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Just to get it out of the way I’m calling the vet tomorrow anyway I just worry so I’m also posting lol. My 2 year old indoor cat has never had any problems using the litter box before today, this morning he was acting totally normal until he just randomly peed on a towel that was hanging on the drying wrack. I was already planning on taking him to the vet just to be sure from that along but we also just got a new dog so I thought maybe he was just mad. Just now though he came into the living room and made the motion like he was going to pee on the couch, tail up and like shaking like cats do, but he didn’t actually pee which is making me think UTI. My mom changes the water for the cats and also told me they haven’t been drinking basically any since we got the dog (so I guess if anyone has any advice about that that’d also be appreciated, I try and turn sinks on for him when he goes over to them but schools starting up and no one will be home most of the day). If it’s at all relevant to this he’s also been having problems with repeatedly getting worms that I’m hoping to squash with fully replacing our litter boxes during the next treatment.

Hello! Recently I was talking to my doctor about neck pain while sitting up and how it gets in the way of being able to relax at night and she recommended a travel style neck pillow or a soft neck brace. She said both would be fine and it was just down to preference but I don’t have any idea which would be better. They’re both pretty cheap so honestly I’ll probably end up buying and trying both but I was wondering if other people had any advice on brands or styles and things like that. Thanks!

Hello 👋 I’m 19, I’ve been wearing glasses since I was about 10 and I’ve always had problems with reading due to slight double vision/shadowing. I didn’t realize that wasn’t just how people see until I was about 15 and since then I’ve had 4 pairs of glasses that haven’t fixed the problem at all and it’s only getting worse. My last appointment I specifically brought this up and even asked about prism lenses potentially being something that could help but they completely dismissed it and said my eyes aren’t misaligned “enough” to worry and told me to look up a type of lenses myself (it was like neuro prisms or something? either way not something I could get for myself). Has anyone else experienced this? I’m going back to my eye doctor because the semesters starting and I can only read large paragraphs for about 10 minutes at a time without needed to stop because the double vision makes me nauseous and gives me horrible headaches and figured I’d post here incase anyone had any advice for getting them to take the problem seriously.

I’m posting this to vent but also if anyone has any advice I’m very open to it I have horrible medical anxiety so I’m never really sure in these situations if I’m just being overly anxious or if it’s a real concern. Basically I’m 19 in NY and after 3 years I was finally diagnosed with HEDS and referred to a local pain clinic for medical marijuana. I had my first appointment last monday and while it was technically successful and I ended up getting the medical marijuana certificate the actual appointment was very uncomfortable.

I’m a trans man and the doctor made 2 separate weird comments that I just can’t believe she would make towards a cis man. As soon as she walked in and looked at my chart she made this big dramatic sign and started talking about how easy it was for her that my pronouns were in my chart and started telling me how she has 3 patients who don’t use pronouns and how clunky it is and it’s such a hassle for her. I didn’t like how cool she was talking about other patients like that and from general life experience these weird conversations about pronouns get targeted at me way more than my cis friends both at doctors and just like in life. Then later in the appointment she had me pull my pants legs over my knees to see how hyper mobile they are she said word for word “omg your legs are really hairy” and laughed, I’m 4 years on testosterone and have an incredibly standard amount of leg hair for a man.

Actually discussing the medical marijuana was an absolute nightmare, we actually didn’t talk about how medical marijuana works at all. She spent about 30 minutes of the appointment telling me to just go to a normal dispensary and buy stuff (which I only realized after the appointment the way she was describing it I thought there was another type of certification she could give me) until I asked how that worked with me being 19 and she said “oh… nevermind”. She then gave me some bullshit about how “pain matures you” and I’d have to keep buying it illegally from my friends. Now we are in NY and one google search will tell you that you CAN in fact get a medical marijuana card under 21 and this was also what I was told by the specialist who diagnosed me. I told her that and she messaged a colleague to ask who said yes you can.

I really don’t mind a doctor not being totally up to date on how things like this operate it was just the way she went about it and the fact that she forgot how old I was in literally 5 minutes since I explained that I was buying it from friends because I am underage that’s not super inspiring for future care.

The thing that really got me was how she went about prescribing me 2 migraine medications (I think the idea is they’re both for migraines). Immediately after talking about how I have had a migraine everyday for the past 3 years she starts talking about like 10 different possible migraine meds, and is telling me none of the side effects. I told her specifically that I was not interested in any med that has weight gain as a side effect (due to other health stuff). By the end of the appointment I literally wasn’t sure what meds she was prescribing me and told my mom a different med she had talked about was coming for her to pick up until we saw the pick up thing on the app.

