Medical -- beYou Illness FAQ

Welcome to the beYou Illness FAQ. This guide will help you understand beYou Illnesses and how they work within the beYou RP living system.

**WARNING**: Turning off health in your account preferences AFTER you become beYou sick will not stop the illness, nor will it cure you. Seek professional help to be cured first then turn off health if you do not wish to become beYou sick. If your health is turned off and you still become sick, file a ticket to have the issue investigated.

### WHAT ARE BEYOU ILLNESSES?

beYou illnesses are a group of specialized illnesses loosely based on RL illnesses, but never anything dark or life-threatening. beYou illnesses are meant to be light in humor and fun with a bit of twisted humor included. beYou illnesses will NEVER be serious.

### CAN I GET SICK?

Yes (and no). You can opt-out of getting sick. However, if you choose to have your profession be in the manufacturer field (coming soon) or in the medical field (eg. Doctor or Pharmacist) you do not get to opt-out of being sick as that will automatically disable your profession in the above fields.

To opt-in or out of being sick, visit www.beyouworld.com, and log in. On the top bar, choose the arrow next to the word PLAYER and choose 'My Profile' if it hasn't put you on that page already. Click the button marked 'Edit Account' next to your name and registration date. Choose preferences > health > and switch 'enable health attributes' to ON [to opt (back) in]. If you do not want to get sick, choose OFF (and it will turn the button gray). Click 'SAVE CHANGES' and voila!

**NOTE**: If you choose to disable health, then you will not be able to be participate in the beYou Medical Profession nor will you be able to participate in the Manufacturing Profession when it becomes available. You may only change this preference once every 30 days.

**WARNING**: Turning off health in your account preferences AFTER you become beYou sick will not stop the illness, nor will it cure you. Seek professional help to be cured first then turn off health if you do not wish to become beYou sick. If your health is turned off and you still become sick, file a ticket to have the issue investigated.

### ARE ILLNESSES BASED ON HOW GOOD/BAD MY STATS ARE?

No. Illnesses will occur regardless of the state of your stats. Illnesses are random and you contract them three different ways (see below - how do I get sick?). While illnesses are random, some are triggered by certain activities, foods or drinks.

### ARE ILLNESSES BASED ON GENDER OR AGE?

No. At present, it doesn't matter what age or gender you choose to play. All illnesses apply to all ages, genders and species.

### HOW DO I KNOW IF I'M SICK?

**IMPORTANT**: All medical conditions in beYou are fictitious and meant to provide humor and fun, not stress. Users will know they have a condition with several indicators:

1. If you are only wearing your hud, you will receive messages periodically in local/nearby chat from your hud with random symptoms. You may also hear either coughing, possibly sneezing, a strange type of breathing, or grumbling sound as well (provided you have your sounds on). This will continue until you are completely cured.\*
2. If you are wearing both your hud and meter, not only will you experience local messages and sounds, but also your meter will show this symbol ⛨ in your hover text just under your gender. When you are sick, your beYou person from your meter (the pink or blue person) will also have bandages on its head and what looks like a tear. If your person is sporting horns and a tail, your meter is outdated and you will need to get it redelivered via the website. In addition, your avatar will animate for short periods of time at random intervals if you are wearing your beYou Meter.
3. When you login to your profile on the beYou website, your profile picture will be changed to the image on the right. Once you've been cured, your profile picture will return to normal.

**IMPORTANT**: If you are sick, the symptoms you receive in nearby chat can only be seen by YOU; no one else. Everyone can hear the sounds coming from your hud but you will only see text when taking your medicine or if it's October as the Zombie Virus which is only able to get in October is the only thing that has local messages that everyone can see.

**ALSO IMPORTANT**: When you are sick and you find that you are animating but don't want to be, take off your HUD. The sick animations will stop.

### HOW OFTEN CAN I GET SICK?

As of the date of this FAQ's creation, you should only get sick once every thirty (30) days from the first day of the last time you were sick. At times, the beYou Gods might expose us to a random epidemic. But most of the time, you get sick once every 30 days.

### HOW DO I GET SICK?

As of the date of this FAQ's creation, you can get sick one of the following ways:

1. Primary means of illness: regular use of beYou via food, drink, or activities ... regardless of whether or not your beYou Hud is attached.
2. beYou outbreaks (when the powers that be will randomly, albeit rarely, spread outbreaks of varied illnesses).
3. Request to be made sick (or make someone else sick...even with same illness). Be advised: if you request for someone else to get sick, that may backfire and you may end up sick as well.

