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It happened after my first, but I got pregnant again about 6 months after I weaned her so I didn’t have much time to dwell. However I weaned my 2nd child in early 2023. My boobs still randomly smell like milk. In the worst way. It’s especially bad when I’m sweating but not limited to sweating. I have randomly tried to self express just to see, and nothing comes out. I never notice any actual leaking. Is this something other moms experience? Google didn’t say much.

My daughter is even having a rough time telling me. She’s given me ideas but I’m still struggling.

Shes right at that age where she’s not really into toys anymore but isn’t into the teen stuff like cosmetics, clothing, shoes, etc.

She’s always been super into art so she’s got so much art supplies already. Paints, craft kits , clay, drawing supplies, drawing books, jewelry making stuff, crochet stuff & a lot more.

She’s really into pusheen/hello kitty/ kawaii vibes in general but even that is just mostly kiddy stuff (hello kitty) or just plushies. Open to all suggestions.

The things I’ve gotten her already is a Michael’s gift card, a slime kit & a small bundle of Pusheen items I found.

A symptom I’ve always had randomly but more frequently lately. I know it sounds disgusting but the best way I can describe it is a dusty creamy/sweet dairy-like taste in my mouth. Tastes like I’m sucking on a cheese cube. Usually worse right after eating but never after eating specific foods, it’s random. Dairy doesn’t trigger it. My gastro said it sounds like acid or like I’m regurgitating but I’ve had acid come up and it doesn’t taste anything like this. I’m also medicated for acid reflux & have done well in terms of acid reflux/heartburn for quite a while.

I’ll try to keep this as short as I can. I’ve had pretty chronic nausea since teen years (I’m 28 now). I have emetophobia (severe fear of vomiting) so in the end I’ve pretty much chalked it up to anxiety as I’m very hyper aware of my stomach at all times. So sometimes just hearing my stomach digest food makes me nauseous. However about 2 years ago it got significantly worse. Severe nausea almost 24/7. Upper abdominal pressure. Throat nausea if that makes sense. Sometimes my stomach will feel fine but my throat has a gaggy/lump feeling, globus sensation I believe it’s called. Those were my main symptoms. We did a bunch of tests. Blood work, ultrasounds, endoscopy, treated for SIBO (never tested because I couldn’t get off omeprozole for the test so we treated just in case), tested for celiac, gastric emptying study and probably a handful more that I’m forgetting. I pretty much spent my entire summer 2024 going back for more tests and such. My GES went well & I actually ended up being able to leave after 45 minutes because I had digested everything.

Here we are 2 years later and I was diagnosed with functional dyspepsia. Which is a frustrating diagnosis because it’s basically your gut to brain connection is messed up and we can’t tell you why. I take a low dose antidepressant that’s shown to help and it has made improvement. Not significantly but enough I guess.

My symptoms come in flares. Fine for a few months, sick for a few weeks. The “feeling good” times last longer than feeling sick but the sick weeks are miserable. Nausea being the main symptom. Usually manageable but sometimes it’s really really bad, having to cancel plans for days. The symptoms get worse around my period and I did have an exploratory lap surgery to check for endo and no endo was found. I’ve had my hormones checked & switched birth controls and no luck there either.

I’ve had a bad few weeks again and had a follow up with gastro. My newer symptom that I’ve had plenty of times before but now it’s been more frequent is a gross creamy dairy-like taste in my mouth alongside nausea. My gastro doc said it sounds like I’m regurgitating undigested food? I’m unsure of that. Nothing ever comes up, I never throw up or actually regurgitate. She asked if I feel full early during meals and I don’t. Sometimes I lose my appetite mid meal but never a full feeling earlier than I expect.

But now I can’t stop thinking about her saying the taste in my mouth sounds like I’m regurgitating undigested food. Throughout my many years of stomach problems I’ve had 4 or 5 endoscopies so I feel like during at least 1 of them they’d of seen signs of GP, no?

On top of anxiety, I struggle with fairly chronic constipation & insomnia. I average 2-4 hours of sleep a night and I know that impacts how I feel in general. Do you think it’s worth eating the nasty radioactive oatmeal again or should I continue just focusing on stress & sleep?