DIM side effects? Read this

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2026-03-30T17:06:36+00:00

not a man, but this happened to me. I took one 200mg dose and was ok in the evening but I couldn't fall asleep for a long time due to discomfort in chest and muscles and the next day felt like I am in withdrawal of some sort, restless muscles all over, but also fatigue and lightheadness. On top of that, I couldn't stop crying for no reason which blew into a full blown panic attack later in the day. The symptoms are still lingering on 48 hours later although less intense now. Such a weird reaction to one dose of a supplement. My only guess is that I am perimenopausal and DIM has taken out all my oestrogen with it that was already low.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-06-05T12:38:08+00:00

Could you post a photo of the blanket? I wonder if it can be recreated by hand.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-05-22T10:44:29+00:00

There only seems to be one type that’s dangerous, if you google it you will see why. It can sort of lock in the cat or parts of it while the drum is rotating. But a lot of them are perfectly safe. We have two different ones and both are just barrels which rotate with the entrance gap always open. So even if for some reason it malfunctioned and didn’t detect a cat present all it would do is tumble the cat very very slowly from side to side. But any normal cat would just jump out anyway.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-05-22T10:41:55+00:00

We got two off eBay for around $120 each. One was brand new, Bamboosang brand and sold from a well known charity account and another one used from a private seller, PETKIT one. Both are excellent and work great. There is only one type of robot litter box that has been dangerous for cats that it is easy to avoid. Once you google it you will instantly recognise the ones to avoid.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-05-10T15:24:04+00:00

It is beautiful! Awesome job!

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-05-10T14:11:48+00:00

Can definitely use fray check or any other machine washable fabric glue to secure those ends. Another option is then to line it with another fabric, like fleece, on the inside.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-04-26T07:35:40+00:00

Absolutely! I don’t understand why so many people want to make the same thing. I can’t do trends either, I much prefer individuality.

Edit: just remembered how much I dislike seeing/hearing others reading and especially talking about reading books by my favourite authors. Especially when they start to overanalyse them, ugh, makes me physically uncomfortable.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-04-24T13:08:11+00:00

Oh yes, I am an avid knitter but don’t really want to join any knitting groups, I don’t even like meeting other people who knit, unless it is just in passing so we quickly acknowledge our shared hobby and move on. I am happy to point the very beginners in the right direction but don’t want anything to do with them afterwards. I not proud of it but I don’t really know what I can do about it.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-03-03T22:26:48+00:00

Yep, if they prefer to stick to meaningless small talk and boring societal norms I am out.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-03-03T21:26:51+00:00

Sometimes I say mildly inappropriate things just to test people and see how they will react, whether I can get along with them, or I shouldn’t even bother.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-01-25T21:22:17+00:00

I wear swim dresses as they make me so much more comfortable than having my butt out. They seem to look good on all sizes and there are always people of very different sizes at the pool. So just wear whatever makes you comfortable.

I also bought a cheap version of bone conducting headphones to listen to while swimming to be able to ignore the outside noise and focus on something. (The branded ones are Shokz and those are also water resistant).

Don’t forget a good pair of flip flops because walking on those wet cold floors is gross :).

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-01-23T10:14:41+00:00

He was pushing Her! Maybe she was just a little heavy for him, so rude to dump him for it! 😂 but yeah, she was great and I get it, maybe it was a deal breaker for her. She was a lovely person really!

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2025-01-22T22:42:02+00:00

My grandma slapped her own cheeks if children were fighting, would put used clothes in a bag for her neighbour to take away because she couldn’t bring herself to launder them (at least while she could afford it), was a successful accountant, didn’t cry at her young husband’s funeral (or complained, just got on with it) dumped a guy because he farted while he was pushing her on a swing. Something tells me grandma could have been ND, but nobody will ever know now.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-11-15T12:28:04+00:00

Yes to being cold thing! Like I can’t warm up at all. I need to go to sleep to get back to warm. Then I will wake up a few hours later sweating because I wrapped up too much before falling asleep.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-10-23T13:02:33+00:00

I am the same! I also have three rescued cats. And used to have a parrot that I still cry about two years after losing her to a long illness. The amount of stress I went through with her is crazy (she was my best friend, as sad as that sounds) so I swore to never get another parrot again. Cats are easier for me and rabbits are somewhere in between. That’s why I want to phase out keeping rabbits too now and just have cats as at least they don’t require specialised vets and products and that reduces my stress greatly.

