and I think I will be stopping. just was wondering if anyone else has this? this nausea is so weird, it's like a lump in my throat and when I move I get nausea and when I swallow I get nausea but it's like not stomach nausea at all. plus the muscle soreness and headache, probably will be hobbling around my house like last time :(

The system killed my brother not Cancer.
I was a MA for a long time, im not saying Im an expert but I’ve seen enough to understand something was off. My brother 23 went to the ER for stomach pain, nausea with streaks of blood, upon arriving the Dr felt a bump on the right lower side by the pelvic area, sure enough after a bunch of blood works, scans and tests turns out he had cancer. Now here is where things turn and I would like an expert to dumb it down for me. He got admitted Jan 13, 2021, a Biopsy of the right Iliac wing was done, throughout his stay at the hospital his condition only got worse, he couldn’t eat, black stools, nausea, vomiting, weakness and so on. All the doctors, oncologist, just every damn provider on his case said “don’t worry, he is young and healthy he will be okay”. He got discharged 1 week and 3 days after, so January 25, still waiting for the results of his Biopsy. We had a follow up appointment Feb 5th for his results and all they said what they had a preliminary as Ewings Sarcoma which was a very treatable Cancer as per the oncologist. during that time he only got worse and worse, the oncologist insisted that he was young and healthy and its just a symptom of cancer. Since the results were not final a few days later they requested a second Biopsy. Appointment is now scheduled for February 12, he goes in and he is immediately admitted into the ICU due to fluid in his lungs, over 1 Litter was removed with a heart rate of over 180, he is now at the cardiac ICU. He gets better 2 days later he then goes into the regular floor and the second Biopsy is done on February 15th. No results and my brother only gets worse, a PTScan was done and now he was nodules on his lungs as well. My brother then goes into the ICU one more time, days pass by and they tell us he had an infection and he is now brain dead. February 22 came and they tell us “he is the sickest patient in the hospital now and we are doing everything we can”. Dialysis gets started because his organs are failing, it doesnt work. February 23rd came and they tell us they will check his brain because he might not have any activity, they said they will check and make sure what they are seeing. Sure enough, February 24 they tell us we will need to make a decision in regard to his life and that “ oh his biopsy results came back and he has stage 4 stomach Cancer”, we might need to disconnect him. February 25th came and they do one last test to see if he has any brain activity by removing the tubes and nope, nothing. We decided to let him go February 25, 2021. I now work at a lab in the histology department and the amount of Biopsies we do and result them in less than a week baffles me, why couldn’t they figure out my brother’s cancer earlier ? He could have been saved. And now more than ever I believe the system and everyone working in this field for money and not because they actually care for a patient is what killed him.

Hey there, I (F17) have been suffering since August 2023 with a whole range of symptoms. I came back from two months overseas with a quick onset of eye pain and a whole bunch of pressure on the top of my right eye, along with daily headaches at the same time every day. In October, I had a thunderclap headache and went to the ER where they did a brain CT that came back clear. Fast forward to my neurologist making me have an MRI and MRV of the brain that came out fully clear, so she decided that I probably just had chronic migraines. It was really bad; I lost a bunch of weight, slept for most of the day, and was dizzy all day.
November came, and I had my first bout of neck pain. It wasn't too bad, but I was so exhausted from the pressure on my eye that it made me feel mentally horrible. My headache reduced from daily to only having extreme major ones 1 or 2 times in the month, along with daily thumping and nausea. I started PT for my neck in late March, and that's when I had my out-of-nowhere numbness and tingling and pins and needles down my right arm so i was sent to have a chest xray which came out normal aswell . My knuckles feel on fire, and my skin is burning with a bunch of neck pain, so I got an MRI for my neck yesterday, and my results are perfectly normal.
The worst part is that now I have nothing else that I can do about it. The pain keeps spreading around my upper body, and I slur my speech and have complete weakness in my hand and can't brush my hair. Both my PT and neurologist are extremely confused and have absolutely no idea what's happening, especially since all my symptoms are on one side. My left side feels perfect, and I weirdly feel my fatigue only on my right side. Any ideas on what I should do next?
Diagnosed now with - parenthesia of the upper limb (right side) - cervicalgia ( right side only ) - Chronic migraine ( right side only) - Pain and pressure of the right eye
I have tried both sumatriptan and rizatriptan and both made pass out for almost 25-48 hours and didn’t even work

