u/Aggressive_Duck2184

Hi guys. I currently take an XR and a IR for booster but I’m working 12s, I’m gonna move to 24 hour shifts and I’m wondering how you balance it?

Like I don’t have the mask anymore, I can try to answer things normally but it’s like, very obvious I am autistic 😭😅

Hi guys. I’ve been an EMT for almost a year, I currently work in the transport division with being pulled over to 911 every once in a while. I was lucky to be placed with a medic and were the only ALS truck so I do get some good experience with pediatric transports, ALS transports and those 911 pull overs, however,
The county I took my class and training from is my hometown about ~1 hour 20 mins from me currently since I moved. Honestly? They need people. Overall I do want to go back and help serve my community and gain more 911 experience.
I don’t want to have bad calls, it’s not that. I want to have more experience to see if continuing on and being a medic is something I would feel comfortable doing, and I absolutely do not want to do that until I feel 100% confident as an EMT. I have a lot to learn, but I feel I am not being able to learn as much being on transport. The way my company does it is, you pretty much have to earn your place on 911, and while that’s completely fair, there are EMTs that have been on transport for so long they forget their skills because they don’t have to use them, and while that’s almost entirely their fault for not keeping up with their skills, I can’t help but want to look at more opportunities.
There are also benefits to going back to my little rural community:
- 24 hours on, 48 hours off. Whereas I work 12 hours, I am completely exhausted by the 3rd day.
- they have auto loader stretchers, our company, despite funding, does not. Not hating, but they’ve recently implemented this device to scan our truck supplies with instead of physically checking it, and to me it makes me worry about people becoming complacent and not checking the rest of their truck, which most transport trucks don’t do anyways.
- I would be around my family and friends more. It would be an 8a-8a shift, if I was able to sleep most of the night I can enjoy the sunrise with a coffee in hand on my way home and have my full 48 hours to relax, if not, I can visit my parents and my friends and take a little nap.
- I won’t have to do the heavy lifting of trying to put people BACK IN THEIR HOUSES and UP STAIRS as much. It’s hard either way, but every day for 12 hours has gotten the best of my back at 22.

What’re your thoughts? As I’m still new-ish, I greatly appreciate any advice.

Hi guys. I am diagnosed with hyper mobile EDS, but I have extremely thin and translucent skin, easy bruising, and extremely dark/purple under eyes. I’ve had these my entire life, I’m beginning to worry about vascular Ehlers Danlos. I have POTS, but I’ve been passing out when standing up and stretching since I was a child. I have a doctors appointment scheduled, but what’s some things I can look for, and things I can do?

My parents always fought, always got physical, my mom did hard drugs and my dad dabbled.
My dad refused to feed me if my mom wasn’t there when I was a baby.
As I got older and my mom got worse, it’s like a light switch flipped in his head. He became my best friend.

But my mom?
My whole childhood was spent lying to my dad about where she would take me at night.
Drug houses and falling asleep in someone dirty laundry at age 3.
Being left alone at 13 with a bunch of addicts and watching people shoot up with a gang member being the one to look after me and make sure I was okay. (He was the homie fr.)

When I tried to OD on a handful of prescription Benadryl, my mom made it about her and made me go to my dads house when I was living with my grandparents to tell him what I did as I was nodding out sitting on a stool and then was put to bed to sleep it off, I could’ve died.

I self harmed and developed eating disorders since I was 10, and got groomed several times in my teens because my parents didn’t care enough to educate me or stop me. I was left severely damaged and abused.

My dad kicked my mom out once and wouldn’t let me open the door for her when she was begging to be let in.
My mom hid needles in my shoes, in my bathroom, in my cabinets.

I couldn’t ever go anywhere with her because she was always high out of her mind. I was 12 when I picked her up out of the floor bc she left the oven on and I didn’t want dad to see her like that and her get in trouble.
But now?
After I turned 18?
After I got an education and moved to a different city?
All of a sudden my mom doesn’t use as much. She still has paraphernalia in my childhood bedroom tho.
She’s always worried about me, both of them are.
They care more now. They show it more now.
They have always loved me, just didn’t always prioritize me.
It’s my greatest struggle to forgive them and still go into that house for a visit. I don’t know how to confront it, I don’t want to cut them or just my mom off and regret it.
But I have flashbacks every day. I’m angry a lot. I’m resentful. I want to go back to my teen years and re live them. Or my childhood. I deserved a better life.

I don’t know if anyone else has had the same issue I’m in.
But I need advice. Or just someone who can relate.

I hate that it’s been infantilized and so many people joke about it, “my autistic girlfriend” “my autistic boyfriend” blah blah. It’s very annoying. I hate that people claim to have it over traits that are neurotypical.

But, I am able to say I have autism at work and people understand it better. I am not held to lower expectations than anyone else, I am told “shit honestly, I think I am too” and we laugh and continue on.

People recognize sensory issues and overload better than they used to. I don’t have to over explain as to why I know everything about how to do my job correctly, and do it down to a science, but for some reason I do go left when you said right. (Common thing for me, for some reason).

I don’t get weird looks because I don’t make eye contact or keep my head down when I walk or have poor sense of direction.

I can be tired, burned out, and sometimes my coworkers will join me on just, taking a second to regulate.

I don’t like it being turned into a joke, I feel though that it is me feeling frustrated in my own life from struggling as much as I have to get to a point where I can interact with people well, and have taught myself social cues, I struggle with brushing my teeth and I struggle with routine even though I need one, etc.

but, it is nice to be a little more understood. :)

Hey guys. Been struggling with neck pain so bad. Causes migraines often. No matter how I lay it just feels unstable and leaves the base my skull muscles very very tense constantly. Do you go to a chiropractor or massage therapist? And what do you do at home to help?

