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My first SV chuck roast I did 137 for 36 hours, it turned out beautifully. I put one in yesterday but started late, so this time around it’ll be at 31 hours when I take it out, 32 at the absolute latest. Same temp of 137. Will that be enough time for the fat to have rendered and the roast turned into that amazing prime rib style I got the first time?

Forgive me if this isn’t relatable and sounds bizarre. But I wonder if this fear I experience is as related to OCD as I think. When you’re a kid, and you’re afraid of the dark, ghosts hiding in your room, sprinting through the house at night so something doesn’t get you. That feeling has persisted for me through my life, & I’m in my late 20’s now. I love horror & spooky things, but I get this frantic, obsessive fear easily. For instance, if my husband & I are watching a horror movie in the living room, I get insanely terrified & feel like a “ghost” or whatever will get me, and have to scrunch my body down into a fetal position so that I’m “hiding” in the couch, and pull my blanket over my head so that I can just peek out at the TV. My feet have to be fully covered by a blanket or I’m convinced I’m not “safe”. This is much worse if there’s open space behind me, or the couch is right up against a window. I’ll be terrified a person is standing outside the window, even though I know logically that isn’t true. But the anxiety persists.

If I’m watching something scary in my room, fully “blocked” in, bed against the wall, door shut, etc, I’m fine and don’t get scared at all. I’m terrified to be home alone at night. If I have to leave my room at night to get something, my husband has to repeatedly yell out to me that I’m okay & I have to run as fast as I can. If I try walking, I get this insane flight or fight sensation and take off running. It’s so embarrassing but it feels uncontrollable, like the obsessive anxiety is so strong. My mind will force me to imagine the scariest images from horror movies or scary scenarios at night & I’ll have to hide under my blanket, I just cannot help it. DAE experience this? Am I just a freak? Please let me know ha

I’ve lived with OCD as long as I can remember, since I was a small child, but it was ignored by family so I just got diagnosed two years ago. Lost my insurance right before starting treatment, then put it off after gaining insurance. I’m finally about to start ERP and they said I could choose to try a medication or do the ERP & see if it’s enough. I can’t take Clomipramine because I’m on Vyvanse for ADHD. Just wondering what everyone’s done.

My OCD is heavily the “just right” kind. Every second of everyday I’m either squeezing my eyes over & over till it’s right, moving my neck & head bc my neck feels “wrong”. If something happens, like let’s say I oversleep on a Saturday, I’ll feel like my day is wasted & I force myself to mentally visualize myself waking up at the right time, my day going to the plan I wanted, & I have to keep starting over the visualization over & over till it feels like I did it right & sufficiently tortured myself. I feel insane typing all that out. It’s constant, either physically “tics” or mental. Has anyone had that kind of OCD & been successful with therapy only, no meds?

I posted last month about having sky high electric bills for a long time, and how our usage recently showed 34,000 kWh in a year, which is extremely unusual for a small single wide. Our landlords have said for four months they’ll send someone but never did until last week. They sent an HVAC guy they’re friends with, he did a quick look & said our capacitor needs replaced but that it wouldn’t cause the high usage.

Yesterday, the burnt smell from the furnace got much stronger than usual (sometimes it’ll smell burnt for a bit then stop) and it filled the house every time we turned it on. It also started making a loud humming noise even when the motor wasn’t running. So last night, we tried turning the motor & heating on, then flipping the thermostat. The motor never came on, but the elements cycled on and off over and over again, which I don’t believe is normal. We then turned off the elements and tried again, and the motor kicked on fine. Is this as unusual as I think? I read a stuck sequencer often causes this, and that that would definitely cause a crazy high electric bill. We were under a freeze warning last night & couldn’t run our furnace because the burning and the noise had us so concerned. How do we make our LL’s listen? Are we being dramatic about all this? Should we get our own independent inspection? I don’t want to cause problems but this has cost us thousands upon thousands in bills and now we don’t feel safe to run our heat.

I posted last month about how high my electric bills have been for a long time, and how my bill showed usage of 34,000 kWh in a year which is completely impossible in a small single wide. Landlord has been asked for four months to send someone, and tried to say maybe our usage was so high from having our big door open a couple times when the heat was on. They finally came last week with an HVAC guy they’re friends with. He did a quick inspection & said the capacitor is going bad but that wouldn’t cause the high usage. It left us with no answers.

Yesterday, the furnace started filling the whole house with a burnt smell every time we turned it on, and it stayed making a loud humming noise even when not actively running. Last night, we did a couple tests. We had the blower motor & heating turned on, then tried running the furnace. The blower motor didn’t kick on, but the heating elements turned on and off, cycling over and over again. Tried switching on motor w/o heat, and it kicked on just fine. Is this as abnormal as I think? I read that this can often be caused by a failing sequencer/control relay, and that those would definitely cause an extremely high electric bill as the elements could be running 24/7. Does anyone have any experience with this? We don’t know what to do at this point, we had a freeze warning last night & couldn’t run our furnace because the burning smell was so strong and freaked us out. We don’t want to get hostile but this has cost us thousands and now we don’t feel safe even using the furnace.

I know this probably sounds very weird. But I’ve just started taking the medication recently and I’ve noticed something odd. If I have sex within the first 4/5 hours after taking the meds, and it’s “intense” enough to make me tired, sweat, etc. it’s like the meds drop way off and I feel pretty tired and very low motivation/focus the rest of the day. It’s happened every time so far. Does this happen to anyone else? I haven’t tried an actual workout on them yet because I have mild issues with it raising my BP/HR, but I wonder if it’d have the same effect. I’m sorry this sounds so insane lol but it’s really frustrating!

I’ve waited so long for this. My PCP looked at pics of my issue a year ago and said it absolutely looked like a prolapse, but of course she isn’t an expert. There was no urogyn in my city until recently, so I finally had an appt today. He seemed rushed and as soon as he came in the first thing he said was “you’re 29? Women your age don’t get prolapses”. I should’ve honestly left right then because that is blatantly false. I explained my symptoms (huge donut/walnut looking bulge that is right at the entrance, when I bare down it moves a ton and almost looks like a ridged wall covers my entrance? Plus major UTI symptoms at all times that are always negative test wise, constant pressure, tampon doesn’t fit right) and he did an exam with a speculum. Said he couldn’t see anything and that I don’t have a prolapse. Asked him to exam w/o speculum & he said it wasn’t necessary. Asked him to examine while I stand & he said that isn’t something that’s done with prolapse diagnosis??

I showed him pictures, which show the huge shaped thing at the entrance. I explained that if I bare down it almost comes out, if I suck in it moves back up. He said that’s normal anatomy and I shouldn’t expect it to look like I did when I was 16?? Said it’s probably a UTI. I explained I’ve had 100 cultures and it’s never a UTI. I’m sobbing & so frustrated. Has this happened to anyone?? Is it this hard to diagnose? Feeling so defeated.