u/brasscup

Hi there I know early invitees had the option for a PSIM but the invite I received today (my first) is wholly different. It doesn't mention PSIM at all. It contains a clickable esim link which I clicked thinking there might be an option to reject the ESIM in favor of PSIM but there isn't.

It launches a page that instructs me to launch the Textnow app and do the ESIM "upgrade" there.

I don't care if I have to pay another $4.99 per PSIM, that is my preference. Up until now, I have been able to run my permanent TN number on multiple old devices combining the app and a PSIM I bought for each one.

If I can't do that anymore this seems like a huge downgrade -- I have two daily driver phones, iphone and Android, I want to buy at least two TN sim cards for them.

I tried asking support but haven't gotten anything but irrelevancies from the chat bot yet.

Hi there: I am new here and hate to be gross straight out of the gate but I wanted to warn others about konjac noodles.

I have had multiple organ prolapses since my 30s (caused by poor bowel motility and chronic treatment resistant constipation, not childbirth).

Anyhow, I ate konjac noodles for dinner on two consecutive days. Big mistake. Twelve days of being doubled over in severe pain followed. I have been unable to leave home because I had to be near my bathroom. I am only just starting to feel better.

Konjac is a type of yam, so I figured it was reasonably healthful. I ate two 7 oz noodle packets for each dinner which may sound like a lot, but even mixed with lots of chunky, vegetable packed tomato sauce, it barely filled a normal pasta bowl

It was a USDA organic brand called 52USA -- sole ingredients: organic konjac flour, water and citric acid.

I did not know the reason konjac is low carb is because it is wholly indigestible, or that konjac is illegal as a dietary supplement in Australia because it swells 100-to-200x its mass with water and presents a choking hazard.

Noodles are theoretically safer because they are usually sold pre-hydrated, but in some localities the packages bear warnings to limit serving size and/or avoid if you have any kind of gastric obstruction. N

Severe medical emergencies are rare, but there have been documented cases of noodles congealing into an intestinal mass requiring surgical removal.

Gastric juices don't touch this stuff -- you must evacuate however much you put into your mouth in its entirety. That degree of pushing poses a challenge for anyone who is either prolapsed or recovering from from prolapse repair surgery.

I have had two prior rectopexy resections, both done by the same world class surgeon, yet they both ultimately failed after a period of years: all I could think about while pooping is how lucky I was to eat the noodles after my butt was already broken and not after my next repair!

That's it. This is a lovely supportive sub with a lot of great resources and I am glad I found my way here. Be well, everybody.

Hi everyone. Just wanted to tell anybody here who is also dealing with rectocele (even rectocele that has been repaired): do not eat konjac noodles.

The starch they contain is wholly indigestible and they are nearly 100% starch so your gastric juices do not break them down at all.

Inside your gut, they continue to absorb water so you have a big, swollen, honkingly massive nooodle ball that must exit your butt in its entirety -- but of course with rectocele, that exit is obstructed.

I have had two rectopexy resections and need a third (my rectocele is back again).

I manage by overhydrating, eating tons of fiber and taking multiple laxatives (not ideal but complications from unrelated life threatening genetic issues force me to put off more surgery).

Anyhow, a week ago, I ate two 7 oz packets of konjac noodles for dinner smothered with zesty tomato sauce loaded with vegetables, romano and cracked pepper.

That sounds like a lot but it's a scant-normal entree sized amount of pasta in the bowl and while they taste $hit on their own, sauced up, they were satisfying. So I ate the exact same dinner the next day.

I have been in gut hell ever since. It still feels like I swallowed the apocryphal Rat King. I am doubled over with cramps, covered in sweat trying, to pass this congealed mass but at least it is wending its way out.

Drinking tons of water is crucial. There have been multiple cases of people needing surgery to remove noodles forming a blockage in the intestines

I hate AI on principal, but in this instance it saved me a trip to the ER. I feared konjac could form a solid plug, which can happen with psillium fiber, but if you over hydrate, konjac noodles remain gelatinous.

Konjac supplements are illegal in Australia because they pose a choking hazard and the hard konjac sucking candies popular in Asian countries are regulated in many localities because they have caused children to choke.

There are also documented cases of people needing surgery to remove konjac noodle masses that blocked their intestines.

I am not suggesting people with normal butt physiognomy and healthy bowel motility avoid them but start slowly with a single packet and wait a few days to see how it effects you.

People with rectocele, rectal prolapse, chronically slow bowel motility -- STAY AWAY FROM THESE NOODLES. I also would avoid if you have had a gastric reduction or bypass weight loss surgery.

Along the same lines, if you have chronic pain and have been prescribed opioids or take kratom for it, the constipation you already suffer might intensify after eating konjac. Similarly, don't forget if you are on a GLP1, that class of drugs can also cause constipation, too, so be careful.

Note: in normal healthy people who move their bowels often and easily, konjac can cause diarrhea instead.

One more thing: don't give leftover konjac noodles to your dog, especially if it is one of the miniature breeds. They eat too fast and whatever doesn't get chewed had to exit whole.

Anyhow, that's it. Sorry I went on so long but I am not feeling well enough to edit it down.

Great sub, btw -- I haven't posted here before but I love the supportive environment.

My medical history: I have rectal, uterine, cervical and bladder prolapses that went undiagnosed for many years because male gynecologists and gastric specialists didn't believe a thin, childless healthy seeming woman was at risk, even though lifeling constipation was part of my medical history.

Even now that there are a plethora of pelvic floor specialists -- many of them women raising awareness of these issues, constipation complaints are insufficiently addressed but I will save that for another post.

Stay well, everybody!

Hi there, I have used both in diy skincare/cosmetics, and am aware it is normal to only use the hydrolyzed in liquid formulas.

But it occured to me that using the hydrolyzed version instead of micronizef in mineral veil or pigmented mineral powder cosmetics such as foundation, etc might have some advantages if you like to create pressed versions for compacts.

Since hydrolyzed is liquid soluble I thought it might help bind the other elements together by attracting moisture and helping things cake.

It also occured to me that the nutrients might be more bioavailable to the dermis if you used a little of each in the same formula.

Guessing if I don't press it, it make the powder look chunky in the slightest humidity, but as I am experimenting for personal use, I don't really care whether it makes a nice presentation.

Thanks for any info!