u/hummus4u

Hey y'all,

I know this is a bit random but I have been searching for any images or screen grabs of the old YouTube banner for simplynailogical. The one with graphs and equations. I know she talks about it in some older videos and shows the banner, but I haven't been able to find those videos, I've looked!

If anyone has a screenshot of the old YouTube banner plz comment it!

Hi all, I’m the dependent (dad is retired Navy) and I’m very confused about TriCare coverage. I’m listed as a dependent under my dad’s TriCare plan.

I’m 21 but I just graduated college on 08 May 2026. I was under the assumption that I still had 180 days from the day of graduation to apply TriCare benefits. I was hospitalized with a freak diagnosis on 25 June 2026 and have been in and out of physician visits since (all off-base). I have dual health insurance coverage (Blue Cross Blue Shield through my mom and TriCare through my dad). In all of my statements, TriCare is not covering anything. I am within network for TriCare coverage, so I’m not sure why they aren’t covering anything.

I can only assume it’s because I have graduated. Am I still in the DEERS system during the 180 day period post graduation? Is there a reason why TriCare is not covering anything? Just feeling very lost right now and my dad has no clue what’s going on, so I have to do all the research and work for it. Let me know what steps need to be done or additional information I need to provide. Thanks all.

Some quick context: On June 24th, I went to my PCP because I had been experiencing a lot of symptoms that, upon a quick Google search, were pretty textbook symptoms for hyperthyroidism. I had nosebleeds, super sensitive skin (itchy or just irritated all the time), heat exhaustion, palpatations (resting HR in the 130s and 140s), shortness of breath, and a very large goiter. Like I said, textbook symptoms for hyperthyroidism. At the office, I did 2 ekgs, she felt my goiter, asked some questions. She said I should go to the ER because she was worried I was experiencing thyroid storm. So I did.

At the ER, it was confirmed I was in thyroid storm. My TSH levels were basicaly nonexistent, my TSI levels through the roof, my T3 and T4 levels showed I was in thyroid storm. They put me on a beta blocker (propranolol) and started me on PTU. They did a CT scan, did bloodwork, did an ultrasound on my thyroid, the whole shebang. I wasn't responding well to PTU, so they switched me to methimazole. I was in the hospital for 3 days, and they discharged me after getting my resting heart rate down from 147 to low 90s. My meds were 60mg propranolol TID, and methimazole 10mg TID. After about 2 weeks on these meds, my resting heartrate went down to the 50s, so I stopped taking the propranolol entirely. I felt great off the meds. I also saw my goiter shrink drastically. So, instead of taking the methimazole TID, I started doing BID instead. (I told my endocrinologist all of this btw, he was good with it). I started feeling even better. I was able to work out regularly, I saw my strength bounce back. I go rock climbing and can consistently get V4s (for those of you who rock climb, iykyk). I'm eating healthy. Lots of fruit, veggies, and protein. 3 days ago, I did bloodwork that my endocrinologist requested. I got a call from him yesterday saying to ​reduce my methimazole dose even further, take the 10mg tablet once a day, keep staying off propranolol. All of my labs are back to normal. Everything is normal. And I feel great!

So this has got me thinking. Is it normal to bounce back this quickly? Especially after a thyroid storm? From what I can see on this sub, this kind of recovery is completely abnormal. Less than a month to recover from something this serious, from a thyroid storm? Graves is autoimmune, and the thyroid acting out is basically just a bad symptom of an autoimmune disorder. I'm 21F, so there's no reason for me to have gone into thyroid storm to begin with unless I have an autoimmune disorder, right? I just feel like my recovery is too quick for it to align with Graves? Am I just a special Graves patient with insane luck? Or did I randomly get the short end of the stick with thyroiditis?

I'm not asking any of yall to diagnose me, I'm just curious on your thoughts and opinions on my super weird case.

I'm not talking MD/PhD programs, I'm talking you do a PhD, graduate, then decide to pursue medical school.