I went to the doctor for severe pain in my arms and legs and just everywhere. Ive been having this pain for my entire life, it comes and goes for me. Ive had headaches that seem to come out of nowhere and when i walk for too long it feels like the joint connecting my hip and pelvic bone has sand in it. If when i walk i exert too much energy my ankles feel so weak and they tend to buckle, i twisted my ankle a lot as a kid. I went to a neurologist and he said i might have fibromyalgia. He sent me to a rheumatologist that is a fibro specialist. Do you guys think this is fibromyalgia? As im typing this my elbows ankles and knees are hurting me. I dont know.

Hi! I‘ve been having autonomic like symptoms for a couple years but it’s definitely worse in the summer. What’s weird is that I’ve had tilt table testing with almost totally normal results aside from the QSART part and a heart rate jump they said wasn’t POTS (despite it jumping 43 bpm but it kept dropping then spiking over and over). I get the nausea, dizziness, chest pain, eye sight changes, GI issues, all that. I have heart rate jumps with position changes, heat, and any sort of upright exercise. I can do sitting bikes all day but anything standing sends me into presyncope. My HR regularly gets up to the 130s while standing. It shoots up when I sit up, move in bed, change clothes, stand from kneeling, everything then drops quickly. My biggest issue is that especially when it’s hot out or I sit up from laying flat, I have episodes where my HR and BP shoot up way high and I get full on presyncope. Like heart rate of 160+ and BP of 155/100 range high. My resting is like 60 or lower bpm and 120/85 range. I also have days where my heart rate is like 45 and I get heart palpitations and everything. Normal EKG, echo, CAT scan, everything. I don’t have the classic POTS BP drops, my BP spikes when triggered.
My neurologist has been treating it like POTS which has helped. He’s pretty sure I have some variation of it as clinically he said I’m identical. I also have hEDS, fibro, small fiber neuropathy, constant headaches, and other things. I had a neck MRI that showed some mild bulging and protruding discs (mainly positional in extension). This neck position and sitting up caused a massive episode.
Has anyone had experiences like this? Any ideas or medications I can mention to my neurologist next week?

I got a rhinoplasty 3 weeks ago and ever since the surgery I have had headaches every single day, nausea everyday, vomiting once a week, and diarrhea everyday! At week 2 I spoke to my doctor and he said it’s “maybe because of the antibiotics give it one week it will subside” . It’s been 1 week 4 days exactly since off the medicine and symptoms have gotten worse not better. I just want to know if anyone else has experienced this ? Is there light at the end of the tunnel or I should see another doctor for second opinion ? I cannot live with this constant pain it’s stopping me from living a normal life I cannot be away from a toilet for more than 40 minutes . If you have experienced this please share 😞
Medicine that was taken is as follows (copy and pasted) :
• Antibiotics Cipro 500 mg tb 2x1 (use it two times in a day, one morning one evening) • Painkiller Arveles tb 2X1 (use it two times in a day, one morning one evening) • Antiacids Panto tb 1X1 (Use it to relieve the indigestion and protect your stomach from acid; one time in a day in the morning before meal)

Hello all,
I have major major issues with histamine foods and liberators.
But there are still so many foods I do very poorly with that are supposed to be much more histamine safe.
I’m wondering if there could be a crossover with salicylates?
Could anyone fill me in a bit and tell me the symptoms?
I feel very hot, have nausea and stomach complaints, a headache and so forth when I eat some of the foods low histamine but high salicylate, but that’s a bit similar to low salicylate and high histamine food!
Anyway, all help appreciated.

