Thank you r/compost for helping me start my system! I'm amazed already at how much the volume reduces over time (got this bad boy end of june) and I'm very excited to eventually have something usable for my garden!
I got a tumbler compost for inexpensive on facebook marketplace (50 bucks and brand new this thing is like 600) and got started.
We have municipal composting and thats great but we recently moved and have a gorgeous yard and garden I want to make the most of, so system of a brown was born. My one bin is looking pretty good, getting fed food scraps, weeds, shredded paper, etc and I'm pretty impressed with how much it broke down so far! I'm in a colder climate so I was worried about the heat factor, but the bins get enough sun to warm them and I'm not turning them too often. Right now I just mixed it up by hand some more to get some of the wet and dry a bit more integrated. Also stabbed that onion a few times bc I should have cut it up for faster breakdown. No piss in this guy yet.
Anyway, longtime lurker first time poster, thanks for all the tips and tricks I feel like they really helped!!
So I was just recently told I have HSD and while I don't meet criteria for hEDS am quite close and likely will when the criteria change in December (obviously depending on what the criteria is)
My presentation is generally mild. I sprain my ankles regularly and occasionally have a hip like feel "out" and I'm guessing that's a subluxation. But I don't struggle with intense symptoms from POTS or MCAS though there's some clear dysautonomia.
My main complaint is that my knees are just wrecked. They've been steadily going downhill for the last three years, likely accelerated from joint laxity during pregnancy. I've got full depth fissures and high grade chondral loss in both knees, subchondral edema in one, and as a result am basically bone on bone and it seems to be continuously deteriorating or I've been in a very long flare. I'm limping and struggling to walk lots
Doing physio, done acupuncture, massage, physiatry spoke with ortho and said there is no clear surgical path forward. Rheum won't see me because of no rheumatological markers. Occupational therapy is giving me ideas for how to pace and work on sleep and fatigue to hopefully increase my overall wellbeing and activity level.
Thing is, I feel like an imposter. I feel like I'm being a baby with the pain because it's not severe but it is constant despite being on the highest dose of my pain medication and viscosupplementation injections. Rationally I know I'm probably not, but OT suggested a gait aid (a walker) for really bad days to use as needed and I feel like a phony, like I'm not unwell enough to need a walker, and like I feel rude to those who are worse off than I am who need gait aids. Which is weird because who's gatekeeping (gaitkeeping? Lol) mobility aids. It's weird because I have MRI proof showing there's structural issues in my knees.
I've been gaslit by doctors lots so why am I doing it to myself now?
Anyway UGH thank you