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My dog Stella is 8 months old. She’s never had a problem with guarding her kibble or toys, but loves large chews like collagen chews or beef hide and has them regularly. Will sit on the couch near us while she eats them and sometimes brings them to me and drops them on me to play with them or throw them for her. The only resource guarding shes shown is if she has something she shouldnt like a tissue or sock and we try to take it from her she growls. So we stopped doing that and now offer a treat as a trade, which usually works.

So today i’m not sure if it was a perfect storm of a weird situation or what. My fiance gave her a cow ear treat and she was eating it on the couch like she usually does. I got up from one end of the couch and went to walk by where she was sitting to go sit closer to my fiance. I thought she was done eating the treat as i didnt see it anymore but apparently it had just fallen on the floor where i was walking. I guess she took that as i was going to take her treat and growled and bit my hand and broke skin. It all happened so fast and was so unexpected but i dont think she was latched on and did not continue trying to bite me. We immediately put her in the crate so i could wash up my hand.

I am now really shaken by this as i mean she play bites still like any puppy, but nothing like this has ever happened. We plan to look into a behaviorist or trainer for guidance, but im worried this is just going to happen again. She is otherwise a very friendly playful pup. Is there anything we can do immediately while looking into a trainer?

My dog Stella is 8 months old. She’s never had a problem with guarding her kibble or toys, but loves large chews like collagen chews or beef hide and has them regularly. Will sit on the couch near us while she eats them and sometimes brings them to me and drops them on me to play with them or throw them for her. The only resource guarding shes shown is if she has something she shouldnt like a tissue or sock and we try to take it from her she growls. So we stopped doing that and now offer a treat as a trade, which usually works.

So today i’m not sure if it was a perfect storm of a weird situation or what. My fiance gave her a cow ear treat and she was eating it on the couch like she usually does. I got up from one end of the couch and went to walk by where she was sitting to go sit closer to my fiance. I thought she was done eating the treat as i didnt see it anymore but apparently it had just fallen on the floor where i was walking. I guess she took that as i was going to take her treat and growled and bit my hand and broke skin. It all happened so fast and was so unexpected but i dont think she was latched on and did not continue trying to bite me. We immediately put her in the crate so i could wash up my hand.

I am now really shaken by this as i mean she play bites still like any puppy, but nothing like this has ever happened. We plan to look into a behaviorist or trainer for guidance, but im worried this is just going to happen again. She is otherwise a very friendly playful pup. Is there anything we can do immediately while looking into a trainer?

Today I had 2 auras back to back. Before the aura, i had an ice pick type of headache pain behind my left eye. I only slept a couple hours last night due to period cramps so I figured it was just from lack of sleep but then the aura started. This one came on extra slowly and i just felt weird vision for awhile at first. Which has happened before. I was at work so i found a dark office to wait it out then drove home. The weird thing was that the pain behind my eye seemingly went away after the aura started. As i was driving the zigzags returned for about another half hour. Then i napped for 4 hours and now just feel the migraine hangover. Slight head pain but nothing bad. Was that just a different headache unrelated to the migraine or auras? Was it a prodrome symptom? Why did it go away with the aura? Was that unrelated?

I get migraines with aura on average like 14 times a year. Sometimes i go 3 months without one, sometimes i have 3 in one month but averages to about 14 a year. They have drastically decreased in reoccurrence and how long the aura lasts/how severe it is has also been reduced since stopping birth control about 7 months ago and now seem very tied to my cycle whereas before they happened randomly. This one felt more intense than what ive had in awhile and caused a panic attack so was just curious if anyone has any insight

If it was up to me and my fiance, we'd probably skip these dances all together as we are not big on being center of attention or big dancers but our families are funding a lot of our wedding and it would break their hearts to not have these dances, so we're doing them. However, my (29F) future mother-in-law has already claimed the song I had planned for my dad/daughter dance. Which isn't a problem to me I didn't feel like she was stealing it or anything as I never said to her I was planning on it. But I don't particularly have another song I love, and I was thinking maybe we just combine our parent dances and do them at the same time to make us both feel less awkward. I mentioned it to my mom who didn't seem to love the idea. She has had negative reactions to a lot of newer traditions at weddings (like having a first look) so I think she is just thinking traditional and doesn't want to take the attention from me, but I dont want it to begin with lol. So... would it be weird if we did this? I know my fiance will do whatever, but I haven't heard of anyone doing a combined dance like this. Or should we just do separate dances?

For reference i am 29. I was on the combo birth control pill for about 11 years and got off that cuz i started getting aura migraines. About 7 months later i got on the minipill cuz i stopped getting my period. After about a year on the minipill i got off it cuz it felt like it was making my migraines worse and just wanted to figure out my natural cycle in general. So i have been off the minipill for about 7 or 8 months now.

Since getting off it my migraines have gotten better (yay!) but Ive been having a lot of other issues. In the past id very rarely get ovulation pain so i knew the feeling, but every single cycle now i am getting bad ovulation pain usually on the left side and it lasts 2 days. I take advil and use a heating pad but its hit or miss if it helps.

My periods have been short, about 3 days, and not super heavy and in general very regular now. Ill get typical period cramps the first day but the ovulation cramps i get are way worse.

