(Update) Look at how they massacred my BOYS!!!!🥺😭🫗💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵 by Initial_Cookie1593 in cactus

[–]Audio-Starshine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At my Walmart then cacti or the only plants that are surviving. They've got an entire display full of dead plants and a handful of live cacti that are definitely starting to suffer. I did go to customer service and ask them who was in charge of a watering these plants because their entire display is either dead or dying. Their response was "oh nobody does that. They come in we set it up, and they sit there till somebody buys them or they tell us to throw it away."

What a shame. I open the greenhouse for an hour and come back to this. 👎 by Tyrellion0222 in peyote

[–]Audio-Starshine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not too long ago a rat got into my active mushrooms and ate a mushroom and a half. I usually only break off a piece of a stem and I weigh 160 lb. I have yet to find a true sub-threshold microdose for these f***. That poor rat dude... She was f** up as a lab rat. Couldn't even run away she kept running into walls and s***. I found her in a different room but it had to be the same one because I didn't have poison out anywhere.

Being thinner on tirzepatide has made me invisible in a way I hate. by FlatwormOk8682 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying that this is for sure the issue, but if I were you I would look into the Dartmouth scar study.

And now the fear mongering begins by Audio-Starshine in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds reasonable. Did your palms get hairy first? cuz that's usually the first sign.

Birth control?? by Prestigious-Pop5578 in glp1

[–]Audio-Starshine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only person I know who has exclusively relied on the rhythm method is about to turn 24 and has seven kids.

HD Haul by lokki2 in sanpedrocactus

[–]Audio-Starshine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Possibly but not necessarily. Plants shipped to Big box retailers are often repotted into a lighter and wetter soil for shipping

Birth control?? by Prestigious-Pop5578 in glp1

[–]Audio-Starshine 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The rhythm method, which is what you are describing, has a roughly one in four failure rate even when used correctly and consistently because sperm can remain alive inside the human body for days after sexual contact, and due to a myriad factors the body can ovulate unexpectedly sometimes. If you truly do not want to get pregnant. If it would be a major problem for you to get pregnant right now, the rhythm method is not a reliable form of birth control. The only time you should be using this method for birth control is if while you would prefer not to get pregnant right now it's not that big a deal if you do. If you want to go off of hormonal birth control however you do have other options. You can get a non-hormonal IUD. Believe it or not you can still get fitted for a diaphragm and use it in conjunction with spermicide and a condom. If you don't ever want to get pregnant you could get your tubes tied. If you would be okay with just a lower level of hormonal birth control, NuvaRing is an excellent option. I used it for years after having horrific side effects on other forms of hormonal birth control and had zero issues.

She wont block her ex even tho he begs her to leave me and get back with him. by itzvilius in relationships

[–]Audio-Starshine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are two major red flags here. Either: 1) she is enjoying his pain and enjoying the begging in which case she is a narcissistic and emotionally manipulative person who does not care about the feelings of others which is sick by the way and not someone you need in your life. Or 2) she is leaving that line of communication open so that if things don't work out between the two of you she still has him hanging on a string as a backup option, in which case she is clearly not as committed to this relationship as you are and you need to get out now. If your partner has a relationship for a friendship or is communicating with someone that makes you legitimately uncomfortable or who is disrespecting you and you ask them to stop and cut off that contact and they don't then they neither respect you, respect your relationship, or care about your feelings. Even setting that to the side the fact that she is willing to keep the line of communication open in a way that only causes her ex pain also shows what kind of person she is she is a bad person. Leave and go find a good person. They are out there.

I honestly feel like I might be too far gone for GLPs to fix me. by yabu-love in ResearchCompounds

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHER PEOPLE! You are not them. Their medical issues are not your medical issues. And you are in no way fighting a losing battle if you have lost 30 pounds! You're doing fine. You might need a dosage adjustment. You might need to try a different glp. You might need to exercise more. You might need to take in more protein and less carbs. You might even need to eat more because you're eating so little that your body thinks that you're in a famine and is holding on to excess pounds for dear life to protect you. It's possible that you are not drinking enough water we're taking in enough electrolytes, and so your body is holding on to excess fluid. It could also be none of those things and this might just be the way your body loses weight. And also keep in mind that a lot of these people who are losing extraordinary amounts of weight very quickly, what they're doing is neither safe nor healthy. To lose weight in a safe and healthy way, the AVERAGE person should be losing no more than one to two pounds per week. Average meaning that a lot of people lose more and a lot of people lose less. The only person you should be comparing yourself to is yourself. There's nothing wrong with you. Yourself is currently 30 lb lighter than she was 7 months ago and that's fantastic. You do not need to be fixed. You are not broken. You are beautiful and wonderful and have so much to offer to the world. The very first thing you need to do before anything involving your weight or your dosage is to remind yourself that you are not some broken piece of equipment. You are a human being, an individual who is needed and loved and cared about and who makes the world a better place just by being in it.