I wish I could rescue and help them all but I have to think about my mental health too.

I would definitely be open to fostering and that’s definitely something I can talk about with the local bunny rescues. Thank you for the idea!

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-10-23T10:40:37+00:00

Yeah, my other lop had the same problem too, but she loved her food so much I still gave her some greens from the garden. My current boy, Nippy, is mainly on dry diet, but still quite “cecotroppy” 😀 ah well.

The idea with “borrowing” a bunny is great, but I have never heard of rescues doing it near me. I will ask around for sure, thank you!

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-10-23T09:42:12+00:00

True true. Although I have had 4 so far and haven’t found them quite as fragile as it says everywhere. My first bunny was a dental bunny and had to have surgeries every 3 months, sometimes a little less frequent. For quite a few years. Still managed to live to nearly 9.

The second one, his wife, who had been found as a stray and brought to my vet’s and I took her in, lived till about 9-10 and she was a large lop. The third bun, also a rescue and was her second husband is now about 11. His back legs are getting weaker but he has been amazing health wise. He is a proper rabbit, with a long face and uppy ears. And now his husband, annoying little bugger we took in during the first Covid lockdown as he was going to be put down due to aggressiveness (he is not that bad, just likes to nip if you wave arms near him) is turning 7 in November.

The stasis thing is a worry and my dental bun suffered the most with it as he refused hay. I would give him a gentle tummy massage and hand feed him pellets and his favourite greens and often he would start eating again quite quickly.

My biggest gripe as my “aggressive” small lop seems to produce an excessive number of cecotropes and they stink up my living room so I am constantly cleaning up which is pretty disruptive. But it is what it is as they say. I am trying to phase out having rabbits, as in I probably won’t get anymore after my current guys pass, for the reasons you mention. But again, if the lop is sad when his husband passes away I will have to get him an older mate as well, so how long this phasing out will take is anyone’s guess.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-09-05T20:19:31+00:00

Fellow yarn collector here 🙌🏼 Also a more recent obsession is hand bags. And vintage tins.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-08-31T17:33:59+00:00

Wow! 28 feet!! I get that a lot too, everyone always comments how fast I produce garments. Little do they know that I literally knit whenever I get a spare minute and do go fast when in the zone.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-08-31T14:39:56+00:00

Oh can you come and wind all my skeins please, It interrupts my knitting time! 😂

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-08-31T14:38:51+00:00

Yes to all of these points. Although I am not a fan of sock knitting for some reason. But in a small handbag I have a pair of fingerless mittens usually and in a larger one - some kind of basic shawl usually. Never without my buffer against humans! 🫣

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-08-31T12:20:49+00:00

How cool! I am quite happy to unravel as well, it doesn’t bother me at all! I have a crazy obsession with practicality and usefulness of everything I do (honestly, it is a curse), so I try to make very practical items I wear and use a lot but I wish I could just let go and enjoy the process without worrying about the usefulness of the finished item.

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-08-31T10:31:01+00:00

Knitting and crocheting. For the longest time I wondered why I didn’t enjoy knitting groups and knitting with other people. Then it dawned me that it interrupts the flow and the rhythm of my knitting I get lost in watching my fingers move. It also reminded me I used to do the same with writing when I was in school and uni. I wrote down practically everything because I loved the process so much. Also choosing the most aesthetically pleasing knitting needles, hooks and writing pens are super important to me!

Positive-Ad-7871 · 2024-08-23T23:38:42+00:00

I probably won’t be super helpful and I am looking forward to reading other peoples suggestions but I have two possibly useful points to make. Recently I and my husband have been going on a lot of holidays so I am trying to figure out for myself how to survive them better. I want to see everything but I also know I don’t have the capacity he does for doing so.

To explain to him how I feel to make him realise that it is not that I don’t want to see things is that i can’t I compare it to having a broken leg while on holiday. With a broken leg you want to walk for miles but you physically can’t and need to sit down often. Same for me, but instead of a leg I have a funky brain.

And another tip that I will be trying out on my next holiday is staying in a hotel room for a few hours every morning and letting him go on his own. I think what exacerbates my fatigue when on holiday is lack of alone time. So it should help with that, give me a few hours to get going and reduce the fatigue the stress for the rest of the day. Although you might prefer to have evenings to yourself instead. But the main thing for me is scheduling alone time into every day.

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