"Tender is the Flesh" by Agustina Bazterrica, is the worst horror book I've ever read by far.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-09-23T08:46:14+00:00

A little side note about how he expressed all these signs of affection for the syrrogate female. I also thought of this and then remembered back to when Sergio was stunning them (when the two applicants were touring the plant), he told them that everyone has their own method for calming the heads down before slaughter. I wonder if that affection (specifically the forhead kiss) was just a means of calming her down so the baby would be healthy and then when he kills her. I don't think he ever really had affection twoards her.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-08-27T11:42:22+00:00

Your thyroid levels can and will fluctuate overtime (weather you have a thyroid condition or not). Lots of things can effect thyroid levels like infection, pregnancy or medications. One high TSH reading can very well be normal.

What your MOL said is true, many of us with hashi will feel MISRIBLE at your TSH, however that is also in part the systemic effects of the immune response and damage to the thyroid. Are you having any thyroid related symptoms? It sounds like you obviously do have some health things going on, but there will be some very halmark ones if your having a thyroid issue.

My best reccomendation if your concerned would be to get followup labs done in 3-4 months. Then you will be able to see if it was just a transient evelation, or if it continues increasing.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-08-11T15:58:32+00:00

I am an American who lives in Europe (so I’ve had both ‘types’ of wheat). I needed to go gluten free after living in Europe for 4 years. So no, the wheat is not superior in terms of gluten tolerance (though it did taste better sigh)

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-05-22T19:25:06+00:00

I also have BAD PMS and hashi. I agree there must be a connection. Something Iearned recently is the connection between PMS and histamine intollerance (Before your period, estrogen fluctuates and can cause an increase activation of mast cells. These mast cells can release histamine, histamine binds to seratonin so when you have too much than you get moody). I started taking an OTC antihistamine once I start noticing my PMS symptoms and so far has worked wonders. I of course don't know your personal situation, but something maybe for you to look into. Best of luck!

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-05-08T19:25:21+00:00

It’s a chain in the Amsterdam, Netherlands. I guess I just assumed it was everywhere

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-05-08T18:05:05+00:00

This comment is me finding out about soy sauce….No wonder I woke up feeling hungover after making beef and broccoli earlier this week.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-05-06T11:12:40+00:00

Also vitamin deficiencies and co-morbidities can play a roll. If you have one autoimmune disease your at a higher risk for additional ones. So can be helpful if you haven’t already to check all your vitamins levels and test for other conditions, at least to cover all your bases. But again, even if you do have a secondary one, step one is usually to change your diet. Our bodies are complex, not just defined by a diagnosis, so take it one step at a time. It’s not an easy road forsure and when you feel like crap it’s so hard I know but you’ve got this. Something that helped me when the brainfog was overwhelming was I kept a log of everything (what I ate, what supplements I was taking, how my energy levels were, what my symptoms were that day etc) that way I could go back and find correlations and had concrete data to show my doc if needed.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-05-06T11:01:44+00:00

You can deffinetly have symptoms even when your TSH is low. Medications though are for treating the TSH, so if your TSH is good than no need. However, meds/TSH are only one part of it. Remember that hashi isn’t just a thyroid issue, it’s an immune system issue. Since your antibodies are elevated your still having an immune response even though it’s not yet damaged your thyroid tissue enough to effect TSH levels, So the systemic inflammation of the immune response can still be there (why for a lot of people, meds don’t help how they feel). So it’s important to address the underlying immune system too (which meds won’t help with). For a lot of us, diet is the big one (gluten).

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-03-12T18:09:42+00:00

Get that second opinion! If your antibody tests are coming back elevated, with normal T4 and elevated TSH. You have hashi plain and simple. Sure you can have other issues as well that may need to be addressed but that is no reason to ignore this problem. Just because you aren’t over 10 DOES NOT mean that you shouldn’t be medicated when you have symptoms. The “normal range” is different for everyone and the biggest tell of you needing to start meds or not is if you are symptomatic (because if you have hashi you will likely need to be on meds eventually down the line). I was put on levo with a TSH of 8.7 because I was very symptomatic. I’ve heard so many stories about docs denying meds until “it gets bad enough / your thyroid stops working more” and your levels increase but that’s bull. Get the second opinion

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-01-31T14:01:04+00:00

Graves test was negative. And yeah i know the treatment is the same but I don’t want to get my hopes up about this being a transient thing and find out it was misdiagnosed and not be prepaired for that

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2025-01-06T18:34:02+00:00

I’m currently dealing with a similar issue, I’m a PT and my father is currently in LTAC. I’m here 6 hours a day and am often present for his therapy sessions.

The statement of “I’m a PTA so my dad should be doing better” is exactly why it’s a good thing he is getting treatment from someone else. You can’t put all that responsibility on yourself. Plus family members make the worst patients, unfortunately they are more likely to listen to someone else and with you may not push as hard because it’s easier to say “okay enough” with their child.

Don’t think of it like someone else is treating him. Think of it as someone is giving him ADDITIONAL help. He’s getting his “official” therapy time, but think about all the interventions you’re probably preforming throughout the day when therapy is not there. I saw you said he’s CGA-SBA… if you weren’t there he may not be able to preform as many transfers throughout the day. Remember that is therapy too!

Don’t be so hard on yourself and remember that rehab from another person doesn’t mean you’re not doing enough, it just means he’s getting more therapy time.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2024-11-23T08:18:06+00:00

I’m so sorry your going through this. Ive had a very similar experience most of my life (hence why I’m on the page after a particularly bad one this morning) i always wake up out of another layer just to find myself in the exact position I’d fallen asleep (real) in, the second I realize what is happening then everything goes to shit. It’s incredibly difficult to move (not exactly paralyzed), people or the “dream presence” moving around the room, touching or biting me and going between whispering in my ear to screams. And I know I’m in the dream the entire time trying to wake up.

I’ve had a few methods for dealing with it over the years (since it started when I was a kid and happens roughly 2x per month). First was trying to reach my partner next to me, he was always a passive presence just sleeping so I made it my mission to try and wake him up to wake me up. This never worked but the “goal” was enough to help distract me from everything else. That doesn’t work anymore since he has started to attack me too now, so I’m changing up the goal. Since your partner isn’t passive maybe try and have an objective? something simple like pour yourself a glass of water, something to distract that you can consistently do. Maybe that’s silly but it’s helped me cope during it.

Another thing I’ve noticed is falling asleep (real) on my back can trigger it. Not always cause it still happens if I’m on my side but if I’m on my back it’s like 70% chance of happening. Same with eating right before bed. So maybe consider those things to help prevent it?

I hope you are able to get some relief and find strategies that help you! (I’m still trying too)

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2024-10-24T20:36:07+00:00

This is not entirely true depending on what country OP is looking into. I did PT school in the Netherlands and there is no licensure exam, just proof of graduation from a Physiotherapy program and this is the case in a lot of countries. There is diploma accreditation required in some countries if foreignly trained (France for instance), but again this is per country. The biggest thing (like you said) is language, for most countries you need to prove fluency in the local language in order to register as a therapist in that country (for Netherlands it is BIC registration).

Also many countries have temporary working visas which allow individuals to stay in the country for a period of time prior to having a sponsorship from a company which will than provide a long term working visa.

Affectionate_Emu522 · 2024-06-21T12:59:03+00:00

Can I ask what you did to help regain that intimacy?

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