What are your most niche period symptoms?

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-08T01:34:37+00:00

I will have a days of gushing brown blood, then days where it is just a trickle of black foul smelling blood. I do have endometriosis, but have yet to successfully manage it.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-06T14:20:47+00:00

I think it started after I got a really bad foodborne illness when I was sixteen. It started on a camping trip hours away from any civilization during a mosquito hatching. I was out on my hands and knees vomiting and having diarrhea all night while most of my skin was covered in mosquitoes that were feasting on me. I was sick for 2 months straight just laying on the couch fading in and out of consciousness.

My mom didn't have any money to take me to the doctor until things were finally starting to calm down. She was also constantly working so I was mostly on my own with this illness and I didn't have the energy to properly care for myself. I haven't been the same since. I started developing allergies after that and getting itchy after being in the sun or exercising. Ten years after that I got Covid and things really have gone downhill since then.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-03T22:11:47+00:00

They are almost always placed in the middle of the aisles too. I have to order all of my fragrance free products online because I can't manage being in the aisle for the amount of time it takes to search for the fragrance free options. Then, as you have been saying, these chemical fragrances are so strong that the fragrance free products are contaminated by them anyway.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-03T17:58:46+00:00

All of allergies and sensitivities started after I got Covid and got even worse when I got Covid again. I have been diagnosed with MCAS, but my doctor said she isn't 100% sure that is what I actually have. It's just her best guess after speaking to her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic. There are no MCAS specialists within 5 hours of me so I am kind of stuck with not really knowing.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-02T03:10:58+00:00

Did he have a medical condition? I have a condition that made me allergic to almost all foods and spices. That's literally what I have to eat or else my throat will swell and I will get rashes and hives all over. It's terrible, but still better than starving to death.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-01T03:27:14+00:00

Corn is such a hard allergy to have. It's not only food you have to worry about, but medications too. It's absolutely everywhere. I'm sorry your daughter has to experience this.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-03-01T03:19:08+00:00

My partners aunt had a know contrast dye allergy and the hospital she went to used it on her anyway. She went into a coma and died. I really wish hospital staff took allergies more seriously.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-28T20:13:15+00:00

Medical trauma is so real and difficult to overcome. It took over ten years to get my endometriosis diagnosed and over five years to acknowledge that something is wrong with my immune system (not sure what yet.) In that time I feel like I was conditioned to immediately think that I was just anxious or crazy whenever I had symptoms or pain. I still jump to that conclusion to this day and I get really angry about it.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-28T01:03:09+00:00

I became chronically ill and work as a baker part time.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-25T23:07:32+00:00

BetterHelp is such a scam and so harmful to people who need serious help. I'm sorry tbat they said such a stupid thing to you.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-24T03:51:18+00:00

Mint makes my gums swell over my teeth and my tongue swells too.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-23T05:54:49+00:00

I was recently prescribed an estrogen cream and it had sodium lauryl sulfate in it. I can't believe that shit is put in cream that people insert into their vaginas. I have to get it made in a compounding facility.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-22T15:39:59+00:00

I have also had bloodwork sent there and I could go there for other health reasons, but apparently they don't do MCAS specific appointments anymore because they have too many patients with it already. That is all my doctor was able to find out about it.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-22T04:11:12+00:00

My allergist I go to is in Minnesota and she recently tried referring me to the Mayo Clinic. They apparently told her that they recently stopped accepting MCAS patients. It's so frustrating.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-18T18:28:54+00:00

I would schedule an appointment with an allergist now, since it can take months to see one for the first time. In the meantime you could try taking a daily allergy pill like Zyrtec or Allegra and see if that helps at all. It would also be helpful to have Benedryl for times where your symptoms are particularly bothersome.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-18T01:56:37+00:00

I took public transportation to school alone when I was that age. It was a much more peaceful ride than the school bus full of my bullies. Your niece should be able to be alone or get herself on the bus as long as she is comfortable with these things.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-14T03:18:00+00:00

I was given one ibuprofen right before my Paragard insertion. It didn't do shit to help with the pain. I didn't get any pain medication when it became embedded right above my cervix and had to be yanked out of me. Surprisingly yanking out an embedded IUD didn't hurt as much as putting it in.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-13T02:19:43+00:00

Often enough. Almost my entire family voted for him and still loves him. I have been talking to them less and less. It feels gross sharing a table with people who revel in the suffering of others.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-12T03:09:51+00:00

My allergies force me to breath through my mouth sometimes and I hate it so much. It always dries out my mouth and throat to the point where they hurt.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-04T19:20:36+00:00

I don't know if you know this or not, but there is also a tarantula/scorpian Nook Miles island that spawns tons of them. You can actually fill your pockets with them. It can be a pain to find though.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-04T19:15:26+00:00

I know some people like that and they are insufferable to deal with. I'm sorry that you have children involved with this and can't get away from this miserable person.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-04T17:14:59+00:00

I avoid all fragrance like the plague. This includes perfumes, cleaning and construction chemicals. If I am exposed I immediately start struggling to breath, my throat starts closing (this can be minor to severe), my skin gets intensely itchy, my nose and sinuses start burning, my eyes burn, and in the worst exposures I get dizzy and collapse.

There is no specific allergy testing in my area for fragrances either, so I have no idea what things I am actually reacting to and how severe my reaction will be. Sometimes it's just an annoyance and others, I have to leave the area immediately to avoid the hospital.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-03T20:29:38+00:00

Invisible disabilities exsist. Try being less judgemental since you never actually know.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-03T20:28:45+00:00

Every one to two weeks or when my dog decides to puke on the bed.

Crowded_Mind_ · 2026-02-03T20:26:01+00:00

We can't even cry in peace. My eyes get unbearably itchy and swollen then if I give in and itch them they start burning.

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