u/billythephelddagrif

Hello everyone, I'm currently on a long waiting list for an allergist and the GI so I'm trying to better understand my triggers so I can live my ore comfortably and be proactive until then.

Around January, I started regularly having this unusual experience where I would get flushed, tingly, and warm. My wife says the pores on my face visibly expand. I get a swelling under my tongue and a few times it felt like my throat swelled. I also get a strange sourish metallicish taste in my mouth sometimes.

I've definitely identified citrus and beer as a trigger, but Ive become very skeptical of citric acid as well. I was replacing beer with zevia soda but that ended up making things even worse. I havent had any issues with stevia, so I'm thinking it's the citric acid as I will randomly have flare ups and then I find I unintentionally ate something with citric acid. Smoke flavor may also be a potential trigger.

I can't fully wrap my head around this, which is why I'm seeing specialists. I had an endoscopy recently and I have mild barrets at my zline and i also had a gallstone in this time (had the gallbladder out about a month ago) - so my disgestion is funky all around but this is my big mystery.

Anyone have any similar experience or input?

I've been going through a lot of my memories from touring and found a lot of old bands that I really loved that I feel like have been lost to the sands of time. What are you favorite forgotten bands from the DIY scene? A lot of mine aren't the most folkpunk but they traveled around with the anarchists and activists and ran venues and freespaces and had the ideology and spirit.

Bramble (salt lake city)
Perpetual Dusk at Curtsy Caverns (chicago)
Accordions (Indiana)
A Paper Cup Band (Minneapolis)
Freddy Fudd Pucker (New Zealand)

Plumunion/Plumwife (Milwaukee)
World History (Seattle)
Scrambled Meggz (Newfoundland)
Her Fantastic Cats (Baltimore)
Naughty Naughty Nurses (Philadelphia)
The Bee Team (Philadelphia)
Arrah and the Ferns (Muncie)

Bowl Of Dust (Chicago)

If you know remember any of the bands, I'd also love to know that!
Or if you traveled this scene and I missed a few, let me know that too!

Hey everyone. First post here.

Over the last six years, I've had a rough go of it. Strange facial flushing and tingling, surprise nausea, constant queasiness, endless burping, and eventually a gallstone attack. As of last week, the gallbladder is out and I'm noticing some improvements but I'm still getting this strange flushing feeling that appears to be triggered by citric acid? Kinda unsure.

When removing my gallbladder they found fatty deposits on my liver and removed them. Great!

I had an endoscopy today where they found hints of barretts syndrome so they took a biopsy and also noted irritation at my esophageal z line.

Basically at this point I've lost twenty pounds and most days are more uncomfortable than not. I'm trying to take all the action I can to get on track but I'm honestly just feeling worn down and needed to vent to a community that might understand.

To top it all off I have ARFID and am raising a daughter who also has ARFID which has been deeply triggering. Add in having a really brutal job that had me binge eating way too many greasy comfort foods for a few years... I did this to myself and am grappling with the embarrassment but also trying to move forward in a positive way.

Anyways. If anyone has any similar experience or words of encouragement I'd be grateful to hear it. Thanks y'all.

Hey y'all. I used to tour a lot. I've posted about that before but today I'm thinking a lot about all of the photos I've taken. I traveled with a DSLR and extensively photographed bands, artists, punk houses, graffiti, venues, and other tour stops. I've got literally 1000s of pictures to sort through and I'd love to create some sort of document of this era of DIY. I'd love to get some feedback if that's a project that interests folks here and in what format they'd like to see it. I'm really proud of these photos and would love to share them. I think they capture a lot. Mostly artists who stayed underground but a bunch of faces y'all know are in there too.

Hello everyone. I (40m) wrote a few weeks ago after a six hour gallstone attack. I was luckily able to get scheduled for surgery pretty quickly. Now I'm starting to prep. I have been on an ultra low fat diet to keep the attacks away (3g of fat per meal) but I've been so hungry and dropping pounds like wild.

I know everyone's journey is different, but I'm wondering what foods people had some success eating without issue (I'm vegetarian but open to hearing any and all success stories, in looking for some positivity) in the days right after surgery. I'm wondering what to be in for pain and activity wise (work is giving me a bit of a hard time about requesting off days, but the doctor will advocate for me) and I've got three kids and my wife will be working. Trying to figure out how much I can do for the kids and for myself in those first days.

I've never had surgery before and honestly I'm pretty scared about it.

Y'all were so helpful on my first post, I really appreciate it.

This past Monday I was in the ER passing a gallstone. I had no idea what was happening. Literally thought I was dying. I've been suffering with GI issues since January and have been on the waiting list for a GI appointment since then. It's this coming Friday. After the attack I've been trying to eat a real safe diet, I do not want to feel that pain again. Issue is, I was already struggling with my baseline. Now I'm just weak and sore all the time and burping unpleasantly always. I feel so frustrated and scared. I'm worried that It's going to take so long to get this thing out of me.

Trying to read about diet and maintenance while I still have the Gallbladder has been so confusing - sources, even from medical papers, contradict each other on what food is and isn't safe. I want to take no risks so I'm keeping it super low fat, like 2g per meal. But It's starting to feel like I'm starving myself.

Right now I'm mostly eating rice and beans with nutritional yeast, veggie pasta with balsamic reduction, spinach and veggie salads, baked potatoes with no butter or oil, powdered peanut butter and honey on quinoa puff crackers, uncle jerrys pretzels (o fat no oil!) and super bland cereal with lofat oatmilk and greek nonfat yogurt.

I've been feeling like I'm having blood sugar crashes so i have some 10g sugar popsicles on hand for that or spoonfuls of honey. I'm worried I'm being overcautious? but at the same time... i want to be really cautious. I already have some pretty rough struggles with mental health and have ARFID and am vegetarian.

I'm not really sure what I'm asking for here, but I just want to feel a little less alone. I've got 3 kids and a very physical job and we have our family's dream vacation planned for early July. I feel guilty about not being able to help out very much and scared of another attack.