u/SnowboardMia

I myself was adopted. I have two amazing young kids and always pictured more. I’ve had rough post partum experiences (PPD, PPA, PPR). My husband is still here and is a huge help with the kids. But my wonderful mother passed a couple months ago and she was a huge help with my kids post partum. I don’t think I would come out of another post partum season without her. Anyone have any experiences on fostering after having kids of your own?

If you do, what’s your hussle like? How many days are you sourcing a week? How many listings do you list a day?

Thinking about getting a pop up camper. I have a 17’ expedition with 120k miles. Someone mentioned to me that it’s going to beat my car up towing the camper. Is this true? I need this car to last me another 4 years. Any other tips from anyone who’s towed a pop up are welcome!

GI said they suspect EOE. Endoscopy scheduled for September. The thing is I coincidentally, cut out weight and my swallowing got so much better. Do I need to eat wheat a couple days in advance to be diagnosed or will they be able to see damage?

I’ve never responded well to omeprazole, just never felt like it got rid of my acid reflux 100%. Pepcid did wonders for me when I was pregnant. The reflux lingered everyday for years. I recently started taking a Zyrtec for my animal allergies as I was visiting someone with dogs. Absolutely no reflux. Gone for days. That is unheard of for me with out taking a medication specifically for reflux. So my question is, does this mean I’m eating something I’m allergic to??

I need your easy go-to high calorie and easy to go down the super tight throat foods when you’re in a flare and waiting on dilation. I can’t do wheat, avacado, eggs, banana, nuts. Been doing lots of cheese, oats, chicken (very small bites), and ice cream lol

Just curious! I had trouble swallowing pills in my teens, but the super tight throat didn’t start until my late 20s which was when I was diagnosed

I have acid reflux that is mostly controlled. Which I can feel lower near my esophagus and come up my throat. More recently for about a month I’ve been having a burning sensation near my tonsils/back of throat. It feels different that normal reflux and is a lot further up. Anyone had this symptom?

I know there could be personal reasons, but this seems a little fishy to me. My aunt put their house up on the market and it sold for $620,000. About a month after the new owners put it up for sale for $630,000.(higher price just to recoup closing costs?) I live nearby and seen the new owners cut the grass, but they never even had a moving truck. The local paper shows all houses that sold in the area and who bought them. For my aunts house, it says (I’m going to change the name for anonymity) “John Smith Trustee” as the buyer. Is there some reason a trustee would buy and sell a house like this so fast with no intentions of living there or making any money off the resale?

I’ll preface this by saying i have major health anxiety and i know i sound crazy. I bought a 17’ ford expedition last year which I absolutely love. I wanted to replace the cabin air filter after a year of owning it. Come to find out it doesn’t have one? I now have it in my head that me and my family are going to be breathing in a bunch of toxic fumes and going to damage our lungs somehow. Can someone put my mind to ease or is this an actual concern

We went to the beach last week and it was nothing but absolute chaos. Eating sand, sand in eyes then screaming, the constant fear of drowning, the fear of sunburn. The heat exhaustion. Like so many families go to the beach am I just a super anxious mom?! Anyway that’s not going to change, so please give me suggestions for next vacay because I’m not doing that again for awhile lol

28F breastfeeding. I got an ultrasound of my right breast because I felt hard lumpy tissue. I had a very nasty rock climbing fall 10 months ago and hit that breast right in the spot. I figured it was scar tissue. Well I just got the ultrasound and they didn’t say anything about the lump but honed in on a “prominent vein” in the area. The dr said “not suspicious” at the moment but to get checked again in 6 months. The report than read “intense Doppler flow” and after googling that I’m reading that it could be because it’s feeding a tumor?? I’m a nervous wreck, I know that they would have seen the tumor, but my question is, do you ever see these prominent veins in ultrasound and they aren’t the tumor feeding veins? Could they just be from breast feeding? I’m going to spiral on this for the next 6 months