Hello all,
I have major major issues with histamine foods and liberators.
But there are still so many foods I do very poorly with that are supposed to be much more histamine safe.
I’m wondering if there could be a crossover with salicylates?
Could anyone fill me in a bit and tell me the symptoms?
I feel very hot, have nausea and stomach complaints, a headache and so forth when I eat some of the foods low histamine but high salicylate, but that’s a bit similar to low salicylate and high histamine food!
Anyway, all help appreciated.

I officially adopted her just under 3 years ago, but we had been buddies for a few years before that (she was my boyfriend’s sister's cat and we saw a lot of each other). Despite the relatively short duration that she lived with me, she was my best friend, and I don’t know if I’ll ever have another like her; she was the sweetest, most loving girl, without a mean or malicious bone in her body. She was such an easy cat, she loved us, and we loved her. Though she was already 12 or 13 when she came home with me, she didn’t seem like an old cat and I thought we had years ahead of us. She made my otherwise lonely and monotonous WFH days in a new and isolated location bearable.
She’s always been an above-average vomiter, but my original vet was always dismissive of my worries and initially bloodwork seemed normal. Sure she was losing weight every year, but we just thought she was just old or had a food sensitivity and played around with different foods while trying to get her to eat more. Up until a month or two ago, she seemed normal and happy, but seemed to be slowing down; the vomiting episodes increased until they were a nightly thing. Bloodwork this time around showed chronic inflammation and anemia, and things spiraled horribly from there. We would be told later on by the ER docs that she had either IBD or intestinal lymphoma with no way to distinguish without invasive surgery and biopsy. We declined surgery and chemo, put her on prednisolone, an anti-nausea, and an appetite stimulant and thought we could keep her comfortable for a little while; in the end, we barely made a dent in her symptoms.
Cue days/weeks of bland chicken, baby food. Endless attempted diet changes, half-eaten cans of food, 5 hour ER visits because she could not hold anything down, watching my best friend waste away into a skeleton. Seeing and feeling every bone in her body, watching her start to struggle to get around the house, lose all her strength, and start to miss the box, daily pilling and begging her to eat, trying to keep her clean because she no longer had the energy to groom herself. Daily arguments about whether the cat is suffering, letting things go on one week longer because my partner can’t bear to call it and wanted to try another round of meds. On Tuesday she was hiding behind the couch again, when she tried to come out she yowled and collapsed. I thought she was dying, but she was possibly just too anemic and weak to stand; we rushed her to the vet, and while she was stable, we chose to end it there. I didn’t know it would specifically be her last day, and I didn’t get to hug her or say a proper goodbye that morning. She was too sick to eat her favorite foods one last time. Through all the nausea, traumatic vet visits, and the forced medication, she never stopped loving us or wanting to be with us.
I work remotely in a fairly isolating role and spend the majority of my week at home alone; I feel her absence everywhere, I cannot get the past few months out of my mind, and the scenes from the vet earlier this week are seared into my brain. I already took a day off work but I cannot stop crying, and when I’m not crying I can’t give a shit about anything or focus on the simplest of tasks. The apartment is strewn with a million of her things, but I can’t bring myself to put them away or get rid of them because I am getting rid of the last vestiges of her and it feels like a final betrayal. She didn’t have any particular favorite toys or blankets or anything, just preferred sleeping spots; I feel like I have nothing tangible left of her to hug or hold onto. I don’t know what I am trying to accomplish by posting this, or what kind of death I would have found acceptable for my super senior cat, but I need it off my chest, and I don’t know when this grief is supposed to abate enough for me to function. All I can try to do is remember her as she was before she got sick, but I am just so sick at heart.

The famous baseballer, Jackie Robinson, he once said: “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” I could not agree more. That is why I try to make as much impact on my faces’ lives as possible. After all, they have done so much for me. It is the least I can do. Unlike them, I need not fear what people think of me. So I can be brave where they are weak. For I will just be someone else tomorrow.

