u/IllAssistant4109

I see a lot of posts on here about people medicating their symptoms with anti-histamines or Xolair and wonder do people realise that this only gives temporary relief and doesn't attack the root cause? Has everyone accepted their fate and will keep medicating hoping it eventually disappears?

There is no way that this medication is good for your body and immunity, and even worse when you stop taking it, symptoms get so much worse.

I've been there with anti-histamines and pulled the plug after a year of using them. Yes it sucked, but it got better after a few weeks because my body started regulating itself again. I stopped getting sick as often and allergies symptoms also regressed

I've started a journey to cure my condition from the inside out and I've never been so comfortable in my skin.

I want to know are other people doing the same?

I've recently moved to a new country, and had been learning the language for some time before that (1 year roughly). I'm really finding it difficult to connect with people.

I mostly understand what people are saying in conversations and I try my best to get some words in but to a native speaker I don't sound natural, or have the flow of regular everyday conversation. The rejection is hitting my confidence hard and I don't know if i can keep doing it. But I know immersion is the best way to get the level I want. I know this will take time and I need to persevere, but damn it makes me feel horrible.

In my NL, if I wanted to connect with someone we would try find common interests, but that's the thing with learning languages, I'm stuck learning things without the context of things I like, such as science, space, history to name a few. Especially on these topics, the level is often too difficult and it is discouraging me. I’m not much of reader either which doesn’t help, but I feel there should be an easier way

Has anyone else experienced something like this? I'd like to think I'm not the only one :/

Everyone talks about the intermediate plateau. Nobody talks about this part.

At B1 in my (TL) the content problem is basically solved. I've got stuff I actually want to read, I understand enough to follow along, and I know what works for me.

What nobody warned me about is that studying from that content somehow requires four different apps and by the end of it you've completely lost the thread of why you were interested in the first place.

Open article → Google Translate for anything I don't know → manually copy words into Anki → practice speaking with a tutor on italki who asks me about my weekend.

I'm doing CI. I'm doing SRS. I'm doing output practice. All the right things. But reading, vocab review and speaking feel like three separate hobbies that happen to use the same language. The context that made those words worth learning in the first place is long gone by the time I get to use them.

Curious if anyone else has hit this wall or if it's just me. What does your routine actually look like?