u/HeartMadeOfSushi

I’m waiting for my doctors report, but this is what ClaudeAI is analysing from my MRI:

•	Lower lumbar discs look dehydrated/darker than upper ones  
•	Reduced disc height at L4/5 and L5/S1 area  
•	Narrowing of the spinal canal in the lower lumbar region  
•	Disruption to the normal smooth posterior contour around the lumbosacral junction  
•	Cauda equina running through a tighter space than expected for your age  
•	Upper lumbar discs look relatively normal by comparison

This is the reason I always get constipated on carnivore and have bladder and sexual issues. I’m a 25F and had a depressed teenage-hood so I’m really worried about how my life will be impacted from here on out.

(Not currently on carnivore due to struggling to adapt previously and not being able to function properly at work in hospitality, and the constipation but will try again soon)

Do you have any experience with spinal issues and the carnivore diet? I know it will obviously reduce Inflammation significantly if not totally but I hope there’s actually a way to repair the damage along with physio and not just have to manage pain til the day I die.

Thank you!! ☺️

Hey! I felt great on 20 and didn’t have a mood decrease when starting it. I was on for a month and by week 4 my mood was super stable and I was motivated to do things and obviously less anxious. I felt there was room for improvement so I agreed with my doctor to try 30. I’m day 5 and feeling real bad like way more depressed and have had really bad gas and dry mouth.

Is it possible I’m overshooting? It’s just that I didn’t feel worse* when starting on 20 so I’m confused at why I’m feeling terrible just by going to 30.

Thank you

As a 26 year old woman who is AuDHD and in a 1.5 year het relationship with a great man, without previous relationship experience or any close relationship with women ever other than some childhood friends I meet up with sometimes when I go back home, depression (just started SSRIs), I don’t really know how to work this stuff out. I’m starting therapy in a couple months when I move to a new city.

I know you can’t tell me what I am, but I was hoping you could share your experience or anything at all if you were also confused at some point. Even small things you noticed or did that lead to more self discovery.
Im aware I haven’t shared many details in this post. If you can relate to the question of this post or did at some point I’d love you to chime in.

Thank you for reading

Hi!

I wanted to share my experience that from day 1 of sertraline I felt AWFUL and it only got worse. My mood I mean. I wanted to KMS. I had to stop after like 3 weeks.

Since starting fluoxetine I haven’t had the same mood symptoms at all I felt great in week 1 then back to normal for week 2 and it’s slowly been getting better.

My side effects right now starting week 5 of Prozac is just really bad digestive issues and occasional heart burn but other than that no bad mood side affects.

So strange how different drugs affect us all so differently!!

So LONG story short:

- carnivore diet fixes my mental health almost entirely
- I can’t be carnivore due to spinal issues affecting my digestive nerves and constipating me so bad that nothing even an enema helps
- currently on SSRI and mounjaro for mental and hormonal health and binge eating (which carnivore also solves) for the meantime whilst I work this out

I had an MRI yesterday but it may be a while to fix the issue perhaps physio but maybe surgery. I feel really bad about taking Prozac and GLP but my mental health has been so bad. I don’t want to get nervous system injury from drugs but I really was struggling. I’m scared about my spinal condition (past injury with bludging discs maybe severe spinal canal stenosis but we’ll see). I thought it was bowel endometriosis and got surprised by this diagnosis from a CT not sure if this is better or worse

I’m just really scared and feel alone in this

Hey! Not sure if this is the drug or just the depression in general. I’m on 20mg 3.5weeks so far.

Basically when I wake up in the middle of the night for the toilet and when I wake up in the mornings I have this really dreary gloomy strange feeling like everything in my life is wrong and it’s a really dark feeling. It wears off after an hour of getting going for the day.

Does anyone else experience this?

Hello. I 26F have the most wonderful boyfriend 31M who I’ve been with and living with for 17 months. Everything’s perfect until we have sex and internally I just feel weird. I’ve always been confused about how I feel in many aspects of life due to neurodivergence and other societal things. I feel like I may be with the wrong gender but I’m not really sure. I am booking in with a therapist soon but I’d love any advice you’d have in the meantime.

He does everything right and I do love him, and he loves me so much. But sexually I don’t feel on the same level as him. I’m never really ‘turned on’. I’ve had many blood tests that are fine and if not I’ve corrected them.

Onto my mental health I do suffer in anxiety and depression and struggle to maintain balance in life and get ahead at the same time. I feel very safe with my partner and I’ve been the victim of abuse in the past. My partner and I are planning a life together.

I know this is all very strange to hear but I don’t know if this is just some sort of ROCD and just maybe I’m asexual. If I’m just asexual that’s fine but if I’m meant to be with another gender or person altogether I don’t want to either deprive my partner of sex, or just have sex anyway and ignore my feeling that something is ‘off’.

I didn’t mention who I feel sexually attracted to because I’m not really sure what that feels like to me. I’ve only ever had sex or done romantic things with men and I’m not one to fantasise sexually really at all. I know I have a libido as sometimes I feel it when I’m alone. But I’ve never been close enough or openly liked by a woman so I guess I have no idea what that could feel like. Anyway I read lesbian forums a lot but I don’t know if I’m really feeling what they’re feeling like when they think of it look at woman the feel really horny I don’t feel that. Not that that’s how every lesbian feels but you know I’m just super confused and I love my partner and wish I could stop having these thoughts so I can focus on our life and be happier and I just don’t know what’s right or the right thing to do or how I feel.

Anyway as I’ve said I’m going to therapy soon but any tips or advice in the meantime would be so reassuring. Even websites or articles I could look into.

Thank you