I've been doing some reflecting, and I enjoy research. I really do. I haven't completed my PhD yet, but I'm in a wonderful Translational research PhD program with extremely strong ties to the university's hospital and medical center. We are an R1 university. I want to stay in medical research, but I'm not sure if this can be achieved simply with a PhD, or if an MD would help in the long run. I want to do clinical research. Study design, being on a review board, talking about research with other physicians, bioinformaticians, etc. I have a good medical background to begin with (mom is in pharmaceutical sales, I worked as a CRA for a bit, I have a molecular biology undergrad degree), so I think I could get into medical schools, I just don't know if it would be worth the time and money. It's why I pursued a PhD instead of medical school to begin with – I like the research side of medicine.

Any advice appreciated! If you know someone who did this, why did they choose it and do they think it was worth it?

I think my all time favourite Hazelwood books will be those in her STEMinism series. BUT! I wanted to hear from everyone here who may have experienced a Hazelwood novel IRL. Give me the goss! Give me the cuteness! Make my heart flutter and feet kick!

I'll go first! I met my now husband in university. She lived in the same dorm building, on the same floor, exactly 4 doors down from each other. I was a freshmen, worried about meeting new people. Our Residential Assistant had messaged the floor group chat to make sure everyone knew there was a mandatory meeting. He messaged back "sorry, can't make it 😘" to everyone. My first impression of him was over text, i thought he was a girl lmao (his name is 1 letter off from a common female name, qnd I had misread his name). The meeting starts, the RA is talking logistics and rules, 10 minutes in to the meeting, he walks around the corner holding a laundry basket, says "what's up, divas!" Everyone knows him. He has on some casual jeans, a button down, pretty brown cowboy boots (we do not live where cowboy boots are standard footwear lmao), and some teeny chunky silver hoop earrings. His black hair is phenomenal, thick and wavy, growing just past his ears. I'm thinking to myself, this mf has got to be gay. No straight man has this much presence. I want to be friends with him. He's 1 year ahead of me, so we're already close in age and pribably have similar interests. So, I hang out in the dorm common area more. I try to socialize with people (and inevitably make acquaintances, not friends, but the friendliness). I moved in August 18th-ish. On September 9th, a bunch of people try to get everyone together for a Brooklyn 99 watch party (get it? Sep 9 = 99?) Anyway, I say in the group chat to "make sure you bring your blankets for maximal comfort and cuddles!" A few people in the group were dating from the semester prior. A lot of people were already really good friends and such. The watch party starts, we're all in our pjs, we have snacks, its a blast. Slowly people start leaving, trickling off to bed. It's me, another guy who was super nice and I had casually hung out with in the common area before, and Mr. Diva himself. All of us are on the tiny couch meant for 2 people. I start dozing off, so does he. He wraps his arms around me and it wakes me up because (????!!!!!!) He's gay, right? Yeah I never confirmed that, my gaydar was superrr wrong. Anyway, we start cuddling more until the other guy also calls it a night. We're left alone. We start talking more, about the show and other things. We start play fighting, talking about classes, all of it. Next thing I know, it's 2a.m. and we both ave classes that start at 9a.m. I say we should both go to bed because it's already super late. He agrees, and we go our separate ways. I get a message on Instagram from him, "my roommate isn't here, if you want to keep cuddling." My heart is pounding because he just invited me to his room for cuddles? No way, he wants more than that, right? Especially since he's definitely not gay because wtf was that on the couch. I work up the courage to walk over. I knock and it takes him a second to answer. We cuddle on his bed and... that's it. He didn't try to make a move. He confessed he was super nervous to ask me over to his room, in fear that it would make it seem like he wanted sex. We talked more about philosophy, our families, want we want in life, play fought some more, tried our best to get any sleep (I got none). Then, when the morning alarm went off, we decided to go down to the dining hall together and grab breakfast. I could hardly eat anything, I felt nauseous because of my lack of sleep. I ended up eating a yogurt, and he had some pancakes with banana. It all felt natural. We started hanging out more in between and after classes (of which, we shared none because we had entirely different majors). It got to a point where people on our floor would tell me if they were looking for him, they could usually find me first and he would be there too. A few weeks later, someone asked if we were dating. We stared at each other because... yeah I guess we were dating. We hadn't kissed, or dont anything more than cuddles, but yeah we had officially been labeled as dating one another. It wasn't something we really discussed because it felt so natural. "Will you be my boyfriend" just didn't fit how I felt about him. I guess we were really good friends first (with cuddle benefits) and then dating second. It still feels that way tbh. He's my best friend first and husband second. We got married a couple of months ago (4 years together wooooo!) and he's a fancy engineer doing whatever it is engineers do. I'm a PhD student working with ALS/MND research. Everything feels like a fairy tale.