Born in Russia to the Grand Duke Nikolai Kravinoff, Dmitri Nikolaievich Smerdyakov was treated like trash by his noble father and his working class mother. Young Dmitri was approached one day by Gustav Fiers, who was impressed by the boy's impressions and paid for a trip to Karl Fiers academy. There, Dmitri would learn to master the arts of disguise, vocal impression and infiltration, becoming the Chameleon upon his graduation.
He'd move to America and use his talents to pull off high-scale burglary, working for any group that could afford his fee, including the Communist party, Hydra or the Green Goblin. His elicit activity brought him into conflict with the Hulk, Iron Man and most often Spider-Man, all of whom had to act with great caution when the Chameleon was in town. After all, which one of them could tell if that unassuming civilian or their own ally was preparing to stab them in the back?
Dmitri has some mental hangups over his time with the Kravinoffs. He’s managed to repress the memories and considered himself good friends with his half-brother Kraven. In reality, he was more like a whipping boy and slave to the Hunter, and when he has to wrestle with those feelings, he can mentally revert to that scared little boy with no strong sense of identity or independence. But when he’s able to move past these feelings, the Chameleon has proved himself as a powerful, manipulative force, finding his place as temporary Crime Master of New York and member of the Sinister Six.
Scaling

• Spider-Man
• Kraven the Hunter
• Captain America
• Daredevil
• Deadpool

Notes
During one of Dmitri’s mental breaks, he began to believe that he was his deceased half-brother, Kraven the Hunter. So exact was the Chameleon’s performance that he moved and fought with the hunter’s skill and agility. This was an extreme fringe case and there are no other examples of a disguise altering Chameleon's capabilities like this. Physical and skill-related feats from this period will be marked with [KH].
Hover over a feat to see which issue it's from.

Physicals

General

• He’s taken some of Kraven’s potions, which extends his natural lifespan and protects from disease
• Kraven later notes that he only allowed the Chameleon to drink some of his potions, enhancing his strength, although not nearly as much as the Hunter himself

Strength
Unarmed Striking

• Downs a cop with a punch to the back of the head
• Boxes Alexei Kravinoff’s ears, flooring the bigger man
• Tackles and restrains Bruce Banner
• While posing as Tigra, he breaks Mysterio’s helmet with a kick
• Knocks Finesse out with two punches to the back of the head
• [KH] Kicks Alexei in the chin mid-leap
• Hurts Spidey with a kick to the face
• Hospitalized the Shocker

Striking with Weapons

• Floors a man with a suitcase
• Clubs Captain America with a fire extinguisher, flooring him for several seconds
• [KH] Smashes through a ceiling and dives at Alexei
• [KH] Impales a man with a spear, then rams him into a wall hard enough to crack it
• Beats a man unconscious with a pistol

Grip

• Crushes one of Spidey’s tracers in his grip
• Crushes a picture frame
• Crushes a glass in his grip

Other

• While carrying Betty Ross over his shoulder with one hand, the Chameleon uses the other to smack Major Glenn Talbot
• [KH] Holds a wolf away from him
• Carries and fires this absurdly large gun

Durability
Scaling with Spider-Man

• Gets up after a glancing blow from Spider-Man
• Takes a backhand from Spider-Man
• Stays barely conscious after Spider-Man punches him into what looks like a concrete wall hard enough to break it
• Takes two punches from an angry Spider-Man
• While emulating Spider-Man and clinging to a wall with suction cups, he takes a punch from the real Spider-Man but stays clinging and makes an escape
• Spider-Man throws Chameleon head-first into a wall, then smacks him three times, breaking his mask. Despite this, the Chameleon stays conscious and manages to run off.
• Gets kicked in the head by Spider-Man (dressed as Deadpool) but quickly recovers and puts Spidey in a headlock
• Takes a sucker punch from Spider-Man in the Spider-Armor MK III
• [Limit] One casual punch from the Superior Spider-Man knocks Dmitri out

