u/curiouscollecting

Not asking for a diagnosis or actual medical advice on here, just wondering what the best course of action is/how I should go about this.

I only just found out about MCAS. I saw someone post symptoms they had and I was like ‘omg same’ and then someone responded to that ‘for me this ended up being MCAS’. I’m currently looking into it. Timeline:

Age 5-7: realised I had allergies for fruits and some nuts. Got tested and a OAS diagnosis.

Age 11: Started feeling ‘faint’ when standing up sometimes.

Age 12: Started experiencing that type of ‘fainting’ more often, not just when standing up. Decided to go to a doctor and got tested. Everything seemed normal.

Age 13: Still experiencing that stuff a lot, it’s making it quite hard to just.. live life. People around me would get scared if they didn’t know I experienced this sometimes and I kept having to explain I’m fine, it just happens.

Age 14: still going strong, went back to the doctor and brought it up again. Got sent to a doctor in the hospital, still no answers. Also started having a hard time swallowing food sometimes, started off with meat, but also started happening to bread and other softer foods.

Age 15: The swallowing issue now happened to other kinds of food as well, would have to puke my food up in order to get rid of the pain and even experienced it drinking sometimes. Went to the doctor and got lots of appointments after that.

Age 16: Went back for the fainting stuff because that still didn’t go away. Kept getting answers like ‘you’re a young woman, you’ll grow out of it’ etc. Practically gave up on that. Went to the hospital for the swallowing issue and got diagnosed with EoE, a chronic infection due to milk allergy (not lactose intolerance!).

Age 17-19: I now don’t eat milk, fruit or nuts anymore, and the swallowing issue has (almost) passed. Im STILL struggling with that ‘fainting’ stuff (it’s not actual fainting), and have since gone back 1 time. Got another blood test and they tested me for POTS. I don’t lack iron, my blood pressure is normal (slightly on the low side, but normal for a ‘young woman’, I dont have pots.

Other things I experience and have mentioned to my doctor:

I cough/wheeze a lot, and have gotten medicine for that to temporarily use

I have acid reflux regularly and have medicine for that

Things I have sometimes but have never mentioned to my doctor because it never came up and didn’t seem relevant:

I sometimes lose control over my bladder out of nowhere, tho it’s only happened at home and it rarely happens.

I’ve gotten diarrhoea a couple times the past few months.

I get nauseous quite often, to the point where I’ve thought I could be pregnant a couple different times.

I get itchy rashes sometimes, they come and go

Altogether, reading about MCAS felt like reading a description of me, but it feels like I’m trying to diagnose myself now when my doctors seemingly can’t. Is it worth bringing up MCAS to my doctor and asking for their opinion on it?

Trigger for murder, abuse, assault etc.

First of all, yes a lot of men suffer as well. Yes a lot of men mean well. Yes a lot of men don’t kill, rape or abuse women. But why do so many men only ever bring this up when it’s about our struggles as women? Why do so many men only talk about that to undermine and invalidate our experiences? Why can’t we stand up against the violence together, why can’t the vast majority of men respond respectfully rather than dismissive? Almost every time I don’t laugh at a sexist joke, almost every time I talk back when someone says something inappropriate to me, almost every time I simply talk about assault, abuse or murder against women, I get dismissed or even shamed. ‘It’s just a joke’ ‘it’s just a compliment’ ‘don’t be a bore’ ‘it’s not that deep’ ‘what about us?’ ‘It’s really not that bad’.

YES IT IS THAT BAD. I’ve had to remove myself and others (strangers) out of situations because of a sexist and/or dangerous man. I’ve had to run because men followed me. I’ve covered myself fully, wide sweatpants, closed shoes, a hoodie with the hood ON and STILL got assaulted and/or harassed, I got touched as a child. I’ve had to take care of traumatised friends because literal family members RAPED THEM. In my country, a woman gets murdered every 8 days and over 60% is domestic homicide, whereas in men this is only 4%. YES men get murdered more but they generally do not get murdered by the people in their own home so STOP acting like it’s the same thing. Both are horrible, but these aren’t similar issues. In the UK a woman gets murdered by a partner or ex EVERY 4 DAYS. And this doesn’t take into account the suicides that resulted from domestic abuse.

