u/Symmetrial

Have been splinting almost every day for a couple of years now.

it started maybe a decade ago with squatting and external pressure. Did that for a few years (before and after vaginal delivery, so probably somewhat independent of that)

then months/years post partum bought the weird pink shoehorn to try

couldn’t get it to work

found thumb (thumbprint facing toward tailbone) worked way better. Lucky I have long arms. So the “solution” removed the hassle of the un-ideal situation

(fingers never worked, weird angle)

never been evaluated. Am managing so long as able to manage constipation (now a constant battle, unprecedented in my IBS life)

suspect menopause going to be very disruptive (I’m early 40s)

so do I bother or not to see someone? What might happen if I don’t?

Everything I see has rewritten the decade as “skinny jeans dominated” but I remember seeing what I assumed were teenagers at the time, mid decade, conspicuously embracing high waisted generously cut pants and I thought I’m not really in a position to follow this trend so I kept wearing straight cut, carrot and later jogger type pants, some were higher for me but some weren’t.

did I hallucinate that lol

I remember the high waist, but struggling to picture the leg all the way down. Maybe it was tapered? But it was definitely not skinny, and I think mom jeans had their moment but not till late in the decade?

when I saw wide legs starting coming in a couple years ago I didn’t feel any pressure to follow the trend but oooh boy I feel it now, probable means the trend will change as soon as I actively buy some. If only id kept the ones I had as a teenager (no, they were terrible, cheap cargo pants, glassons dusky pink *stretch* cords, can’t remember having any well cut jeans..)

As a teenager I wanted to have high waist loose cut jeans like I saw Peggy Lipton wearing on certain (not sure which decade) episodes of the Mod Squad which for some reason reaired on tv then. But high waists were not in the shops. But this was 2001

anyone enlighten me, I’m not really with it