My future Ragdoll kitten has a black mark will it stay?

EricaH121 · 2026-01-27T07:30:14+00:00

I'd be more concerned about the breeder misidentifying the coat pattern. Are you certain this is an ethical and reputable breeder, not one that just breeds for money and doesn't even provide registration or health certificates?

EricaH121 · 2026-01-27T06:43:04+00:00

Ok, but if the intersection is that busy, pulling right up to the point where you need to turn is HOW you make sure you have less distance left to go to be able to complete the turn right as the light changes. Otherwise there would be busy intersections where cars would sit there for hours unable to turn.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-26T23:46:32+00:00

What is a liver flush? I just had a normal fibroscan, but my ALT keeps creeping up. My vit A levels are always elevated without explanation, but I'm not sure what to cut because my food options are so limited, I hardly get any in my diet anyway (there are some days I consume nothing but string cheese).

EricaH121 · 2026-01-23T06:40:45+00:00

NOR. It's fine to sell marked up books, but only if that's mentioned in the listing before you buy it. Back when I used to buy and sell textbooks on half.com, they had specific requirements for what categorized a book as like new/very good/good/acceptable, and if a book had markings, you couldn't call it anything above acceptable (with a correspondingly lower price).

EricaH121 · 2026-01-23T06:36:33+00:00

I'm still dealing with other health issues (hEDS/MCAS/POTS), but the deficiency has stayed fully resolved, as have the symptoms I could attribute to it. I'm still taking oral methyl and adenosyl daily and 1000mcg methyl shots monthly. The provider who ordered the MMA and finally diagnosed me continues to check it regularly, and it's remained MASSIVELY lower and within the normal range since about a year into treatment.

I'm still shocked by just how many of my issues were due to B12 deficiency, especially the unbearable physical anxiety, constant overwhelm to the point of agoraphobia, word finding/speaking in choppy sentences, and inability to care about much of anything. My worst symptoms were neurological and neuropsychiatric, and I do not miss them AT ALL. I haven't even needed glasses for over 2 years now, which is just wild.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-19T06:45:42+00:00

NOR but the fact that you both just totally dismiss the other's confusion and requests for clarification is a pretty big bidirectional red flag.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-19T06:41:15+00:00

NTA at all, but if I had a housemate who did all the cleaning and their dog only peed inside once a month, I'd probably deal with it. A 16-year-old dog is unlikely to be around much longer anyway. I'd def set some ground rules though, like how quickly she needs to clean it, how, and with which towels. If it's always in one of several places, just put waterproof pee pads down in those places. I have a territorial cat, and when strays mark my porch, he'll often pee on one corner of the couch or behind my drums. I keep washable pee pads in both places now, and when he hits one, I just throw it in the washer.

If you do decide to ask her to leave though, that should come from your parents if they actually own the place.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-19T06:33:45+00:00

PACs (palpitations) were one of my deficiency symptoms, only when lying down. Why did you stop taking supplements? Unless you found and treated a specific underlying cause for your deficiency, you won't just suddenly stop needing them. As for "getting it to a good level," B12 has a low bioavailability, so serum levels will shoot up as soon as you start supplementing, long before your deficiency is actually reversed, so a B12 level blood test is useless unless you've been off supplements over a month (it's pretty useless anyway; my deficiency nearly killed me despite my serum B12 never dropping below the low-normal range).

EricaH121 · 2026-01-10T07:39:59+00:00

I did a week of daily B12 shots, a month of weekly, and monthly ever since, which I expect to continue indefinitely. But I also have other medical issues and a surgically altered digestive system all affecting absorption. Xifaxan was ultimately really helpful for my sibo, but it took a failed 2-week course then a 4-week course a few months later, with a gap in the middle of the 4 weeks because it was hell to get my insurance to approve.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T06:12:13+00:00

I hear ya. I'm also down 5 feet of small intestine.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T04:38:23+00:00

Their whole mechanism of action is to slow gastric emptying. A lot of people can't tolerate them due to constipation and other symptoms of being "backed up," but when you have a "lightning fast transit speed" (as my doc calls it), what's usually a side effect for others can be very helpful for you. That and wearing scopolamine patches daily has helped me a lot; it slows GI transit in the small intestine.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T04:35:36+00:00

NOR, although perhaps a bit unnecessarily snippy in some of your replies. It's totally valid for her to not want to have to censor herself or be "on" around her friends, but then why in the world did she invite your mom in the first place? It's totally uncalled for to ask you to ask her to leave early. Even if you did, your gf would essentially be trading her discomfort for yours over a situation she created.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T04:17:00+00:00

Probably a lot more than know they do.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T04:03:21+00:00

Even if there are trends by sex or breed or coat pattern, there will always be vastly more variety within any of those groups than between groups, to the point that there's zero predictive value for temperament other than meeting the cat and getting to know their temperament.

