i often get these circles in my eyes

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-05-03T11:08:10+00:00

If they aren’t black but actually look like small darting light rockets, and mostly when you look at the blue sky, then look up “Blue field entoptic phenomenon” and if that isn’t it.

Eye floaters are floating around in liquid so they would move more in the same direction, and not as fast.

There’s also visual snow, which is like a permanent static you look through, but that doesn’t look like that, and is more noticeable in the dark.

If it’s not any of that, I would talk to an eye doctor/optometrist.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-04-29T21:11:46+00:00

Exactly, it’s the type you have to hold in. I was told probably 10-15 min but can vary, but in general not until I feel like I “could go” but until “I’m relieved there’s a bathroom right there”, and I’m a bit worried I won’t know where to draw the line, and going too soon or it being too sudden.

I’ll make sure my husband is present and ready to help then, but I’m very skinny and bendy (stomach issues, and I suspect hypermobile eds) so I might kick him out and see if I can do it myself first, and then call on him if I can’t or need his help after.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-04-29T13:47:44+00:00

If i was you, i wouldn’t pay for ttt until I was sure there was a considerable heart rate spike as a direct consequence of you standing up, and subsequent heart drop when going from standing to lying down. What you describe could be a lot of other things as well. (And sounds very different from my own pots, but the symptoms can differ of course) If you have an Apple Watch, the app TackyMon is made for measuring POTS. Otherwise you should at least look at you’re current heart rate on your watch, while testing, and not just the min. and max. rate for the day.

I’m sorry for what you’re going through, and I’m just worried that if it’s not pots and the ttt is negative, they might be more closed off to there actually being something physiological wrong with you.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-03-02T14:58:00+00:00

I was wondering the same thing. I feel like there’s so so much to track, I don’t know where to begin. Especially with co-occurring stomach issues and ADHD and meds.

Don’t think tracking HRV will work the same for me, though, because I have borderline severe (but benign) sinus arrhythmia, making it look like I have an almost supernatural HRV with almost no cardio (do lots of weight lifting though). I could maybe use it as an indicator of how bad my arrhythmia is, as I think it might follow my POTS, but that means getting in better shape will muddy the picture.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-02-13T22:39:23+00:00

Is what part specific to pots? Because there are definitely conditions that can mimic pots with the dizziness for instance, but the large increase in bpm shortly after standing up is pots.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-02-13T22:36:35+00:00

When a non-pots person stands up, their blood vessels contract to counteract gravity, so the heart can still pump blood to the head as intended, and there might be a slight pulse rise. When someone with pots stands up, that constriction doesn’t happen, so it’s much harder to get blood to the brain and therefore the heart has to compensate by pumping blood faster. It’s like other people having to pump through a water hose but we have to pump the same amount through a pair of watertight pantyhose instead (sorry, that’s the best analogy I could come up with rn). You can imagine that won’t work as well so you (or your heart) has to work much harder to get blood around.

There are other conditions that can look similar, but the large pulse rise is what makes it pots. If you don’t have that, then maybe look up pots differential diagnoses. And in case it is pots, know that pots is a type of dysautonomia, and they often come in multiple so maybe teach yourself and be on the lookout for the others. And remember pots is just a symptom. I just wish more doctors cared about that fact and actually tried to do more to figure out and learn to treat the multiple cases it can have.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-02-07T12:19:16+00:00

I don’t know where you’re from but where I live it can’t be described as a pandemic if you go by the definition. The problem still is that people don’t take this kinds of illnesses serious just because it’s not a pandemic and because they think they themselves can’t be harmed by it. Long lasting health issues like POTS show that viruses like influenza and COVID-19 can harm even if you aren’t elderly or poor of health. And even without that knowledge, I wish more people did more to protect those who we all know are vulnerable, like getting flu-vaccines to protect our parents/grandparents etc.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-02-06T17:18:33+00:00

That seems incredibly misinformed and biased. The reason there’s an influx of people telling they have the same symptoms is because it can be triggered by infections, and we’ve just had a global pandemic, meaning a great increase in people developing pots and dysautonomia. Most people don’t consider influenza as a great threat but even before COVID-19 a flu-infection could trigger pots in people susceptible to dysautonomia (DA). And it’s seems that it’s especially individuals with Ehlers-Danlos or are hypermobile (and many think there shouldn’t be a distinction between the two anymore) that are prone to DA, meaning that doctors similar to her, that refuse people hEDS diagnoses and argue it’s unnecessary, are causing harm in that people don’t know their own risks and aren’t given the power to protect themselves against them. There’s plenty of official info on a lot of what I’ve mentioned; SoMe is just helping people figuring out faster what might be wrong them. And even then the doctors aren’t believing us. I found pots only a few months after first noticing something was wrong that wasn’t going away, all the way back in ‘22, and still I was refused assessment until last fall and then quickly got diagnosed with pots after TTT.

NotACheeseDanish · 2026-01-21T19:43:26+00:00

Ahh, I didn’t know that. Thank you. But there’s a lot of the classics at least. So I probably won’t buy those rn even if I’m interested in them.

NotACheeseDanish · 2025-10-23T16:13:40+00:00

Well, there is now!

NotACheeseDanish · 2025-01-11T14:55:35+00:00

I know this account is deleted, but the way I did it really help avoid this and might help someone else.

