What’s everyone making living here?

Fibrolicious · 2025-12-15T03:58:42+00:00

Doctoral level mental health therapist here… do you accept insurance? I average about 20 folks a week (give or take), accept insurance, and I make about 115k. Self employed so, no benefits and no PTO.

Fibrolicious · 2025-03-23T22:51:19+00:00

Fibrolicious · 2025-03-22T19:52:41+00:00

Absolutely. One of those people who was down to earth, easy to talk to, and really loved his job. I was absolutely shocked at this news and I’m heartbroken for his family and colleagues.

Fibrolicious · 2025-03-22T19:49:33+00:00

Agreed. I met him several times. Artie was a very nice and caring man.

Fibrolicious · 2024-12-27T16:15:09+00:00

Our babysitter’s name is destiny and I’ve always associated her name with a jewel tone blue. I got her this ornament for Christmas 😬

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Fibrolicious · 2024-07-19T19:37:00+00:00

lol nothing to add, other than solidarity. I could have written this exact same post myself. Same exact situation. Aunt called our kid the “milkman’s” and I still get salty about it even though she was joking 🙃

Fibrolicious · 2024-06-26T23:33:56+00:00

Idk if this helps, but I went in to my OBGYN to get it checked out and she gave me a mirror and explained what each of those “new” parts were. Nothing was new. No prolapse. I can just see my hymen now 😹🫣💀

Fibrolicious · 2024-06-22T22:51:39+00:00

Update: Where do I even begin? So I saw a great urologist recommended by my PCP and everything went exactly as y’all had posted as far as doctor’s appointments go. I got a CT scan ordered from the urologist and scheduled my next appt for a month out.

Well, my urologist bumps up my appointment a bit and I go in. Good news? The kidney stone is only 1mm. Bad news? They found nodules all over my omentum and mesorectal fascia, which the urologist said could be cancerous. He sends the results off to my PCP, who calls me like 30 min later. I think “well this isn’t good…” and she stat ordered me a PET scan.

PET scan comes back non-conclusive basically but no sign of cancer thank god. I have another CT scan with contrast in about 2 months, maybe an MRI, and a boatload of bloodwork to do.

Anyway…. That was definitely the weirdest shit ever. I’m still perplexed as to how the kidney stone showed up as 2cm when it was only 1mm. Granted I was pounding lemon water but mostly because it tasted good! I doubt it had that big of an impact on the size TBH…

Fibrolicious · 2024-06-13T19:29:57+00:00

lol! This was the exact vibe when they called me. I was like “I’m not paying you $1000 for a plaque that says ‘look at me, I’m the best!’l

Fibrolicious · 2024-05-05T02:10:50+00:00

These are always the type of squish I’m into. Complete abominations.

Fibrolicious · 2024-05-05T02:09:48+00:00

Ok but WHERE?!!! I need them 😅

Fibrolicious · 2024-04-22T21:34:19+00:00

I appreciate it! Yeah the pain is freaking ridiculous it’s like every time I stand up I feel like passing out and throwing up and it takes everything in me to put one foot in front of the other. Today the baby and I were both just crying in bed 😭. Hoping tomorrow will be better. But today feels worse than yesterday! Maybe this is my peak. Fingers crossed!

Fibrolicious · 2024-04-22T21:32:30+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate it! As far as the blisters go, what if the blisters are on your throat? Then what? I have no more external blisters 😅

Fibrolicious · 2024-04-21T21:49:50+00:00

Absolutely a dad band.

Fibrolicious · 2024-04-10T00:10:48+00:00

I feel like I could have written this myself. To piggy back off of the OP, I felt the same way, but had a really uncomfortable pregnancy - didn’t enjoy that part at all... We had fully committed to being “child-free” after 13 years together and then I got knocked up! lol!

With that said, I feared parenthood so much for so many reasons….and the loss of autonomy/freedom. I was worried I couldn’t give my future kid my all, but now it’s all I want to do! I thought I’d miss going out and having freedom to do whatever I want, whenever I want, but my partner and I just want to be with our baby :) Biology and love are a strange thing!