Not to forget that lesbians get shamed because ‘lesbians are the most abusive’ when that wasn’t what the statistics said. The study was ‘have you ever been abused’ and this was found most often in lesbian couples, DUHUH lesbian couples have 2 women and women are most often the victims of abuse. That doesn’t make lesbians abusive. And once again I’m NOT saying that men don’t suffer abuse, I’m NOT saying men don’t have huge issues, I’m not even saying lesbians aren’t abusive but I AM saying that I’m tired of people drawing false conclusions just because they are sexist and homophobic.

And STOP blaming all of that on immigrants. Yes a lot of immigrants aren’t good to women, yes a lot of violence comes from asylum seekers but what makes so many people believe white men don’t do the same fucking bullshit? I truly think a lot of men just blame immigrants so they don’t have to do anything themselves. ‘It’s them, it’s them, it’s them!’ Yeah sure it’s a lot of ‘them’ but it’s also your 40 year old male coworker flirting with the 18 year old apprentice. It’s also your buddy making jokes about how many bitches he cracked or talking about how his ‘friend’ has a huge ass and how he’d love to slap it. It’s also your own 16 year old son that’s slutshaming his classmate because she kissed someone when she was drunk. Call them out. Speak up. Do something. And don’t FUCKING DISMISS US.

Hi! I have some specimens that have been injected and stored in ethanol, but I want them to be formalin fixed. I saw some people say that simply rinsing thoroughly and replacing the storing liquid with formalin should be enough to get the specimen fixed, but is that accurate?

Alle moeders met biologische kinderen.

Alle moeders die een kind een liefdevol thuis hebben gegeven.

Alle aanstaande moeders.

Alle alleenstaande moeders.

Alle moeders die wel een partner hebben, en er toch alleen voor staan.

Alle moeders die hun kind (tijdens of na de zwangerschap) verloren hebben.

Iedereen die wel moeder zou willen zijn, maar waarvoor dat (nog) geen mogelijkheid is.

Alle oma’s

Iedereen die hun eigen moeder verloren heeft.

Iedereen die nooit een moeder gehad heeft.

Iedereen die een slechte relatie met hun moeder heeft.

Voor sommige mensen is Moederdag een normale of leuke dag, voor anderen een moeilijke. Wat je situatie ook is, fijne Moederdag 🫶🏻

Maybe this is different on other phones but I can only make albums and that won’t remove them from my ‘normal’ gallery so it’s hard to actually sort them. I love how easy you can select and combine in Pinterest and just wish we had that in our normal gallery.

Hi! I have a hognose and a crested gecko and need some advice. I’m going on vacation for two weeks and my parents dont want a friend coming over while we’re gone. Some things I’ve thought about:

• I can get some cameras to keep an eye on them and contact someone that has a key in case of an emergency

• I can get an automatic mister for my crestie

• My hognose could go for two weeks without food, I’d adjust the schedule a little and feed her right before leaving and as soon as I get back

My main questions are

• Best ways to make sure my hognose doesn’t run out of fresh water/recommendations for any systems

• How do I make sure my crested gecko is fed?

I can’t bring the entire enclosures to a friend because they’re too heavy/big and full to move back and forth for such a short period. I’d be willing to set up a temporary enclosure, but is that necessary/better?

Still looking into this and some people told me that simply cleaning the hide thoroughly, salting it, and egg tanning is enough. Is that true or is pickling a necessary step?

Hi, I’m 19F. For years I’ve had trouble with this. Every day, multiple times a day when I stand up (most common, sometimes other physical activity as well) I get that feeling where your head feels a bit pressured, see gray and get dizzy. I went to the doctor when I was about 13 and got my blood and blood pressure tested. There were no deficiencies or abnormalities and it was blamed on hormones. After a while I decided to go back because it kept happening and they referred me to the hospital where the same tests were done with the same results.

Some more time later (15 I think) I went back again and I was referred to a physical therapist who did some lay down-sit up tests and I didn’t have the fainting sensation and so he said he couldn’t really help me. Quite some time after that I went back to the doctor again and she said I’ll just grow over it.

However I’m now 19 and it’s worse than ever. It’s affecting my life and making school and working a lot harder than it should be. My sleep schedule doesn’t seem to affect it and less or more stressful periods don’t seem to correlate either. Even cleaning my room becomes a huge task because I have to bend down and get back up a lot. Some people in my surrounding said maybe it’s POTS but my blood pressure seems to do fine in the tests and I’ve only fainted twice in my life (only one of them being random).

I don’t know what to do at this point. Do I go back again??