u/MugzySkates

Hi everyone! I’m exploring an idea and would really value input from people who actually care about rescue animals.

Concept in one sentence: A small physical product (thinking keychain, charm, or bracelet) that comes with a QR code. When you scan it, you get matched with one real, currently available dog or cat at a partner rescue. You follow their updates (photos, notes from the people caring for them) until they’re adopted. A share of what you paid goes to that rescue. After adoption the story ends, and you can choose to follow another animal later if you want.

I’m trying to understand:

Does this sound meaningful or gimmicky to you?
What would make you trust (or not trust) something like this?
Preferred form factor and rough price range that would feel fair?
Anything that would make you roll your eyes or love it?

Not launching or selling anything right now, just trying to learn from the people this is supposed to serve. Happy to answer questions. Thank you for any thoughts. If you would like to discuss this with me further you’re welcome to reach out to me via DM.

I’m having a recurrence of C diff, plus norovirus and E. coli at the same time.

Yay.

I started on fidaxomicin Thursday night. By Friday, I was feeling much better. I also did well yesterday. Today, however, I’m feeling worse again. Is that typical or should I be concerned?

Since June 18, l've been having some recurring symptoms that are really odd. On June 18 at 2AM, I got these waves of weird feelings over me that lasted a few seconds to a minute or so, and it would come back over and over throughout the day in clusters. It would start in my gut and move to the rest of my body. It felt like I was dropping through the floor or on a rollercoaster. I often got chills, sweating and nausea. Elevated heart rate as well. It was then followed by diarrhea. I’ve been to the emergency room, urgent care, messaged multiple doctors. This has been happening over and over since then. I had bloodwork, a CT scan, ultrasound, everything was normal. My doctors and family told me it was anxiety. I continued to feel like this and it wasn’t getting better. I even started Prozac because of it, which sent me into a horrid state of mind. I’ve lost ten pounds in a week, can’t eat, and can’t sleep. My psychiatrist told me to stop taking Prozac so I’m off of it now. I’m feeling a little less anxious and depressed, so that’s good.

I pushed my GI doctor for a stool test and he balked because it sounded like anxiety to him.. it wasn’t.. I have a C diff. Infection. This whole time I’ve felt terrible because I have C diff. I also have Crohn’s disease, which makes this worse.

Has anyone else felt like this?

Since June 18, l've been having some recurring symptoms that are really odd and I'm not sure if it's anxiety or from Emgality. On June 18 at 2AM, I got these waves of weird feelings over me that lasted a few seconds to a minute or so, and it would come back over and over throughout the day in clusters. It would start in my gut and move to the rest of my body. It felt like I was dropping through the floor or on a rollercoaster. I often got chills, sweating and nausea. Elevated heart rate as well. It was then followed by diarrhea. My loading dose was on June 10.

This happened again at night on June 22, July 2, and again two days ago. My second dose of Emgality was on July 11.

I've had multiple tests done and everything with my body has been normal except my absolute lymphocytes were high. The doctor didn’t seem concerned by that though. It is very distressing when it happens.

The first time it happened, l was so scared by it that I went into the emergency room at 2 AM. 

I was wondering if other people have experienced this. 

I’ve been on Prozac for 5 days now at 10mg. I have been experiencing some nausea, reduced appetite, stomach cramping, and dizziness. Not super bad, but still. When can I expect this to go away?

I also am sensitive to medications that make you dizzy, because I get vestibular migraines.

Long story short, I have Crohn’s disease. I went into urgent care plus (it’s sort of like the emergency room) because I thought I was having a gallbladder issue or Crohn’s issue. They asked when my last period was, if I could be pregnant, etc. That’s fine, I don’t mind answering that. I told them I don’t have sex. Lo and behold, they did a blood pregnancy test on me because they obviously didn’t believe me.

I would like to know if anyone else experiences this.

Starting at 2 AM yesterday, I woke up with this weird pressure that started in my stomach (a pressure in upper right area) and spread throughout my whole body, it felt like my head was being zapped and my stomach was dropping or rising. It’s an awful feeling that’s hard to describe. It is sort of similar to riding a roller coaster. These episodes  would last about 2 minutes and kept coming in clusters over the course of 3 hours. It was so strange that I thought something was seriously wrong with me, so I went to the ER. All bloodwork, ECG and CT of my head came back normal (They thought It was just anxiety and sent me on my way). I went home, but it started back up again at 8 AM that day. I am still feeling like this but it has improved some.

I sometimes get chills and nausea with the weird sensations, an acid reflux feeling, or profuse sweating/feeling hot. My heart rate has stayed elevated (100 bpm) and won’t drop no matter how much breathing and relaxing I do. When these feelings come over me, I feel my right side of the abdomen tighten. I feel the right side of my chest tighten, and a weird sensation in my throat. It is a bit hard to breathe when it happens too. My stomach is bloated and distended.  I also have diarrhea. I notice the weird sensations are worse when I am lying on my side, right side especially (or if I push on my abdomen). It hurts to press on that area, but it doesn’t hurt continuously. After one of the waves of weird sensations happens, I feel really washed out and hung over. I have never experienced something like this before. It is like my body is in shock.

I’m theorizing it might be my gallbladder. My dad has a lot of problems with his, and two of his sisters had to get them removed. If this doesn’t get significantly better today, I will probably ask for an ultrasound to see what’s going on.