One of the meds she prescribed was the med that got us talking about not prescribing anything with weight gain as a side effect, so very much has it. It’s been a week and I haven’t taken it yet cause I don’t feel comfortable but I got brave and tried the other one last night and woke up today feeling god awful. I was so dizzy I didn’t feel like a person and my hands and feet were almost tingling. I looked it up and these are extremely normal side effects of the medication along with depression and brain fog both things I’m already prone too and would have told her I was uncomfortable taking the med if I had known. I also found that the dosage on the bottle and the visit notes don’t match so I have literally no idea how much she’s intending for me to take.

She ended the appointment after the other doctor messaged her back that she could prescribe me the medical marijuana by getting up motioning me to walk out and just handing me off to the nurse and leaving. I had no idea the appointment was ending and she said literally nothing as she was leaving so I just went and scheduled the other appointments she told me too earlier.

The whole thing felt super unprofessional and I felt like I was being subtly insulted the entire time on top of the literal safety concerns I have with not being told medication side effects and dosage instructions not being properly communicated. My mom’s a nurse and told me I should call the office sometime this week and request to be transferred as a patient to the other doctor that was written on the referral to the clinic (Rheumatologist referred me to either of the doctors who can prescribe medical marijuana). She said it’s something her patients do all the time for much less from doctors but I’m really worried I’ll get dismissed from the clinic or get drug seeker put on my chart. I’m scared to use the medical marijuana certificate too cause it’s signed by this doctor and I have no idea if that’s something they’ll be mad about? Like that I’m using a certificate from a doctor I’m trying to stop seeing.

I really don’t feel comfortable seeing this doctor again but the clinic made me sign a contract with all these different reasons you can be dismissed from the clinic and I’m worried about pissing them off.

I’m posting this to vent but also if anyone has any advice I’m very open to it I have horrible medical anxiety so I’m never really sure in these situations if I’m just being overly anxious or if it’s a real concern. Basically I’m 19 in NY and after 3 years I was finally diagnosed with HEDS and referred to a local pain clinic for medical marijuana. I had my first appointment last monday and while it was technically successful and I ended up getting the medical marijuana certificate the actual appointment was very uncomfortable.

I’m a trans man and the doctor made 2 separate weird comments that I just can’t believe she would make towards a cis man. As soon as she walked in and looked at my chart she made this big dramatic sign and started talking about how easy it was for her that my pronouns were in my chart and started telling me how she has 3 patients who don’t use pronouns and how clunky it is and it’s such a hassle for her. I didn’t like how cool she was talking about other patients like that and from general life experience these weird conversations about pronouns get targeted at me way more than my cis friends both at doctors and just like in life. Then later in the appointment she had me pull my pants legs over my knees to see how hyper mobile they are she said word for word “omg your legs are really hairy” and laughed, I’m 4 years on testosterone and have an incredibly standard amount of leg hair for a man.

Actually discussing the medical marijuana was an absolute nightmare, we actually didn’t talk about how medical marijuana works at all. She spent about 30 minutes of the appointment telling me to just go to a normal dispensary and buy stuff (which I only realized after the appointment the way she was describing it I thought there was another type of certification she could give me) until I asked how that worked with me being 19 and she said “oh… nevermind”. She then gave me some bullshit about how “pain matures you” and I’d have to keep buying it illegally from my friends. Now we are in NY and one google search will tell you that you CAN in fact get a medical marijuana card under 21 and this was also what I was told by the specialist who diagnosed me. I told her that and she messaged a colleague to ask who said yes you can.

I really don’t mind a doctor not being totally up to date on how things like this operate it was just the way she went about it and the fact that she forgot how old I was in literally 5 minutes since I explained that I was buying it from friends because I am underage that’s not super inspiring for future care.

The thing that really got me was how she went about prescribing me 2 migraine medications (I think the idea is they’re both for migraines). Immediately after talking about how I have had a migraine everyday for the past 3 years she starts talking about like 10 different possible migraine meds, and is telling me none of the side effects. I told her specifically that I was not interested in any med that has weight gain as a side effect (due to other health stuff). By the end of the appointment I literally wasn’t sure what meds she was prescribing me and told my mom a different med she had talked about was coming for her to pick up until we saw the pick up thing on the app.

