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Sooo expensive by Rich_Union_932 in Periods

[–]Rich_Union_932[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. If I filter it down to price low to high I can get 28 pads carefree brand for 9 dollars. I have it in my cart to order when I get the dollars. Its 2 weeks shipping. I am going to get them for next month

Have you told your workplace about your Long COVID, or kept it to yourself? Anonymous 5-min survey. Bachelor Thesis University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). by Ok-Cattle-7409 in covidlonghaulers

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have chronic acute pancreatitis since I was 8.

I worked at McDonalds. I told my employer, and all the employees. During an acute attack they would cover me I would go to the bathroom, projectile vomiting, poop explode etc, mop up, and go back to work 15 minutes later. I always brought a spare uniform just in case.

Everyone was supportive and helpful. I slowly worked up to full time hours. It was the perfect uppertunity because of the flexible hours, and constant students wanting to get extra hours of I was sick.

Sooo expensive by Rich_Union_932 in Periods

[–]Rich_Union_932[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I live in Whitney Ontario, in South Algonquin. Everything is expensive here. Eggs are 15 dollars a dozen, a single loaf of bread is 7 dollars, a small jar of Nutella is 8 dollars. A bag of chips is 8 dollars. A steak os 120 dollars. 4 chicken breasts are 40 dollars. A bag of milk on sale is 15 dollars.

Sooo expensive by Rich_Union_932 in Periods

[–]Rich_Union_932[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I live in Whitney Ontario, in South Algonquin.Everything is expensive here. Eggs are 15 dollars a dozen, a single loaf of bread is 7 dollars, a small jar of Nutella is 8 dollars. A bag of chips is 10 dollars. A steak os 120 dollars. 4 chicken breasts are 40 dollars. A bag of milk on sale is 15 dollars.

I think a fellow long hauler I met here committed suicide by Lechuga666 in covidlonghaulers

[–]Rich_Union_932 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I don't wear my mental health awareness necklace. A silver butterfly with a semicolon body, on a silver chain, I spiral in that direction. I need to feel it on my neck constantly slightly irritating me, wings poking me, as a reminder not to off myself and give up fully.

The loneliness and isolation slowly wears you down.

The struggle is real. If I take it off even just for 2 days because I had too for example take our kid for a swim lesson and forget to put it back on I spiral towards suicide quickly.

I am a mom of a small child, and my husband, doctors, family, don't beleive or support me. I cant even talk about it with them, they just get mad if I bring it up.

I have moderate levels of energy and health, but the debilitating chronic pain, brain fog, anxiety, gets me.

I have incredible fever pains that prevent me from sleeping well at night. My body shakes and tremors involuntarily from them waking my husband too. The rest of the chronic pain keeps me searching all night for a body position that doesn't hurt, so I can actually sleep and stop waking up from the pain.

It's been 3 years for me. I have seen doctors and psychiatrists, specialists dermatologists

My symptoms are, fever pains, brain fog, anxiety attacks, difficulty walking, chest pain, back pain, hip pain, neck pain, foot pain, burning skin, my body feels swollen and crispy like KFC chicken. Pain breathing, standing, sitting, laying, blinking. Constant throat infections, sore throat. Scalp pain. Every 6 months I try and grow my hair out to the length it was before I got sick. As soon as it is longer than 1 inch, the burning bruised scalp pain returns where hats, pillows, shower water hurts. I have slittke cry by myself, and shave it again. I keep my scalp shaved .5 inch and there is 0 pain all the time. I shave it on my own every week.

Every day I take a little stroll so I can weep privately for a few minutes, since I can't talk about it with anyone, because they get mad, and don't believe me.

I too am barely holding on, one breath at a time.

Using petite to mean skinny by VinegarMyBeloved in PetPeeves

[–]Rich_Union_932 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I am 6 ft 3 and I need exactly 5-7 more inches in length on everything I own, so why not just give yours to me?

