u/Big-Hedgehog-1942

Hey,

I used to have a big garden as a child, but this is my first time planning my own garden. Much different scale and I can’t exactly plant a deep rooted oak here. It’s a pretty decently sized garden for a new(ish) build estate, and it has a decked area at the bottom which is already there. I’d love a tree to plant next to it for some shade in the garden. Especially as the summers can get very hot near me. Can anyone recommend me a tree that isn’t toxic to dogs (so not silver birch) and ideally evergreen but I know I’m pushing it a bit.

Thank you!

Hey so I was diagnosed with pppd a few months ago, and honestly now most of the time I’m not dizzy. If I’m hungry or tired, I do feel swaying. So I might have weeks where I get dizzy in the evenings, for example. But other times I’m completely fine. When I’m fine, the exercises don’t tend to trigger anything and I can do ballet etc. however once a month ish I seem to get a day or up to a few days where I just have really intense dizziness and can barely move around my house because I just feel so swaying and visually dizzy too.
I’ve had dizziness since late 2024 and it did use to be pretty constant, so I do trust the pppd diagnosis, but I’m wondering if there’s something else there? Or is it common for pppd to become more episodic as it eases off?

The last episode was two weeks ago, and I spent the whole weekend pretty much on the sofa. Four days before it, I’d had a stressful event but nothing major. Don’t know if that could be why it flared up?

I have a call with my vestibular physio this week, so I’d love your input or thoughts so I can bring them to her. Thank you so much.

Hey,

I am about to get my blood tested, but I’d really appreciate some experiences or suggestions anyway please.

I get pretty bad fatigue in my luteal phase and this has happened ever since coming off the mini pill last November. I honestly can’t tell you if it’s the rest of the month but I don’t seem to recognise it then so surely it can’t be that bad?
Feb 2024 my ferritin was 90. I will get it checked in a few weeks.
I don’t have any other symptoms I can note and my periods aren’t heavy. I’m just hoping it’s just pms but also if it is then I don’t know how to fix it as it is quite debilitating! One month even having a shower made me out of breath.

Would love any advice or suggestions. My bloods in a few weeks will be a full nutrition screen and the usual bloods for fatigue so fbc and thyroid etc. Last time this was checked was 2024 and all fine (due to another health condition that impacts my diet so they keep a regular check, but my diet hasn’t changed)
Thanks!!

Reddit suggested posting this here so I’m sorry if it’s not relevant!
Hey so I'm looking for experiences here of people who have had both the norgeston pill and the hormonal iud mirena/levosert. Specifically those please as I'm wondering about dosages.

I know they have slightly different dosages of levonorgestrel, and basically I had the levosert before but I can't have another and I'm considering the pill version of levonorgestrel (even though the dosage is a little higher and less steadily released). My doctor says it might be similar side effect wise and we sort of looked into how the blood concentration differs, but basically I would love to know if anyone has experience with these two in direct comparison?

Thank you so much.

Reddit suggested posting this here so I’m sorry if it’s not relevant!
Hey so I'm looking for experiences here of people who have had both the norgeston pill and the hormonal iud mirena/levosert. Specifically those please as I'm wondering about dosages.

I know they have slightly different dosages of levonorgestrel, and basically I had the levosert before but I can't have another and I'm considering the pill version of levonorgestrel (even though the dosage is a little higher and less steadily released). My doctor says it might be similar side effect wise and we sort of looked into how the blood concentration differs, but basically I would love to know if anyone has experience with these two in direct comparison?

Thank you so much.

Hey so I'm looking for experiences here of people who have had both the norgeston pill and the hormonal iud mirena/levosert. Specifically those please as I'm wondering about dosages.

I know they have slightly different dosages of levonorgestrel, and basically I had the levosert before but I can't have another and I'm considering the pill version of levonorgestrel (even though the dosage is a little higher and less steadily released). My doctor says it might be similar side effect wise and we sort of looked into how the blood concentration differs, but basically I would love to know if anyone has experience with these two in direct comparison?