One of the meds she prescribed was the med that got us talking about not prescribing anything with weight gain as a side effect, so very much has it. It’s been a week and I haven’t taken it yet cause I don’t feel comfortable but I got brave and tried the other one last night and woke up today feeling god awful. I was so dizzy I didn’t feel like a person and my hands and feet were almost tingling. I looked it up and these are extremely normal side effects of the medication along with depression and brain fog both things I’m already prone too and would have told her I was uncomfortable taking the med if I had known. I also found that the dosage on the bottle and the visit notes don’t match so I have literally no idea how much she’s intending for me to take.

She ended the appointment after the other doctor messaged her back that she could prescribe me the medical marijuana by getting up motioning me to walk out and just handing me off to the nurse and leaving. I had no idea the appointment was ending and she said literally nothing as she was leaving so I just went and scheduled the other appointments she told me too earlier.

The whole thing felt super unprofessional and I felt like I was being subtly insulted the entire time on top of the literal safety concerns I have with not being told medication side effects and dosage instructions not being properly communicated. My mom’s a nurse and told me I should call the office sometime this week and request to be transferred as a patient to the other doctor that was written on the referral to the clinic (Rheumatologist referred me to either of the doctors who can prescribe medical marijuana). She said it’s something her patients do all the time for much less from doctors but I’m really worried I’ll get dismissed from the clinic or get drug seeker put on my chart. I’m scared to use the medical marijuana certificate too cause it’s signed by this doctor and I have no idea if that’s something they’ll be mad about? Like that I’m using a certificate from a doctor I’m trying to stop seeing.

I really don’t feel comfortable seeing this doctor again but the clinic made me sign a contract with all these different reasons you can be dismissed from the clinic and I’m worried about pissing them off.

Asking out of curiosity because I see a posts every so often about electrolytes giving people diarrhea but I’ve had the kind of opposite experience. I do have some kind of other digestive issues (nothing like in specific I just have a really sensitive stomach) but I’ve been able to eat more both actual foods and quantities of food without problems drinking electrolytes every morning. Was wondering if that was the case for anyone else!!

I kinda have no idea how the dosing works for testosterone, I thought I was on a medium-ish dose but I’m starting to think it’s actually just low. I started at 16 (I’m 19 now) and intentionally started on a really low dose at the time and have been increasing since then I just don’t think I increased as much as I thought. My prescription says 200mg/mL inject .25mL weekly, if there’s something I’m missing in that please lmk and I’ll find it.

I’m really frustrated about this right now so I apologize if anything doesn’t make sense or sounds unnecessarily self deprecating or something. I’m 19 going into my junior year of college next semester and I haven’t worked a job since I was about 16 and worked at a summer camp. I get child support every month of about 450 and I’ll get that until I’m 21 (thank you parents divorcing) so it’s not really that I need to work to get money cause that covers dorm groceries and things like that but that’s about all it covers. My long distance boyfriend’s car recently broke down which sparked a lot of conversation from his dad and coworkers about how I’m a free loader and a bum. I’m mainly getting a job for that, I know my bf doesn’t think about me like that but I don’t think I can handle people saying stuff like that about me anymore. I have to get into a masters program so I have to try and keep the 3.85 gpa I have now and the whole thing just seems impossible. I already can’t do any clubs on campus and I don’t have any friends there cause class and walking around campus takes all my energy, like to the point watching tv makes me nauseous so I usually just go look at a wall in my dorm for a while. Idk I guess I’m asking if anyone has any advice on how to make this at all bearable? My bf is not expecting me to get a job and keeps telling me it’ll be hard at first but then I’ll get used to it and it’ll be nothing but he’s able bodied and doesn’t really understand that my body wont just get used to it. I don’t really know what to do literally anything would be helpful I just feel very alone and misunderstood about all this.

Hello! I think this is probably an icloud problem and not a problem with the mirroring application but I still don’t really know how to fix it and nothing on google has been helpful. As far as I’m aware everything else has been syncing between my macbook and my phone, my photos work, notes app, messages etc. The full pop up says “iCloud Isn’t Syncing. Some iCloud data isn’t syncing. Follow the instructions in System Settings on this Mac to connect.” I don’t know where in system settings it’s referring too cause there wasn’t anything popping up as wrong in iCloud settings. If anyone knows how to fix this that’d be great!

Hello! I’m hoping to get a second opinion because the appointment I had today was telehealth (not my choice) and no real doctor was able to look at my eyes in person but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this? So I have gone through the mayo clinic list of symptoms for BVD and I check off almost every single one, I get eye strain daily, pain when moving my eyes during the straining, I have an extremely hard time reading cause the words blur and jump and blend together, it’s often extremely disorienting for me to walk around large crowds or grocery stores with lots of products around, I’ve always walked to the side, I find myself tilting my head everyday etc. I brought these things up to my eye doctor and asked to be referred somewhere to look into it further and he told me that my imagining looked fine and didn’t show that much misalignment so he wouldn’t refer me to anyone else. Has this happened to anyone else who ended up being diagnosed with BVD? And or did prism lenses help your symptoms?

