Quesabarria tacos

Quesabarria tacos

Needed someone else to appreciate these beautiful tacos at one of the only legit Mexican places near my house lol

u/championofthesun93 — 13 days ago

Made this high as fuck at 3pm

Self explanatory title. Italian breaded chicken cutlet, penne with red sauce and basil, and a piece of carmelized onion/gouda sourdough I got from the farmers market this morning. Not my best work and also not my worst lol

u/championofthesun93 — 1 month ago

If you’re missing your dog

I saw this girl near my house in briargate around 5pm. She wouldn’t come to me even though I gave her a lot of treats (which she did take if I threw them to her) and tried to offer water. She’s not malnourished by any means, but she is skittish and she has no collar. Feel free to DM me if she’s yours.

u/championofthesun93 — 3 months ago
▲ 5 r/ibs

Success with PREbiotics

Never thought I would find something that helps and the first time prebiotics were mentioned to me I brushed it off bc I had tried PRObiotics with no luck. Eventually I got desperate and decided to try the liquid salad prebiotic pouches that you see on social media advertised all the time (I got them off amazon tho) and while they taste pretty bad they really have firmed up my BMs. I still have a lot of gas that I still wish would go away but it’s nice to not have diarrhea every single day of my life anymore! Just throwing this info out there as I wish I would have tried them sooner. They’re easy to obtain so it might be worth a try for someone else out there. I tried probiotics, fiber pills, ox bile supplements, diet changes, i even saw a GI specialist who tried to treat me with strong antibiotics in case i had C diff. None of that worked but simply drinking one of these pouches in the morning has really made the most impact ive seen since… ever. Kindergarten is as early as I can remember IBS symptoms affecting me and I was a colic-y baby as well so I suspect really I’ve had issues since birth. It’s crazy that I’m just now finding a solution at 33 but here we are. Maybe it’ll help someone else figure it out sooner.

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u/championofthesun93 — 4 months ago
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Burgers and Caesar salad

A very nice homemade dinner on vacation, not too fancy, not too shabby either. Very tasty. 😋

u/championofthesun93 — 4 months ago

My make up back in the day vs now

I think there’s been some improvement! Slide 1,2 are from about 6 yrs ago vs the rest being more recent

u/championofthesun93 — 4 months ago
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April/Butch lore?

I used to watch teen mom when I was in high school as it was unfolding (both TMOG and TM2) because I was the same age as most of those girls when the series started and parenting is fascinating to me in general even without constant train wreck decisions lol. But I don’t feel like I actually know everything bc there are things I am confused about that I guess I either missed completely or just wasn’t paying attention during the episode

So when it comes to April and Butch like… did Cate and Tyler meet in the first place because those two got together, or did cate and Tyler start dating first and then when their parents met the rest was history? Just genuinely curious as to how long butch had been in cate and April’s lives when the show started, basically. I guess it also could just have been a huge coincidence where cate and tyler met at school and then their parents happened to meet some other way organically (via drugs/booze I would assume) since it was all the same shitty little town? If anyone knows, fill a girl in haha

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u/championofthesun93 — 4 months ago

CBT recommendations?

I think I would really benefit from counseling that uses cognitive behavioral therapy, as I have failed every antidepressant I’ve been given so far since I was 17 and the last psychologist I had was throwing the words “treatment resistant depression” around. I also think going in person would be best for me, and I would prefer a woman provider. I live in the briargate area, but I would definitely not mind going a further distance for a good, solid recommendation. Anyone got any?

Edit: I was also looking into either out or inpatient treatment at Peak Recovery Centers, has anyone ever been there and had a positive or negative experience?

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u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

What do you guys think she was

I do know she was some kind of pit mix, I’m just curious what you guys think she was mixed with! I miss her so much. She was the best dog and she passed away suddenly before I could ever get her DNA tested. I just waited too long and i definitely regret that bc whatever combination of breeds she was, it was a good one. She had the best temperament ever. I miss her dearly.

Maybe beagle/pit? She was definitely very into hunting and chasing lol, so maybe some kind of smaller hunting dog or something as well? She was about 45 lbs, not super big and she was always lean. I never had to worry about her over eating.

Just an angel on this earth that was taken too soon. I would love to hear your thoughts ☺️

u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

Curious what you guys think

My whole life I’ve been told either J Law when I’m blonde or Kirsten Stewart when my hair is darker lol, I honestly don’t really agree tho?!

u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

Birthday breakfast

Technically it was brunch 🤪 bacon egg avocado goat cheeses and arugula on French bread with spicy shrimp soup and a mimosa flight duh!! Sugas in CO springs. Delicious.

u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

Reese’s inspired cheesecake

My partners favorite candy inspired his birthday cheesecake this year. It was very peanut butter forward though I tried to make it chocolate AND peanut butter. But if you love PB and you were also born in May, this one’s for you too lol

u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

UC health doctor recommendations

Hello, I live in the briargate area and my last GP left UC health so I need to find a new one. I didn’t love my last provider, she would medically gaslight me constantly so I basically stopped bringing up issues with her and just used her for medication refills.