I had a breast ultrasound due to a lump I felt (Im pretty sure it was due to falling on a rock climbing wall and then slamming my boob into one of the pegs while I fell lol) that was 10 months ago and the big lump formed a little while after. The doctor didn’t see any suspicious lumps but noted a “prominent vein” in the area of where I feel the lump and then noted it had “intense Doppler flow” he said it’s “probably benign” and I’ll get it checked out in 6 months. When I look up intense Doppler flow, I see scary things that in an aggressive tumor there is intense flow to feed the tumor. He didn’t mention the intense flow being because I’m breastfeeding, which my first thought would be. He was cold and didn’t leave me very reassured. I would love to know if anyone had any similar experiences before I spiral for the next 6 months

28F breastfeeding and trauma to breast 10months ago(fell from rock climbing wall and sharp peg slammed into my breast). I found a small mass in breast a few months ago in the same spot I fell and just got an ultrasound today. The doctor mentioned some scary word s but said “probably benign” which is like good but also the “probably” is throwing me off. he told me to follow up in 6 months but I’m going to spiral over this for a very long time at the “hypoechoic lesion” and “intense Doppler flow”. When I look these up on Dr. Google I get very scary results. I want to be able to be happy and in the moment for my kids, so I’d really love some insight

FINDINGS: Sonography of the right breast at 4:00, 9 cm from the nipple, reveals an irregular hypoechoic lesion which demonstrates intense Doppler flow. The majority of this lesion reflects a blood vessel arising from the musculature of the chest wall. The most superficial aspect of the lesion measures 0.6 × 0.3 x 0.5 cm and does not demonstrate Doppler flow. Given the history of trauma in this location, this could reflect a small resolving hematoma adjacent to the large vessel or other probably benign etiology. It is best appreciated in radial orientation and poorly visualized in the antiradial orientation.

Has anybody had the symptom of trouble swallowing? Like I feel as though my throat is super tight or there is a big lump in the middle near Adam’s apple. I am aware of every bite of food I take because it feels like it goes slowly, but I honestly can’t tell if it’s actually going slower or if I’m just thinking about it so much. I have an endoscopy scheduled where they will check for EoE, but it’s all started a few months before my mom died, when she was sick and definetly got worse after she passed. Which has obviously brought me a lot of anxiety.

11 months post partum and my toddler is annoying me so much and I don’t know why. I feel so bad, he was my first baby and we use to do everything together and I barely yelled. And now I am so short fused with him. (Seems to be mostly when I’m overtired or starving or have a long to do list). For example today I asked him to throw a bag of old food away. He carried it to the garbage and instead of dropping it in, he threw it in the air all over the place, on purpose. I immediately yelled at him “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?” Is this normal? I feel terrible and don’t want to act like this

If you had acid reflux and DIDNT go on PPIs and did the elimination diet successfully, did your acid reflux go away after that?

Also, I have acid reflux and really need to take something daily, I’ve been on Pepcid daily since pregnancy a year ago. I hear bad things about being on that full time and I hear the horror stories about PPIs long term. But obviously I don’t want esophageal cancer! I’m at a loss and would love any and all suggestions

Does anyone else have this? I’m 28 and all my life if I went to someone’s house who had cats and especially dogs I couldn’t be over for more than 15 minutes without wheezing and really struggling to breath. I also have allergies to pet so I get the classic, hives when they lick me, watery itchy eyes, sneezing, nose running. If I took an allergy pill it would clear all those things up but never my breathing. When I was a teenager I sleepover somewhere with animals and came home the next day really struggling to breath (why didn’t I tell my parents? Idk teenagers man lol) I went in the bathroom and found my brothers albuterol inhaler and wow it was magic. I couldn’t believe something I dealt with all my life cleared up (mostly) in an instant. Well I just recently learned of allergic asthma, and am wondering if I have that on top of my pet allergies. I did a breathing test at the allergist today and then they gave me a nebulizer and then did a breathing test again to see if I have asthma. I asked if it would show if I don’t have any breathing issues at the moment and only went around animals. They said it might, but I passed the test. I’m still prescribed Symbicort. so she said if I take it every day and then I go to someone’s house, I shouldn’t have as many breathing issues? Is this true?! Someone please tell me they’ve been through this and is better? I can’t even go over a lot of my relatives house and when I go on vacation to visit family, I always have to buy hotels. I would love some relief from this.