Scaling to Others

• Gets tackled by the Hulk, who was shrunk down to a few inches at the time
• Takes three heavy blows from Daredevil before falling into unconsciousness
• Takes a backhand punch from Kraven
• He gets up after Captain America throws his shield into his back
• Stays conscious after Deadpool punches him out a window
• Takes a punch from Spidey and an elbow from Deadpool
• Gets punched by Whirlwind
• Gets beat on by Teresa Parker

Blunt Force

• Spider-Man punches Vulture, sending the villain flying into Chameleon
• Gets thrown many feet into the air, then falls back-first onto stone
• He jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge and lands in the water below
• [KH, Limit] He’s KO’ed by a woman with a wooden chair
• While disguised as Spider-Man, he gets grabbed and swung around a room by tentacles, at one point getting his head slammed through a concrete wall with no ill effects

Gunfire

• He’s not noticeably harmed after a cop shoots him in the shoulder
• Stays standing after being shot in the thigh
• Twenty minutes after being shot in the shoulder, he’s not noticeably harmed

Vehicle Crashes

• Crashes his car into the Hulk
• Crawls from a crashed HYDRA aircraft
• Unharmed after crashing his truck into a wall
• While piloting a giant Galactus robot, a helicarrier crashes into the robot’s head and the Chameleon’s control room. He survives the crash relatively unharmed.

Other

• He survives after being poisoned and being left in a burning bar by the Punisher
• When Captain America breaks one of Chameleon’s stun guns, the resulting blast melts his rubber face mask, burning him
• He eats a full plate of ambien-laced cookies baked by Aunt May
• Spider-Man webs up a big gun that the Chameleon was using, causing it to blow up in his face. Dmitri gets up right after.

Agility

• Dodges some charges from Hammerhead, first with a sidestep, then by flipping over the mobster
• [KH] Dodges a tackle attempt from Alexei Kravinoff
• He lands hits on Spider-Man pretty easily once the hero loses his spider-sense

Skill

Impersonation
General

• When posing as someone, the Chameleon copies their gait and posture
• When emulating J. Jonah Jameson, not only does the Chameleon copy his personality, mannerisms and body language, but he copies Jonah’s writing style so he can turn in editorials at the Daily Bugle
• [Limit] In 2009, he took the form of Barack Obama and attempted to get sworn in as the POTUS. However, Spider-Man asked the fake and the real Obama a question that only the real Obama would know the answer to, outing the Chameleon as an imposter.
• Mimics Tigra perfectly, replicating her movements, voice and microexpressions
• When posing as a zombie Ezekiel Sims, Chameleon does something to make himself smell like a long-dead corpse

Voices

• Skilled in vocal emulation
• He perfectly emulates voices over the course of minutes after listening to audio recordings or the voices of his hostages
• While posing as the Paris police director, he fools a voice recognition system designed by Henry Pym, allowing him access into an Avengers headquarters
• Can emulate mechanized voices, like Doc Ock’s from when he was a cyborg

Limits

• Betty Ross sees through Dmitri’s Bruce Banner disguise thanks to her female intuition
• Daredevil sees through the Chameleon’s disguises because he can hear Dmitri’s distinct heartbeat
• Spider-Man’s Spider-Armor MK III has a Daredevil-inspired feature built in to the helmet that allows Peter to track Chameleon’s specific heartbeat. This allows him to see through the villain’s disguises.

Combat

• [KH] Fights evenly with Alexei Kravinoff before restraining him with a rope
• Off-panel, he killed a SHIELD agent and a doctor with a pen
• Shanks Superior Spider-Man in the neck with a pen
• While disguised as Spider-Man, he brawls hand-to-hand with Deadpool
• [Limit] Lost a fight to Mary Jane Watson with a baseball bat
• [KH] Slashes two mens’ throats with a single swipe of a spoon

