u/nall667

After having my baby a year ago, I got the oatmeal ick after 15 years straight of oatmeal for breakfast. I just needed something different. It was no longer keeping me full and the texture became a turn off.

Time to go back! I’m in my late thirties and 100% attribute oatmeal to my excellent cholesterol results year after year along with great digestion and a great physique. I was a gym rat before baby and oatmeal felt right every morning, even at night after a heavy workout.

1/2 cup of oats, microwaved for 90 seconds, 1 tbsp of ground flax, a splash of almond milk, and a scoop of vanilla whey protein. drizzle 1-2 tbsp of peanut butter on top. Literal perfection. I am incredibly full right now and felt compelled to publicly post my commitment to eating oats again lol

I’m 15 months postpartum and have gone from 189lb at birth back to 141lbs. I did not breastfeed and my boobs are bigger than before I was pregnant, but they are definitely hanging low. I have worn bralettes and light sports bras for the past almost 20 years because I have a smaller bust (but a wide back and chest) and underwires and traditional bras make me sweat and uncomfortable day to day.

I went to my gyno a few months ago because I was experiencing a lot of pain around my right breast. After the exam my gyno said I probably need to wear a more supportive bra. I ended up doing so, and some of the irritation went away.

I woke up the other day and it feels like I literally tore the muscle around my left breast. It stings terribly if I lift or rotate my left arm a certain way, and really feels like like I tore my pec a little. I have not been able to lift weights as much due to my schedule and have not strained my muscles recently aside from carrying my giant 25lb baby.

Has anyone here experienced this?? Am I doomed to wearing super structured supportive bras? I legitimately can not stand the way they feel. I do like having some compression but having a lightweight bra feels most comfortable. My boobs are just sad and droopy (still love em, thank you boobies) but I didn’t think they would be weighed down to the point that it’s tearing at the muscle lol

Im getting my ass in the gym as soon as I can and rehabbing and building muscle again, but in the meantime, does anyone have a favorite sports bra they could recommend that’s fairly minima but can squish the girls down?? my only requirement is no underwire.

Hi all - our baby is 15 months, healthy, and pretty big for her age. She is tall - 34.5 inches (2’10”), just about to walk, and can climb on and off our bed without assistance. If she wakes in the night she sleeps between us without issue. No covers on her, no pillow.

I’d like to put our mattress on the floor so we don’t have to transfer her to her crib that is next to the bed. My question is - what do you do about pillows and bedding when baby is asleep on bed? My husband and I are up for at least three hours after baby goes to sleep. Should we take the pillows off the bed? If you have a big baby - do you feel comfortable with baby around pillows to an extent?

I’d also like to note that our baby will do anything to get her head on my pillow when she wakes up here and there, but I always put her back on the mattress. When is it safe for baby to have her own little pillow?

Thank you for any advice, feedback, or insight! Baby has her own floor mattress in her room but we do not have a door for her room (we recently renovated.) We are waiting to get the door on, then we will be taking turns sleeping with her in her room as opposed to our bed.

Had my first baby 15 months ago - postpartum was a breeze (absolutely stunned by that), thyroid is in order, baby is a delight and sleeps through the night so getting ample sleep, I work full time from home with a cakewalk job? good support system, relatively healthy, did not breastfeed so not weaning, BUT

In the past two months I’ve become unusually irritable, task initiation is out the window (house is clean, food is cooked, husband shares the load mostly), my baby is the only thing that brings me joy, socialization is in the gutter, gym used to by my hobby before baby and now that I have time I’m struggling to go, HORRENDOUS anxiety, skin is struggling, suddenly zero libido, insane itching and sensitivity…

I requested an appointment with my gyno and endo. it never really occurred to me these could be overlapping symptoms with peri and I just…thought I wasn’t there, yet.

i requested a screening for postpartum anxiety and depression but I’ve really done fabulously postpartum despite a history of anxiety and depression. Best and most accomplished time of my life, really.

If you are an older first time mom, or can relate to this or have any words of wisdom, please let me know. I really suspect this is not postpartum related and wonder if it’s the onset of peri.

I am absolutely miserable with myself. I am seriously struggling to give a rats ass about my job that I do love because I can hardly think straight. My drive has been displaced by irritability, impatience, anxiety, and having zero thought as to what is next.

My physical symptoms…I’m just a blob. I’m itchy (I have chronic hives, but this is different.) Struggling to lose weight but gaining it astonishingly easy. Huge mental block to work out and I’m horribly exhausted by it now. My mother died 20 years ago so I can’t pick her brain on when peri set in for her, so I turn to you all!

…Felt compelled to put a gentle reminder out there that if you’re in North America, at least, the pollen is CRAZY right now. I couldn’t figure out why I’ve been extraordinarily exhausted, dehydrated, irritable, and foggier than usual.

The damn pollen is making everything 10x worse and I somehow forget about this every. damn. year.

So please remember that external factors might be compounding what is already very difficult for so many of us! I always freaking forget!!!