Now I gotta find a new provider, but I’m honestly scared to bring up issues with anyone at this point. My OBGYN was also pretty dismissive of my issues. Does anyone have a local provider that works for UC Health that they would recommend that’s friendly, professional, and always willing to listen and actually HELP the patient instead of dismissing them?

I know it might be a long shot with UC, but they’re pretty much the only healthcare system that accepts my shitty insurance. And I have to have shitty insurance bc I work for myself and I think we’ve all seen the monthly costs of private insurance these days, even with Medicare.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit:: omg thank you guys so much for all these recs. I’m definitely gonna start calling around to these places you all have mentioned!

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u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

I have so many medical issues that keep piling up the older I get, and I’m not even that old. And since I’m not that old, I constantly get medically gaslit into thinking it’s all in my head or that I’m overreacting or that there’s no way this could be happening to me bc of my age. So I end up just not going to the doctor for anything until I’m like, basically bed ridden. I also used to be overweight but I’m not anymore so now that they don’t have that excuse as to what’s wrong, now it’s just “you have anxiety”.

I do have anxiety, that is true. I have depression pretty bad as well. But I have also had GI issues since I was a child. I remember dealing with it from maybe age 4/5 and I was a very colicky baby as well so it makes me think they’ve really been present since birth. I deal with them to this day but since I never have blood in my stool it’s just “IBS” and they say I don’t need a colonoscopy even though I have diarrhea/gas/ bloating almost every single day no matter what I eat. There’s no way constant inflammation like that is okay for my GI tract. Then there’s the fact that I once walked on a torn plantar fascia for months bc I didn’t think a dr would take it seriously. Ended up in a boot cast for 6 months after that. I got covid in 2021 and it gave me multiple blood clots in my chest along with pneumonia, yet when I told my dr two years ago that I was having weird chest sensations again, she told me it was in my head, so I did nothing. I have pelvic pain that I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of for the better of 3 years now, and all they can offer is expensive ass surgery to see if I have endometriosis, and they offered pelvic floor therapy, which I tried but it ended up making the pain worse so I had to stop. While I was doing PFT, the physical therapist told me I have all the symptoms of hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome, but my GP doctor said it was a tik tok disease and that she knew nothing about it. And lately, I’ve been having a very weird and scary pain in my back that feels like electrical shock or burning in ONE specific spot usually when I make certain movements, but sometimes it’ll happen when I’m just sitting or standing as well. I’m also prone to migraines, which started when I was around 13 and they do give me auras and occasionally make my arm go numb. One time about 2 years ago, I had an aura from a migraine that lasted THREE MONTHS. Since it went away eventually, I never went to a neurologist. But I assume this means I have a higher stroke risk as well.

I am going to be 33 next week. I’m pretty broke and even with decent insurance most of these issues need diagnostics that cost thousands of dollars where I live. And since no doctor I’ve been to really believes me anyway, it just doesn’t seem like there’s any point to try. I’m really sick of being like this though. I want to be a normal 33 year old like all my friends. One of them told me I take more medication and have more issues than anyone else she knows. Lovely. I am not a hypochondriac. I am not acting this way for sympathy or anything like it. I want to be healthy and I try to take care of myself the best I can these days to make it easier on my body that’s clearly so fucked up. There is no solution to this. I just needed to vent.

Homemade poptarts for dinner last night bc the real things have too many chemicals but it was the only thing that sounded decent to me at the time, which happens often when I am more depressed than usual.

Edit:: forgot to mention that I also have an autoimmune disorder that affects my skin, as well as dermatitis so really two chronic skin conditions that need constant treatment bc they will never go away, and I also have chronic TMJ that I’m about to start getting treated for bc I can feel my jaw bones scraping on each other every time I open and close my mouth. That treatment is expensive as hell and they don’t take insurance, but I can’t just… not be able to open and close my mouth comfortably. It never ends 🥴

u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago

This is my cousin who was like a sister to me. We were raised together until we were about 10 years old but even when she moved away, we stayed close. Over the years she developed an opioid addiction. However a when she passed away in 2023, she had been sober for so long that her death was a real shock to me.

Her mother tried to cover up the real cause of her death by telling the family she succumbed to an infection, but I obtained her autopsy report behind her mother’s back because I knew something was off and I’ve never trusted my aunt. Sure enough. She had deadly levels of fentanyl in her system.

I just would like to know if anyone can pick up anything from her. Did she mean to OD or was it an accident? I think she was just trying to have one last hurrah before she moved in with her older sister (she was texting me the week before her death saying this was her plan and she was very excited about it), and she bought heroin that was laced bc heroin was her true DOC, not fent. I do believe if that’s the case, then she was murdered by the dealer. With her mother trying to cover everything up, there was never any hope of getting her phone records and bringing that person to justice.

If anyone has anything at all, any insight, I would appreciate it so much. Thank you.

u/championofthesun93 — 5 months ago