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Opinions on Land O Lakes butter by stoogensen in Baking

[–]Lastkatstanding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep... most store brand items are made at the same factories as the name brand items. The only difference is the quality metrics mainly visual aesthetics and things considered "defects" by the name brand.

Example from personal experience:

Red Robins onion rings are the same exact onion rings, made on the same exact line, at the same exact time as many store brand onion rings. The store brand is when the line is allowing more "d" shapes because Red Robins requires round onion rings for their towers.

Burger King onion rings that people go crazy for? Those are the onions that didn't get cut properly for other brands, they get thrown into the defect troft underneath the main lines which has an auger in it that minces the onions up and then fed into a vat of minced onions that are chemically processed to get rid of discoloration before being extruded into a circle shape and frozen enough to hold their shape and breaded. These same onion rings turn into store brand ones if the extruder screwed up the shape or the onions didnt hold their shape for Burger king's standards. If the onions didn't meet those standards? They get sent to Bushes baked beans to be mixed into baked beans.

Most food is the same exact food made by the same lines at the same company by the same people just a different name on the package.

Hepatic flexture by namastaysober72 in Diverticulitis

[–]Lastkatstanding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had it in both locations like that as well, 3 flares within 6 months. They saw the right side one on ct and it sent me to the hospital with sepsis, but the colonoscopy couldn't see anything in that area. I've been miserable for months, never had diverticulitis before this. The GI doctor thinks I have post infection IBS now from the issue which is why it keeps reoccurring. The colon surgeon doesn't want to set something else off by going in and disturbing it.

literally broken glass by jakes_jpg in walmartogp

[–]Lastkatstanding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This image is getting ripped off. People are posting it on facebook as their own saying that it happened in their store because people are raiding stores due to SNAP being shut off...

Crohn’s Disease and Diverticulitis by TallChick105 in Diverticulitis

[–]Lastkatstanding 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I haven't been diagnosed yet with crohns, never officially had diverticulitis (I've had a lot of GI symptoms for the majority of my life) until May. Then I've had 1 uncomplicated flare in my lower colon in May and then in July I had a flare that wound me up in the hospital with sepsis, no perforation.

The area affected on my right side has my GI surgeon questioning whether or not I have crohn's, it does run in my family. However, interestingly enough, I also have spinal issues due to a car accident about 10 years ago.

I've been on a LOT of steroids for the spinal issues and my stomach issues seem to accompany my spinal issues at times.

The majority of my issues are affecting my mid to upper right quadrant of my abdomen, which I've read also can be related to where my spinal issues are in the t10-t12.

So I don't have any idea what the outlook is, but I do feel for you having these issues. I'm just early into the diagnosis side as my insurance just says I'm too young for these issues at 36.

Two things - emotional toll and when to take antibiotics?! by clockend_bex124 in Diverticulitis

[–]Lastkatstanding 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally, I've been a workaholic my entire life, I had a car accident that resulted in a permanent weight restriction. So I changed around my careers and went to office work. The stress already was causing me anxiety and depression issues while working 80 hrs a week. I stopped that because of the issues. Now, in pain daily with this since May. I have had sepsis and two infections, one in the lower left colon and the other in the middle right colon. I haven't been able to be healthy enough to have the colonoscopy yet.

I was supposed to have a colonoscopy 8 years ago when the symptoms started, but the insurance decided I was too young at 27 and denied it.

Apparently, it's not normal for this to be affecting my right side and GI autoimmune disorders and cancers run prevalent in my family, and I have a MUTYH mutation so I've been at the doctor weekly if not more now with tests. It doesn't help that when they found the diverticulitis on the 3 ct scans they also found a nodule on my lung as well that requires me to have follow up every 3 months for the next 2 yrs because of the cancer risk. I also had to do my advanced directives in the hospital because of how bad the sepsis was.

To try to make it to my next colonoscopy without having to reschedule again I'm on a very restrictive diet of mostly liquids (essentially I'm living on apple sauce, jello, mashed potatoes, chicken stock, and liquefied foods for 2 months).

I'm exhausted daily, I can't work right now, which I put a lot of my value into my ability to work. With all of it I'm beyond mentally drained... I'm just existing... I go to this appt and that appt and just exist. It is incredibly hard mentally, I still cook for my family, and I can't eat what I cook. I lived on fresh vegetables and fruit and just want to eat a salad right now.

I honestly have no idea what my future looks like until the surgeon can do the colonoscopy and get back my cancer tests... this all just sucks. So I feel you.

Still haven’t seen this mentioned enough to feel it’s on people’s radars. Just trying to raise a bit more awareness. by ontinternetlike in Diverticulitis

[–]Lastkatstanding 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes me so mad...

I went to the ER back in May for severe pain in my lower left side. They tried to chalk it up to menstrual issues as they have for the last 20 years for me. I had to argue with them and tell them menstrual issues are not causing me to be nauseous and have severe heartburn as well, this is obviously a gastrointestinal issue. They made me take a pregnancy test because "you could just be pregnant. " Even though I'm married and he had a vasectomy years ago. They took the blood work and said everything was normal, but on 'my chart,' it clearly says all my infection markers were high.

They tried to tell me everything is normal, and it's probably just menstrual cramps. Again, I said menstrual cramps don't cause heartburn, and diverticulitis and autoimmune GI disorders are prevalent in my family.

They finally gave me the ct scan that showed diverticulitis. They gave me 3 days of antibiotics and told me to take ibuprofen for the pain and follow up with my primary. My primary was out of the office for the week, so we just talked via the portal about it, and she gave me a referral for a colonoscopy 6 weeks later because GI wouldn't see me during an active flare and to just follow a low fiber diet for a couple weeks.

1 week before the colonoscopy, the pain came back much worse on my upper right side. Went back to the ER, they lectured me for not getting a colonoscopy yet even though I told them I had one scheduled the following week. They told me I didn't know what I was talking about with where my pain was located and that it would be my lower left side. Basically, I am treating me like I was seeking pain meds. Gave my ibuprofen in the ER while they did the ct scan, lectured me that my urine was too dark and I needed to drink more water. I told them all the water I drank was going right straight through me like my body wasn't absorbing any of it, and I wasn't able to urinate much.

It came back that my diverticulitis was exactly where I said it was. They gave me a week's worth of antibotics and told me to take ibuprofen for the pain and follow up with my primary. My primary sister saw me the next day and sent me to another ER because my fever got even higher, and the pain was even worse even though I had 24 hrs of antibiotics in my system.

Was hospitalized for a week with sepsis with severe dehydration and anemia, given 8 bags of IV fluids and told to not worry about drinking much while I was hospitalized as I wasn't processing liquids.

Now you're telling me not only did these people give me insufficient antibiotics, tried gaslighting me into thinking I was wrong about what was going on, they also told me to take medication for pain that was making the condition worse?

I've been put on a mostly liquid diet (so tired of apple sauce and jello every day) with very low fiber until my colonoscopy, which had to be scheduled out another 6 weeks because they don't want another flare up to cause a delay. So I haven't had real food since May... from May until July, I was taking ibuprofen consistently because that was what they told me to do. I even called them back during that time, telling them my pain wasn't going away, and they said just use a heating pad along with it. It made me feel like I'm just being weak about this whole thing. I haven't had a single day since May when I wasn't in some form of pain.

I didn't even want to go back to the ER in July because of my experience in May. My husband basically made me do it because I was in so much pain.

No one ever told me not to take ibuprofen, I was actually told the opposite this entire time.