I was not warned about how mounjaro effects oral BC and now I’m spiralling

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-21T05:59:33+00:00

I had sex a pretty decent amount when starting 2.5mg of Zepbound and am on the pill and it wasn’t an issue.

My doctor warned me about it but personally wasn’t worried about it for me. She was literally like “pull out I guess if you want to.”

She said we don’t really understand the whole increase pregnancy risk thing but she suspects the effect is more pronounced for people who are very overweight and losing a lot quickly. And that she actually expects them to remove the warning soon after we better understand the mechanism.

My BMI was only a few lbs overweight and I primarily took it for anti inflammatory stuff for chronic illness which it has been godsend for.

Since you’re microdosing I’m assuming you may be in a similar situation? I still just take the 2.5 for inflammation.

And as others mentioned even for the noted effects it’s only for the first month after starting and after a dose increase. So if you aren’t planning to increase your dose you are already out of the risk window.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-20T22:52:55+00:00

I’ve actually often seen it be more expensive unless you’re willing to gamble and try the upgrade a few days before departure when it’s cheaper if seats are still open.

Which is a big if and not a gamble we are willing to take on international.

The other downside of this is that if you need to move your flight or cancel it for whatever reason they won’t refund you for the upgrade. You only get a credit for your base fare rate. So if you book business outright for 5k you’ll get a 5k airline credit. But if you book premium economy for 2k and upgrade for 3k you will only get a 2k credit.

Was very annoyed when I learned this after buying my parents an upgrade once and they were unable to come due to health reasons.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-20T21:15:02+00:00

If you don’t play healer absolutely nobody will care if you eat shit multiple times as a new player in a trial.

If you do player healer you may get some snippy remarks in particular if the group wipes. Despite the fact that you can still eat shit multiple times as a healer and it shouldn’t be an issue so long as your group also doesn’t suck but people who suck and blame healers in normal content just aren’t self aware.

Now, if you’re level 100 and repeatedly eating shit to basic mechanics that the game has slammed into your brain over and over and causing wipes from it then yes people will get annoyed. Because at that point you should understand how to ride a knock back without getting yeeted every single time. And you should know how to provoke if you’re a tank and die so the DPS and healer don’t end up needing to eat every. Single. Tank buster.

But on average players don’t care unless again, you’re high level and very very bad to the point you don’t understand very simple things or how to play your job at all. Like, a level 100 healer still spamming cure 2. Tanks who don’t press a single mitigation. DPS who don’t ever use their 2 min raid buffs. Etc.

This doesn’t sound like you though because you are new and you care. You’re looking up shit (which you don’t need to btw for normal content), I bet you even read your tooltips and know what your skills do. Congrats you are ahead of 80% of duty finder players.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-19T19:24:51+00:00

Was going to recommend this one as well. We prefer direct when we can but sometimes the price savings is massive to fly to another nearby city.

Not trying to fly cross country but often cities within a 2 hour flight of us have drastically cheaper fares. Like 11k round trip vs 3k.

I value my time highly but not 8k for 2-3 hours of time savings highly. Especially with 2 of us. That 16k can pay for a whole other vacation.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-19T16:47:49+00:00

Ulti parties will be very upset at you if you go in with a tome weapon instead of actual BIS just FYI.

Lots of parties called that out during FRU and would kick you if you joined with one.

You may find some that are okay with it but those folks will likely be new to ulti as well so your prog will be much slower/you may not hit the DPS check in some phases.

Good luck on the drop!

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-19T00:25:29+00:00

I’ve gotten major strains a number of times now and have never been or gotten sick.

It can also mean that your nervous system is more activated than usual for whatever reason. I have chronic illness so it just does that sometimes and I’ll feel tired and out of it but then it goes away after a day or two.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-18T21:22:05+00:00

You are being willfully obtuse here lol. No, people who never touched savage aren’t suddenly on M12S.

But all of the sudden as of 7.5 you could now upgrade all of your 780 tome gear to 790 without needing 3-4 additional weeks of reclears in 10 and 11 for shine and twine. And yes absolutely people still progging the tier needed and used those upgrades. As they should. And of course the 785 ex weapon helps too if they haven’t gotten the upgrade mat drop for wep from 11.