So yeah, that's my story. I'd love to hear everyone else's! It doesnt have to be long like mine, just something cute ☺️

Context: since November of last year I have been suffering from being so itchy, I could barely stand the feel of clothes. I would sleep naked (maybe TMI, but I need y'all to know how serious this was). It was most prominent on my back, but it really felt like my whole body was on fire. No amount of scratching or topical ointments were helping. There was no rash, I was simply itchy. This had never happened to me before in my life

I hadn't switched detergents. I was still using the same bottle of tide i got several months prior. But I decided to get the sensitive skin Tide bottle anyway. It helped a lot, but I was still itchy.

Flash forward to 2 weeks ago. I was diagnosed with Graves disease (an autoimmune disorder, I had an overactive thyroid. I was hospitalized, it's a long story). I started my meds and then all of a sudden, my itchiness went away. In just 2 weeks, my itchiness stopped – something my doctors and dermatologist had been unable to figure out for months. It's crazy to me the impacts that seemingly unrelated organs can do to your body.

Long story short, if you are experiencing abnormal skin issues (especially itchiness) maybe it's not a skin condition or a detergent issue. Maybe it's your body's way of saying "hey, something is wrong!" I appreciate this sub so much because they genuinely tried their hardest to help me last time I posted here.

Any chance someone is selling the og black vinyl cover of punk tactics? Not really a huge fan of the new one :/

I have wanted to work in conservation for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the United States (I know, bleh) and my family wouldn't allow me to get an ecology degree, they wanted me to have something more secure. Now, I have a degree in Microbiology and a degree in Statistics, and at last, financially independent. My background offers a super unique skillset, but it's definitely not related to kiwi conservation.

So, how do I get into this field with no prior background? I could always do work involving statistical mapping of kiwi populations, but again my experience in statistics isn't environmental, and this seems like it would fall under government work (which I cannot do without being a citizen.) Who do I get in contact with? Is it even possible for me to obtain this job if I'm not a citizen?

I've tried doing some research on it, but I haven't come up with anything definitive. Let me know and thanks all!

There is no family history or personal history of anything thyroid related. My symptoms came all at once over the course of a month. Tremors, overheating, congestion, heat palpitations, my period stopping entirely.

I went to my pcp today because I knew something was wrong and was rushed to the ER.

The doctors have tried 3 different beta blockers, the 3rd one finally worked and I haven't even gotten meds for my thyroid yet.

This fucking sucks and I cant help but look up what treatment may look like after I'm eventually discharged. It's a lifetime of medicine.

I've always been so so healthy. I worked out regularly, ate healthy, played so many different sports growing up. I've never had anything wrong with me.

And then this hits me like a storm. I'm so nervous, I'm anxious, I'm in pain. I've never felt like this before.

And I'm only 21 years old. I'm supposed to start my PhD in 2 months. I'm supposed to be having fun this summer. Instead I'm stuck in the hospital with doctors, wondering why treatments aren't working.

Context: I'm traveling to Greece on June 3rd. I'm predicted to start my period on the 2nd.

I just finished my period yesterday, so would taking plan B in about a week prevent me from getting my period right before the trip? It works by delaying ovulation, so taking it at this time should theoretically work, right?

I know this is highly not recommended, but I'm desperate. I've taken it once before with no side effects. My period came 2 days early after that, but nothing else out of the ordinary. I haven't ever been to Europe and I have extremely intense cramping and pain the first 3 days of my period. I really don't want my first trip to Europe (only only trip outside of the States for the foreseeable next 6 years) to be ruined in it's entirety from my fucking period.