Chronic Illness vs Autism

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It’s no secret that I have a lot of health issues, both mental and physical, but sometimes what I need for one issue conflicts with what I need for another. For example: I need to wear compression socks because of vascular issues, but they’re a miserable sensory experience. I take Adderall sometimes for my ADHD, but it can wreck my pulse and temperature regulation. Anyone else suffer from a similar conflict of needs?

Yes, I have had this problem with treatments for depression and anxiety. The sedative feeling from the pills I've been prescribed often make socialising and executive impairments even more difficult than usual, because I need to be able to concentrate to do the things that compensate for those traits. I have too much "brain fog" naturally without also taking medication which worsens it.

Yes I am physically disabled, I would like to learn to drive but the socialising it requires deters me then there is the stress of all the other drivers. Both my physical disability and social issues stop any chances of socialising too, if I had just one of these problems I would be okay.

I wear compression socks too! I have POTS. I kind of like taking them off and playing with the indents in my skin, haha. Sometimes they bother me if they're falling/rolling up weirdly, but that doesn't happen too often for me.
My biggest/first physical thing is fibromyalgia, which goes hand in hand with autism and anxiety in that they all make sensory overload hell. So for me, things usually all have similar effects, as opposed to the thing I need to do for one hurting another. The most I can think of right now is when topical creams hurt or I can't use them because my eczema is acting up on that spot.
And I also totally have the issue of physical stuff + autism making socialization almost impossible. I actually thought, before I was autistic, that I had issues socializing because I couldn't be a teenager because I couldn't function with my physical things.