u/TheEyeOfMidnight

I need to know what other people thought of the paper, I’m begging!!! I’m freaking out about how I did and I need to know what other people thought about it.

So we’ve been having this debate for a while and we decided to come on here to get fresh opinions.
My twin sister and I became friends with a girl, we’ll call her Sarah, a few years ago now and we met her at the same time. We hung out loads and it was nice to have someone to just be silly with.

However, things started going down hill when I felt like she and her group were becoming bullies. My sister thinks it isn’t as simple as whether they’re bullies or they’re not. She believes they were influenced by each other and the school they went too. She thinks that because Sarah was nice on her own that it makes her a good person and not in fact a bully. However, the things that she did and joined in on to do to us such as throwing my phone around the local park and trying to constantly take my picture when I said I didn’t like it and even steal my sisters bike multiple times.

Eventually, because this was during lockdown, we stopped talking and hanging out. I found it was a relief to have them out of our lives but my sister felt differently. At some point, she started meeting up with Sarah again after saying it was a one off. It became a regular thing that eventually evolved into hanging out with the entire group by herself. She would come home and, unbothered, would say all the things they did such as homophobic slander and other insults and stealing stuff.

I got sick of hearing how they treated her, so I came along when she hung out with them. I did this so that I might be able to protect if they did anything but it also caused them to say biphobic comments to me and push and shove me. I began telling my sister that Sarah was a bad person and a bully, as was the rest of the group. She agreed about the group but said Sarah was a good person who was influenced by others and had a bad life. I felt like I had struggled before with both of the issues Sarah was dealing with and felt it didn’t give her an excuse to bully people with phobic language and harmful theft and physical harassment.

My sister is no longer much in contact with her because, thank god, both we and Sarah moved to very different places. However, I bring this up because my sister talks about her often. Sarah and her group prank call my sister for fun a lot and it feels very insensitive a lot of the time. Everytime we talk about Sarah or how her bullying affected me we get into huge arguments about whether she is a good person or not and whether I am exaggerating sometimes even saying none of this was even bullying. So, am I the asshole, or is Sarah a bully and my sister is wearing rose coloured glasses? Let me know

Hi
I have gastritis, an chronic autoimmune condition that means my immune system attacks my stomach lining - it causes recurring nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and constipation which I have been informally diagnosed with by a doctor
I also have IBS - causes recurring/chronic diarrhoea and constipation for me but it’s always hard to tell apart which I am again informally diagnosed with by a doctor
However, I have also been informally diagnosed with reflux that I believe to be rumination syndrome
Basically (I’ll explain what it is for me) I vomit in my mouth/regurgitate meals and drinks about 20+ times a day. I’ve done it since I can remember and it is ordinarily a choice where I push on my stomach, then diaphragm and then oesophagus to get it to the top of my throat where I taste and re swallow
Sometimes it is involuntary and contains painful acid
I ask this because it seems like I have so many GI oriented conditions and I’m very curious and confused as to whether they’re related because of the magnitude that I have
Please let me know your experience and opinion, I’d greatly appreciate it

Hi, not sure if this question makes sense so I’ll explain

Two years ago, I went to the doctor for agonising period pain since I got it at 9. The pain is in my legs and pelvis most agonisingly, and radiates to my back often. I decided to go to the doctors two years ago because I was having chronic diarrhoea and constipation which got a lot worse on my period and I thought it was related. When I went and explained all my issues, doctor told me it was IBS and had very little to say about my period pain and other chronic symptoms. She gave me rigevidon combined birth control pills to help my pain, and I’ve been taking them ever since.

About over a year ago, I began experiencing chronic nausea, sometimes accompanied by vomiting. I got Pityriasis because of the illness I was experiencing and I went to see a doctor after experiencing these symptoms for long enough that I was constantly hyper vigilant, who told me I had gastritis.

The pain I experience on my period isn’t dampened by the tablets, my leg pain is almost gone but it’s only got 5x worse in my pelvis, making it agony to go to the bathroom every bleed through period. It stabbing in my pelvis and rectum, coming in waves with a constant static pain present beneath. Every time I go to the bathroom on my period, I end up in agony for 2 hours or so afterwards with constant stabbing pain in my rectum and pelvis. This pain when going to the bathroom persists even after my bleed break period, but less painful, not going away for over a week after I’m back on my tablets.

I’m very confused if this is my IBS, my gastritis, or the endometriosis that I suspect but all my doctors have ignored.

Thoughts? I’m very confused about what is what because no doctors have diagnosed me with anything, just told me the likely cause and sent me on my way with dietary tips and new drugs to try 😭

Ps: I have never outwardly told them I suspect endo because I worry that will make them even more adamant to dismiss my pain

Like Harry Potter, or Theif of night, or the an academy for liars - secret magical societies!!!
I want action, academia is great but a job or general participant is welcome
I beg for recs 🤌