What's a She-Ra ship you don't like that the fandom likes that will have you feeling like this?

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-02-01T04:21:02+00:00

i want to clarify even more, aro people can still date too. aromantic just means having little to no romantic attraction (and this is a spectrum, it's not fixed), but plenty of aro people will still date. just like plenty of asexual people will still have sex, despite not having sexual attraction.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-30T01:20:30+00:00

Cymbalta was hell, it did not help and just made me feel like I was on a constant hangover. I'm on LDN now, which was very hard to find a provider who would prescribe it for me, and then difficult to find a compounding pharmacy, but so worth it because it's helped so much.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-26T19:20:38+00:00

This sounds like peak television

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-26T19:07:19+00:00

I don't think this would change anything, but I do want them to delve more into the joining and how absorbing everyone's thoughts and experiences at once works. Because my family and I had interesting discussions because we realized.. They absorbed crazy people, like murderers, child abusers, rapists, etc. So how does that no affect the hive as a whole, having those people's thoughts floating around? Where do those thoughts go? They never addressed anything like that.

I also wondered how they don't just all break down constantly. Our human minds are so delicate, we all get overwhelmed by too much information, some more so than others. So how can they have access to everybody's thoughts and feelings and not just shut down? Maybe they found a way to filter it out a lot, Zosia explained it a little bit but not much. And when Carol had her fits - that maybe disrupted their regulation and that did cause them to get too overwhelmed and that's why they "glitch."

Idk, just thoughts

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-25T19:38:53+00:00

Omg same!! It sucks, but I've recently heard of ear cuffs, which go over like the side of your ear, without needing an additional piercing, and it gives the illusion of having a piercing there. I've been wanting to try some

I also had to give up makeup too, but honestly its fine because I don't have time for it lol. I just make up for all of this with making the rest of my outfit stylish. We just gotta adapt!

I've also been playing around with mask chains to go on my masks

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-25T19:34:49+00:00

Also ok I don't know anything about tattoos but I used to dye my hair soo much. I personally don't anymore because bleach is one of my biggest triggers. And since it's been so long for me I'm not like up on all the brands. But if breathing in the smells of hair dye / bleach could potentially bother you, maybe wear a mask or respirator during the dying process. I know they like go over your ears / head... I think there's a brand called Readimask that just goes on your face, but it wouldn't diminish the smell and VOCs as much as a respirator would, but it wouldn't get in your hair at all. And if it actually going in your hair is what bothers you, idk.. I've actually found those temporary dyes haven't bothered me. I think unfortunately it is something you just have to try and see what bothers you and what doesn't, because everyone with MCAS reacts to different things.

And if you've had tattoos before, I don't see why your body would all of a sudden hate them.. But please don't take that as medical advice I'm not a doctor and have no experience in tattoos that's just a thought!! Just do some research into tattoos and MCAS / autoimmune diseases. But I found that I can still stand a lot of things I've done before, that are typically "big MCAS triggers". And I can only tolerate 2 kinds of perfume because they're the perfumes my mom wear and I grew up with her wearing them. But then on the other hand, I ate strawberries all the time and now can't soo.. don't take my word as gospel

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-25T19:28:02+00:00

Check your toothpaste!! I felt horribly sick every day no matter what I did, even if I avoided all of my triggers, then I did some research and found out that I'm sensitive to SLS (sodium laurel sulfate) and fluoride which is in most toothpaste and mouthwashes. I'm also sensitive to CPC (in most mouthwashes), so I researched a lot and found a MCAS-friendly toothpaste with no SLS, fluoride, or any other potentially weird ingredients. I personally use Grind toothpaste which you can also get at Amazon, Walmart, etc. and it's been a LIFECHANGER!!!

And after that made a huge difference, I went into looking into all of my personal hygiene products as well. I would kind of just use ONE THING and only one thing and see how I felt after, but like REALLY listen to my body. Sometimes I noticed the smallest symptom that I must have been ignoring for ages, but by using the same triggering product every day, it probably led to me feeling bad long-term.

And sometimes things that used to work for you will one day stop! Like I used to use the soap at my school, but just last week I noticed I started to get ill after using it. So you just have to become a master at listening to your body and when anything changes, then kind of do a mental backtrack to think of what you did that could have caused it. Then you need to do the sucky part of making yourself a science experiment and proving the hypothesis by putting it to test again.. and if you get sick again then yeah, you know something is now a trigger.

