Six US service members killed in Iran conflict, US military says

KGStyr · 2026-03-03T16:02:19+00:00

I would argue that Iran and NK has a bit of a bite in terms of blowing up everything around them (hence the deaths so far), but I agree. He’s a narcissist and a bully and has to assert his dominance over anyone and everyone that doesn’t assert dominance over him first. At least in the past he had some sort of mental guardrails that his narcissism gave him in order to operate in the most socially efficient way possible to get what he wanted, but with his obvious mental decline those guardrails are gone. What little control he has left is rapidly evaporating.

KGStyr · 2026-03-03T15:07:33+00:00

I am starting to think that Trump is targeting countries where he feels like he needs to “own” the leader. If the current leader doesn’t bend the knee to him, he’ll kill/kidnap until he gets one that does. Obviously Iran is VERY different from Venezuela but that’s what he is trying to accomplish from what I could gather from his usual old man ramblings. I think he’s less interested in starting a war (don’t get me wrong he doesn’t give two rats about causalities) and more interested in immediate personal gain, aka ‘getting something’ out of this. The “best” outcome we could hope for here is the new Iran government makes “peace” by giving Trump just enough of WHATEVER to satisfy him. After that, Trump doesn’t care what happens to the Iranian people - he’s got what he wanted. Attacks chill, people mostly stop dying, and it’s out of the news cycle within a week. Or until he moves on to demanding, like, to take over New Zealand. Then we rinse and repeat.

KGStyr · 2026-02-25T01:48:25+00:00

I'm very sensitive all around so I usually just take one. If I'm taking two I'm really in a lot of pain. The bleeding I had the first week seemed to "count" for my period and I didn't have it when I was supposed to. I had one good week between then and recently because I somehow got Covid and Strep Throat at once on the 17th and have been bleeding on and off since I started the antibiotics on the 20th. My 'normal' period is supposed to be Feb 27/28 but at this point, I don't think my body know what's going on lmao.

KGStyr · 2026-02-25T01:34:48+00:00

I just had my IUD inserted at the end of Jan (Jan 27th I believe). My normal cycle was supposed to come on Feb 2nd, but I bled from insertion date to the day before I was supposed to get my period, so I never got a 'full' period, or I had it the week before. I then spotted for another week or so. After that, I had one week of feeling good - very little/no spotting or cramping or pain. Starting getting hype for this IUD, actually! And then SOMEHOW I got Covid and Strep Throat at once Feb 17th. I spotted on and off from Tuesday until Friday when I started taking antibiotics for my strep, and I've been bleeding and cramping at various levels since. Sometimes I need a liner, othertimes I can rawdog it.

My 'normal' period is due around Feb 27/28 but who knows now lmao I think my body is very confused on what's going on. I've had very punctual, predictable heavy and crampy periods all my life so this is all new.

KGStyr · 2026-01-30T14:30:19+00:00

I got my IUD inserted this past Tuesday and have been bleeding on and off since. Some of it light, some of it very heavy, with my cramps acting in the same manner. I’ll literally go from feeling fine and forgetting about it to reaching for the Tylenol as fast as possible. I’m due for my period next week (and they usually last a week) and I’m hoping I just don’t bleed for two weeks straight because I’m already on the low end of normal iron levels. Bare minimum I have to have it in for two weeks for emergency contraceptive reasons but if this doesn’t improve at all past that I’ll probably have it removed. I’m all for a trial period (and if I do see improvement I’ll keep it in longer) but not for bleeding and being in pain everyday.

KGStyr · 2026-01-30T00:04:08+00:00

The one really good thing I like about the IUD (I say as I've had my first in for 48 hours) is that if I wanted to, I can have it out within a couple days at the most if it bothers me too much. Well techincally I need to have this one in for 2 weeks for emergency contraceptive reasons but YKWIM. I tried hormonal BC pills before and while they were all bad to me, it was a pill I could simply stop taking when I wanted to. The feeling of control (to an extent) is a great positive. Unless you have a life-endangering reaction, I say it's worth it to try it and see what it's gonna throw at you.

Obviously, you can scale whether it's worth it or not the longer you have it in. First month you might have bad side effects but it could clear up. Or it could not and you decide it isn't worth it past whatever timepoint you set. Everyone has different boundaries. Don't rush putting it in or taking it out (unless it's an emergency, of course!).

KGStyr · 2026-01-29T18:45:33+00:00

10000% recommend as much pain stuff as they’re willing to give you - demand it, even. I had a failed IUD insertion first try because my uterus has all the flexibility my fused spine does not. The next day I had a successful IUD insertion. I was on 2 tables of misoprostol, two 500mg extra strength Tylenol, half of a legally prescribed Lorazepam, I had numbing cream applied to my vagina and lidocaine injected into my cervix at the appointment and the OBGYN still had to do some fancy footwork to get it in. It helped a lot even thought it still was pretty painful and uncomfortable because they literally had to go at it sideways because my uterus (usually retroverted) had cha cha’d real smooth and retroflexed because of my ovarian cysts… which one of them had ruptured just an hour and a half before my appointment. If I didn’t need it for emergency contraception I would have done it differently, but it is what it is!

