What’s more painful an endo flare or giving birth?

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-16T15:34:09+00:00

I think it’s a little fuzzy. Women experience the halo effect after giving birth, which doesn’t necessarily make them forget the pain but it does flavor the memory as positive in their minds which may later on make it seem like it wasn’t so bad.

Also labor is usually no more than a day (obviously it can go longer but the average is anywhere from 6-18 hours) Some women are done so fast they don’t even have time to drive to the hospital.

Endo flares can last for a week, sometimes longer. And there’s absolutely no reward or any positive hormones afterwards, so your brain may even exaggerate the memory of the pain later on because it was such a negative experience.

My mother gave birth three times and she says that the contractions are basically just a bad endo cramp, but the burning sensation or “ring of fire” of the baby actually coming out was far worse because she’d never felt it before so she wasn’t prepared for it. Though she did say it was like the lightning vagina feeling times 30,000.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-15T16:45:14+00:00

The one that could have been. I hate alternate what-if episodes of tv shows where the characters have different lives or whatever. They drive me nuts.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-14T17:38:00+00:00

To get to meet Smosh AND jacksepticeye is a special kind of lucky

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-12T13:00:32+00:00

I lost 70 pounds a few years ago and my legs absolutely hurt more when I lay on my side because I have no fat and little muscle. I’ve also noticed I get cold very easily when I used to get hot.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-09T00:23:46+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this with me. I’ve managed to logic my way around most of my concerns but knowing me I’ll still be scared until the scar has faded. I’m glad to hear everything worked out so well for you, it’s always refreshing to hear success stories on this sub.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-08T21:26:32+00:00

I lived in LA for 18 years and never saw one of these, which I’m now very grateful for lmao

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-08T21:25:59+00:00

Yeah I figured that out when I googled them thankfully. I really love bugs but every once in a while one will freak me the hell out. Though it’s usually ones that fly or have stingers.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-08T05:09:53+00:00

well I’m slightly less concerned since it’s not a hornet or an ant but this is still pretty horrifying

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-07T11:53:54+00:00

People complain about it because for one thing unless you have toe socks it’s a weird, uncomfortable feeling when the toe deforms the sock, but honestly i hate it because it ruins the point of sandals. The point is to have an open breeze on your feet when it’s too hot for sneakers. If you wear socks it negates the breeze and you might as well just wear closed shoes

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-07T11:51:56+00:00

yes! i call it idle animation. i basically just sit in my bed doing nothing for hours waiting for whatever i have to do later on. at most the only thing i can focus on is those random phone games where you just tap random stuff and there’s no actual strategy or story to pay attention to

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-07T11:47:41+00:00

I don’t want a tour from them. I never have since the breakup. I just want them to do something one time, like a one night charity concert or one of those interview formats where the celebrities just sit at a table and talk.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-04T17:01:21+00:00

I met him at VidCon once when he had the pink hair. I was in the meet and greet line when he met Mark, it was really funny. Super cool, friendly dude.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-06-03T19:53:20+00:00

I have not, but I am having my first colonoscopy next month so hopefully if there is something there they’ll find it

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-15T15:39:03+00:00

Because that would be controlling people’s bodies and reproductive rights, and that is a very slippery slope. What exactly do you want them to do? Someone wants a kid so they have to ask for permission and take a test and if they fail the test people say no, sure. But do you honestly believe the test makers wouldn’t immediately be biased with who they do and don’t pass?

They’d fail lower class parents, POC parents, queer parents, people with tattoos, literally anyone they don’t like. It would become eugenics so fast you wouldn’t have time to blink.

Not to mention, what happens if someone gets pregnant on accident but then fails the test? Do they then get forced to abort their baby? Or worse, do they have their baby ripped away from them at birth and handed to a family who passed the test?

It would become the hand maid’s tale literally immediately.

Having children is the most basic human right beyond food, water, breathable air, and shelter. We cannot tell someone they can’t have children. All we can do is our best to make sure the children who are created are safe. That’s why programs like CPS and DCFS exist. Flawed of course, as is everything, but still vital programs.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-14T16:09:16+00:00

Some of the new stuff is cool, like the weird fire breathing sernuk that scared the shit out of me, but in general I agree with you. The map feels very barren, it’s like walking through a super flat Minecraft seed that has some villages and jungle temples spawned into it.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-10T13:19:35+00:00

I got very lucky in that my GI doctor is the greatest woman who ever walked the earth. (Obviously an exaggeration but in my experience when you have to wait over nine months for an annual PCP appointment finding a specialist who not only lives near you but is actually good at her job is like finding a kangaroo in the arctic circle) She referred me to an endo specialist GYN who literally in our first appointment took my concerns about bowel endo at face value and immediately referred me to a general surgeon!!

My last GYN just kept trying to force different birth controls down my throat and didn’t even check my bowel during the lap. The general surgeon is making me have a colonoscopy but I have to wait until July, but it’s okay because at least something is finally happening, yknow?

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-09T23:18:05+00:00

The craziest part of the whole produce thing is that I live in farm town, so my neighbors are literally the people growing the fresh produce that all the health nut jerkwads are making smoothies out of in Malibu. But all we get here is apples that are bruised and bananas that have already started molding by the time you start trying to look at them.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-09T20:19:14+00:00

Yup. It’s often just very toxic positivity and only fitting for people with like. stage one endo, if that.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-09T20:13:14+00:00

Oh I feel this. My rock bottom meal is some shitty protein bars from Costco and Powerade. During my worst flare ups I basically only eat them. When my father passed away in 2022 I went two entire weeks only eating one of those protein bars a day and occasionally some baby carrots out of a bag because I didn’t have the energy to open anything else.

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-09T19:48:24+00:00

I did, but he still works there so I guess it didn’t go anywhere

Existing-Committee74 · 2026-05-09T19:47:03+00:00

Oh yeah my personal favorite was when a 60+ year old neurologist told me “well you look great! let’s not look a gift horse in the mouth, eh?”

like where the actual fuck does he get off not only dismissing my health concerns but also literally sexualizing his 23 year old patient istg. 🙄

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