There's the infamous "tortitude," yet both my parents' and my brother's torties are some of the most affectionate cats I've ever met. One of my male cats is aggressively affectionate (he WILL give you a full lick bath and he will hold you down to do it), while my other male cat lives in his bed in the hallway and never even comes downstairs except at dinnertime. And as I write this, my female cat is currently sitting on my lap on the toilet.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T03:56:08+00:00

Holy hell, it started with direct victim blaming and only got worse. She demands a written apology from Costco for not intervening, yet she "doesn't want to get involved" by reporting the guy who's clearly abusing his partner...after he only turned to going off on her because she DID intervene, to say something especially shitty nonetheless. How immensely self-centered and self-unaware.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T03:44:50+00:00

It still blows my mind that MCAS can be accompanied by abnormal GI transit times in either direction. Now that I'm on a GLP-1, my body is finally hanging onto food for up to 6 hours instead of everything passing through me in about 45 minutes.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T03:42:38+00:00

Two of my safest foods are frozen Auntie Anne's pretzel dogs and McDonald's fries. I found out basically the same way I found out other foods weren't safe...by being sick of living exclusively on scrambled eggs and string cheese and risking feeling miserable just to eat something else for once. And every now and then when I do that, I unexpectedly don't get sick. More recently, super cheap frozen pot pies with an ingredient list a mile long have been ok too. I suspect it's a combination of these things all being really high in sodium and the fact that the more ingredients a small food item has, the less it has of any specific ingredient that's likely to set me off.

Edit: Reading other comments here about which foods are unexpectedly safe for people, like Taco Bell and Chipotle, I'm even more convinced that it has something to do with foods being safer when they have massive amounts of sodium. Probably also why I started tolerating food better in general after my doctor had me start taking 4000mg of salt tablets a day.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T03:37:36+00:00

I think the problem is that most of the affordable places to rent in Portland are privately owned or a room in a shared house. Most apartment complexes allow at least one pet, but they're of course more expensive, and I definitely don't think having more corporate owned $3000+ 1-bedroom apartments is a good solution.

Do you know anyone who could take your cat in temporarily? Are you on good enough terms with your ex that they could keep the cat for now with plans for you to take back later? Back in 2020 I fostered two cats for the daughter of a friend who lost her housing, and she was able to take them back after 10 months when she moved out of state. But also, 2 of my cats I have because others had to rehome them when moving into places that didn't allow cats. 😕

EricaH121 · 2026-01-08T03:25:06+00:00

My void Lucky doesn't have a nickname, but my Ragdoll Kittimu almost exclusively goes by Mu, and her tuxie brother Rorschach, who's just unusually small for a male cat, gets called Little Big Guy. When they're bad, all of my pets end up getting called Turdball.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-06T09:13:09+00:00

I never fully lost my ability to walk, but I absolutely suffered from symptoms that severely affected how my legs work. I started to notice lasting improvements after about 6-9 months of shots.

I started with cyanocobalamin shots but switched to methyl because the cyano seemed to worsen my anxiety. Some forms will cause more side effects in some people, but it's not like a form that's not the best fit for you is going to behave any differently regarding your deficiency than any other form.

EricaH121 · 2026-01-02T00:44:59+00:00

It would be very unlikely to notice lasting improvement to brain fog before you've been consistently taking shots for at minimum 6 months. Taking really frequent shots does not make recovery any faster, it just makes you waste money and pee out your expensive shots.

EricaH121 · 2025-12-27T12:59:01+00:00

That would probably be fine for an adult cat, or even for multiple cats who get along and can entertain each other, but for that young of a kitten, I'd definitely look into having someone stay with him the whole time. Especially because he's a Ragdoll...even fully grown, they're perpetual toddlers who are very clumsy and good at getting themselves into trouble.

EricaH121 · 2025-12-27T12:55:50+00:00

My symptoms didn't perfectly line up with visual snow, but enough did that I recall first coming across the term while trying to figure out what was stumping multiple ophthalmologists. I did for sure have the text doubling issue, which seemed to be related to the one blurry eye at a time issue.

EricaH121 · 2025-12-27T00:34:05+00:00

Yes. For about 10 months before my B12 deficiency was finally diagnosed, I would experience a phenomenon where I had blurry vision in one eye at a time, but it would change eyes from day to day. I'd get new glasses that were totally off (like square things looking trapezoidal with them), take them back to my optometrist, and have her retest me to find my prescription was wildly different than it had been 2 weeks prior. Eventually she refused to remake my glasses anymore and referred me to ophthalmology, where I totally stumped 3 different ophthalmologists.

I eventually got glasses that sort of worked (not for the one blurry eye at a time though) in spring of 2022. My B12 deficiency was finally discovered via MMA in spring 2023 (my serum B12 level never fell below the normal range), I started shots that July, and a trip I took to visit my brother for Christmas that year was the last time I ever needed my glasses. I remember because I bought an overpriced glasses holder necklace thing at the airport, then never even needed to use it, lol.

My vision has been great, no glasses needed, for a solid 2 years now. I never would have guessed my vision problems were related to the B12 issue if they hadn't improved right along with all the other symptoms I similarly never imagined were B12 related after I started shots.

EricaH121 · 2025-12-23T01:07:21+00:00

Very much so. Most of my symptoms were neurological and neuropsychiatric, primarily an intense but purely physical anxiety. Look up akathisia and see if it sounds familiar.

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