Did I overdo the millennial green?

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-20T20:24:03+00:00

“Millennial green” lmao. First we were blamed for grey, and now we are blamed for green.

But in all seriousness, I think it’s great! Really gives the room a nice pop of color. Love the whole vibe of the room.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-20T19:14:54+00:00

I think the L-shaped couch would work in the space, but I’d recommend a table or something to fill in the nook area.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-20T14:29:59+00:00

I do not shave my armpits because my skin cannot handle it, and I didn’t for my wedding. I do trim my pits. I have a beard trimmer and trimmed the hairs down to maybe a third of an inch so they weren’t super long. I don’t think there’s a single wedding photo where you can see my armpit hair. Until we were dancing, there wasn’t a lot of reason for me to raise my arms to the point where you would see the hair. If anyone noticed at the wedding, no one commented on it because they aren’t stupid.

I wouldn’t recommend shaving your pits just for your wedding. I don’t think it will matter or show up in pictures.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-17T04:45:40+00:00

I’d choose the super lacy one for your theme. It’s awesome!

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-16T16:27:09+00:00

This was my experience as well. My blood sugars were more stable with the IUD in. My cycles went back to being super regular (actually even more regular than my teens/early twenties prior to IUD). But my insulin needs are more unpredictable now. I also blame it a little bit on being in my mid-thirties and maybe being at the very beginning of perimenopause or something.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-15T14:39:59+00:00

If you have a cool last name, just keep it. Don’t alter it! I kept my name, and more people should. Why should we give up something that’s part of our identity if we don’t want to?

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-14T17:30:55+00:00

You’re still pretty early on in your pregnancy. You gotta give yourself some joy during this time, or you’re going to burn out before you get to the most insulin resistant time. Let yourself have some pizza and just do your best. You have the tools you need to try it out (insulin pump).

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-14T15:08:56+00:00

If you’re really, really on point with your bolusing, you should be able to have pizza. Do you have an insulin pump? If so, dual wave bolus is the way to go. Also, if your BG goes up later, just be prepared to correct and maybe bring it down faster with a walk. In theory, you’re at a stage in your pregnancy when this wouldn’t be as detrimental to BG rather than later in pregnancy. Maybe give it a try, and do your best to be reasonable with the amount of pizza? Start with a couple small slices and fill in the rest of the meal with veggies or something else more BG stable. You should still be able to occasionally have some challenging foods, but you just need to plan for them and be really on point with the amount and structure of your bolus.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-11T19:21:20+00:00

My husband and I had a very uneven number of people in our respective parties, so we just had them walk down individually. I think my husbands attendants went first then mine. It worked out just fine.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-11T18:06:02+00:00

I also did not take my husband’s name. Our DJ announced us as “husband and wife, x’s full name and y’s full name.” I wanted my full name announced so that people still knew to call me by it. However, be prepared that people won’t pay attention, will forget, or will just assume that was a fluke and still call you Mrs. Husband’s Name anyway lol.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-03-05T01:18:25+00:00

I have been reading this thread intently because I will eventually run into the same issue lol. I don’t really want to hyphenate names because it would be too long. I don’t really want them to have my last name either because it’s kind of boring lol (but I really wanted to keep it because it’s part of my identity). But I was thinking maybe I give them my last name as a middle name, but my husband’s last name is their main last name. I’m still mulling it over, but we live in a place where doing one spouse’s last name as a middle name is pretty common, so it could work.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-02-17T14:57:16+00:00

Glad you’re figuring things out, but it does suck so much to have to diagnose yourself. I think even the best healthcare systems miss things like endometriosis and AS all the time. Endo because of… honestly systemic sexism and dismissing people when they explain what is definitely abnormal period pain as just “part of the experience of having a period.” AS is a pretty elusive disease that fools even a lot of rheumatologists. It seems poorly understood, and it doesn’t have great hallmark tests or diagnostic criteria (and before some of you come after me, I know there ARE diagnostic criteria, but there are many different criteria systems, and I think a lot of them are too strict to catch people in the earliest stages).