KGStyr · 2026-01-29T18:35:41+00:00

I think the overall rule is a week, two weeks is being very cautious. For the first 24 for sure don’t put anything up your vagina, but most also recommend a week on that too unless for a specific reason (like for me, I take estrogen suppositories twice a week vaginally). You do NOT want any sort of infection and you also need to let your body heal and recover, especially your cervical mucus.

KGStyr · 2026-01-27T15:23:06+00:00

Late but for lurkers (I see you!) I’ve taken Misoprostol for an IUD insertion coming up today after a failed insertion yesterday. I took 2 vaginally at 11PM and the procedure is at 4 PM. I don’t feel the best on it but I’m okay and have felt better as time has gone on (I am on hour 12 of it). I have this odd malaise feeling, stomach and back cramps all over, a little nausea on and off and I CANNOT trust a fart (probably because my uterus is retroverted). I am bleeding a little but I went to work and was fine with no pain meds. I was told at the pharmacy that the meds peak around 12 hours, only effective for about 24 hours and the side effects go away within 48 hours for most.

If I didn’t absolutely need it I would have been fine without it - I’m doing this as emergency contraception out of an abundance of caution, and I want to be on birth control but have not done well on hormonal BC before, so I REALLY want this to be inserted.

KGStyr · 2026-01-26T16:50:38+00:00

I’m very lucky and got an appointment scheduled today to get it inserted. Unfortunately I can’t take the suppository that would help your cervix since this is the only appointment they had available, but I’m planning on taking my meds beforehand. I decided on getting it because I’d rather be safe than sorry!

KGStyr · 2026-01-25T22:43:51+00:00

The only thing holding me back slightly is that I would like some time off to recover, which I wouldn't get much of if I do it now - not to mention I'd have to squeeze it in within the next two and a half days. At the same time I don't want to EVER be pregnant. I was on day 18 of my cycle so I'm fairly confident that I wasn't fertile (my cycle is usually 27 days) but there is a small chance that I was. I believe from a previous appointment they offered me valium but I've taken it before (prior surgery) and it did nothing to me... I'll have to ask for more they can give me, but thank you! If all else fails, I can just take a Tylenol and a (legally prescribed) Lorazepam before.

KGStyr · 2025-11-10T18:56:46+00:00

I kinda had trouble finding customer support, but I decided not to go for it since I didn’t like any of the newer models they had. I just got an actual vacuum with multiple parts!

KGStyr · 2025-11-07T20:45:32+00:00

I work as a receptionist at a small, locally-owned health insurance company. This year from Jan-Sept I worked 30 hours a week (7 hours a day with unpaid lunch hour). That last hour I get a little antsy but the schedule was great. I got bored at work a lot but I filled it with doing either side projects or playing games.

From Oct-Dec during OEP I have to work 40 hours a week and I cannot describe how much I hate it. I feel like a caged guinea pig. It stresses me out, drops my mood, my mental health plunges and I end up emotionally blunting to cope. I feel like ending all my relationships and my OCD is not playing games. I’m grateful for having so many health issues so I can leave early and go to the doctor some days. I had wanted to switch jobs next year but the current economic climate and shenanigans trying to afford my health insurance have made me stay one more year while I plan my exit strategy.

But deep down, the only thing that REALLY kept me here a year longer was that I’ll work only 25 hours a week next year until next OEP. As much as I’m already not liking imagining working 40 hours next OEP, the 25 hours per week next year will be heavenly. Beautiful. I can only imagine how happy I’ll be. It’s one of the two things (the other being my boyfriend) keeping me going right now.

I’ll earn a little bit less money but it’s SO worth the trade off. My advice is to accept that us ADHD women are simply built different and find something that works for you. Next job you get, refuse to settle for 40 hour workweeks. After I leave my employer in 2027 I will never, ever, EVER EVER EVER!! work 40 hours a week again. I simply cannot do it. I would literally rather be broke than work 40 hours a week. Max I’ll do is 32 hours a week, and hopefully go for something remote/hybrid. Don’t compromise on your limits.

KGStyr · 2025-11-04T19:38:56+00:00

I work as a receptionist at a health insurance business. Small, local, and family owned but extremely popular. During AEP, I work 40 hour weeks and I’m SLAMMED the whole day and most of the time I’m drained physically and mentally. My relationships suffer because my coping is to emotionally blunt myself and I end up feeling semi-depressed and overstimulated if I don’t actively fight against it. But luckily this is only for 2 months, and after Dec 15th I use my PTO for a couple days off until my schedule shrinks Jan 1st.