I’m ordering my second vial of compounded tirzepatide. After a virtual check in last month with one of my online providers GPs, we agreed I would try microdosing under 0.5mg as that starting dose was too much for me. I’m currently dosing 0.2mg - a really small amount that is just above the plunger. It’s what I’m comfortable with.

I had another virtual visit the other day before I could place another order (paid for upfront.) I have had no less than six different RN or customer service reps ask me to clarify how much I am dosing on the plunger. I have replied every time “less than half a unit”. They had put me in for semaglutide and I refused to confirm because I’m taking tirzepatide

They are again asking me to confirm my dose after correcting the order to tirzepatide. This time I answered 0.5mg. I don’t understand why - after I was told notes were left on my account - this minuscule dose is confusing the hell out of them. I appreciate how thorough they are being, though. Their system must be flagging the low dose as being another drug but it’s making me feel like I’ve done something wrong.

It’s ok to go low and slow!!

I’ve shared my experiences here and on the compounded tirzepatide sub about the extreme anxiety I experienced from dosing 0.5mg for my starting dose. My subsequent dose was 0.35 - effects were short lived still with some anxiety at night time. I went back to 0.5mg for my third dose 10 days after that. The extreme anxiety came back, mostly at night and peaked on the third day. It really felt like a visit to the hospital might be in order. I think there are a lot of reasons why this was happening, but it truly is from the medication.

Two weeks after that last, third dose, I’ve been waffling back and forth on what I could do. I obtained a rx for an SSRI. It’s been about five years since I had a true panic attack, and they are often related to hormone changes. Why not live life better through chemistry? Maybe it could ease my mind. It has certainly been working the past few days.

Today I managed to dose 0.2mg of tirz and took the shot. The reduction in inflammation, the focus I get at work, the erasure of joint pain (I’m 14 months PP in my late 30s, iykyk!), the freedom from food noise, the reduction in my chronic urticaria flares (they are daily and the tirz has helped calm them significantly)…I truly want that to continue.

I’m hoping this very low dose runs in the background while I continue to live my life. I am extraordinarily sensitive to medication and felt really disappointed that my experience has been difficult. I have a glucose monitor, I am endlessly hydrated, I am well versed in nutrition and prioritizing protein, and I just got a cheap blood pressure cuff. I refuse to let anxiety rule my life and an opportunity for this medication to work.

I love reading posts about users taking very minuscule microdoses. Please share your experience if you’d like!

After 20 years, I can work my way through the emotional rollercoaster, I can coach myself through the catastrophic thinking and anxiety, I can hold back from venting and oversharing, I can accept the binge eating and move on, deal with the exhaustion, self loathing, body dysmorphia, compulsions, I can manage all of it. some months are definitely harder than others.

But the heart palpitations…maaan. They are NO JOKE. without fail every month I get to that point in the evening where I can rest and my heart is fluttering and the anxiety soars. I am so, so fucking sick and tired of this side effect. I have been told by countless health care professionals that this is just an uncomfortable yet benign recurring issue that I have to deal with.

not looking forward to laying in bed tonight and gasping for air (not sleep apnea) as I fall asleep because an irregular heartbeat jolts me right back to full consciousness and fear.

I’m turning 37 this month and since becoming pregnant in July 2024, giving birth in March 2025, and up through today, I’ve been in the gym or worked out a handful of times. I was in the best shape of my life when I got pregnant. I had been a gym goer for 16 years at that point and of course, my schedule was…different.

My routine at 14 months PP is: wake up around 5AM-5:30AM with baby. Take care of her until husband heads to work at 6:30AM and her drop off with my MIL at 7:15, start working from home at 7:30AM. I get two 15 min breaks split up during the day so I can finish work at 3PM.

MIL lives downstairs so I get baby directly after work at 3:05PM and we party hardy/go for a walk/play until my husband gets home at 4PM. Then it’s play and dinner prep, meal at 5PM, then bath time, then bedtime. Baby is usually down at 7PM.

Husband and I will then pick up the house, shower, and chill until we pass out between 9PM-10PM.

It’s like once baby is down for the night I’m locked into the couch and on my phone. My husband and I are a team and work beautifully together for baby and the household. He is 100% on board with me getting out of the house and getting to the gym.

My gym is ONE MINUTE up the road - I just switched to a chain from a local gym that was horribly unkempt, dirty, and unmotivating.

I’m also fighting the mental battle of knowing it will take some time to get back in shape. My current physique depresses me. I hate to even say that because I’m proud of this body! Working out is my passion, my hobby, a huge sense of accomplishment, and a huge source of anxiety management.

I’m anxious about leaving baby. I’m anxious about being around people. I’m anxious about starting over. I was incapacitated while pregnant and it was a very sobering experience to be so unable to enjoy movement.

I guess I’m looking for encouragement, words of wisdom, a reality check, relatability? I used to be the person in the gym that people came up to for tips, cues, advice, camaraderie, encouragement. I really need that person now.