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Anyone else experience extreme fatigue and headaches from brimonidine tartrate? I’m blocking off my ducts when I use it but maybe my technique isn’t good enough because it’s making my nasal passage dilate so much that my nose feels blocked and I’m also extremely fatigued. It also triggers a severe migraine for me (I have chronic migraine so I’m extra sensitive to vasodilation).

Just seems so weird to have such an extreme reaction to an eye drop

I just need to rant for a moment because what the in the fresh hell is going on today!!

I’ve been suuuper sick for a long time and finally agreed to discuss TPN or PEG feeding with my GI this weekend. I was very resistant to this but have tried so hard for so long to get things under control and I’m just getting worse and worse. I’m in pretty horrendous shape and my doctor said he’d call me this weekend to come up with a plan, which is very kind of him.

Well anyway, I go to call my ophthalmologist today and get a weird message that my call is unable to be completed and to dial 611. Rut roh… a fluke? So I call my pharmacy because I also need a refill on my ketotifen… unable to be completed… oh dear. So I go to submit a ticket with my carrier BOOM mobile and I cannot log in— password/username incorrect. Okay no it’s not, have I been hacked? How do I reset this bitch? Lions and bears oh LAWD there’s no option on the website to recover password or username. I go to the app… literally app not working at all. I go downstairs and use the apartment landline to call BOOM mobile… on hold for 25 min… automated message “we’ve filed for bankruptcy please make arrangements to port service.” No warning whatsoever, just all customers instantly cut off their service. FAH!

I then spent the next SIX HOURS trying to port my shit on AT&T, experiencing numerous issues with payment and checkout not working. A family member tried it tonight, still not working.

Okay gr8 let me send a message to my doc because he’s obviously not going to be able to reach me tomorrow… good gracious ignatius, 2 factor authentication with my CELL NUMBER for portal log in AND reset. No break for me today, apparently. Sheeesh

I have been dealing with excessive mucus and salvia production nearly every day for 10 months now. The mucus sticks in the back of my throat and makes me gag. If I try to swallow any of it I get water brash and start regurgitating everything, so I have to constantly spit it out. Eating and drinking anything makes it so much worse, but I wake up first thing in the morning with these symptoms and they just persist throughout the day every day, getting worsen for 5-6 hours after eating or drinking anything. I literally have to spit every 5 to 10 seconds from the moment I wake up in the morning until I go to sleep, whenever I’m able to sleep because the constant spitting keeps me up at night.

Because of this, I am chronically dehydrated, malnourished, dropping weight, and unable to get anything done throughout the day. Imagine having to spit literally every 5-10 seconds all day every day. My jaw and facial muscles are killing me.

ON TOP of this, I also have nausea and global inappetence. Even on the rare day where my symptoms are better, the thought of eating food disgusts me and sometimes even makes me gag.

My GI doctor thinks it’s MCAS but so far none of the meds I’ve tried are working. Tons of H1 blockers, H2, ketotifen, cromolym, tirzepatide, lorazepam, hydroxyzine, and more I’m probably forgetting at the moment.

Is anyone’s else dealing with something like this? I’m at my wits end I truly don’t know how much more of this my body can take.

Hi everyone.

I went through a major betrayal trauma with an LCSW about 3 years ago and I am really struggling to move forward from it. I can’t go into any details because it’s too triggering for me, but there was significant financial fallout from what happened and I am currently still stuck in a financially abusive situation with a third party as a result of the therapist’s actions. It’s extremely complicated. I’ve suffered immense psychological and physical harm because as a result of the trauma my health issues that were well managed before have spiraled out of control, I’m unable to work at all because of them and every day is physically a nightmare for me.

I tried to return to therapy to deal with some of this but it was so triggering for me that a week before the initial appointment I stopped eating and drinking, and ended up in the ER for exhaustion, dehydration, and severe impaction. I did follow through with that appointment thinking I just need to push through this and it was a somatic practitioner which seems like it would be a good modality for my situation. She was very kind and understanding but she said something that triggered me even though it really was benign. I told her in the appointment that and told her about having to go to the ER and how terrified I felt talking to her and we agreed I was not ready to return to therapy yet.