This may change in the future, but for now, there is no other way. So keep in mind that if you have an unhealthy diet, you might put yourself more at risk of getting sick. If you find you are getting sick more frequently than 30 days apart, then please submit a ticket to have the issue investigated.

### ARE BEYOU ILLNESSES CONTAGIOUS?

At present, regular beYou illnesses are NOT contagious so you can not get them from other people; just what you eat or drink. In October, there is a special Zombie Virus (not the Zombie Intolerance illness that is on the list of regular beYou illnesses) that IS contagious, but that's ONLY during the month of October.

### CAN I HEAL MYSELF?

No you can not heal yourself. You will have to see a beYou Doctor to be diagnosed. Then you will see a Pharmacist for your prescription.

### DOES BEYOU HAVE PREGNANCY?

No. At present, beYou does not have a pregnancy component nor is it compatible with any pregnancy hud or body in Second Life. Now while there may be coincidences of timing when pregnant, it is just that: coincidence. The huds do not communicate with each other. You can incorporate beYou into your pregnancy RP by using it to tell doctors what you eat, activities you perform or things like that. But under no circumstances does beYou currently have anything to do with pregnancy on SL.

### DO I STILL NEED TO KEEP MY STATS UP WHILE I'M SICK?

Yes, you do. Being sick doesn't stop you from having to take care of your stats. You need to keep your stats up regardless of anything else. While sick, nothing will change aside from the fact that you're sick.

If your wellness is at 5% or lower for 3 consecutive days, even while sick, you will die.

### HOW WILL ILLNESS AFFECT MY STATS?

Effective April 1, 2020: If you are sick for 40 days without being cured (meaning not only seen and diagnosed but finished your full course of medication), you will die.

### WHAT HAPPENS IF I DIE?

If you die, none of your stats will be able to be raised, no matter what you eat or drink to boost them. You will also be unable to accumulate skill points from beYou activities until this is remedied.

The ONLY way you can be revived is by purchasing (and using) a revive angel available at the beYou Sim. Revive Angels are 777L and is available next to the Pharmacy counter.

### HOW DO I FIND A DOCTOR?

You can find a doctor by either visiting the beYou Sim and looking at the medical boards on the main beYou sim; by requesting a doctor in the beYou spam groups inworld (NOT the main beYou World group - that's against the rules); or by visiting www.beyouworld.com and hover over Professions, then select 'search professionals'. Keep in mind this search shows doctors who have been active (meaning have the hud on) for the past 7 days; not who is online at the time services are being sought.

**Reminder**: Do NOT ask for a doctor or pharmacist in the inworld beYou World Group or in the Official beYou Discord Channel. This is against the community rules and group charter.

### YOUR DR'S EXAM

**NOTE**: Please do not stand once your examination begins. This causes issues and you will have to start over.

The beYou Medical Examination table will put you through a series of five exams before issuing a diagnosis. Depending on lag and time, this can take anywhere from five (5) to ten (10) minutes, depending on the level of roleplay provided by your doctor.

Once the five exams are done, your doctor will gather your diagnosis and your illness will be displayed in local/nearby chat. You will also receive a private, scripted message in local/nearby chat that reveals the fulfillment code that you must take to your pharmacist in order to get your prescription filled.

Once the doctor ends the exam, the table will stand you up and this will indicate the exam is over.

At the end of your examination, you will receive the following changes to your stats:

* Mana +5%
* Hygiene +5%
* Mood +10%
* Reputation +10%

Reminder: Doctors can **not** examine themselves.

### HOW OFTEN MAY I BE EXAMINED?

You may be examined as many times as you like within a 24-hour period. However, you will only receive a stat boost for your medical examination once per 24-hour period.

If you, the patient, decide to visit multiple doctors (i.e. wanting to roleplay getting 2nd/3rd opinions) in the course of one day, you are well within your rights to do so. However, you will only receive stat boosts for the first medical visit of that 24-hr period. Each doctor that you see within that 24-hour period will receive stats boosts and skill points from the first visit with you. If you decide to see the same doctor within a 24-hr period, then neither you nor the doctor will receive additional stat boosts or points after the first visit.

