u/kornukopioides

He's almost 3yo. I feel like I never really liked him. I appreciate him for being very healthy, robust and intellectually developed, but he's just been a terrible baby and toddler.
He never slept through the night, screamed so much as a baby, as a toddler he whines nonstop, he's so rowdy. When he was a baby I wanted to give him away. Not because I don't want children but because I didn't want him. Even if he was a well behaved child Idk if I would like him. Is it wrong to not like your child?

I got emetophobia from eating raw oysters (norovirus) in 2025 March. My life and mental health went downhill from there. I became afraid to eat, drink water, constantly washing my hands, sanitizing everything, scared to go anywhere, always wondering if someone had a bug. I became a walking skeleton, lost all my weight. Constantly nauseous, panic attacks, IBS, constantly googling for validation.

Today I ate a cake that I got from food charity (expired discarded grocery store food). I noticed the cake was 5 days old. I was halfway through when I noticed the label said "use by" instead of "best before". But it tasted so good, I finished it. I'm gonna finish the rest later. Am I scared I'll get sick? Not really, because it doesn't taste off and that's good enough for me.

I get lots of free expired food from the charity and I always eat the fruit, cakes, dairy etc. I'm still iffy about eating the eggs and meat but that can also be common sense. I'm able to eat raw sushi again, raw dairy and cured meat products. I will not be eating raw oysters in a while though lol.

I'm not afraid of vomiting anymore and I rarely get nausea. I still don't want to get norovirus ever again, but it's not something I constantly think about anymore. Those who've had it know the relentless vomiting is not fun. I'm also 8 months pregnant, went through the pregnancy nausea and have previously vomited in labor, which was not a big deal at all.

I don't come to this sub anymore at all, I came back here today to give you guys hope that it's possible to recover. I did some therapy but I think in the end time and getting desensitized to risk foods and risk behaviours helped the most, aka exposure therapy. 2025 was horrible for me. I spent the whole year worrying I was going to throw up after the initial norovirus and I never did. At one point I asked myself, is all this suffering worth it, suffering every day for a year worrying about a potential suffering that won't even last a day? I decided to develop an attitude of "f* it" after that thought and started exposing myself.

I hope you are all having a peaceful day, most of the nausea and GI distress we feel is caused by our anxiety, I literally developed IBS from emetophobia which resolved as the emetophobia resolved. Take care<3

Just wanted to remind you that most people improve and recover. If you got cfs from a viral trigger it's especially likely that time alone can improve symptoms. Someone here a while ago said that they've scoured r/cfs and noticed that very many people do in fact improve, those who make posts of desperation end up going from severe to moderate and mild if you check their updates. I myself know multiple people who have improved a lot within months and most who recover don't even post on Reddit.

5 months in here, I recovered from neurological and cognitive symptoms for the most part, but I've had debilitating fatigue that won't budge. I haven't been able to stand up longer than 5min for 5 months, not to mention leaving my house during this time. I still can't really sit on a chair. I've tried LDN, LDA, antihistamines, supplements etc.

For those who have recovered or can atleast live a somewhat normal life, how did your fatigue progress?

I have no way of getting to a doctor right now, but I have been monitoring my urine with test strips and the glucose has sometimes been 4+, the max colour.

I ordered a blood sugar meter and have been trying to get an average of my blood sugar levels. I think these are normal, I'm wondering could this still mean I'm developing GD?

Overnight fasting: ~4.6mmol/l 83mg/dL
1hr after eating: ~7mmol/l 126mg/dL
2hrs after eating: ~6mmol/l 108mg/dL
3hrs after eating: ~3.7mmol/l 66mg/dL

This is after eating any meal, whether it's low GI or lots of carbs or even sweets. Any ideas? I'm 31 weeks.

Whenever I do hobbies like knitting, crocheting, painting, video games, etc, after a while my nervous system starts feeling really activated from the concentration. I start feeling emotions, I get hot in my head, it feels like there's a "wired" feeling in my body. Google says this is just from being too tense/competetive in a hobby but could this be some sort of emotional processing or nervous system release? The more I concentrate the more it seems to happen.

I'm 4 months into PVF recovery and thought I would evade this problem but I'm in 3rd trimester and pregnancy insomnia has hit me hard. I know it's gonna be really bad for months like last time...

Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with insomnia? I am still couchbound, full recovery seems far away, but many symptoms have improved. My worst symptoms are neurological and crushing fatigue. Has anyone still managed to recover despite getting very little, broken sleep each night? I've been doing all the sleep hygiene and supplement tricks for months and they stopped working, now not even sleeping medication seems to work.