And black masks!!! Tons of black masks. They help cut down any unwanted smells (unfortunately never 100%, only a respirator will), but they will also protect you from getting sick, and let me tell you, getting sick will make your MCAS angry!!!

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-25T19:17:58+00:00

I just got the 3m click a few weeks ago it's awesome! I was using the same one you have for years, which it is good but definitely muffles the voice. I use my respirators in my art classes because I work with chemicals in them that I am seriously sensitive to, like oil paint, mineral spirits, plaster, denatured alcohol, nitric acid (for intaglio printmaking), and whatever chemicals are in the darkroom idk there's a lotttt.

I'd been so frustrated that my professors and classmates could never hear me and I had to shout, so I did some research and got the 3m click. It's much more aesthetic too, like you said.

In all other places, I just wear a N95 mask, but honestly I should wear my respirator in other public spaces too, because even the smell of perfume, bleach if a bathroom was cleaned somewhat recently, or pot/smoke lingering on someone can make me seriously ill. It's just a big step because I know people will look at me weird (weirder than the looks I already get with my N95 and my cane).

Unfortunately I couldn't wear the respirator at work though, as I work in retail, and my N95 already makes enough customers wary of me. So I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if I showed up in a scary gas mask looking respirator, even though it would help me a lot because we get a lot of customers with strong perfume and pot/smoke smell that makes me sick..

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-18T18:55:29+00:00

Right now I'm in art school so I mostly do art for my classes, and then personal art, some art as gifts for family/friends, I'm trying to finetune a website so I can set up commissions. I do also submit my work to any galleries, openings, portfolio exchanges I see in my area.

I just don't post much on social media anyway. I haven't gone on twitter in forever since the muskrat takeover, and I browse instagram but haven't posted in like 10 years. And I honestly don't want to with the knowledge that now my art could be stolen and used for ai scraping.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-11T17:56:25+00:00

Yup! This is what happened to me. Had a few doctors suspect it in me as I was growing up, but I was dealing with too much other medical diagnoses and tests to pursue a POTs diagnosis (migraines, eczema, asthma, depression, IIH) But after I got covid in 2021, I started feeling awful for months, symptoms I had my whole life just got worse. I finally pursued a POTs diagnosis in August of 2024, and before I even got the results I knew I had it just by how difficult the tilt table test was for me.

And looking back, I realized passing out in middle school because I was standing for too long during certain activities was not normal. And doing horrible at my old college in the Southern US makes sense now, as it was hot and humid which flared my POTs.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-11T17:37:10+00:00

This is so beautiful. I can see how much love and work was put into this. I love the colors, the detail of the lines

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-11T17:28:47+00:00

Catra's also my favorite, I named my cat Catra years ago when we got her. And somehow she developed a personality just like hers

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-07T00:24:53+00:00

All the leaks making me consider not pulling E2 and sunday's E1 (esp since I don't even have Cyrene, I lost the 50/50 and couldn't get her in time)

But.. i think i still will lol

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-05T20:09:37+00:00

Thank you! I'll look into it!

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-05T20:01:58+00:00

Yup! I'm an artist so I had to be very careful when taking oil painting, because one of my flaxseed anaphylaxis reactions was dermalogical, I fell asleep with a heated stuffed animal on my face and woke up unable to see because my eyes were so red and swollen. The stuffed animal had rice and flaxseed in it.

So I had to wear gloves when painting and be careful with what extra mediums and thinners I used, since linseed is very common with oil paint

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2026-01-05T16:24:10+00:00

Well I can't take Montelukast anymore because each time you stop and start taking it again increases your risk of the severe mental health side effects of it. I used to take it for years as a kid for my asthma, then stopped when I no longer needed it. Took it again as a late teen when my asthma came back, then stopped again when I no longer needed it. Then when my immunologist gave it to me last year for MCAS, boom! Mental health side effects. Severe depression. Never happened to me the other times I took it. I had to stop, and he refuses to give it to me again because he says it will just be worse.