### GETTING PRESCRIPTIONS

Once you have seen your doctor and received your fulfillment code, you can either take the code to any beYou pharmacist and they will be able to fill your prescription or if you are a beYou pharmacist, you may fill your own prescription. Just like the doctor's offices, Pharmacists (and Pharmacies) can be found via the beYou website search or via the courtyard at the main sim. Prices will vary depending on the Pharmacist you choose.

You will receive the prescription inworld. Upon your prescription being filled and being delivered, you will see the following in local/nearby chat.

* beYou Hud VX.X: Your prescription for (name of prescription) was filled by (name of pharmacist).

In addition, you will receive a message in local/nearby chat from beYou saying that there is a gift waiting for you at the website. It will send you a prescription card (object). This card is non-transferable. You can add your fulfillment code to it by clicking it and choosing set up, then display it proudly. But it is simply an RP tool; nothing more.

### TAKING YOUR MEDICINE

All beYou prescriptions will require 3 doses in order to cure you.

Depending on the grade of your medication (and pharmacist's profession level), your wait time between doses may vary. For example: LG meds require 24 hours wait time between each dose. What this means is you take it three different days; doesn't have to be consecutive. That being said, you should finish taking your prescription within 2 weeks of starting your treatment.

Medications are meant to be taken within 2 weeks. If you do not complete all three doses there is a chance you will not be fully healed when you take your third dose. You will not have to re-take your medication however you will have to contact beYou staff and have them assist in clearing you of the illness.

#### Taking Your Meds (step-by-step)

Effective 01/17/2023, when your prescription is filled, the uses will go straight to your assets and you will receive a bottle to wear immediately to begin taking your medication! No additional rezzing needed!

To take your medicine (*using Stop d Poopie as an example but this applies to ALL beYou prescriptions*):

1 - Accept the delivered prescription inworld from your pharmacist. You will see the following message:

```
[20:38] beYou Hud V3.0: Your prescription for beYou Stop d Poopie was filled by Pharmacist's Name (3) beYou Stop d Poopie LGassets have been added directly to your account.

```

2 - Attach the prescription package by opening your inventory, right-clicking it and choose 'attach'.

```
[20:40] beYou Stop d Poopie LG: You have 3 left!
[20:40] beYou Stop d Poopie LG whispers: You aren't nearly as worried as you should be!
[20:40] beYou Stop d Poopie LG: You've just taken a dose! It looks like you have taken 1 of  3 doses.
[20:40] beYou Stop d Poopie LG: No More Ants in da pants??[11:39]  beYou Stop d Poopie LG: You have 3 left!

```

After you take each dose, the prescription will automatically detach and you will use the prescription again 24 (or more) hrs later, depending on when you login to take your next dose, then again for the last dose.

**NOTE**: If you try to take your subsequent doses too early, you will receive a message saying you are too early with a countdown of how long before you can take your next dose.

On your last dose, you'll see the following:

```
[21:31] beYou Stop d Poopie LG: You have 1 left!
[21:31] beYou Stop d Poopie LG whispers: You aren't nearly as worried as you should be!
[21:31] beYou Stop d Poopie LG: You've used this 3/3 times.
[21:31] beYou Stop d Poopie LG: Looks like this is your last dose!
[21:31] beYou Stop d Poopie LG whispers: You've completed medication treatment.
[21:31] beYou Hud V3.0: Congratulations! You you've just been cured of Poonamis Syndrome! Give your meter a minute and the bandage will disappear.

```

Your symptoms should clear up shortly after you take your last dose. If your symptoms persist for more than 24 hours after your last dose is taken, submit a ticket to the beYou support portal. Be very detailed as to what you took, when you took it, etc. in order to help the support team assist you better.

After you have been cured, your timing as to when you can get sick will be 30 days from the last sickness you had. This only gets superseded by divine intervention (aka 'beYou Gods').

If you have any questions regarding the medical profession or how medical works, please have a look at the other topics in the wiki under the Medical category or you may also ask in the Official beYou World inworld group or Official beYou Discord Channel.

### WHAT DO I DO IF I LOSE MY PRESCRIPTION BOTTLE?

Because these are wearable items transferred between each person's assets, Pharmacists are unable to replace lost medication bottles. You will have to contact beYou support to get the lost bottle sent to them.