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I tend to take things personally. I’ve always thought I don’t really care what others think of me…but I really do. Has anyone been able to overcome this? Maybe there’s things in my everyday life I can implement to not take things so personally, or genuinely not care what others think of me?

Just stumbled upon this subreddit, not sure if this is the correct place for this. But has anyone ever interpreted a situation, been so sure of it…just to find out you misread it all together? A lot of times I’ll over think social interactions after the fact…come to a conclusion of what a person may think or feel about me, and in my mind I’m sure of it. Then some time may pass and I’ll talk to them again and realize I was totally wrong…or sometimes worse, I was more right than even I had thought initially.

I swear, someone turning off a side road onto the main road is going to get me one day. Sometimes they start to poke out like they think they can make the turn, and I’m doing 35. I’m not going to be able to stop on a dime if someone goes for it one day and I’ll go right through there driver side window. Anyone else get nervous when you see someone trying to make a turn at a stop sign on a road connected to the one you’re riding on?

After having globus sensation for a month on and off, going crazy trying to find out what was causing it. At first I had no clue it could’ve been from some sort of acid reflux. Then I narrowed down what foods to stay away from. And I can now say the feeling in my throat is gone most of the time. If I drink a Diet Coke it comes back, but if I have some tums after it goes away. Black coffee is bad, but i have it right before my bike ride and it doesn’t affect me negatively. I’ve cut out a lot of things I enjoyed before but it seems to be getting better.

I started drinking water heavily, a gallon to a gallon and a half a day. I was working outside and it was easy to guzzle a bunch of water, and I figured it was good for me. Around the same time I bought two watermelons and ate them both in a few days. I think all the water, plus the volume of all that watermelon raised my stomach acid and started this whole thing about a month ago. Now I’m just struggling because I had been eating so many highly acidic foods unknowing for so long. I just lost 90lbs and have a very regimented diet in place that has now gone to hell. A lot of the foods I’ve relied on for the past year are no good for LPR. I was eating 1-2 tomatoes with balsamic vinegar almost every single day, black coffee on an empty stomach every single day. Strawberries almost every day. Now if I eat a strawberry it feels like it’s stuck in my throat, I can’t eat them at all.

Edit: I think maybe it was going on longer than I had know, because I’ve been waking up in the morning feeling hoarse, but it would go away very shortly. The only thing that’s made me realize something is wrong is this damn globus sensation way down my throat that drives me nuts. At first I thought something was stuck so I was drinking copious amounts of seltzer water, I’m talking gallons of it, to try to get that feeling to go away. Now I know that was making it worse. Now I cut out a lot of the acidic things and seltzers and the globus feeling comes and goes.

I bought a weighted vest, same brand as my adjustable dumbbells, with the thought of using it for body weight exercises and mainly for walking. I always like to get a few mile walk in at the end of the day. Well day two with the weighted vest and it absolutely smokes my shoulders by the end of the walk, my traps are super sore. I dropped the weight from 30lbs to 20lbs, but the problem isn’t the weight, it’s that it’s only distributed on the shoulder straps.

Anyone have any experience with walking with a weighted vest? Not sure if it’s going to be bad long term for my shoulders, or if it’ll actually strengthen them.

Looking for a new book to get into. Books I’ve recently read and enjoyed have been. A Prayer for Owen meany, A Gentleman in Moscow, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Demon Copperhead, Lonesome Dove, East of Eden.

Need something good, if anyone has read any of those books, enjoyed them and have a recommendation I would appreciate it.

It’s been three weeks so far, at first I only noticed it when I ate fruits with small seeds, they felt like they were getting stuck deep down my throat. Now i feel it most all the time, feels like my throat is constricted when I swallow. Thinking about making an appointment soon to see what’s going on. Question is, who do I start with ENT or gastroenterologist? Any suggestions welcome. I’m not sure if there’s something going on or I’m in my head about it. I’ve been reading it could be all sorts of things causing this, it came out of the blue.

For the past 3 weeks, it started with watermelon. Felt like it got stuck in my throat, sensation lasted for 3-4 days and went away. Then a week later, strawberries did the same thing, same amount of time. Now slightly similar feeling from blueberries, but not as strong. It seems to happen from fruits with small seeds, however not tomatoes, I eat tomatoes almost every day and they’re never an issue. I’m seeing online this could be a number of things causing this. Has anyone ever had anything similar to this? Only getting the issue with fruits that have seeds it seems like, besides tomatoes.

