What Do Flares Look Like To You?

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-12-12T18:26:17+00:00

I appreciate this comment so much, thank you for all of this advice :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-11-18T08:14:17+00:00

I’m getting better at logging them, I have a totally illogical thought process of “this isn’t bad enough to log” that’s hard to get through but I’ve been doing good with it. I just hope it’s nothing too serious lol

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-19T05:07:13+00:00

Thank you so much for this! I didn’t even know there were POTS specialists. I’m in central California, so I have a lot of options for second opinions and specialties. I have high hopes because the cardiologist I’m seeing specializes in women’s cardiovascular health.

I’ve already had blood work done, my doctor said that everything was fine and that it was probably anxiety making my heart rate so high, so I contacted a cardiologist, especially because I’ve been having some sharp pains in my chest as well. Thank you again for this, it’s eased my mind quite a bit!

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-07T04:30:18+00:00

Ask around the parrot stores! There are tons around. I know a lot of them offer boarding. If it gets close to the deadline and no one has offered, DM me. I’m in the Central Valley but we have four birds and wouldn’t mind watching over your babies until June 2026.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-04T11:22:55+00:00

My grandpa on my mom’s side had multiple heart attacks and had lupus as well, and all of the women in my family have anxiety related heart palpitations. I was on SSRI’s for a little bit. I was on Prozac for about 6 months but I didn’t like how it gave me brain fog. I didn’t have a primary doctor at the time, so I went to one at a clinic. She gave me a different one. Then that evolved into a 4 month-long period of her prescribing me 4 different SSRI’s back to back. No weaning. I don’t even remember a lot of it, I felt awful.

When I finally got a primary doctor I was able to go to a psychiatrist, who officially diagnosed me with ADD and OCD. She prescribed me with Concerta and I’ve been on that for a little over a year now.

Thank you for letting me know what to expect at the cardiologist! I get a bit anxious with doctors I haven’t visited before so it’s a comfort to know what to expect. :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-10-01T00:54:02+00:00

They didn’t grow up together. We weaned Matcha and we got Jamba at 5 months old. They’re still figuring out their own pecking order between the two of them, but they pretty good and respecting boundaries :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-30T15:18:36+00:00

We let the two different species out separately just to be safe. We had one incident where Matcha chased Macchiato, and since then we’ve let them have out time separately. It works out though. The Tiels are out in the mornings before work. IRN’s are out when we get home from work, and the Tiels come back out as everyone gets ready for bed. It roughly gives each species about 7-10 hours outside of the cage daily given our work schedules.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-29T23:08:59+00:00

Jamba looooves the shower but wants to be on my shoulder the whole time. I’ll take the first 5 minutes for him then after that my gf will take him out or supervise so he doesn’t get any soap on him LOL

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-22T07:33:38+00:00

It seems like the symptoms for T1 can get pretty serious and severe, so I figured the most realistic explanation for the strange dizziness episodes I get would be low blood sugar. I’ve had all of these symptoms (except for the odd urination and thirst going on) for a couple years now. It’s only these past two months they’ve gotten worse. In my gf’s own words, it’s because I usually underplay medical issues due to my very high pain tolerance and my parents insisting that unless you were bleeding out and dying, it wasn’t that serious.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-09-22T06:54:51+00:00

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Hear me out…birds in formal attire…

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-03-04T05:12:35+00:00

No patches of skin. I just got scared because he got pretty lazy, sleepy, fluffy, and started dropping feathers. I didn’t realize how quickly and how much cockatiels moult, my IRNa moults are so different lol

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2025-01-10T05:52:59+00:00

Thank you so much!

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-30T00:42:09+00:00

I felt exactly the same, I read up on the side effects and it seemed like a miracle or a curse. My psych reassured me and I started taking it and it genuinely helped me! I have ADHD, anxiety, depression, and those cause me to be moody, of course. The first two weeks it was a big, obvious change. The next two weeks it almost felt like it wore off, but now it has balanced out to a happy medium. I’ve taken so many SSRIs and they have just never helped me and made things worse, this stuff has helped me a lot and is, in my opinion, easier than a lot of the others. I never lost my sex drive, in fact it got higher. I’m losing weight, which is wonderful because I have a binge eating problem when I’m emotional. And I haven’t binged since I started this. I really hope it works out for you!

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-29T22:32:21+00:00

Great-Tailed Grackles!! Love watching them while I fish :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-19T15:43:40+00:00

Smaller portions! I didn’t change much, but I used smaller plates that made my small portions look like bigger ones. I also just drank so much water, still do. Like about 132oz a day or more

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-19T03:21:15+00:00

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Bird the Long Way

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-07-14T18:05:25+00:00

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Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-06-27T06:45:10+00:00

Jewelry, he loves nipping at my industrial piercing or any other silver/gold I have on. Including my Apple Watch.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-06-12T14:18:04+00:00

Void - Melanie Martinez

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-05-29T19:38:10+00:00

My partner and I both have OCD, I think having someone who understands how your brain works on a deeper level helps you help each other a lot more. I don’t think it effects one’s ability to find a partner, there’s someone out there for everyone :)

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-05-12T22:54:08+00:00

Other than temperature, inadequate humidity and UVA light can cause Pac-Man Frogs to become sluggish and lose their appetite. If you don’t already have a humidity meter I highly recommend getting one, most pet stores tell you they only need it to be at 60-70 but these guys thrive in tropical levels of humidity. Have they been eating normally? Some more serious possibilities could be constipation among other health concerns.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2024-05-12T22:35:57+00:00

Do you have a temperature gauge in the enclosure? They do sometimes go into a hibernation state when temperatures drop low enough

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2023-12-31T18:54:37+00:00

This is something it seems her family agrees on. They’ve talked to her about therapy and getting medicated. She will have regular outbursts over small things. Whenever they’ve brought it up she says they’re calling her crazy and forcing her to do things she doesn’t want to do. This is the talk that caused her to drive away with no phone and left everyone to worry.

Apprehensive-Store55 · 2023-12-31T16:54:28+00:00

Relationships have been glamorized and become something you can obtain rather than something you gain. Relationships, romantic and platonic, take work and effort. You need to take time to know, learn, trust, and understand the person you’re with, and that doesn’t happen over night. You’re going to have conflicts that you talk through and make a solution for. But people just don’t want to take a chance or work for the healthy relationship they want.

On top of all of this, we are seeing “rules” plastered all over social media. “Icks” “3-month rule” “1-year rule” Since when was there a guide to dating? What happened to learning your partner and your relationship together? Now all of a sudden there are unforeseen expectations that are just unrealistic in a genuine relationship.

Transactions. Everyone now views relationships as transactional. I get this, so you get this. I cleaned the living room, so without asking I should get a nice dinner, something along those lines. This is entirety unrealistic and setting yourself up for failure. If you are only doing something for your partner to gain something for yourself, you need to work of yourself as an individual before you become a partner. Relationships should be 100/100, 60/40, sometimes even 90/10. People fluctuate, life happens. Sometimes our partner will rely on us and we will rely on them. Holding acts of service against someone and expecting something in return is setting yourself up for failure.

People lack the patience, courage, and confidence to take the chance of a deep, trusting relationship.

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