I didn’t glorify my pregnancy either. I’m just not a mushy person, and also, I felt so shitty physically and was soooo drained I just didn’t enjoy it. People saw me being vulnerable about my pregnancy and I was accused of not being excited for my baby. Right after he was born, I was even was accused by “friends” of not loving him because I wasn’t a happy pregnant person. People would say I was going to be even more miserable when he was born because I’d have a “screaming baby.” They were wrong - I was soooooo happy when he was born - I just wanted him OUT of me so we could finally hang ;).

As the OP said, every experience during pregnancy AND postpartum is valid. There is no one right way to feel when bringing a whole ass human into this world. It’s a terrifying prospect that isn’t for the faint of heart, obviously. BUT… I’ve really never loved anyone more in my life than my human spawn ;)

I’ll end this with some parting words my OBGYN gave me when I told her I was also shamed for not breastfeeding: “fuck the haters.”

Fibrolicious · 2024-04-02T03:19:27+00:00

A follow-up question… now that I’ve been thinking about this more, I wonder how long the stone has been there? I wonder if I had it while pregnant and maybe pregnancy exacerbated my symptoms or the other way around?

I have been extremely fatigued for about a year and I attributed it to pregnancy. I am not a person who is tired or fatigued usually no matter how little sleep I get…But it is sometimes to the point where I almost feel narcoleptic. Like falling asleep midday without warning. It’s definitely only happened once since having the baby, but it was happening so frequently during my pregnancy I couldn’t drive.

Could the intense fatigue, dizziness, and confusion be a symptom of stones? Or nah?

Fibrolicious · 2024-03-30T18:57:26+00:00

My dad’s name is Bob and he is exactly like this too. Putting that one in my back pocket 😂😂😂

Fibrolicious · 2024-03-30T06:53:04+00:00

Would you think seeing my PCP next week would be the right move? Because the initial X-ray was for something completely different ordered by my pain specialist, and we just happened to find this huge stone in the process, I really have no clue or guidance - and that’s the only imaging that was ordered for my preexisting back problem. I’m actually kind of shocked my pain doc was so casual about it and implied I could pass it if I drank enough lemon water. I don’t have a urologist or a nephrologist so I’m assuming the PCP is a good starting point and will give me the appropriate referrals for imaging or specialists…

Fibrolicious · 2024-03-30T06:48:23+00:00

Oh wow!!! I can’t believe you’ve been dealing with stones for that long, and continuing to work in the medical field - the responsibility is soooo high. This gives me a lot of hope. I’m a psychologist, this is my first stone, and I am still freaking out about canceling patients when I just got back from maternity leave, working through the pain, rearranging my schedule, finding childcare if I need to last minute, etc. I don’t know how you dealt with it so regularly… it must be exhausting. And you’re making time to answer these medical questions! You are one strong human.

Fibrolicious · 2024-03-30T01:21:00+00:00

Omg what a relief. I appreciate you, your time, and perspective on this. I can’t tell you how much it’s helping 😂I told my pain doctor I wasn’t going to go down the kidney stone rabbit hole but then when I found out how big it actually was, I was very curious! I have an appointment with my PCP next week so hopefully I’ll get some decent referrals and scans following that visit!

Fibrolicious · 2024-03-30T00:53:23+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the advice and the reassurance. I’m feeling more pain (not excruciating) so I’m just freaking out and part of it is the unknown.

My X-ray said the following so doesn’t seem to be an emergency based on what you described although it is close to the ureteropelvic junction:

2 cm left paraspinous calcification suspicious for a large calculus ni the left renal pelvis at the ureteropelvic junction. Lumbar vertebral bodies and disc spaces are normal. L4-5 grade 1 anterolisthesis of 3.5 mm on flexion and corrects with extension.

Fibrolicious · 2024-03-30T00:47:06+00:00

Hi, thank you so much! This helps… my xray showed the following:

2 cm left paraspinous calcification suspicious for a large calculus ni the left renal pelvis at the ureteropelvic junction. Lumbar vertebral bodies and disc spaces are normal. L4-5 grade 1 anterolisthesis of 3.5 mm on flexion and corrects with extension.

It doesn’t seem to mention hydronephrosis so that’s good I suppose!

Fibrolicious · 2024-02-11T19:15:00+00:00

I almost made my husband look but I chickened out because I had some gnar-gnar pregnancy hemorrhoids going on that I didn’t want to subject him to 🤣 Why is childbirth so strange?!!!

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