The other thing ive noticed is my stomach is just very off all the time now and lots of gas bubbles. And usually in my pms week, i sometimes have what ive been describing as gas pain episodes. Usually happens at night time. Starts with just an indescribable weird feeling in my stomach. Like hollow almost. Then over several hours progresses into what i can only imagine labor contractions feel like. Itll wake me up and send me into an instant panic attack. I can walk but thinking straight is hard from the pain and i feel like ill pass out or throw up but i never do. It usually starts up higher below my ribs then moves down. Going to the bathroom or farting dont necessarily seem to have great improvement in the feeling. This will go on for several hours and i usually have to call out of work since this happens st night and then i am up all night questioning if i should go to the ER but i know its just gas. At first i wasnt connecting that this was possibly period related since it doesnt feel like what i think of as period cramps but ive started taking gas x and advil and it does usually seem to help a bit.

Ive never had a cyst but this was all obviously new a freaks me out so i went to my obgyn and they did a couple bacterial tests, all negative. And i had a transvaginal ultrasound and said everything was normal other than they couldnt get a very clear look at my left ovary cuz of bowel and gas in the way (the side i get ovulation pain). they referred me back to my gp who ive messaged and didnt seem concerned and told me to start taking 800mg of advil every 8 hours starting 2 days before my period (which seems excessive to me) or to go back on the pill.

I dont want to go back on the pill and other methods of birth control arent appealing to me at this point in my life either. I have been trying to eat more bland food around my period to try to avoid any food triggers, but ive never had any sensitivities specific to food. I just have a hard time believing my only options are to take high doses of Advil all the time or get back on the pill? They suggested maybe i have ibs playing a role too and did not think it was endo related (i know you cant diagnose without the surgery). But could it be endo related? I havent had my hormones checked, is that something i should do? What other meds or supplements are people taking? Does anyone else have a similar experience?

We lost Pita at the end of November. Its been 5 months and i still cry every single night. Sometimes still randomly mid day. Her passing was so sudden and so cruel. She was only about 8 or 9 (not sure since she was at a shelter). I had her about 5 and a half years and i thought i still had atleast 3 more years with her. We were days away from taking our engagement photos when she got sick. We planned to take photos with her. I had all sorts of plans to involve her in our wedding. I hate that i didnt get to take photos with her, but she got too sick she could barely walk i couldnt bring her to a park to take photos.

I just feel like i have ptsd from her getting sick. I cant wrap my head around how one day she had a random pee accident inside and less than a week later she was mindlessly walking into weird spots in our house and head pressing and not walking straight. We were at the vet every day. They originally said delayed gastric emptying and possible pancreatitis was causing her pain. Then with the circling we admitted her. We thought a brain tumor or stroke would be the diagnosis. But an mri showed inflammation on both sides of the frontal part of her brain. Auto immune encephalitis the neurologist said. It was too much swelling to do a spinal tap.

I spent 10 days driving 40 mins to the animal hospital after work to visit her. She couldnt even sit up the first day. But she slowly showed signs of improvement. The partial blindness she had went away overnight on steroids and chemo. She could walk again but only in circles. She was able to come home. And for 9 more days i worked from home doing 24/7 care with her. She had a padded baby pen set up because she still only circled aimlessly and tried to head press in corners. So many meds to give her throughout the day. I had to hand feed her meals for some of the time. Shed poop and pee on herself. She was only comfortable when the gabapentin and trazadone kicked in and she slept for a bit. I barely slept. Half the time it didnt seem like she even recognized me. But she still showed small improvements. She even pooped outside for the first time one of her last days, a huge win! She wasnt getting worse, but wasnt significantly getting better either.

Im grateful she was around for thanksgiving. We made her eggs and it was the first time i saw her excited all month. She scarfed them down all on her own.

Then 2 days later she had a bit of a cough. She was breathing and eating fine. Wed call the vet on monday. Then she had a seizure at like 4am. Then another small one a half hour later. I said we’ll take her in in the morning i hadn’t slept at all. Then she quickly had another. We knew it was time. We quickly picked her up and me and her cried the entire ride to the hospital. My fiance holding her the whole time. She seized again when we got there. The image and the sound of her cries are burned in my mind. The vets said they gave her rescue meds but they see fluid in her lungs that suggests pneumonia. I knew we had to let her go we were in so much debt from her stays already and now she was suffering but part of me wanted to say, okay so whats the treatment? But i knew i couldn’t. We said our goodbyes and ill never forget for the first time since she got sick i saw her finally feeling peace. I held her head in my lap and watched her eyes soften and body finally release all the tension from the inflammation and her terrible cries faded. She wasnt even able to look at me but i hope she could tell i was there in her final moments.

She was days from her vet follow up appointment. I just kept telling myself we had to make it to that. I asked a higher power just hours from her passing to give me a sign that shed get better or that we needed to let her go. And i got a very clear sign. I felt like i caused her seizures. I know realistically i didnt, but ya know. It all still doesnt feel real. I question everything. Did this happen bc she had a tick a month earlier? What if i had admitted her the first time she went to the ER vs 5 days later? Would that have saved her? Is she mad i didnt spend a lot of time with her on her last day? Is she mad we already have a new puppy and that i immediately started looking for a dog bc i needed something to distract my brain?

Theres been a couple moments ive felt signs from her. Idc if thats stupid. But its the hope i hold onto.

I mostly just needed to let all of this out and im hoping maybe someone else with a dog experiencing something similar will find this and not feel alone. I searched for hours to try to find someone with a similar story and came out empty handed. Please tell me it gets easier?