Thank you so much.

I made some hash browns today from frozen. They were delivered by Tesco this morning. They’re mc cain. I ate one and had a whiff of manure as I was eating but it wasn’t a bad taste or a strong enough smell to make me stop. Before I ate a second one I gave it a good sniff and it smelled like cow manure. I’ve looked on some forums and here and other people have noticed this. But what they don’t tell me is whether or not it will cause illness?
The hash browns were frozen solid on arrival, they went straight into my freezer for 3 hours before I cooked them (my freezer is -29c), and they were separated in the bag so I don’t expect they’ve thawed out.
I’d love some reassurance as I have pretty bad anxiety about these things. Has this happened to anyone else? Were you okay? Thanks.
(Also, my mum ate 6 of these, I ate 1. She couldn’t smell anything bad but generally her sense of smell isn’t as strong as mine)

I came off desogestrel (POP) in November last year. Since then I’ve tried the combination of cycle tracking with bbt and mucus and condoms, combined with a Caya diaphragm (but I had a bit of skin irritation with the Caya gel).
Next week I have a call booked in with the doctor who deals with the most complex cases at my local clinic. I think she might recommend me Slynd. But I’m really torn on whether to try it.
I much prefer being off hormonal birth control. I’ve had an iud before which expelled, so I don’t really want to have another. My mental health was awful on desogestrel and I’m scared it would be the same on Slynd. Also, I’ve noticed that my sensation and enjoyment is massively increased off birth control. I’ve only had two years off birth control (cumulatively) since being a teen and starting to be sexually active, so this is the longest stretch I’ve had and wow wow wow it feels like my body has regenerated some nerve sensitivity or something.
I feel really annoyed that my options are lose sensation and sanity or risk pregnancy. But I am not in a relationship so couldn’t be at a life stage for a vasectomy and I’m not ready to make a bisalp decision (although getting close).

Does anyone have a similar experience and some advice? On Slynd and mental health and sensation loss? Thank you so much!

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the package bloated so I thought I’d ask if this is something other people have noticed? My fridge is very cold and we have a little plastic thermometer in it which read 0-2c (and there’s an older plastic thermometer in it that always reads 3-5c but who knows which is accurate). So I feel like it must be something with the supermarket storage or manufacturer? Will report to Tesco, but I just wanna know bc this isn’t the first time with this specific product and not with other things from my Tesco order. Thanks!

I’ve been relatively free from dizziness, mild if ever, and then tonight I could barely work up the courage to shower. It’s been so intense this evening. I’ve had a couple of anxiety provoking days (same topic as 2024 when my pppd started). The pppd was diagnosed recently but in the absence of major symptoms. Anyway, is this dizziness today likely to be pppd? My ears are a little sore so part of me is wondering if I have hayfever/cold building pressure but idk

I can’t remember pppd being this bad but I think it must have been bc my mum remembers my exact explanation and experience from last time and she says I felt this bad then too. But honestly I have no clue how I cope with it then?! I clearly was more resilient than I realised bc today it’s just been debilitating again and I literally feel like someone is swinging my head around and pushing me into the floor.
Has this happened to anyone else? I’m trying to just trust the diagnosis but as it’s come back it feels new and I’m struggling not to worry about it.

Thanks!

Feel like I have no resilience anymore. I get dizzy at the same time of day if I’ve not had enough water that day. It’s such a consistent pattern and it’s so debilitating. Anxiety makes it hard to drink sometimes. But I feel like my tolerance for dehydration is lower than my peers. Anyone else?

Hey long one sorry,

Please can you help me work out whether moving back to my old area would help my anxiety? My anxiety started and really took off during a traumatic house move and since then I’ve not felt particularly at home and I’ve developed agoraphobia and panic attacks.

