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Does anyone have any workplace appropriate swimsuit/fast dry clothing recommendations that are comfortable enough to wear during all day fieldwork? And not too hot if they don't get wet? Also need to still be able to squat and pee without exposing myself like in a one piece lol.

I work in fisheries and am starting a new position with fieldwork that tends to get real toasty in the summertime. I do have some heat intolerance and would love to comfortably be able to get in the water on days we are in suitable locations. I usually just wear quick dry shorts and sun shirts over a normal bathing suit, but I'm curious about other options.

Also, I thought I remembered there being a sub for women in environmental science/fieldwork? Or women's work/outdoor clothing?

Hello,

I've been dealing with progressively worse SI pain for the past few years. I attributed it to endometriosis and sciatic nerve involvement, until my obgyn on examination said it seemed to be more joint related. The past few months I've been having a substantial increase in joint pain in my hands and feet, along with a bunch of other new symptoms, and have been referred to rheumatology. I feel like I've been tested for every auto antibody there is haha but everything is negative. Got an SI joint X-ray and provider said it showed nothing, HBAL27 negative, so they dismissed spondyloarthritis.

My obgyn ordered a pelvic MRI to look for endo, radiologist incidentally found and reported sclerosis on one of my SI joints and said it was consistent with chronic sacroilitis. Sent this to the rheum, they said I needed another MRI specifically on the SI joint to confirm. Got that MRI, was excited to have some hard evidence showing that it's not in my head. Received the radiology report for that MRI. Reported SI joint normal, no fractures or dislocations. Saw a company listed at the bottom of the report. Looked that up and it's an AI teleradiology company. I'm pretty sure they didn't even send it in with any context and they just signed off on it. I looked at the MRI and I'm not a radiologist or anything but best I can tell my SI joints are pretty wonky and my sacrum appears to be a different brightness than the rest of my spine, but what do I know. I'm now questioning any other imaging I've received through this network of providers. Like no shit my SI joint isn't fractured. The original findings by a human radiologist weren't even what they were looking for. That MRI actually has labelled on the imaging where the sclerosis is.

Thankfully, I am seeing a new PCP within a different practice group, and received a referral following the first MRI to a different rheumatology practice. Hoping that the providers there are able to look at the actual imaging and figure out what's going on. But man its frustrating feeling so gaslit all the time. First provider just asked me if I had psoriasis and I was like ??? Idk man this is the first time I've ever like had a doctor idk what psoriasis looks like. Now that I've read about spondyloarthritis, I can't believe that a provider dismissed it with all of my symptoms. Told him I have severe heel and foot pain, repeated tendonitis without injury, and this whole thing started because I had a couple red, swollen toes that doctors initially treated as cellulitis (and was unresponsive to antibiotics). Learned what nail psoriasis looks like and my nails have looked like that my whole life.