I’m getting cramps and mood swings and I’m not pregnant so I’m really confused 😅

Not sure what to put the flair as but more so a general discussion, as I know our skin tends to be more soft, me personally I’ve noticed nicotine made my skin more dry and dull, which is does to everyone usually, I use smokeless nicotine so I’m just very curious, does anyone else notice difference in their skin from nicotine? More dehydration lines and things?

Hi guys. I was on the combo pill from age 12-18 for extremely heavy bleeding and almost constant periods. My aunt has endometriosis so bad she cannot have children. (Stay with me for this)
I took a break from the combination pill and had relatively okay experience. Normal periods. Something that happened all throughout ages 13-18 was these extremely painful “flare ups” around a week before my period. Would start with burning pain, then I’d end up bed ridden for days. Couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink. This eventually led to me believing my ovary getting randomly INFECTED was one of those flare ups to which I ignored and then was hospitalized for 5 days.
I had an operation a few months later where my gyno removed “adhesions” from my pelvic wall and bladder. I also ended up feeling what I thought was a nodule in my lower left abdomen, had ultrasounds and everything to which they informed me it was my ovary, which is so weird, how would my ovary had moved? It hurts to press on it like if you WERE pressing on your ovary, but I honestly and truly think that there’s some scar tissue, maybe from the surgery, pressing my ovary forward. ??

I’m now on the progesterone only pill, because I do use nicotine, so for health reasons I chose that route.
I’m now beginning to experience the same pinching feeling, the same cramps in my back, my rectum, the burning feeling without a flare up. I’m afraid the adhesions are reforming and that I was experiencing either cysts rupturing every month or an under the radar endometriosis.
My boobs are also extremely heavy and nipples very sore right now. Idk if feeling PMS symptoms are normal with this form of birth control or whatever but I’m just trying to figure out if anyone out there has ever had something similar happen to them because I’m very worried. I have my next gyno app in August but I’m fearful of that wait. If anyone has any questions or topics they can suggest for me to bring up to my gyno, please feel free to just give some advice.

For me personally I lift on days I don’t work to keep up strength and do yoga on days I do to ensure my mobility is good and my muscles are stretched. Also stress relief. How about you? :)

Hi. I’m 22 and I’ve been on birth control since I was 12. I had extremely heavy bleeding, very irregular periods, very bad pain. My aunt has endometriosis.
Anyways, fast forward,
Since I was 13-14, I’d have extreme, burning, pain in my stomach about a week before my period. (Throwing up when I ate, not being able to even hold my phone) I thought it was gastrointestinal, even had CT scans during the pain and they told me it was gas.
I ended up with my ovary infected and having PAD.
No cause btw, just happened. And the pain that I experienced during those flare ups was so bad, I was in pain for 3 days before going to the hospital.
I get there, I get treated, I had laparoscopic surgery a few months later and my gyno stated she removed webbed tissue and adhesions. I have always, always been concerned about that.
Now, that was in 2023. I’ve started to experience symptoms I did before the surgery again, heaviness, burning pain in my pelvis and back, my rectum, leg pain, period cramps even though I don’t have a period anymore due to my birth control.
I’ve been trying to ask her to examine me. Vaginal ultrasounds, regular ultrasounds, can’t always show the adhesions which were around my pelvis and abdominal organs. I now have either massive scar tissue, or my ovary has somehow moved up higher than it was. (Weird, I had an ultrasound on that) I am terrified I won’t be able to have children due to someone not listening to me the first time.

Does anyone else ever get into funks where you lose your routine? Bonus points if you’re also in a job that’s physically tasking as well lol.
I worked out ONCE last week now I’m trying to completely remake a routine that accommodates my low energy levels. Been feeling like I don’t get to relax even if I do I’m not sure what’s going on there, I guess everytime I’m relaxing I have the feeling of “I should be working out”😭

Me personally I don’t drive code unless it’s life or death because the general public doesn’t react well imo. What about you? I’ve met a good bit of people that run hot to everything depending on the agency

I’ve never had a booster before, so I’m confused as to when exactly to use it.
I take my 18mg in the morning anywhere between 6-9, today I took it at about 7:30, it usually wears off at like 1-2, but online it says it peaks at >6 hours which I honestly haven’t experienced. I work 12 hour shifts in healthcare, which is why we decided on this. Just wondering if anyone else does this on the same or similar medication and your experiences with it

Does anyone else struggle with their skin? Especially in early 20s? I feel like I’m going through a second puberty (technically we all do, but hear me out.) my pores are so large, my skin is sensitive yet oily yet dry? Blackheads, dark circles, sebaceous filaments, does anyone have any suggestions to how you combat this? We may have stretchy skin that doesn’t appear to age, but those pores and skin sensitivity does not lie😂😅

What does everyone do for work if you do? Does anyone here work a physically demanding job, and if so what’s your experience with it?
I’m wanting to go into forensics, but normally they require you to go to the police academy and work as an officer, despite having EDS I’m also 4’11😂
I work in EMS currently, and I just have a lot of pain in my shoulders, arms and wrists. Feels like I’ve gotten cubital tunnel early, and just overall aches and pains that probably aren’t arthritis (I’m 22).
I’m wanting to at least, go to school, do something more, I just don’t really know what to do.

Rain makes my body hurt, on top of having a physically demanding job. I’m sitting where I’m stationed at and I’m laying on the couch trying not to cry my shoulder hurts so damn bad. I don’t even think I have arthritis, just got nerfed by default. I hope someone else relates, I’m so scared, I love being physically active and being strong, I’m a 4’11 112 pound woman, and I’m extremely strong, it’s something I’m incredibly proud of. I want to go to the police academy so I can go into forensics eventually. I hope so badly I can get this fixed.