Other

• [KH] Performs a handstand on a tree stump
• Using Klawe’s sound cannon, he blasts MODOK’s psionic blaster, disabling the head’s main weapon
• Leaps from a second story and lands on an awning to break his fall
• Jumps from the back of an aircraft onto the hood of a pursuing flying car
• Nick Fury boots Dmitri off of a flying car, but the villain manages to grab a ladder on a nearby aircraft
• Cracks a locked vault door, possibly using a stethoscope
• Pilots a giant LMD modeled to look like Galactus
• (Poorly) pilots the Iron Man Model 4 before being dropped by an alternate-universe Ghost Rider

Disguises

Realistic Masks

• Originally, the Chameleon employed realistic masks and hairpieces to disguise himself as individuals. He kept these pieces in a multi-pocketed vest, allowing him to alter his appearance on the fly
• After getting one quick glance at Thunderbolt Ross, the Chameleon is able to make a perfect mask of the general’s face in a matter of minutes
• When the Hulk is tearing the Chameleon’s car apart, he quickly changes into the guise of Rick Jones to calm the Hulk, then manipulate him into breaking a friend out of prison
• At one point, he used a gun that squirts fast-drying fluid, which kills victims via suffocation and leaves the Chameleon with a perfect mask of their face
• He once wore four masks layered on top of his plain, white one

Malleable Flesh

• He gets a procedure done to his body that makes his flesh completely malleable, changing in response to electrical stimuli. He also had a specially designed costume that reacted the same way to stimuli. The final piece was a control system built into a belt that could memorize and store any face that the Chameleon encountered. All of these pieces allowed the Chameleon to completely copy someone’s appearance and replicate it through thought alone.
• This exact method of changing his face depends on the comic's art style
  • Most often, the change just occurs instantly between panels
  • It can happens in a flash of light
  • Dmitri's features can melt and morph before reforming into a new face
  • The features can “slide across Chameleon’s head horizontally
• After looking at a photograph of a man, the Chameleon completely embodies him in moments
• When begging for his life, he rapidly switches between a dozen different faces
• When he’s knocked unconscious, his face relaxes and goes back to how it normally looks
• Once made a game out of pretending to be a civilian in need, then attacking Spider-Man when the hero helps him
• [Limit] One time, a very serious Spider-Man shocked and frightened the Chameleon so badly that he let his disguise drop

Other Methods

• Uses convincing costumes when posing as superheroes or supervillains
• Disguises himself as a Statue of Liberty street performer
• Some kind of hidden device emits mist, allowing the Chameleon to change masks and outfits
• Carries a canister of chemical gas that instantly changes the color of his clothing
• Later on, he wears a suit that allows him to instantly change his facial appearance and clothing
  • After confronting Spidey in public and taking a blow from the wall-crawler, the Chameleon assumes the form of a defenseless, old lady to turn the public against the hero
• A high-tech costume can resemble any article of clothing that the Chameleon can think of
• When appearing as someone much bigger than he is, like the Kingpin, the Chameleon uses an inflatable suit
• Poses as a hostage, then uses a hologram projector to make it look like Doc Ock is holding him off a roof
• When working for the Superior Spider-Man’s team of “reformed” villains, the Superior Six, Chameleon used hologram tech to aid in his disguises. This let him appear as Loki, with his massive horns and Asgardian outfit being formed with the tech. It otherwise works more or less like his powers did.
• Most recently, the Chameleon requires the use of a serum to be able to change his features at will
  • As soon as the Chameleon touches someone, he’s able to look exactly like that person. This can also make the other person temporarily swap forms with the Chameleon (or other users of the serum).

Weapons

Non-Lethal
Guns

• Uses a dart gun that instantly knocks a man out with a shot to the shoulder
• Uses a chemical gas gun to instantly knock out Captain America, keeping him out for a few minutes
• A dart gun that leaves victims unconscious and foaming from the mouth
• A stun gun

Injectables

• A syringe full of sedative chemicals that KOs Spider-Man and makes Deadpool woozy for a minute until he heals
• A syringe hidden in a prop torch puts Spider-Man to sleep immediately
• He injects Spider-Man with a poisonous chemical. It brings on extreme nausea and vertigo, then later knocks Spider-Man out for two days straight.