I gathered a ton of information and documentation with the intention of speaking with an attorney and filing a complaint with the board because this therapist is going to seriously hurt more people, but over time I got sicker and sicker and couldn’t bring myself to move forward with any of it. I tried to get my records released from the therapist but she wouldn’t release them. She lied to me and my psychiatrist at the time saying she sent them but she didn’t. She even one time went as far to send a records release form from my psychiatrist back to them RTS, even though it was sent to her office address. My psychiatrist and I were baffled. I got in touch with OCR and filed multiple complaints for HIPAA violations and for refusing to release my records. It took about 9 months but in the end the therapist told OCR she did release them, I told OCR well I haven’t received them, they came back to me saying she will re-send but needs to know where to send them, I replied with where to send them and then never heard from anyone ever again. OCR stopped replying to my emails and returning my calls, closed the HIPAA cases without any correspondence about it, and I never received my records.

Why?? Well I think it’s because she claimed I signed an informed consent for her to have an appointment with MY ABUSER (????!) but I obviously never did and she met with him and corresponded with him without my informed consent. So when I fired her I asked for my records “including all forms signed and consent forms signed” and she realized I never signed a single thing (she also met with two other people in my life at her request one being my doctor and the other being my mother). So I think she didn’t send records because she was worried I’d sue or she’d get in trouble or something.

Anyway, I’m rambling because this stresses me out so bad and there’s so much to the story it actually blows my mind that this all has happened to me I truly can’t comprehend it. She needs to be reported to the board but I can’t do it on my own. I need like someone to help me do it. And financially I’m totally screwed because of my health issues and that my finances are controlled by MY ABUSER because MY THERAPIST *emboldened him to do so*!!! Which makes me want to talk to an attorney but I don’t know where to start or how to find one since it’s kind of a niche and weird part of I guess personal injury law? I’m in NC.

Maybe someday I can go back to therapy. I’m stuck in a place where I desperately want to heal and want the help of a good, safe therapist but at the same time a part of me would sooner die than ever put my trust in a therapist again. I don’t know if I could physically even do it, it’s so triggering.

Has anyone go through a legal avenue in this kind of situation? Could you just tell me what your experience was, not looking for specific advice or anything it just would be helpful to hear what other people have done in situations like this.

Any recommendations on how to go back to therapy and how to do a complaint with the board? I don’t ever want anyone else to be harmed by her like this, I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

Hi lovelies. Who else has suffered from chronic daily intractable migraine for most of their life? I’m trying to figure out if there are other people out there like me.

My earliest childhood memories are of migraines. I started getting them as early as 6 years old. By high school I was having them 5 days a week, sometimes I’d have episodes of status migrainosus that would last weeks. Since 2013 I’ve had daily intractable migraine.

I’ve seen 3 headache specialists over the last 20 years and tried so many treatments… every single triptan, gabapentin, Lamictal, depakote, propranolol, hydroxyzine, qulipta, ubrelvy, Botox, Anjovy, amovig, Emgality, sprix, muscle relaxers, trigger point injections, amytriptaline, and certainly others I’m forgetting. All either didn’t work, gave me intolerable side effects AND didn’t work, or worsened my migraines.

Thankfully rizatriptan works temporarily for me and gives me a few pain free hours during the day.

Certainly I can’t be alone? Anyone else dealing with the same issue?

Hey everyone. Can you share what symptoms testosterone helped for you and just about your experience with it? Did it make anything worse like acne or anything? How quickly did you see improvement?

I’m not able to take estrogen and haven’t had the best luck so far with progesterone, but my testosterone is also very low so I’m considering just trying that but given how I haven’t been able to tolerate estrogen or progesterone so far (due to my complex health situation) I’m nervous.

Hey guys! I’m working on the Sonja Sweater by petite knit and have decided I want to knit the body flat instead of joining at the under arms to knit in the round because I’m using a self striping yarn.

I’ve gotten to the place where knit across the front panel, cast on 2 stitches under arms using backward loop, knit across the back panel, cast on 2 under arm stitches with backwards loop, then join in the round… and realized I don’t know what to do haha.

I’ve never knit a seamed sweater before. I’m trying to google how to do this but not coming up with any great instructions. I know I need to account for having a selvedge edge. Can anyone help or point me to some resources? Ty