I don’t really love where I live now, but it has more amenities than my old area. I sort of feel like I’ve settled sometimes, but then every couple of weeks I just hate it again. We need to move at some point as we want a garden for our dog, so we’d either be moving somewhere completely new or to our old area. I like the idea of moving back to my old area because it’s familiar and I never felt like I outgrew it. I know people there and I know the area really well, lived there for almost 14 years. It’s really close to a bigger city, and more work opportunities etc. In fact, the amenities that my current place has don’t differ all that much when you factor in proximity to that bigger city.

There’s a house available a few streets over from our old house, albeit a smaller house than our last one. I can’t tell whether moving back would bring me a sense of familiarity that would help me to heal, as currently my safest and calmest moments are when I’m in familiar places, or whether I’m just missing the life I had before the anxiety hit and I’m associating that place with my ‘old life’ too much. Would I be craving familiarity too much and romanticising or would I be making a good move to a place that really does feel like home?

If we were to move somewhere new, the houses would be the same size regardless of where we look, so part of me is just like well let’s move somewhere we know and love and have friends in, old church etc. and I can feel like I’m home. Even though it won’t be the exact old house and stuff, it won’t feel so alien.

To add, we went to view a new house today and won’t be making an offer, but despite wanting to move from my current place the thought of moving again made my anxiety spike so much I felt so unwell in the car there. I think I had some kind of subconscious trauma response to even the idea of viewing a house. Whereas the concept of moving back ‘home’ makes me feel joyful - at least for now. It would be obviously unsettling in some ways, and I anticipate some anxiety, but subconsciously it’s nicer rather than the subconscious trauma response I have had this week after booking the viewing.

Any thoughts welcome. I obviously don’t want to make a big decision based on trying to claw back my old self based on a place. Thank you so much!

TLDR: traumatic house move triggered anxiety and panic and agoraphobia. Miss the old area, there’s an opportunity to move back potentially, but would I be craving familiarity too much and romanticising or would I be making a good move to a place that really does feel like home? (Which in turn might help anxiety I guess but not expecting it)

Hey,

So just under two years ago I had a rough year and also moved house. In the process, I was in holiday cottages for 2 months, with 10 properties in total. During that time, I started having daily intense panic attacks which weren’t something I was aware of before and I became agoraphobic and ended up having so many health investigations.

(Earlier in the year I’d also moved home from uni and also there were 8 other breakdown worthy things in 10 months, including a traumatic family situation and a really intense pregnancy scare… oh and a breakup 12hrs before I left my old house, which was my doing but it was necessary)

I’m looking at moving again because it’s kinda needed. The current place is too small and we need the space and a garden for our dog. We have finally found a house we like. The area is nice and the house is nice. And I don’t really love our place now, especially the area, and I have a lot of bad panic memories here and recently there has been some crime in the street. So I want to move.
But since we found this house and are about to put an offer on it, it’s almost like I’m having a trauma reaction to the idea of instability.

So I really want some advice on how I can reduce my anxiety in this time please. I have a therapist but I’d like to discuss some ideas from you guys with him. I’m also still trying to do agoraphobia exposures, so it’s a mixed bag of therapy at the moment. How can I make this process easy on my brain and feel safe and stable? That’s a major trigger for me. Feeling unsafe. We wouldn’t be moving for another 4ish months, so I’m worried it might be a hard 4 months for me.

TLDR; pls can I have advice on how to make a house move (in 4 months) easier, because last move was traumatic and the thought of moving is causing anxiety.

Thank you!

Hey,

So just under two years ago I had a rough year and also moved house. In the process, I was in holiday cottages for 2 months, with 10 properties in total. During that time, I started having daily intense panic attacks which weren’t something I was aware of before and I became agoraphobic and ended up having so many health investigations.

