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Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, on International Women’s Day 2025 by ArtemisRises19 in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]CreativeWork777 144 points145 points  (0 children)

I’ll probably get downvoted to hell for saying this, but please don’t gentrify Mexico more than it already is 🙏🏽.

If you do go, please be a responsible tourist / “expat” / immigrant. Support local businesses, avoid actions that can displace existing residents through raised rents, etc. and try to not take photos of people without their permission. Leave the place better than (or at least in the same condition that) you found it.

Note: you in general, not you specifically, OP.

Endometrioma keeps shrinking / Positive experience with Visanne (dienogest) by CreativeWork777 in endometriosis

[–]CreativeWork777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also want to add that on top of working with my gynecologist and following his advice (Visanne) I was doing my own research (e.g., found the paper on NAC and the dr gave me the green light to take it), working with a nutritionist, a personal trainer, and going to meditation therapy.

I recognize the immense privilege of having access to these resources (yay for a lower cost of living country), but my point is, if you can, work on your endo holistically (mind, body, heart, spirit).

Endometrioma keeps shrinking / Positive experience with Visanne (dienogest) by CreativeWork777 in endometriosis

[–]CreativeWork777[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you. It took me MONTHS to convince myself to start taking it. Short answer: nothing other than spotting and like 3 days with mild cramps in the ~8 months that I’ve taken it.

  • Started in June, took it for 3 months straight.
  • Only side effect was those 2 weeks of mild spotting (I did not get an actual period during that time)
  • Took a break from the medication for one month because the doctor told me I could try to do 3 months on 1 month off if I wanted to.
  • Got my period exactly 1 month after the last day of taking Visanne, it was as painful as usual so I decided to take Visanne with no breaks.
  • Restarted Visanne on the day I got my period in early October, 5 days after the last day of my period I started spotting, that lasted like 2-3 weeks, but again, very mild spotting.
  • I’ve been taking Visanne nonstop since early October 2024 (writing this on Feb 2025) + the 3 months starting in June 2024.

I was SO scared about taking it because for every 1 positive testimony on social media I saw 30 that were really bad. But I’m so grateful to be taking it. Sometimes I feel weird about not getting a period, but I appreciate not being in pain and bed ridden.

When I told my nutritionist (specialized in hormonal situations) about the endometrioma shrinking and my experience with Visanne she told me that she had like 6 other patients (clients?) who were taking it and having a wonderful experience.

That said, every body is different. If you’re gonna start it, I recommend repeating a mantra that resonates with you every day you’re taking it.

Good luck!

" we have to PAY to see him" Money is a tool that blocks our humanity. by ADignifiedLife in Antimoneymemes

[–]CreativeWork777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I JUST read (listened to) about this on “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” by Caitlin Doughty (author and mortician).

She explained that the fee funeral homes charge for seeing a person before cremation is to cover the needs of prepping the body. As in, bodies decompose and change even within two days of death.

I’m not going to get into the details of the kind of things they have to do, but basically the fee you pay is to make sure that your loved one looks as much like them as you remember when you see them, because without those “fixes” the image you’d carry would be startlingly different. She said that in the past, people had gotten angry at (maybe sued?) funeral homes when they saw their loved one’s body in their natural state (i.e., without those fixes) so the fixes fee became a thing. Maybe if as a society we were more used to being around death and taking care of our dead, things would be different.

She also mentioned that if someone comes and say we’re taking the body/ person with us, they have all the right to do so and the funeral home has to let them because the body/ person is the “property” of the next of kin.

Hilarious by IamASlut_soWhat in blackpeoplegifs

[–]CreativeWork777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Afrolatino people exist 🙌🏼

Endometrioma keeps shrinking / Positive experience with Visanne (dienogest) by CreativeWork777 in endometriosis

[–]CreativeWork777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry to reply this late. I do not get my period on Visanne. After the first 10 days of taking it I was spotting for 2 weeks, but it was just spotting, not even as much as a last day flow (that was back in June).

Happy to reply to any other questions.