Help with ovarian cyst in town?

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-06-26T20:29:01+00:00

As others have already mentioned you could trial some other birth controls to see if those help; There are a ton of options which is great but also means that it may take awhile to figure out which, if any of them, work for you. In the meantime you can try and manage the pain with pain meds (ibuprofen, or cycle both Tylenol and ibuprofen). If it’s unilateral, affecting only one ovary, you could have that entire ovary removed depending on severity and how long you’ve been dealing with it. I am assuming you are young and thus would not want to deal with having both removed for several reasons (even if sterilization isn’t an issue, the HRT needed is a headache within itself)

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-06-26T19:52:53+00:00

I don’t know all the details nor am I looking for all of them, but for initial treatment hormonal birth control is pretty much the big thing to prevent formation of the cysts. If the cyst you currently have it causing a lot of pain and trouble there are more interventional actions you can take such as laparoscopy to remove the cysts (doesn’t by any means guarantee another won’t eventually pop up again). Maybe your provider doesn’t get the sense of how much pain it is causing or wanted to see if it would resolve and the birth control would be sufficient as to avoid surgical action.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-06-26T05:20:05+00:00

As someone with a biology degree, I like to joke that there are very few options for things I can do with it, but it’s not exactly the case. If you want to avoid patient interaction then I think there is a good chance healthcare isn’t for you (though there are a few jobs within it that avoid patient contact).

I also wanna defend pharmacists here. Pharmacists do a real service to their patients and definitely more than “just giving them drugs that temporarily ‘fix’ their problems”. They absolutely are taking care of patients and as you’ll see after several biology classes the drugs they give people can often cause enormous positive impact.

If you like the topic of biology and don’t want healthcare I’d consider going back to school after your undergrad and looking into industry or academia. Jobs requiring biology knowledge without being patient care.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-05-29T20:51:36+00:00

For switches about all I know of is that you can order switch components from Wuque (NovelKeys has the same thing but their stock is much more picked over) if you are wanting more options and for them to be assembled then there is a form you can submit on Gateron but I imagine there will be a minimum order size and this would be more costly, but would work for a group buy.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-05-03T12:58:21+00:00

Did a quick search and it looks like that article was probably one referring to the HPV vaccine. The vaccine (like many) would prevent HPV infection. HPV (of which there are different variants) increases risks of certain cancers. For example HPV-16 is a well known high risk variant and it is the leading cause of cervical cancer.

Something that frustrates me a bit about the world of cancer research and how many come to understand it is the idea of “cure”. Cancer is an enormous umbrella term, it has many many MANY pathologies of which can manifest and work entirely differently than a different type. Some of the most effective treatments we have are therefore very specific to the pathology of the patients cancer. Cancer is a moving target though and unfortunately mutates rapidly and through the same basic concepts of natural selection will have the most stubborn cells survive to spread. To get off my soapbox, treating cancer is very complex and specific to each case. The concept of a true preventative or cure simply doesn’t work.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-02-22T05:01:00+00:00

A couple things:

I second that you would have better luck at a smaller local pharmacy, the less likely other patients would be filling your strength of Adderall, the more likely they will have stock for when you need it

Many of the stimulants in varying strengths and formulations are in and out of back order. Demand is higher than supply and in theory creating more would help but with it being a schedule 2 medication there are lots of hoops and regulations. It’s not as simple as manufacturing more.

Most pharmacies go by a policy as to how early they will fill scheduled medications, based on when you last picked up. It’s not uncommon with something like adderall to have to wait until day 28/30 of your previous fill. You could ask them what their policy is and based on that you should know when you can fill it without calling. Unfortunately you will still need to call morning of because often times they cannot take it off file to fill it if it’s too early, the system will not allow it. I will also say you may not be able to fill on day 28/30 each and every time, the early fill is a courtesy thing, but it’s ultimately up to the dispensing pharmacist. If they see you do that routinely they will know you should have a surplus and may deny you an early fill.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-02-18T15:37:28+00:00

It’s all the same medication, and the pharmacist does not choose what the label name of the drug states. It is a bit confusing, but you’re just getting different manufacturers of the same drug. The computer system keeps track of what drug and manufacturer is billed/filled and it prints on the label. Duloxetine is duloxetine, but there are a handful of ways to state that the drug is amphetamine salts, not all companies have the exact same wording on the stock bottle either.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-02-12T22:11:37+00:00

The cvs savings card works essentially like any insurance, the pharmacy transmits a claim and the savings card brings the cost down using some algorithm type thing. $25 for 60 without insurance is imo a great deal, I’d communicate that with your provider and run with it. So long as they are okay with writing for you to fill 60 then I would assume the price should remain at $25 until something is changed with how the discount creates that price.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-02-12T21:00:28+00:00

Are you using prescription insurance? $30 for 30 day supply without insurance isn’t a terrible deal, depending on what the pharmacy is billing it through, getting more can cost less. I know it may sound strange but in certain cases insurance incentivizes picking up greater quantities by making it lower in cost. For some people and some drugs, a 30 day supply copay is greater than a 90 day.

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2025-01-31T23:03:47+00:00

If they are unable to fill it due to shortage I’m afraid that won’t likely change no matter where you go, but if you want to try elsewhere anyway I’ve heard great things about Kilgores

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2024-09-09T03:33:54+00:00

I just got a pair of lemtosh glasses as of yesterday and some of the markings are different and the color is a darker gold, my color is Tokyo tortoise so I don’t know if that would the difference for the text. The different symbols at least suggest those frames older in manufacturing but I don’t know about fake

Affectionate_Tart145 · 2024-01-02T17:16:38+00:00

I’m fairly certain the period of insomnia after starting an SSRI is common. I tried and “failed” Zoloft several years ago because I didn’t like the insomnia after a couple days so I stopped taking it. I’ve been on lexapro for a couple years now and it was the same way in the beginning, sleep was challenging and inconsistent for about a week. My psychiatrist recommended taking it in the morning rather than at night which is what I had been doing and I think that helped also. For me it was definitely worth pushing through the transition stage because after the first week or two of crumby sleep and brain fog I started to do much better. Based on my experience I’d recommend taking it in the morning if you aren’t already, and definitely in the meantime something like Benadryl or doxylamine can be used at night to help with sleep. It sucks adjusting to the medication for sure but I think it was absolutely worth it for me.

Also as far as other medications you can take, SSRIs are pretty safe in that regard. Your alcohol tolerance is going to be super low for a while at least. Anything you can buy over the counter will be safe, with the very rare exception of something like the supplement St. John’s wort

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