u/PaintingByInsects

I got myself a hammock a while ago (finally after years of wanting one but not being able to out it in my space!!!) and holy heck, I never imagined I would be sleeping in it, but damn, it feels so good.

I normally have such extensive pain and fatigue, and it used to take me hours to fall asleep, and once I was I would wake up every hour, I would feel restless, and I would wake up exhausted.

Now I sleep only 4 hours a night, but my pain is sooooo much less (I don’t subluxate anymore during sleep!), I fall asleep quickly, I don’t wake up during the night, my heart rate actually goes below 50 during rest for the first time ever, and I actually wake up energised!

I am not saying this is a magic fix, but I do wonder if others have also felt these benefits?

I still have fatigue if I do a lot during the day so I still need my wheelchair, but the fact that I can comfortably stay up all day without even needing to take naps where I used to take 1-3 naps a day when I slept 8-12 hours really changes my whole day/week now.

I will have to do this longer to really feel long term effects, but after these few weeks I def don’t want to go back to sleeping in a bed for 8h a night anytime soon

I don’t know what to do. We’ve been dating for two ish months now and my god she has such horrible breath during the night. She sleeps with her mouth open 90% of the time so it makes sense, dry mouth causes morning breath.

But hers is sooooo bad that I literally wake up from her breath when I face her and literally makes me gag, choke and cry. It’s so bad that I pretty much only sleep in one direction all night long which gives me the worst neck pain I could ever imagine (and I’m chronically ill so I have a lot of bad neck pains, this is the worst).

I don’t know what to do. I don’t know of there is anything she could do about it because I can’t ask her to sleep with her mouth closed as it’s an automatic thing, but I don’t know how much longer I can handle this. It is so overwhelming. I have already gotten out of bed to sleep on the couch several times and I cannot keep doing this.

What am I supposed to do? Anybody advice? Support? I don’t wanna break up over something so stupid😭

I am going to schedule an appointment, but since I have to wait till Monday I figured I’d ask in case someone has had something similar

Earlier I (26, 7 months on T) was using my dildo (with lube) and I felt a ‘ridge’ of some kind. I have had this dildo for years so it is not something in the dildo that is causing it. It’s as if it was brushing against something on the inside.

The thing is, I have severe mysophobia and I *cannot* put my fingers inside me so I have no idea if that bump is soft or hard or if you can feel it with your fingers so please don’t ask***

It hurt to go over it (my dildo is quite soft too, made of silicone) and I was bleeding after (not my period, am on BC).

I have no idea what it is and I am scared to see a doctor. I mean I will, but does anybody have any experience with something similar? Or experience with going to the gyno? This will be my first time (sort of) and I am quite scared to go, especially because I have no idea of what this could possibly be.

I’m in my apartment residents committee and we soon have our first meeting together.

For context; this is an apartment building in The Netherlands, we have mostly older people (65+) but since a few years also some younger people (including me at 26).

My idea for a community board is to put up some kind of board for people to hang up questions (‘could I borrow someones broom’ or ‘I would love to find someone to play rummikub with on Tuesday afternoons’) etc etc, and for people to be able to answer it. Mostly because like I said, there are a lot of older people here who do not use whatsapp/don’t even have smartphones, so although a groupchat would be handy for some people, definitely not for a lot of people.

Does anybody have any experience with something like this? And if so, do you have any beginners advice? Any positive or negative stories? I would really love to show some examples to my apartment complex committee but I have no idea how to even look anything like that up ok google for inspiration pics or anything. Any advice?

Thank you so much in advance💜