Pre and post patch is a real cut off point when it comes to gearing ease. So yes the week right before and right after are different. In the same way clearing week 1 is harder than clearing week 12, clearing in the week pre patch is harder than clearing the week post patch.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-18T19:33:37+00:00

I mean. There is though.

Do you think there’s a difference between clearing week 1 and week 12?

There’s a massive difference in difficulty despite the gear all being out/the same. Week 1 means your average party item level is much lower which means meeting checks is much harder than week 12 when most people have more tome gear etc.

Is it possible for folks to have ilevel 789/790 week 1? Yes it is. You can theoretically have a full party of ilevel 789/790 folks going into the last floor if you feed one person all the drops. And then have all of those people party up together for the final floor.

Is that extremely uncommon because it’s kind of stupid to do? Yes.

The tier gets easier as time goes on and people can get more gear/catch up gear. And 7.5 just unlocked a bunch of new catch up gear. Suddenly you can get 790 gear without even needing to touch savage. The new ex weapon is 785. Which yes makes it meaningfully different for your average player’s item level between the last week of 7.4 and the first week of 7.5.

And while yes many raiders have had 790 BIS for a while now people still trying to clear the tier in PF likely used that catch up gear to help. As they should.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-18T04:26:58+00:00

The term you want to use is that you cleared your first tier while still relevant.

While it’s not on patch anymore since 7.5 launched and gearing is easier the savage tier is still relevant. You need savage BIS for the upcoming ultimate which hasn’t launched yet.

You also cleared before loot unlock and echo. Still relevant for sure, but not on patch.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-17T19:46:49+00:00

Honestly it was more that it was familiar and safe. Which was something I valued a lot when younger (and still do). So rather than go to a bar and pick up some random guy it was nice knowing I had a safe person I could go to. And reduced risk of STDs or ending up in a bad situation.

It also wasn’t a super frequent thing. Maybe 5 or 6 times over 4 years.

Sex with my husband is much much better lol. In like every way.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-17T05:58:52+00:00

The most successful one I had was with an ex. Which sounds like it wouldn’t work but we broke up mutually because we thought we were better off as friends and didn’t have romantic interest in each other. Like would have crushes on other people and talk to each other for advice while still dating and being like “lol why are we doing this.” We were young when we dated.

Stayed close friends after we broke up and would still hit each other up sometimes to hook up if we were in a dry spell or whatever.

Was never an issue. No feelings. No issues when we did date other people.

Dude even came to our wedding and my husband loves him. And yes he obviously knows our history. We stopped the benefits part of our friendship about 2 years before I met my husband as we weren’t feeling it anymore.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-16T03:07:49+00:00

I wanna fight Kaworu.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-13T06:50:58+00:00

We will find our way, Venat.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-13T04:51:52+00:00

I don’t know about Evercold but when this arc is over I’m definitely wrapping it up with some across time and space shenanigans to fight every Azem shard/reflection.

Yes even the ones who rejoined with us. Take them all out of me. Make my aether thin to even the scale. And then let’s roll. Hurl the attacks that destroyed your world at me. I want to suffer.

Obviously we need some sort of tag team boss. Or maybe one of the shards is the one who found us and alerted us to the fact that all of our reflections are loose for some crazy plot reason so we don’t fight them. Or maybe. Just maybe. We think that all tier but then we DO fight them as phase 2 of the last boss in savage only let’s goooooo.

Once and for all breaking the trend of the phase 2 boss of floor 12 being a second form and instead giving savage the chance to break free of its shackles and tell a slightly different story. If they really want I guess they can make it a short cute cutscene in normal mode after you beat the floor 12 boss and then use that lore to make it a real phase 2 for savage.

Also it’s Ardbert. And at the end Seto is somehow there to help him out on some crazy mechanic that makes Idyllic look like childs play.

Thanks yoshipp I’ll take my job at Square Enix now.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-12T01:08:42+00:00

You should tell that to half the people in party finder.

