u/Able-Afternoon-804

I get really weird before my period… I have terrible mood swings that really affect my functioning.

weirdest thing was two days before my period I decided that I wanted to change my first and last name!! every night I stayed awake with that deed poll filling out the forms with such a manic, impulsive rush…. and then my period came and it was like I woke up and I was like what the hell was I just about to do…

i personalky thought this was adhd but the doc said I could have pmdd. is there a link there? my adhd seems to get terrible in the luteal and I become a total wreck..

I’ve been unable to go to the toilet without one for the last 5 months. I get really bloated after eating anything and nothing comes out, but with a suppository the poos are pretty normal looking.

movicol (the uk version of miralax) also works.

im pretty sure I have both an internal problem and an exit problem. I used to be a runner and i got injured (my right groin tore) but since I had exams I didn’t bother to get it checked… now I’m pretty sure I have developed chronic hip and pelvic floor dysfunction.

also, I think I have sibo as well which doesn’t help me at all and I’m pushing for a colonoscopy because last year they found a small bowel obstruction on a ct but didn’t do anything about it.

until I get assessed, is it safe to use these?

hi,

i am a sri lankan living in the UK. i was born in the UK and I haven't really been to Sri Lanka much due to inter family relations. However, as I have gotten older I feel extremely disconnected from my culture and its really painful. When I was younger I could speak Sinhala, but my dad said that we could only speak English at home and so I lost that. Now I am truly a 'coconut', for use of a better word. Doesn't really help that I am extremely fair skinned so people assume i'm Spanish instead. I just have lost so much connection, and I really want to connect back.

I know that my family has significant history. We have a family sword, and i am not sure about the accuracy of the following statement but my grandfather has said that we were descended from the Kandyan Kings as he traced it back (my mum's side.) Its probably true, though. My mum is Kandyan, and my dad is from Colombo. My grandfather (on my dads side) was a famous actor in the early sri lankan films, and so I know there is significant success within my family but I am so incredibly disconnected.

My grandfather (mums side) had traced our lineage but when he passed, external family living in Sri Lanka took all his belongings and money and refused to let my mum have anything, even though his will stated different. We have lost vital history - photographs, lineage traced back through centuries. I am now 18 and studying history, and I want to focus on Sri Lankan history but during this I want to trace my history too. Where should I start?

I've looked up the different surnames and tried to trace things back but its actually quite difficult, especially as I am not in Sri Lanka and can't speak Sinhala. where should I start?

hi,

im 18f, 147cm, and around 44kg, with a body fat percentage of 30%, which is really bad honestly.

i used to yo yo diet, avoid carbs, etc. however this screwed up my hormones really bad so the advice of limiting carbs actually makes me feel a lot worse. im really sensitive to fibre though so everything is just all over the place for my body. i can't digest meat but I can eat fish and tofu and eggs.

im also being tested for endo/chrons because i have terrible pain and bloating, as well as constipation, so its hard to follow typical advice sometimes. im very weak so it makes a lot of things really hard, unfortunately....

i don't exercise as much as I can and I really need to start as i have a muscle percentage of like 27%.

ive attached my body composition - i think I need to start weight training, but I have no clue how to start and what to do. I also have ADHD so I just forget the moves and the sets and everything! how do I know what the correct form is and how to approach that?

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(18f)

I have been constantly fobbed off by male doctors about my symptoms and its getting super frustrating. I have heavy periods, constipation that goes into diarrhoea, yellowy white narrow stools and weird itchy feelings. I get really bad brain fog and fatigue also and it all seems to be somehow mapped to my cycle - I thought it could be a prostaglandin or progesterone issue as I don't even feel my gut moving at all.

I had an episode at the start of LAST year where I fell unconscious and projectile vomited due to blocked up stool, and had to go to the hospital in an ambulance. I was so weak that I couldn't speak or move, and they had to pump food our of my stomach and poop outta my ass. It was so frustrating to be told afterwards that it was probably nothing and be referred to a gastro in 6 months time.

I was just about to go to uni, and that gastro appt that I waited 6 MONTHS FOR basically told me they are not doing anymore tests, bloods are fine, and its all anxiety and when I go to uni it will be fine. He was a male doctor and spent more time telling me about how he wanted to go to Cambridge but he couldn't (I had an offer from Cambridge and he asked me about what uni I was going to, instead of actually talking about my symptoms.)

A few months later things got a lot worse. Fatigue where I couldn't get out of bed, I couldn't type on some days. Swollen glands and itching. Still, every doctor I had never took me seriously, and it was just really hard to get through. They told me it was stress, anxiety, yadda yadda, that there was no point doing anything, bloods were fine. I knew something was wrong, but every doctor (mainly male!!!) NEVER TOOK ME SERIOUSLY.

I thought, you know what? Im going to take my savings from my job and pay for a private medical assessment. Guess what? 1000 POUNDS and the doctor still didn't take me seriously?! He did all the tests, and even when my hip was audibly grinding and my calcium was sky high he said it was fine. He told me the swollen lymph nodes in my neck were normal even though I knew they were not. 1000 pounds for nothing, when I thought I would maybe get somewhere.

Fast forward to April of this year, I finally through the NHS get a really kind female, Asian GP and she takes me seriously. Notes down everything I say. Swollen Lymph nodes, itching, sweating at night, losing weight fast. She arranges me to have a chest Xray. They find I have significantly swollen hilar and mediastinal nodes and tells me its very very possible I have lymphoma. LYMPHOMA. fricking CANCER. Still waiting on the biopsy results but my bloods, with high ESR and calcium that wasn't taken seriously before, as well as my xray shows it is likely I have cancer. Who knows if I have bowel cancer too?

I can't help but wonder if I had been taken seriously by all those countless male doctors before, if I would have been able to get help faster. Its frustrating as a young woman to know you have to constantly fight against the healthcare system to get any help. any suggestions?