u/ExpressTap6659

Hi! I have been dx with IBD for almost a decade now (since childhood) and all throughout that time sugary drinks never were too much of a trigger for me (unless it was overkill) but suddenly out of nowhere it has been putting me in major flares that last days after one bottle of soda...

What's weird is it's not like I had no soda for any significant amount of time before this happened.. it just started happening and now my body seems entirely unable to have any of it without extreme reactions

Has anyone experienced anything like this before? I spoke to my GI and my levels are Relatively Normal enough for my symtpoms (and my history of where i've been my whole life) - and had my infusion yesterday. (if thats relevant at all)

EDIT: actually i just realized its ONLY when its a personal bottle. cans and fountain drinks aree a-okay. i have had light pops, dark pops, sprite, etc and it only effects when its in them bottles

its a big fat WIP rn, i know i need to finish the highlights on the shoulders and make it look better, idk how to do the complete the highlights on the arms tho i'm struggling with that, as well as knowing what to do with the lips in this style,,

ik the nose shape needs to be fixed too and probably should make the face highlights better but idk how to do that yet i would also like to know if the actual torso and arms anatomy but also clothes look correct? does the shading look normal? theres a lot of components here & i'm unsure how I feel about all of them.

i'm going for a comic-book esque style 🫠 worked almost 7 hours on it tho so far & i think its at least better than i've been doing? i started practicing anatomy yesterday and looked at comic books on google images and i think for that mid-effort studying it yeilded nice enough results

(PS: i know shes weirdly jacked shes supposed to be! shes like, chubby-buff)

Have you ever developed a trigger out of nowhere?

Is there anything I can do to make this look better?