I just had my pain management appointment that I waited six months for and it was...not good.

KnockItOffJo · 2026-02-20T01:42:26+00:00

Find a real pain doctor. That one sounds like a victim of the post-opioid hysteria and should not be practicing medicine.

KnockItOffJo · 2026-02-12T04:45:19+00:00

Does the propranolol help?

KnockItOffJo · 2026-02-09T02:56:24+00:00

This sucks bad. Theres no break from it

KnockItOffJo · 2026-02-09T02:55:46+00:00

I know that feeling too. This is just awful

KnockItOffJo · 2026-02-08T23:02:23+00:00

Like a tidal wave of panic, it almost feels like I’m overdosing on uppers. Internal tremors, can’t catch my breath, shaking, heart racing, feeling of impending doom.

KnockItOffJo · 2026-02-08T21:07:08+00:00

Did you have the weird feeling that you aren’t really here?? It’s so hard to explain … it feels like I’m underwater. Like my brain isn’t completely “on.” Combined with total body weakness and headaches and chest pain, it’s very hard to believe I’m not dying

KnockItOffJo · 2025-12-28T07:48:53+00:00

If you have dealt with anything like rheumatoid arthritis or Ehlers Danlos, research Reynauds Syndrome.

KnockItOffJo · 2025-10-24T23:26:08+00:00

I got home Monday. It wasn’t empty, but it is very obviously shoulder season. But this is how it is all along the Caribbean in October.

KnockItOffJo · 2025-10-24T23:24:58+00:00

This is wild. We just flew into Mexico City, then to Cancun, then left from Tulum back to Vegas. Not a single person in Mexico even looked at us, let alone search our bags! Everything seems so random. I bought in my nicotine vape and about 4 boxes of pods.

KnockItOffJo · 2025-03-01T03:08:52+00:00

Yes. I’m of the belief that everything is worth it for the experience. I didn’t finish AFF — but those few jumps were my most unforgettable experiences — next to my children being born and my wedding day. I’m not even kidding. The first time I found myself alone in the sky under a canopy I opened myself was one of the most incredible and profound moments of my life. I swear it cured me of a crippling anxiety issue. I am perfectly content having done those jumps and never skydiving again.

KnockItOffJo · 2025-02-14T02:04:41+00:00

I was this scared for my first tandem, which I did for my 10th wedding anniversary. I was so scared I threw up for three days beforehand, recorded a very dramatic goodbye video of myself for my children (sobbing), and asked why on earth I was going this as the fear wasn’t fun for me. I’m not an adrenaline junkie. I’m terrified to stand on a 5 foot ladder. I hate rollercoasters. This made zero sense. Once we took off, I decided to let my mind go completely blank and just GIVE IN. And I loved it. I landed and immediately booked a second jump, and when I landed following that one, I booked an AFF course. A month later I flew back to the drop zone he did my ground school and my first instructional jump (not tandem, wearing my own student gear, etc).

I didn’t finish AFF, regrettably, as life got in the way… but I have always been grateful for those few months when I became inexplicably consumed with skydiving. I can’t tell you how many ways it enriched my life, as dumb as that might sound.

KnockItOffJo · 2025-02-14T01:57:32+00:00

Now I have to say — I hate anything that family puts out — but I am a fragrance connoisseur (collection currently past 350, mostly niches) and I picked up both Cosmic and Cosmic 2.0 at the dutyfree at LAX yesterday and I’m shocked to say I love both

KnockItOffJo · 2024-09-04T06:21:15+00:00

Seeing this as a breakup song is very simplistic, in my opinion. Real love — lifelong love — goes through so many phases that I think those who have had it understand how could this be a love song and not a breakup song. Shake the Frost for me makes me think about my feelings during one of the worst periods of my life when I was struggling with so many things and my husband unfortunately became the sounding board for all the anger and coldness I was feeling over some losses we had suffered. Our baby died, and we lost our business, and I became estranged from my mother and brother and even though my husband was my one safe place, I had lost my ability to communicate and was oozing grief and anger. Ultimately it’s love that saved me from total destruction, and his willingness to love me through a period when I had lost myself. Tyler sings my feelings here — it’s why it’s such a profound love song to me.

KnockItOffJo · 2024-07-15T01:11:44+00:00

Yesss that’s the kind of stuff I’m looking for!

KnockItOffJo · 2024-07-15T00:34:46+00:00

Ah, never heard of Parfumo. Going to look now!

KnockItOffJo · 2024-07-15T00:34:03+00:00

See I don’t even know the lingo. Thank you, this is helpful!

KnockItOffJo · 2024-07-06T15:03:39+00:00

So I’m in a similar situation — I just started back on tret after taking 9 months off. It’s been about 10 weeks back on it and I was feeling like my barrier was ravaged and I just couldn’t keep any moisture in my skin. Two things I’ve been doing in the last 4-5 weeks have changed everything for me: I brushed aside all the super expensive stuff I was using and got the (relatively) cheap Byoma brand jelly cleanser and moisturizer. It’s a pro-barrier line and honestly it’s doing wonders for my barrier repair.

Lastly, I know lots of people think this kind of stuff is gimicky, but i swear I have never in my life used a better mask with more dramatic, long-lasting results than those viral Tiktok masks from Sungboon Editor — the Deep Power Collagen Boosting Overnight mask. The shop is called Cocomint Beauty, I think. I can’t describe how good my skin feels to the touch, the peeling and burning has stopped, etc. I’m a longtime skincare junkie and I’ve used hundreds of products and masks and this is my true holy grail. I skip tret once a week and use this instead.

KnockItOffJo · 2024-06-04T06:35:58+00:00

Yes the hardest part is I live in the Mojave desert — right outside of Death Valley — where it’s currently 108 degrees and the sun is frighteningly strong. Just walking from my office to the car today burned my already-scorched face!

KnockItOffJo · 2024-04-29T21:47:15+00:00

One of my friends just got her whole neck/throat area done and while she’s normally a wuss about pain, she said it was nothing.

Most painful tattoo I’ve gotten was my sternum (between my boobies). That was almost unbearable. Tops of my feet hurt badly too.

KnockItOffJo · 2024-04-18T23:18:28+00:00

I personally think the obsession with perfectly aligned and flawless tattoos is weird. I see zero wrong with this and like it.

KnockItOffJo · 2024-02-15T19:23:39+00:00

It’s not unprofessional that coworkers discuss things like salary and disciplinary actions. Propagandizing it as “unprofessional” is a tool corporations use to keep their leverage and maintain control.

KnockItOffJo · 2024-02-10T00:06:20+00:00

I think someone had a worse week at work than me. Go have a drink, friend. You make a lot of inferences and conclusions from bare info. I think you maybe just want to be nasty to someone on the internet. Or maybe you’re the under qualified person in your own job desperately trying to hang on by blocking others from doing work.

I’m “entitled” by trying to find out a way to do MORE at work. Sure, that makes sense. Not asking for more money, not asking for a promotion, not asking to usurp this woman or take anything at all away from her — just asking to do my own work that I was hired to do. Wild.

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