Other

• Snuck into Captain Stacy’s room and administered a few drops of sedatives to Stacy’s decanter. This kept him unconscious all day, allowing the Chameleon to assume his identity and steal priceless pieces of art.
• An aerosol can of sedatives
• One time, he coated his clothing in an odorless sedative chemical. When Spider-Man grabs him by his jacket, the hero falls unconscious in a matter of seconds.
• Gas grenades
• He uses some kind of electric weapon on a shallow body of water, shocking Spider-Man, Husk and Deadpool into unconsciousness

Lethal
Guns

• Normal guns like rifles, a shotgun and a handgun
• A silenced handgun
• A revolver
• A double-barreled shotgun
• He wields a one-handed launcher that carries a variety of capsules, including cyanide gas canisters and concussive explosives
• An absurdly large, Liefeld-esque gun that blows up a computer station
• A energy-based handgun with explosive firepower, used to blast a large hole through Deadpool’s torso and later turn a concrete wall into rubble

Injectables

• A poison ring that would’ve injected JJJ with a lethal dose during a handshake
• [KH] Shoots Spider-Man with a poison dart that would’ve killed him in ten minutes if he didn’t take the antidote

Other

• Usually carries a dagger or other kind of blade
• A grenade
• A small, box-shaped time bomb
• He once used a Man-Thing parasite to protect himself from gunfire and form combat applicable branch-like tentacles

Other Equipment

Field Gear

• Smoke pellets
• When posing as Spider-Man, he used a web-gun to emulate the hero’s web-shooters, although the webbing wasn’t as strong as Spider-Man’s
• While posing as Spider-Man, the Chameleon utilizes suction cup-covered gloves and a web gun to replicate Spidey’s wall-crawling and web-slinging
• A tracking device
• Nose filters protect him from a cloud of cyanide gas
• A jetpack with enough fuel to fly for nearly a full hour
• Typically restrains victims with rope and gags

Base Installations

• Uses a modified radio to send a message across New York that only Spider-Man could hear
• Uses a machine to swap memories with Captain America
• One lair boasts a chair that can be lowered into a pit of acid, used to destroy bodies
• Rigs his lairs to explode if they’re compromised
• He detonates explosives in one of his hideouts that releases napalm-like flames

Other

• He’s helped to design Life Model Decoys that look exactly like Richard and Mary Parker with the goal of investigating Peter Parker and finding out about Spider-Man’s identity. While the false Mary developed a conscience and defied her programming, the false Richard was outfitted with a combat form.
• He holds a gun to the head of a simulacra of Mary Jane. When Spidey determines it’s a fake instead of his real wife, it poofs into smoke.
• Robots that drive his escape vehicles

Miscellaneous

• After coming across a cave full of assorted scrap mechanics, Chameleon builds a missile from the pieces. He later says he “found” the missile, so who knows. At any rate, the missile is strong enough to KO the Hulk when they collide.
• One time, he inexplicably escaped from Spider-Man’s grasp and disappeared from the room
• He kidnaps Spider-Man and imprisons him in Ravencroft Asylum. He then unmasks the hero, puts a realistic mask and straightjacket on him and attempts to gaslight Peter, through the use of psychoactive drugs and fabricated evidence, into believing he’s another man named Herbert Smith. This ruse does convince Peter for a good while until he later remembers his life with Mary Jane.
• He implies that he might be able to disguise his psyche from the telepathic X-Men member, No-Girl, although the claim is not actually proven
• Off-panel, he killed a man, cut off his face and used it for a temporary mask

Monica Rappaccini: I apologize for the delay in initial payment, but we first had to verify your identity. A.I.M.’s intel had been that the Chameleon was dead- or in an insane asylum.
Chameleon: Yes, well. That would be exactly what I wanted you to think. Faded into the background, imperceptible… that’s where a Chameleon is most comfortable… and where I shall now return.

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