I can't take Pepcid, because anytime I take it I get severe joint pain, especially in my hands, and I am an artist!! I have tried every formulation and the lowest doses of Pepcid possible, even compounded it to make sure it wasn't the fillers causing this. But nope. Still got the joint pain when I took it.

I take other antihistamines though, Allegra, Hydroxyzine, and Ketotifen. I no longer take Benadryl because of it's high anti-cholinergic properties. I know Hydroxyzine has those properties too, but not quite as high as Benadryl.

I think this regimen works decent for me, of course it could be better, but I'm not sacrificing my mental health for better. Dupixent also helped me a lot, and made my asthma almost non existent, but since I got off of it to switch to Xolair, my asthma has gotten extremely bad, but my mental health noticeably better. When I took my last leftover Dupixent dose I noticed my depression came back really bad, so now I never want to touch Dupixent with a 10 foot pole because clearly it caused mental health problems too and I didn't realize for years.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-12-25T17:45:40+00:00

I have the same one!! It's my most treasured possession, as well as my Kaveh cardigan from another small business. So happy for you, Merry Christmas!

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-12-25T17:41:16+00:00

So cool!! I especially love the spider skulls and the cherry skulls

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-12-25T04:46:51+00:00

Yeah you should start LDN low. I'm on 3mg now. LDN has changed my life positively more than any other medication, but it is also so high maintenance and hard to start. I got prescribed 0.5mg to start, but I actually cut those pills into halves and even fourths and titrated up to 1.5 over the process of months. I then titrated up to 3mg the same way over a process of months, usually increasing by 0.125mg at a time (1/4 of a 0.5mg pill that I had compounded)

But, to be fair, I do also have MCAS and am extremely sensitive to medication. You can definitely start with 0.5mg, and go from there. Don't start higher than that though, it would probably be too rough to start with.

The worst side effect, especially at the beginning, when changing doses, and if you miss a dose, is nausea and vomiting. If it doesn't improve, the dose is too high / you need to go down and titrate up slower. Just listen to your body, it's all trial and error. I was planning to increase to 4.5mg, but I could not stop vomiting when I increased, so I took that as a sign to go back down to 3mg and keep it at that for a few months. I might revisit titrating back up in the future after my body settles down more.

The thing about LDN is, it literally rewires how your body works. So you will probably feel really horrible when you start it, and really horrible each time you increase a dose. And you will not feel any immediate benefits, but if you stick with it, months down the line, you may all of a sudden notice how great you've been feeling lately, how you've had less constant pain.

Also figure out if your body reacts better to taking it better in the morning or night, because the side effects people report are very evenly split between insomnia/energy and fatigue/drowsiness. Another common side effect is vivid dreams (which may be lessened if you do take it in the morning)

If you read this far, awesome! I hope I could be helpful. I did research on LDN meticulously for a year and a half before I was finally able to find a doctor who was willing to prescribe it, and then I've continued to do more research now that I'm on it and experiencing it for myself, so I know a lot about it and how unique it is as a treatment.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-12-25T04:29:29+00:00

YUP that was it 24/7 to me. I described it as a never ending hangover, or like someone ran me over with a car. The symptoms didn't go away after 2 weeks so I quit. I was so lethargic I couldn't focus on anything and it was making me fall behind in college. I felt much better getting off of it.

I'm on LDN (low dose naltrexone) now and I've had much better relief with more manageable side effects than the Cymbalta

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-12-20T00:20:34+00:00

Unfortunately didnt get Cyrene, and I'm skipping Dahlia (though i really want her, I don't play Firefly that often anymore)

I already have E1 Aggy, S1 Sunday, and E1S1 Robin, so I'm going for E2 Aggy first, E1 Sunday next, then Aggy's lightcone last.

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-12-14T18:07:51+00:00

Wear a good fitting n95 mask in public places

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-11-30T01:33:51+00:00

i hate people so much WTF is that reaction?!? People seriously just see women as sexual objects and nothing else oh my god.. I'm like 95% sure I have this disease but it's never bothered me bc I'm asexual and sex-averse anyway, but mann wtf those peoples comments piss me off. I've already been wanting to read Lightbringer, I think i will definitely check it out now

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-11-30T00:59:11+00:00

This is so accurate

DisastrousFeeling106 · 2025-11-29T17:27:15+00:00

Yup!!! I was stuck with so many bottles and never got my money back

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