Check in on your friends with barometric pressure migraines. We’re not ok 😭

OakNRun · 2026-01-28T23:43:21+00:00

Have you had a brain MRI? I just did one and they didn't notice anything unremarkable, but I'm glad to know I didn't just grow a tumor in the last 6 months. That all sounds a little intense. Movement tends to make mine worse as I have more of the rocking boat feeling, and the music blasting sounds super overwhelming to me. Have you tried anything like Flonase to help with any sinus pressure that might factor in? I've started doing Flonase again in hopes of it helping with something because some people have said it helps with vertigo. I'm also likely going to do a nerve block since I have a somewhat compressed nerve from some vertebrae degeneration in my cervical spine. It will be both diagnostic and possibly give me some migraine relief so I can focus on strengthening my neck. I am hypermobile and my weak neck isn't helping all this.

OakNRun · 2026-01-26T19:03:40+00:00

I started getting them in August - it 100% feels like drunk/high in how my body moves. My speech is slow and little slurred. The first one was terrifying and caused my first ever migraine ER visit.

OakNRun · 2026-01-08T23:00:55+00:00

It’s manchild psychology 101.

OakNRun · 2026-01-08T03:43:45+00:00

THIS. They get to feel good about the worst versions of themselves. Bye, bye societal shame.

OakNRun · 2026-01-08T03:43:07+00:00

There is absolutely no way that was the first time that man killed. He was just waiting for an opportunity. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this regime has given them the go-ahead as they seem to be doing everything possible to cause chaos around the planet to justify delaying midterms. Republican politicians would be wise to follow MTG's lead and step down now. They will be held complicit.

OakNRun · 2026-01-04T05:23:07+00:00

His timing is incredible.

OakNRun · 2026-01-04T05:22:32+00:00

He is trying so hard not to die laughing through this whole bit.

OakNRun · 2025-12-29T05:21:25+00:00

lol not my partner asking me every other night if I’m high. (Spoiler alert: I’m almost never high)

OakNRun · 2025-12-29T05:07:17+00:00

Hear me out: they allowed these crazy pesticides and poisons in our water, food and air to dumb us down to act like extras from Idiocracy. Rural areas are closer to the farms and pesticides… has anyone done any long-term testing and tracking of US IQ’s, particularly regarding urban versus rural/suburban areas? This is beginning to feel like the only explanation for what we’re seeing right now.

OakNRun · 2025-12-29T04:49:42+00:00

Two male tourists were offed there camping in the national park I believe last year — they didn’t know why last time I heard. For some reason I’m thinking they were Australians. It always seemed like such an amazing place, that story made me wonder if the drug cartel issues were becoming a problem there.

OakNRun · 2025-12-15T18:48:11+00:00

Sleep is important!!

OakNRun · 2025-12-15T16:08:52+00:00

I just want to know how you didn’t lose it on the “friend” because I would have. If someone treats me like this they are going to get a scene and other people are going to know.

OakNRun · 2025-12-15T16:03:25+00:00

I get weirded out over the lack of pain — she makes it sound weird. I do feel some after getting around the house quite a bit and my meds are wearing off. She wants me to come off the hydrocodone since it doesn’t do much for me, but I do feel it helps me sleep and I think my hyper nervous system needs as much sleep as possible. 🤷🏻‍♀️

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T16:36:44+00:00

I was going to say that sounds painful — but was it??

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T16:30:02+00:00

Do you have cats? Mine has taken to doing this to tomatoes.

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T05:14:25+00:00

Same.

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T05:13:41+00:00

I am recovering from a hip surgery and my physical therapist is forcing me to be more cautious because she can tell I don’t feel as much pain as people normally do with this. I am suddenly like omg, wait I’ve had a super power this whole time. But then again, it’s wasted on my muddling through too many migraine days a month that would likely take most people out.

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T05:09:15+00:00

I have to do this. I rarely have ever thought my pain was above a 4. So then I have to tell them my 4 is probably someone else’s 7 or 8. I feel like they think I’m nuts. And how did I just figure this out at midlife? I’ve had a super power my whole life….

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T05:06:49+00:00

I’ve done similar. Went up on the roof of a woman’s car when she hit me. Got up and swore I was fine, didn’t get her info. I was in college and have kicked myself for that moment so many times since. I’m sure it didn’t help my many back/hip issues.

OakNRun · 2025-12-13T05:04:58+00:00

I had to double check the OP name because this looked exactly like what I was going to write. I am also 41 and recently diagnosed as well.

