u/Plain_Jellyfish

I have been using tampons basically since I started getting periods when I was 13, and I am now 30. I recently had someone recommend using a menstrual cup - I live at the beach and spend a lot of time outside and it super sucks when I have to either not do the things I like or make sure I time things around when I need to change my tampon. However, I have zero knowledge of menstrual cups and don’t know how to use it, which brand is best for beginners, or anything. Obviously I plan to do some research before committing, but Reddit is a powerhouse of information most of the time so I didn’t know if there were any recommended tutorials, websites, brands, etc to help narrow down my research. Please tell me all things menstrual cup related, the good, bad, and the ugly and any recommendations of brands or brands to avoid. Thanks in advance!!

I had a mc 3 weeks ago and feel like all I’ve wanted was sweets. While TTC I’d lost 12lbs, and over the last 3 weeks I’ve gained 5 back. Last week I started back on my cleaning eating and exercising, but at the end of the day all I want is ice cream. I’ve gone through 3 pints of ice cream in the last 3 weeks. I take 1500mg of metformin and the food noise is still so intense. Now that we’re back to TTC I’m hoping I can get back into my routine and continue to lose some weight, but it is so hard some days.

I would like to first start by saying this is not a post to discuss if AI should or should not be used to streamline documentation. I have historically been anti-AI for all things therapy related because I feel that documentation is inherently a part of this job and truthfully AI sort of freaks me out. The idea of recording sessions to be transcribed by AI has bothered me since I first learned of it. You don’t have to convince me to not use AI because I don’t love the idea anyways, and please do not try to convince me to use AI because it freaks me out and I’m very apprehensive of it.

I currently have an intern who has recently inquired about the use of AI for documentation and the increasing popularity of this. I gave them my normal spiel of it feeling icky to me because I don’t like the idea of recording sessions. I learned about Quill, and it seems that there is no recording involved and you submit your short-hand notes, which are then formatted into paragraph-form clinical notes. It also seems that it does not save anything or retain any of the information. This piqued my interest because I strongly dislike documentation and wish more than anything I could just use my short-hand, grammatically incorrect, only bare bones what is needed information for a progress note, which I obviously can’t do. So my question is very specifically about Quill - what are the pros and cons? Is it as good as it sounds? If you are anti-quill, why? It sounds too good to be true, so give it to me straight and tell me all of the things.