u/Pitiful-Ad815

Hi everyone, thank you for your time and willingness to read this. I appreciate literally
any advice at all.

24F, 115 pounds. I’ll try to make this short - months ago I started having extremely irritating wrist pain, which progressed to shoulder pain. All on my right side. My mom is a doctor and noticed that my right scapula is winging. I went to a PT. PT diagnosed me with 15 degree curve scoliosis and winging scapula and I did some exercises with him for a while. Nothing got better, only worse. I finally got imaging of my spine. Sent to spine specialist. Spine specialist did a cervical spine MRI. MRI showed “military neck” in cervical spine, mild degenerative disc disease, and at C3-C4, a “moderate right foraminal disc protrusion that causes mild to moderate right foraminal narrowing.
Minimal disc bulging is noted from C3 through C7.”

I thought this was the answer for it all, BUT THEN, when I went back to the spine specialist, he said it wasn’t bad enough to be causing the issues I’m having. He sent me to a wrist doctor who says I might have carpal tunnel, and ordered an EMG which came back completely normal today. The only other thing he did was prescribe pregabolin for nerve pain, but he filled the prescription wrong and I haven’t even been able to fill it to this day, 40 days later.

The EMG doctor is now suggesting I see a shoulder specialist but I am at my wit’s end. I have wasted hundreds of dollars and countless hours on doctors and am still at square one. I just want to give up and I don’t know what to do.

The pain is pretty bad and is exacerbated by work and movement - it feels like it radiates down my arm starting in my shoulder area but is hard to pinpoint. In certain positions my hand starts to tingle, and at night I am woken up by my entire arm being completely numb. My right arm seems to have gotten slightly weaker over the last few months. My scapula is still winging. I am unable to keep my arm held up for very long without needing to rest it.

Does anyone have ANY advice on what this could be or how I can try to mitigate the pain on my own? Even natural remedies? Kava seems to kind of help but not much. Stretches? Sleeping positions? What should I do? Thank you…

Hi everyone!

I’ve been on quite a journey recently about laundry detergent. Here’s my situation.

I am EXTREMELY sensitive to smell. I have used lots of detergents and while some of them are fine (or just scentless), the only smell I really love is that “hotel sheet” type scent that you smell on gym towels or hotel beds.

After doing a lot of research, it seems that smell is Ecolab’s laundry detergent, which most large scale chains use. But I also learned that Ecolab uses a multi-step system with usually either 2 or 3 chemicals used in succession with industrial machines/dispensers (for the liquid type, that is). I saw from some people that if you only use 1 of these, it could even be dangerous as it could cause chemical burns from imbalance of chemicals. However, I did only see that about their LIQUID 3 step products.

SOOOO…. I went and got myself what seemed to me to be the most viable (and cheapest) option to use at home on an HE machine. It’s this solid detergent block - says it’s HE safe and has additional color safe bleach. I’m planning on shaving it down into a powder when I need to use it. (Yes, I’m that dead set on using this product).

This thing is the EXACT smell that I want. So my question is - how can I safely use this at home? Should I add anything to this detergent to make it safer or more effective? What should I look out for? I am willing to add or adjust anything to be able to get clothes with this specific scent.

Thank you so much for reading & for any advice at all.

EDIT: I found the ingredients for those asking! Here’s what the spec sheet said:

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Sodium Carbonate

Sodium carbonate peroxide alcohols, c12-16, ethoxylated

Fattyalcohol ethoxylates > C15 and =< 5EO

2-Butenedioic acid (2Z)-, homopolymer

Dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid, sodium salt