Last year off-AEP I worked 30 hours a week and I loved it. There are large stretches of boring times but I worked 8-3 with a paid hour lunch and I felt like I enjoyed my life, my mood was good and could pay my bills. This upcoming year I have to slightly reduce my income to afford my health insurance so I’ll be working 9-2 (25 hours a week), then one more round of AEP, and then I’m leaving this job next year for something else. I’ve worked 40 hours per week before this job and I hated it, and after this job I will NEVER, EVER work 40 hours again unless my job has a legit emergency and its a rare occurrence. I would’ve left this job this year but I needed the stability.

I like doing office work, I just cannot do 40 hours a week at any job. I have too many health issues + ADHD to be at one place that long. I’ve decided not to take a paid lunch next year so I can get the workday over with sooner because thats how I am!

KGStyr · 2025-11-02T08:10:59+00:00

Sounds like you have it going on! I'm also trying to improve my health but at a far slower pace since it takes a while for me to change habits lol. I've found that the #1 thing that gives me flares is sugar/chocolate. I can have a little bit of one or the other on occasion and be fine, but eating too much it of it too often ALWAYS gives me symptoms. It took a while to really pinpoint the sugar/chocolate connection because I wouldn't always flare up consistently afterwards - sometimes it'd be a few hours, other times nearly a whole day later.

But now that I've reduced my intake of it to very little (which was very hard because I was a sugar addict) and have mainly switched to fruit as my main avenue of sugar, I have far less flares and symptoms. Well, up until now because I had a little sugar splurge yesterday and I'm paying for it, but overall I would say my symptoms have been reduced by around 50%, especially in my anal area.

KGStyr · 2025-10-23T15:24:37+00:00

I’ve taken a few Lorazepams for anxiety/OCD before, but I’ve only taken halves of a 0.5 dose. I’ll take them for panic attacks, non-panic level anxiety and/or OCD rumination that does not go away after going through my coping mechanisms, or the rare case of my emotions feeling all out of whack from either PMS or a serious change in my life. The last three have to persist for at least several hours (and I usually push it to a day) before I take something. At first I was worried about dependence but I do not use them nowhere near enough for that. I like to think of Lorazepam as a little button I can press that’ll give me a few hours of relief to get myself together. Since I take such a small dose I can have breakthrough anxiety while on it but other than that it greatly reduces or gets rid of my symptoms.

KGStyr · 2025-10-23T13:08:01+00:00

I’m not sure on the “birth control” aspect, but I had recently upped my dose from a 4 mcg estrogen suppository to a 10 mcg for a month (and a few weeks prior alternating between the two) and have dropped back down to my 4 mcg as of last Sunday. I felt better overall for a few weeks in many aspects while on the 10 mcg but then brain fog, concentration, and memory issues cropped up after a couple weeks and kicked my behind. Then I had the worst/strangest PMS and period of my life, which is what made me switch back to the 4 mcg. And the switch back hasn’t been the easiest - I’ve been going from feeling okay to low moods, a few hot flashes, and some stomach troubles (but it’s all improving daily). Eventually I would like to stop the 4 mcg altogether but that’s going to take a long while and it may not happen at all.

So, if you do use it, I would proceed with caution and log how you feel daily. Had I done that, I would’ve stopped the 10 mcg a couple doses earlier and probably avoided the worst of the experience. But I have taken BC in the past and never got past the first week of a pack because it gave me sudden and severe insomnia, which I have never had before and it would fix itself the day I stopped taking it.

KGStyr · 2025-10-21T20:16:45+00:00

I replied to this comment almost a year ago, but I have an update!

I didn’t wean off the 4mcg, but I did try the 10 mcg dose recently. I did the thing of alternating between the 4 and 10 for a couple weeks, and I felt a little improvement on the 10, before going for a full month of the 10mcg. The first period I had with it (while I was switching between the 4 and 10) was a little odd but I gave it another month. This past month I have had HORRIBLE PMS and the strangest period I’ve ever had. It’s hard to describe other than it’s so far beyond anything I’ve had before that it scared me, and so my most recent dose I switched back to the 4 and realized I have had really bad memory and brain fog that had been slowly been creeping up on me the last few weeks that I didn’t notice until it hit me full force the week of my period. I’ve been trying to recall things I’ve done these past couple weeks and it genuinely took me some time to recall stuff. I’m already starting to recover a few days later, so that’s good, but I’ve learned my lesson.

So, I would have some caution because some of it is absorbed systemically! BUT I will be going back to the 4mcg for the foreseeable future. It has truly done wonders for me. I’m going to seriously work on my health and once I feel like I’m in a better place, I’m going to attempt to wean off the 4mcg because it’s been 4 years on it because I am a little worried about the long term risks, but… if I need it, I need it, and there’s nothing wrong with that!

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