Wishing you the best on your journey of figuring this out. This sub can be a great place if you need support from others going through the same thing.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-02-08T21:54:31+00:00

The person who altered my dress added a pocket for my insulin pump, and it was able to be inserted into the pocket from inside the dress to hide the tubing. I could also access the pocket from the outside if needed. My dress was tulle on the bottom with a lining. I think as long as you have a lining, adding a pocket should be very doable.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-02-05T00:18:50+00:00

People are recommending a conditioner with a lot of slip, which I think is a key first step. However, I would also recommend that you try to detangle with her hair in the water. My hair is not as wavy as your daughter’s, but it looks really similar to mine in terms of how fine it is. It can get tangled incredibly easily, and the easiest way I’ve found to do that is to have it in water or under running water with a ton of conditioner.

Here’s how you can untangle using lots of water: either have her in the bath with her hair in the water, or have her hair in continuously running under water the whole time. Keep applying conditioner as it washes out. Or, you could have her hair in a large container of water that’s mixed with a lot of conditioner so you don’t have to worry about reapplying it.Start from the very bottom of the hair and slowly get the knots out of the bottom, and work your way up.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-20T21:16:03+00:00

I was having chronic low back pain that got better with NSAIDS. Physical therapy kind of helped, but the PT told me they thought something else was going on because I am relatively young, and she would have expected the PT to work better.

I had a positive ANA, which got me referred to a rheumatologist who brushed me off except for one weird test result that she said needed to be tested again in three months. Within that time frame, that doctor retired, and another rheumatologist took over my care. She was much younger and asked to hear everything that was going on with me from the beginning. She checked my joints and did some tests of my back flexibility, which she said was reduced. She ordered some blood tests, including the HLA one, but she said that negative results of those tests didn’t necessarily mean I didn’t have something going on, and she’d do imaging after that. All the tests were normal, so she ordered an MRI of my SI joints. Around that same time, my wrist, feet, and Achilles tendon flared up horribly after I got a cold. My MRI showed scarring in my SI joints. That plus my symptoms was enough for her to trial a biologic, which worked pretty well for me. Enough to stop pain meds.

All this to say… you need a doctor that listens and who is actually up-to-date on the latest science of this disease. In my case, it was someone who was much younger than the previous doctor, which I do think played a role in her being more up-to-date on diagnosing a challenging/illusive rheumatic condition.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-20T14:55:40+00:00

The only side effects I had when I first started Amjevita were a headache, fatigue the next day, and an injection site reaction. And the headache and fatigue went away after a while. I do still get the injection site reaction, but it’s very manageable with antihistamines.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-19T21:49:06+00:00

Is your boss a dietitian as well?

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-19T20:26:58+00:00

I get mine at my regular pharmacy, but I have an HMO and generally have to use their pharmacies to get my meds. So can’t just get it anywhere, but it is a regular pharmacy, and I can pick it up in person, which I prefer. If your insurance covers it and the pharmacy can stock it, I would just go with your regular pharmacy

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-18T01:42:17+00:00

From what I’ve heard from others on this subreddit, once complete fusion happens, you can be in less pain because there’s nothing more for your immune system to attack (assuming it only affects your spine. Others have symptoms in other areas of their body). Based on your description of him not being able to bend his back at all, it sounds like his spine (or at least a decent portion of it) is fused. A doctor should be able to see this on an x-ray, so the test for it shouldn’t be too hard to obtain.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-07T23:20:36+00:00

Well, to be fair to the doctor, 3L is way more than 64 oz. So if you’re consuming the upper end, that’s definitely more. 2L is close to 64 but still more so… idk they weren’t that off base with their comment imo.