Lately I’ll have this feeling, like something is stuck in the back of my throat way down. It’s happened when I’ve had watermelon and strawberries. It can last anywhere from a day to 3-4 days and it’s very annoying. It just started happening two weeks ago. Someone had told me it sounds like LPR heartburn. I’m at the point right now where I’d rather just avoid eating strawberries and watermelon as opposed to an expensive visit to the ENT. Does this sound like something anyone has experience?

Between May-Dec of last year I ended up losing 90lbs, super dedicated borderline obsessed with weight loss. Then I started to get into the healthy bmi range, at the same time I was starting to burn out. I knew I had to lose the weight quickly or else I wouldn’t stick to the program, but there’s only so many months in a row I was able to maintain such a steep deficit. At a 24 bmi, which for me was 170lbs, I felt I had another 15-20lbs to lose, but I knew it would be more difficult. I was starting to feel more content with how I was looking, instead of pushing harder and finishing what I started…I started to relax, I stopped journaling my calories. I stopped hitting 10k steps every day. But I didn’t go off the rails, like I’ve been known to do in the past.

Over the past 7 months, up until this week I’ve been between 171-179. But all of a sudden I’m no longer content with how I’m looking. I feel like I put all that hard work in, and stopped short at the finish line. Part of me feels like I wasted time not finishing it out, but part of me knows everything happens for a reason. Maybe I needed 7 months just to maintain…either way, I’m not going to dwell on it. I’ve been putting the work in again and the scale is moving again…it feels refreshing.

Anyone else take a long maintenance break, come back and finish out that last bit? Also, anyone else experience that feeling of abruptly no longer feeling content when you previously were? It’s the same feeling I got when I first decided to lose the weight…something just clicked. Funny how that happens.

Had a feeling like a watermelon seed was stuck in my throat, assumed I was allergic to watermelon…stopped eating it, the feeling went away in a few days. Week later, I got the exactly same feeling from a strawberry. I eat strawberries all the time, it’s never happened before. All the while I assumed unrelated, my left ear has been itching me like crazy. Dr said it might be seasonal allergies causing that.

I’m not 100% sure yet, but I’m thinking the culprit to both things might be this low calorie ice cream I’ve been eating every night. It’s 290cal per pint and I’ve been eating a pint every night. It’s sweetened with erythitol and I think that’s what’s doing it. I noticed sometimes after I eat it, the roof of my mouth feels almost like it’s burned, but with cold. I just assumed it was the cold from the ice cream, but I think it’s that sweetener. I think it’s inflaming the back of my throat, and the seeds from the watermelon and strawberries were getting stuck.

Too early to definitively tell yet, but I noticed since I cut it out 3 days ago, my ear hasn’t been as itchy. I wasn’t expecting that. I haven’t tried strawberries or watermelon yet, still a little nervous because that feeling was super annoying and lasted days.

30 years old, never had any issues like this…now all of a sudden. Last week I had felt like a piece of watermelon got stuck in the back of my throat, lasted a couple days, started to go away. Had more watermelon, it came back. Cut out the watermelon for a week it forgot about it, it seemed to have gone away completely. Now I ate strawberries…and boom, that feeling is back. I thought I was allergic to watermelon because I’d never eaten much of it before. But I eat strawberries all the time and this has never happened before….until now. Any ideas what could be going on here?

I’m 30 years old, never had an allergy in my life. All of a sudden, we had a hot stretch every day last week was in the 90’s and I ate basically nothing but watermelon, it was on sale and I bought three of them. First one wasn’t an issue, the second two were from a different batch, I chopped them up put them in the fridge and before I went to bed had a few pieces. Felt like they got stuck in my throat every time I tried to swallow. Stayed like that for a few days, started to get better…still had all that watermelon. Had some more, instantly that feeling was back. Im thinking I’m allergic to watermelon and I never knew it because I never ate that much much before. I’m one day 2 no watermelon and it seems to be getting better again.

A few days ago I ate a piece of watermelon before bed and it felt like it was stuck in the lower part of my throat. I couldn’t get it to go away, certain times it was more noticeable than others. Then I had more watermelon today and I noticed it really bad again. At first I thought it was actually getting stuck, now I’m thinking I might be allergic to it and it’s causing swelling. How long could that swelling realistically last if I cut out the watermelon?