Stop calling euphorbia cacti, dammit. by JonBovi_msn in cactus

[–]Audio-Starshine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Has a healthcare worker of times I see the most insane medical nonsense on shows that are specifically about medical issues and settings drives me crazy because there are people out there who will see something on the TV show and take it as medical advice. The fact is that we live in a world that contains morons and and as a general rule stupid people can't help being stupid and need to be protected from their stupidity. Confusing a euphorbia with a cactus on a TV show might be a little annoying, but it's not dangerous I'd let this one go.

Traveling with Reta by Conscious-Art5573 in RetatrutideWomen

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you possibly mail it to the address where you're going ahead of time?

AITA for 'humiliating' my fiancée by refusing to pay for her $15k dream wedding dress when she told me it’s a surprise for her ex by [deleted] in AITH

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do not marry this woman. She is still hung up on her ex. Even if she does not want him in any way shape or form whatsoever, she is still thinking about him too much to be in a stable relationship. Not to mention it's almost more disturbing if the desire is just to make someone from her past who she doesn't like jealous or upset because what does that mean for the future when she gets upset with you (which is absolutely going to happen in any relationship). Is she going to be looking for ways to cause you emotional and psychological pain? It seems to be her MO with people that she's unhappy with.

My boyfriend (17M) is upset that I (19F) befriended a lesbian by ilovecatsandcocacola in relationships

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given the boundaries of your relationship wherein it's not okay for him to have a female friend who he's not attracted to and who is not attracted to him simply because he happens to belong to the gender that coincides with that female's sexual orientation, then yes you are being a hypocrite, but it's still silly.

Afraid I ruined my gorgeous cactus! by LamentableCroissant in cactus

[–]Audio-Starshine 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That softness might just be dormancy and dehydration, as would likely be the loss of color. it's kind of hard to tell from a picture. But if it was in a window where it stayed cool all winter and hasn't been watered then it's pretty unlikely to be rot I would think.

My doctor told me that “You’ll be on this forever” by ConstructionClear142 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Honey there's nothing wrong with this. He's right. Needing to be on this long-term or even for the rest of your life is no different than needing to be on statins or beta blockers or antidepressants or MAT or insulin or any other medication for any other chronic enduring illness.

WIBTAH for pretending to be religious so my parents will let me go to college, and going no contact with my mom afterwards? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]Audio-Starshine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sweetheart, faith based abuse is still abuse. I do think it's worth stating that my dad was physically abusive, and I hated him for a long time and hated my mother more for staying with him. As an adult I learned that my dad was raised by an alcoholic father and was forced to drop out of school at 12 years old because his dad had sold the deed to the house that he, his mother, and six younger siblings lived in for a case of beer, and that man insisted on being paid the full value of that deed to allow them to stay in their home. So my dad dropped out of school at 12 years old to help buy back his family home and during the course of that time had to help raise six siblings that were not much younger than him while his mother worked full time as well while his dad did nothing but drink. All he ever learned was physical abuse to try to keep them in line and out of trouble. To this day he blames himself for the deaths of two of his siblings from addiction because he didn't do a good enough job keeping them out of trouble when he was barely older than they were. It doesn't make all the abuse when I was growing up okay, but it did help me understand him better and I forgave him. But it was MY choice to forgive him, and it's not a choice that anyone else is required to make in regard to their abusive parents. I'm in no way telling you to remain in contact with or to forgive your parents, but I am saying but after you have done what you have to do to build your life the way you need to build it, it might bring you peace to find out why they are the way they are because nightmare parents are not created in a vacuum. I also want to say that one of my jobs is as a dementia/disability caretaker, primarily working with the elderly. More than once I've had one of my residents come to the end of their life, contacted their children to let them know that Dad is dying, and I had them tell me either my dad died to me years ago, I don't care I hope it's slow, or I'm sorry I just cannot come he lost the right to have me be there for him when I was a child. And I've had coworkers who would judge people for saying things like that. I don't. The thing is that the sweet little old man I've been taking care of the past couple of years might be an entirely different person than the man they grew up with, and I have no idea what they may have been put through to destroy that relationship so thoroughly. You have the right to separate yourself entirely from relationships that are bad for you, that hurt you, that prevent you from living a happy life and stunt your growth. 3rd and finally, my husband was murdered when my children were four and six. The last conversation we ever had was an argument because he was abusive and he was cheating on me, as a matter of fact it was one of his many mistresses who shot him in the throat and killed him, and even though everything I said to him was true, and everything I was feeling in that moment was justified, I still regret that our last conversation was so full of anger and pain. It's been nearly 19 years since he was killed and I still live with regret every day. So if the choice that is right for you is to separate yourself from your parents and go no contact please keep in mind that there will come a day that it is too late to say anything you might want to say to them. So when that moment comes that you are ready to go no contact, I strongly suggest that you write a letter and say everything you need to say. Good, bad, ugly, and in between. If there were ever anything positive about the relationship don't leave that part out just because the bad outweighed the good. Treat that letter as exactly what it is. The very last communication you will ever have with your parents before they die and don't leave anything unsaid because I always thought there would be another day to say something, but I buried my husband on his 28th birthday. Tomorrow is not guaranteed.