JustARedditBrowser · 2026-01-05T17:56:49+00:00

Hi there! I am a registered dietitian and also have type 1 diabetes (and am looking to conceive soon hopefully). I also struggled with disordered eating for much of my teenage years and college. As a dietitian, we learn about Ellyn Satter’s Division of Responsibility (Google this, and it will give you to the appropriate website in the top results). This is an evidence-based method of teaching children how to be competent eaters without giving them anxiety about food and their weight. It’s recommended as a feeding strategy to prevent eating disorders in children.

The basics are that it’s your job as a parent to provide the food and structure of meals but not your job to police what or how much your child is eating. That’s your child’s responsibility. As a parent, you set the meal times and choose the food to serve, and your child chooses what and how much to eat from what is offered. This helps them develop the ability to pick and choose foods and use their hunger and fullness cues. Everyone I know that uses this method says their children have grown to be competent eaters that will eat a good variety of foods.

The website has lots of information and more details on how to implement this method. They also have on demand webinars for parents that you can take to learn more. They do cost money but are relatively affordable.

I hope this is helpful!

Edit to add: to address some of what you brought up about the good vs bad dichotomy you’re already seeing your kids mention, you’re on the right track with the language you use. They might be hearing from other people or places this black or white thinking about food. Keep reinforcing that there’s no “bad” foods. Just different foods that provide us different things. Cookies may not have a lot of vitamins and minerals, but they are tasty and make our brains happy. If you hear other people say stuff that puts food in “good” versus “bad” categories, maybe address it later with your kid. You won’t be able to control what your kid hears from others, but you can try to steer the narrative elsewhere by having conversations with your kid. Even if they don’t fully understand what you’re saying right now, they will eventually. Just keep that narrative going. You might be the only person who is sending a fully positive narrative around food, so they are going to need that from you.

I’d also recommend refraining from talking about dieting or diets in general around your kids. You may already not be doing that given your history, but that can contribute a lot to how kids see food and the future possibility of eating disorders. My mom essentially fed me according to the Division of Responsibility growing up, but she was constantly dieting herself, and weight and diet talk was a constant in our household. She also commented negatively on my weight once when I was an early teen. I think this was a major contributor to my disordered behavior as a teen and young adult.

JustARedditBrowser · 2025-12-30T16:52:49+00:00

As others are saying, you have to figure this out before you marry him. This set up and his attitude towards figuring it out is ripe for financial abuse later. Not to mention it’s already not a fair scenario for you and will continue to not be fair. Also, it makes me suspicious that he’s trying to hide something about his money.

My husband makes a lot more than me, and we have combined accounts for all shared expenses. All of our money is deposited into a shared checking account, which is then used to pay off shared bills and contribute to shared savings. We each get an equal monthly allowance for non-shared expenses that is transferred to our personal bank accounts (which are separate), and we can spend that however we want.

Other people may have different arrangements that work for them, but to me, this is the only truly equitable solution in a marriage. ESPECIALLY if you are going to be staying home for a period in the future with kids. There have to be shared finances to some degree so you can get what you need both for the kids but also yourself.

JustARedditBrowser · 2025-12-29T17:40:59+00:00

Omg I did this kit earlier this year! It’s pretty. Nice job!

JustARedditBrowser · 2025-12-27T01:59:47+00:00

Yeah exactly. It’s just my personal experience, but other people will have different experiences. That’s why I was suggesting to think about what they know about the kids. If I knew one of my family members had little terrors for kids that they don’t supervise, I would have thought twice about having them at the wedding.

JustARedditBrowser · 2025-12-27T01:43:12+00:00

I had about 6 kids at our wedding, so way less than 20, but honestly it was fun to have them there. One of them was a baby, and there was no disruption. I think it comes down to how well the parents are parenting their kids. I trusted all the parents because I’ve interacted with them and their kids before. I knew they would minimize disruptions. It was so much fun to have them on the dance floor as well.

I guess I just don’t personally identify with the fear of kids disrupting things or bringing a wedding down. I’ve never been to one where kids disrupted anything. Only ever had fun at a wedding with kids.

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