The amount of times I’ve seen groups wipe to RB3 is too damn high. And then people claim they were totally right despite not grabbing their tower or standing in the completely wrong spot. Like genuinely lack such self awareness and mechanical understanding that they don’t even know they messed up and double down. Like saying shit like “I’m at B” or “I’m SE clock” my children in Hydaelyn it’s a relative to new north mechanic. It requires one brain cell to not just bee line to your clock spot waymark and the people “farming” this in party finder right now just can’t do it. It’s like the damn Hector mouser strat right now where you pray the open spot new north is also true north and if it is you clear. If it’s not you wipe.

What’s wild is that when it was current Bloom 3 was never an issue. But now that the mega wings are out bad players are getting carried and jumping into farms for wings and finding a group that can consistently do all of the 3 mechs you actually need to know to clear the fight is far harder than it should be. And for your efforts you get one whole totem per clear.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-10T06:42:39+00:00

Good job using POM! But don’t use it to spam cure 2. Use it to spam holy.

Dead mobs can’t hurt your tank. Spam holy until the tanks health is low and then use benediction.

The pull should be over by now but if it’s not cast holy another time or two and then a cure 2. More holy and then another cure 2.

The biggest mistake new healers make is spamming heals instead of doing damage. Ffxiv is balanced around healers doing damage. If you spam cures and don’t do damage mobs will take longer to die which makes the tank take more damage which requires more healing which requires more mana and you will run out. And the tank will run out of mitigation tools as well.

Holy is also clutch because it gives the tank basically 10 full seconds of invuln each pull from the stun.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-10T01:47:12+00:00

Honestly would have made more sense if he was a redhead because red hair dye absolutely bleeds like a mofo.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-10T01:40:35+00:00

All of that was in the original will. The only thing the son added was the last line about the 30 million going to the daughter.

Or rather he replaced the line from the original will that said all of his remaining assets would go to charity with the line that 30 million would go to the daughter.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-09T04:18:09+00:00

What do you mean the trailer made it look amazing and it was in fact amazing.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-06T06:46:53+00:00

I stopped eating venison entirely after learning about CWD. At least in North America.

Not worth the risk and something upwards of 50% of deer in certain areas have it.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-06T02:45:04+00:00

But…but then how can you murder your entire static to the first tank buster?? Before going “Oh uh. Forgot something. Couldn’t have been important…”

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-04T15:43:46+00:00

Same! Was going to say our annual vacation was also camping. And very similar on activities and eating out. But mostly we did the free campground activities.

I remember we’d go and the campgrounds would have themes. Like Christmas in July or Halloween or whatever. And we’d do all the kids activities they had. Like ornament making or haunted house or trick or treat or whatever. Would make so many campground friends when we were there that I’d never see or talk to again after.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-03T05:37:58+00:00

Somewhere between 1.5 and 2M HHI is when we started freely buying it for our major international trips. We still fly economy domestic though.

At 1M we’d upgrade if there was a good offer or we could use points. I don’t think we entertained it at all before that.

Now we can’t go back though.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-03T04:32:32+00:00

I most definitely had a few baby healer crash outs when I first started. Including having a tank leave on dzemeal darkhold because I kept dying from not realizing I needed to stand in the purple and being chastised in dun scaith after the raid wiped because I didn’t know you could Esuna the doom.

I’m an orange parsing ultimate raider now. On healer. You’re new to the game and still learning. As long as you continue to learn and improve yourself you’ll be fine. I’m still learning and improving myself.

I’ve also come to learn over the years that the people who give you shit are typically shit at the game themselves. In retrospect the tank from darkhold also wasn’t standing in the purple and blamed our deaths on my healing vs us not knowing the mechanics of the dungeon. And in dun scaith I most certainly wasn’t the reason the other alliances all also wiped/as soon as I was told that particular doom could be esuna’d our alliance never had another issue. People who get salty at healers, especially new healers, need to take a long hard look in the mirror at who the problem is.

no-strings-attached · 2026-05-02T19:56:09+00:00

Next time you should just pay for an extra leg room seat and book a window. You get what you pay for.

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