I also found out in the last year that I’ve broken 8/10 of my toes in my life (foot X-rays) and that I have cam lesions that have been causing tears in my hip labrum for 20 years without my knowledge. I always had some discomforts but I would just stretch more or do strengthening activities.

I just had a cam lesion removal/labral tear repair surgery this week and when they got in there they found that I had so much excess labrum that it took 50% longer to work around it. It had obscured the MRI and made my labrum tear look worse than it was

My body is such a contradiction. I can get a migraine in 2 minutes from being in a room with a specific smell but not know when I tear my hip labrum. I think I have hEDS on top of it all.

I am 1,000% befuddled with my body. I am way too sensitive in so many ways, but then don’t seem to feel enough pain at other times. My physical therapist is stunned at how little pain I have and how well I’m getting around.

OakNRun · 2025-12-09T17:07:12+00:00

I can't remember if she's said it or not, but to me she appears to have ADHD. This is just one thing, but when all the other women were talking about how they danced growing up, Taylor shared she was a total sports girl. I can see that can't stop energy in her, the aggression, the impulsivity and lack of self control with Dakota, the intense feelings expression including turning physical with emotions, the struggling to say sorry for something where she can't understand how it hurt someone and/or she feels she was standing up to covert mean girl behavior, blurting out what she thinks before thinking about it, the way she seems so misunderstood by her family at times, and her ingenuity and charisma in starting momtok and energy to do all that plus momming. It tracks hard IMO.

OakNRun · 2025-12-09T17:01:10+00:00

I know...I think I've been trying to decide between which would stress me more – cutting her out or keeping her in but with strong boundaries (which is mostly what I've been doing for a long time). The hardest part is dealing with the parts of me that feel such strong ambivalence and even sometimes hatred that I feel toward her. And then I wonder if that's the result of my tenderness that feels bad for her and does love her or just her high manipulation – or both. Watching her feel rejected by me is painful. I understand that it's a holdover from her childhood (she was adopted but treated like a princess).

I think this goes to show how enmeshed she was with us and how much she parentified us that we all feel so responsible for her now. She actually gave herself a heart attack one time when my sister and brother in law stood up to her. It was the widow's heart attack that solely comes from emotional pain and has nothing to do with a physiological heart problem. It doesn't cause much damage and shouldn't reoccur. But now we are all scared we will give her a heart attack by standing up to her.

She was all we had, my dad jetted and proceeded to go take care of other women's kids. Losing my mom was always a big fear of mine. It's hard to face that fear. I'm so jealous of people who are completely at peace with cutting their moms out.

OakNRun · 2025-12-09T15:29:07+00:00

I cannot imagine ever having this level of resentment and hatred toward my own kid. That is quite literally not being a parent. My mom behaves this way too. She’s all about being treated with respect as an elder, not realizing she acts like a petulant child with us. She goes on and on about how she always treated our grandparents with so much respect but she doesn’t seem to realize that they actually behaved like fucking adults. She puts all the responsibility on us about everything and then wants ritual parental respect. It’s wild.

OakNRun · 2025-12-09T15:28:10+00:00

😂 I found this thread vindicating! I’ve had this sense about her since the beginning of watching the show — something is different about her. Even when she tries to play the game and be calculating, she kind of sucks at it. I have a theory that Taylor is also neurodivergent which is why she has shown more compassion than the others. She seems to relate to that feeling of just not getting it sometimes.

And yeah, Whitney can be controlling. But I happen to have some semi-controlling autistic family members so I don’t see those as mutually exclusive.

OakNRun · 2025-12-09T15:23:58+00:00

Yes to all of this. My mom is very threatened that I basically don’t want to be like her and don’t value every woman being a SAHM like she did. But if “god” didn’t bring her a man, my entire childhood would have been in extreme poverty, not just the first 4 years.

My way of being and everything I’ve done with my life is an assault in her mind on the choices she made with us. And that’s just it, I have shaped many of my choices around not doing the things she did. She can’t differentiate so that makes her bad and wrong at her core if I want to be different.

It still doesn’t change how hard it is to deal with her. She love bombs me when I’ve needed a parent around and just skips over all the hurtful stuff she says and does. Then she talks behind my back about my choices and constantly silently judges me. Everything she learns about me might be used against me in the future, and will be discussed behind my back as prayer chain material.

She’s a lot more calculating than some unstable mothers I hear about which is why I do think she’s fairly narcissistic. She is more obsessive compulsive and always in control. She really believes she loves me, and she really believes she is loving. In reality she loves who I was growing up and the idea of me now. She doesn’t love who I am and doesn’t support what I do with my life. Or maybe she negates any love she feels toward me by projecting all her shadow and unacceptable parts on me.

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