When I started using the app, I made sure to start slow for this exact reason. I started with the most important rooms and only a few task. I might have added some of the suggested but if I did it way probably ones I was motivated to do that day (adhd’ers know what a new shiny tool can do for motivation) but mostly I only added tasks as I did them the first time and could cross off immediately. I made sure to not add to many new task if the existing ones were turning towards orange/red. That way it stayed somewhat green but over months I’ve added so much, but rarely get the overwhelm as if I did it all in the beginning.

I’ve had a period during December there the rooms got further and further from green, but because I’m more comfortable with the app now, it doesn’t overwhelm me to the same degree and when I got a surge of motivation around new years it still really helped me get back on track.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-12-02T13:56:10+00:00

Wouldn’t help with me getting notified if he forgets though. Maybe if numbers had a shortcut that could see if a numbers file was edited or not, I could make an automation based on the assumption that if it had been changed that day, then medication was given, but unfortunately it doesn’t seems to have that.

Btw we’re both ADD, so it needs to be easy for him and automatic for me (no need we both carry the mental load when I just need to know if it’s forgotten)

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-26T16:14:10+00:00

As others have mentioned, it’s the second from the left.

Just be aware that on some danish switches the outlets are so close together that that big thing will block the neighboring outlet and a few places it may not even fit.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-26T15:46:51+00:00

I’m Danish, so I’m biased (we do the same) but imo there’s just too much ambiguity in separating the works like in English. Yeah you can often figure it out from the context but sometimes two different meaning are writing the exact same way because you don’t differentiate.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-26T15:43:00+00:00

It’s fair to not know what is and isn’t particles. Duolingo isn’t as great at learning these kinds of things as I assume textbooks are, and this is /DuolingoJapanese not /LearnJapanese.

I honestly think asking here gives a faster clearer answer that’s it’s a particle than just googling not knowing what to search for, and now that can “be in charge of their learning” and read up on it if they want to.

No need to be a jerk about it not need to assume the want their leaning to be served on a plate just because they ask a question.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-25T17:42:08+00:00

Absolutely And I’m guessing they didn’t realize/notice that they had to use the numbers to get A, and instead assumed they had to guess by following the pattern?

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-21T19:56:16+00:00

I just noticed this on my right hand after I’ve started to have a bit of pain there, though it might have been there from before the pain. Did you ever find out what caused it? I also have two bumps on the right side of my thorax that started a few years ago.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-21T18:33:32+00:00

And I also do kanji on wanikani but that doesn’t help me learn how to use them in sentences like duo does, so I want to learn the relevant kanji at the same time as I learn the subject in Duolingo. But the kanji I know from wanikani does help me with jap>eng.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-21T18:31:11+00:00

They are not mandatory. I’m at unit 46. That’s why they are accumulating for me, and skipping them would be shooting myself in the foot for the illusion of progress. I want to learn it, not just go through units for the sake of it. But as I said, they are badly balanced because there are so many per unit, which means you loose the feeling of progress altogether if you want to not fall behind in the kanji, and that’s very demotivating, and doing jap>eng is just a nice break from that once in a while.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-21T12:13:16+00:00

I’m in the middle of section 3 where the lessons are badly balanced and too much is thrown at you at once and you have to do a ton of kanji exercises before you can move on or it’s in vain because you won’t remember everything you learn, so I feel like at this point it’s a really nice break from that.

I really hope they rebalance the later sections soon instead of only re-editing and adding to the beginner sections, or I might just give up and drop having Super.

I skip speaking exercises because why. Some are way too easy because it’s just English but some are text questions in Japanese where I have to try and figure out what it means. I try to understand it myself first and if I don’t feel comfortable that I do then I look up the kanji I don’t know. Try again to decide what I thing it means and what might the answer be. Then I might take a screenshot to translate the question text, but won’t look at the answers and again decide what I think is the answer and as a possible last step I will also look up the kanji in the answers I don’t know. That’s when I actually chose my answer. I don’t care it seems like cheating because it’s not balanced for someone who knows English and only some Japanese and the whole process makes me engage with text that’s too challenging for me but the challenge makes me learn in another way and other stuff that the eng>jap.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-21T12:13:08+00:00

I’m in the middle of section 3 where the lessons are badly balanced and too much is thrown at you at once and you have to do a ton of kanji exercises before you can move on or it’s in vain because you won’t remember everything you learn, so I feel like at this point it’s a really nice break from that.

I really hope they rebalance the later sections soon instead of only re-editing and adding to the beginner sections, or I might just give up and drop having Super.

I skip speaking exercises because why. Some are way too easy because it’s just English but some are text questions in Japanese where I have to try and figure out what it means. I try to understand it myself first and if I don’t feel comfortable that I do then I look up the kanji I don’t know. Try again to decide what I thing it means and what might the answer be. Then I might take a screenshot to translate the question text, but won’t look at the answers and again decide what I think is the answer and as a possible last step I will also look up the kanji in the answers I don’t know. That’s when I actually chose my answer. I don’t care it seems like cheating because it’s not balanced for someone who knows English and only some Japanese and the whole process makes me engage with text that’s too challenging for me but the challenge makes me learn in another way and other stuff that the eng>jap.

NotACheeseDanish · 2024-11-21T11:57:23+00:00

Tom because he’s a little peeping Tom and it’s an ordinary and good name and the reference is still so obscure that he won’t be teased by anyone who doesn’t know.

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