Early may of this year I got diagnosed with hypermobile eds by a genetics specialist who works with a lot of eds patients. She told me to talk to my doctor about medical marijuana because it’s what worked the most for most patients and I’ve already tried several other pain meds. I’m 19 and live in NY where you absolutely can get it under 21 so that parts not a problem but my mom is so extremely against the idea. When I told her she didn’t even want to hear it out she immediately just started ranting about “why would a doctor ever recommend that” and “you will not smoke in my house”. Obviously I have no intention of smoking flower in the house because of the smell I wouldn’t ask her to smell that all the time and I wouldn’t want to either. But she won’t even consider the idea or learn more about what it means (currently she thinks it means I would be fried out of my mind from sunrise to sunset even though I explained that the specialist recommended doing it at night after school). I have an appointment with a new rheumatologist and I’m going to ask about it but I know it’s literally pointless. It’s just killing me that she’s so willing to leave me with 0 pain management because of her ideas of weed when a LITERAL SPECIALIST is suggesting it. What kills me even more is that SHE IS A NURSE and her clinic PRESCRIBES MEDICAL MARIJUANA it’s not like she’s unaware of how it can be medically used. The difference is her clinic does treat the kind of conditions where people might use it from the moment they wake up (and most of her patients are retired so it doesn’t really matter as much for them) and she doesn’t think I’m “disabled” enough to deserve less conventional pain management. It’s kind of funny anyway cause I already do smoke, I started smoking weed regularly for pain about 2-3 years ago and I already smoke carts in the house that she has never smelled or found. But because I’m not 21 most of the stuff I can get is pretty sketchy and I’d love to be able to get stuff that I can know for certain is safe which I could do with a medical card. I’m still in college and have no means of moving out at the moment so now I’m just stuck knowing I could be getting proper pain management if she would listen to my doctors :/

Early may of this year I got diagnosed with hypermobile eds by a genetics specialist who works with a lot of eds patients. She told me to talk to my doctor about medical marijuana because it’s what worked the most for most patients and I’ve already tried several other pain meds. I’m 19 and live in NY where you absolutely can get it under 21 so that parts not a problem but my mom is so extremely against the idea. When I told her she didn’t even want to hear it out she immediately just started ranting about “why would a doctor ever recommend that” and “you will not smoke in my house”. Obviously I have no intention of smoking flower in the house because of the smell I wouldn’t ask her to smell that all the time and I wouldn’t want to either. But she won’t even consider the idea or learn more about what it means (currently she thinks it means I would be fried out of my mind from sunrise to sunset even though I explained that the specialist recommended doing it at night after school). I have an appointment with a new rheumatologist and I’m going to ask about it but I know it’s literally pointless. It’s just killing me that she’s so willing to leave me with 0 pain management because of her ideas of weed when a LITERAL SPECIALIST is suggesting it. What kills me even more is that SHE IS A NURSE and her clinic PRESCRIBES MEDICAL MARIJUANA it’s not like she’s unaware of how it can be medically used. The difference is her clinic does treat the kind of conditions where people might use it from the moment they wake up (and most of her patients are retired so it doesn’t really matter as much for them) and she doesn’t think I’m “disabled” enough to deserve less conventional pain management. It’s kind of funny anyway cause I already do smoke, I started smoking weed regularly for pain about 2-3 years ago and I already smoke carts in the house that she has never smelled or found. But because I’m not 21 most of the stuff I can get is pretty sketchy and I’d love to be able to get stuff that I can know for certain is safe which I could do with a medical card. I’m still in college and have no means of moving out at the moment so now I’m just stuck knowing I could be getting proper pain management if she would listen to my doctors :/

I’m a trans man about 4 years on testosterone myself and I keep seeing people talk about how testosterone cures a lot of eds symptoms for people. And also I usually see testosterone as the explanation for why there aren’t more cis men talking about experiencing severe symptoms. But when I go online and in eds spaces I see wayyy more trans men (who are on T) expressing severe symptoms than I do cis men. I’m like 65% sure it’s just a mix of my algorithm and/or cis men not posting in these spaces as much but I was curious if this was a real thing or if there’s some type of medical reason.

I’ve been trying to find a better guitar midi to little success was wondering if anyone on here had suggestions!