(Earlier in the year I’d also moved home from uni and also there were 8 other breakdown worthy things in 10 months, including a traumatic family situation and a really intense pregnancy scare… oh and a breakup 12hrs before I left my old house, which was my doing but it was necessary)

I’m looking at moving again because it’s kinda needed. The current place is too small and we need the space and a garden for our dog. We have finally found a house we like. The area is nice and the house is nice. And I don’t really love our place now, especially the area, and I have a lot of bad panic memories here and recently there has been some crime in the street. So I want to move.
But since we found this house and are about to put an offer on it, it’s almost like I’m having a trauma reaction to the idea of instability.

So I really want some advice on how I can reduce my anxiety in this time please. I have a therapist but I’d like to discuss some ideas from you guys with him. I’m also still trying to do agoraphobia exposures, so it’s a mixed bag of therapy at the moment. How can I make this process easy on my brain and feel safe and stable? That’s a major trigger for me. Feeling unsafe. We wouldn’t be moving for another 4ish months, so I’m worried it might be a hard 4 months for me.

TLDR; pls can I have advice on how to make a house move (in 4 months) easier, because last move was traumatic and the thought of moving is causing anxiety.

Thank you!

Hey,

So just under two years ago I had a rough year and also moved house. In the process, I was in holiday cottages for 2 months, with 10 properties in total. During that time, I started having daily intense panic attacks which weren’t something I was aware of before and I became agoraphobic and ended up having so many health investigations.

(Earlier in the year I’d also moved home from uni and also there were 8 other breakdown worthy things in 10 months, including a traumatic family situation and a really intense pregnancy scare… oh and a breakup 12hrs before I left my old house, which was my doing but it was necessary)

I’m looking at moving again because it’s kinda needed. The current place is too small and we need the space and a garden for our dog. We have finally found a house we like. The area is nice and the house is nice. And I don’t really love our place now, especially the area, and I have a lot of bad panic memories here and recently there has been some crime in the street. So I want to move.
But since we found this house and are about to put an offer on it, it’s almost like I’m having a trauma reaction to the idea of instability.

So I really want some advice on how I can reduce my anxiety in this time please. I have a therapist but I’d like to discuss some ideas from you guys with him. I’m also still trying to do agoraphobia exposures, so it’s a mixed bag of therapy at the moment. How can I make this process easy on my brain and feel safe and stable? That’s a major trigger for me. Feeling unsafe. We wouldn’t be moving for another 4ish months, so I’m worried it might be a hard 4 months for me.

TLDR; pls can I have advice on how to make a house move (in 4 months) easier, because last move was traumatic and the thought of moving is causing anxiety.

Thank you!

I’ve accidentally watched a couple of tv programmes this week where people have had it happen due to fear or stress. Greys anatomy in the car when Jo and Arizona and Bailey are driving back from the prison patient. New tv programme called ride or die on prime (fab except that so far but I’m only on ep 2, it was in ep1). And also I’m recalling sex and the city when Carrie looks at the engagement ring.

To add to it, last night I was woken up by some stuff outside my house that was absolutely terrifying and the police were called etc. and it made me feel a bit n* for about 5-10 mins. Obviously I’d just been woken up in the middle of the night so that didn’t help.

Anyway, I’ve now developed this fear of being stressed or scared. Intense emotion leading to it happening. I also had a really strong n* sensation last week when I went out for dinner and had to leave the table which I think was probably anxiety based.

Does anyone have some reassuring facts or something that can help me to put this into perspective? There are obviously going to be hard moments in life and I don’t want to fear them more than I already need to. Thanks so much

I used to be really active but I’ve lost so much muscle since this started. I was diagnosed a few weeks ago. The physio wasn’t very specific about what exercise she recommended. I don’t mean the vestibular exercises, I mean actually working out. I want to regain muscle and I want to be sporty and run etc.
how did people’s return to sport go? I miss ballet but I’m scared to go to class in case I get dizzy. Scared to go for a run in case I get too dizzy to walk up my block stairs on the way home.
Would love advice! Thank you!