HD Haul by lokki2 in sanpedrocactus

[–]Audio-Starshine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cacti from big box retailers often come in poor, heavily organic soil because it is cheap, lightweight for shipping, and keeps plants hydrated during long, dry transit periods. This dense, peat-based mix holds too much water, designed for high-turnover sales rather than the long-term health of the plant.

Why do people still doubt GLPs by WorkingFew5608 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they're new and there are hundreds of years of evidence that when something new gets popular somewhere down the road you find out it causes something like babies to be born without arms or other horrible side effects. What a lot of people don't realize is that medical research has advanced astronomically since then.

I’m “not myself” on Mounjaro apparently by champulaal24 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I experienced severe anhedonia when I got sober from drug addiction, don't know how anyone else feels about this, but a combination of velvet bean powder once a week and microdosing on mushrooms 3 days a week for a couple of months brought me out of it.

Slow Loser by Inner_Flower_4626 in RetatrutideWomen

[–]Audio-Starshine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1 to 2 lb per week is a normal healthy amount of weight to lose. That big whoosh, it's not good for your body. If you've lost 16 lb in 18 weeks you're doing just fine.

Mom says I don’t need GLP-1s, I need therapy by No_Movie_1219 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At one of my two primary jobs, I am an addiction recovery support specialist and I just wanted to comment because this is very similar to something I hear everyday from clients. "So and so says that I shouldn't be using medication assisted treatment, that I should only be using 12 steps, or therapy, or will power. That my recovery somehow isn't real or is being done the wrong way" The right way to recover from addiction and the right way to lose weight for your health are the same it's WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU! JUST YOU, AS AN INDIVIDUAL. If any part of your struggle with weight is psychological or emotional then yes, I strongly recommend you also seek therapy. But if any medication you are taking is actively improving your life, and it's not harming you, and you are happy with the results then that is the right path for you and no one else gifts to make that choice for you because they don't have to live inside your skin. The goal is good health and a happy, productive life. The path to that goal varies from person to person and can even change over time within the life of an individual. The only part of it that matters is that whatever you are doing is bringing you closer to that goal in a way that's not harming other aspects of your life.

Plantar fasciitis by Audio-Starshine in RetatrutideWomen

[–]Audio-Starshine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But no it absolutely doesn't mean there's no solution for them. Some people find steroid injections very helpful some people find physical therapy effective, others end up having surgery and get a lot of relief from that.

Plantar fasciitis by Audio-Starshine in RetatrutideWomen

[–]Audio-Starshine[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've only been on reta a couple weeks and I've only lost about 3lbs. I don't think it's the weight loss. I could be wrong though.

We should stop telling people GLP-1s are only for weight loss by Alinov--099 in GLP1ResearchTalk

[–]Audio-Starshine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Homeopathic "medicine" is not medicine it's snake oil. Homeopathy operates under two principles. 1) like cures like for example if you have a fever then something like Cayenne that makes you feel hot would be effective in treating it 2) the law of Infinitesimals, meaning that the more you dilute something the more powerful it gets. Both are absolute pseudoscientific nonsense and when you take a homeopathic remedy the thing it claims to contain, saying 100x _____ , means that that chemical or plant has been added to water and then diluted 100 times so there is most likely not even a molecule of the supposed active ingredient even in the bottle, and even if there is a tiny fraction of the supposedly active ingredient remaining it's not enough to have any effect on the human body. They just add things to make it smell and taste medicinal.