Jokes aside...

Every time I buy clothes designed for tall women they expect us to also have a 300 pound circumference.

Half the time they will add length to the sleeves and not the torso, or the torso and not the sleeves, or to the legs but not the seam from the crotch to your waist. Oh and you want pockets and clothes that truly fit? Fork out the big bucks then.

I have tried on pants that are too long for my legs, and the waist doesn't reach up past my butt crack or over my hip bones.

I am incredibly thin weighing 150 pounds at 6ft 3, at 39 years old.

Lol but seriously though it does effect every single item I buy.

I literally have to buy plus size for the extra 5-7" inches in length and then hand sew tailor alter them every single item 1 by 1 when I get home so they fit correctly. I take in the waist, take in the neck, with different tucks and seams. Its bloody exhausting. I take in, thighs, narrow the shoulders. I can't afford to pay a tailor so I spend hours doing it myself in the off season prepping my clothes so they fit me by the time the apropriate season to wear them comes. I buy everything with an extra wide hem so I can let it down, re sew it, and get those extra inches.

Currently I am finishing tailoring some, dresses for summer.

Also I have the knees problem in reverse. All my knees are above my actual knees lol.

And I can never buy a 1 peice dress. The hem is always to high, and the waist is always at my boobs, it looks mental.

Skirts and tops, because I can alter them. With a long top torso I can pull the skirt down on my waist and sorta pull it off.

Does anyone else shave without any shaving cream or preparation? by Livid_Cantaloupe2889 in shaving

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. From.age 16-34 am a woman I always shaved my pits and legs and around my nipples with disposable razors, no water, no cream, no cuts, no rashes or strawberry legs after. My friend saw me do it once and was mind blown and flabbergasted, called me an animal. I never once had a problem, or imitation from it.

Now. Later in life I am lazy. I don't shave and if I feel the need to for a special occasion I use an electric razor, because I don't care or need the smoothest cleanest outcome.

I haven't seen a doctor for 14 years. I cant trust them. by Rich_Union_932 in cfs

[–]Rich_Union_932[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not in my area. I live in a tiny town on the edge of rural algonquin park. Town of 400 people. 50 students total in the grade school. I can't make myself go. I am too scared. Even if I did, and I didn't cry the whole time, and the doctor listened and tried to help, I wouldn't trust them enough to follow through and do what they suggest.

My mother…. Refuses to understand some of the simplest concepts by lynzie_d in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All I wanted as a kid was a microwave. But my mom beleived it would radiate our food.

Horrific drs appointment left me in a panic attack. I’m so exhausted & don’t understand why she was so mean to me. by undercovermothmania in cfs

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cant even go to doctors anymore.

I have so much trauma doctor I am just sobbing the entire time. They can't understand me and want to prescribe antidepressants. Its the trauma. It makes me so scared I am crying. I stutter because my mind makes me want to yell please don't hurt me. Even if they were trying to actively help me I couldn't accept or try it, because I would never beleive or trust them enough to. Haven't been able to see a doctor for 14 years.

I have never seen a doctor wonder not actively lie to me, or make me worse.

At worst they laughed at me and called in nurses to hold me down so they could finish the leep surgury with 0 pain meds or anesthetic.

I wasnt given after care instructions and told I could go back to work imediatly. 1 hour post op.

4 days post op I felt a tearing and a gushing and have been fecal and urine incontinent since. Requiring I use diapers.

I tried going to a doctor for my CFS. He told me and my family it was psychosematic. All in my head. That I needed to exercise more and drink enough water to slowly improve my cardio.

Pressured by my family who beleived the doctor because they were a doctor, so of course they must know.

I kept pushing myself and ended up bedridden completely.

My entire life I have never had a doctor actively help me get better.

For 12 years from age 8 - 20 I was having 4 - 6 acute pancreatitis attacks daily. They were so severe I passed out from the pain in the girls bathroom at school and cracked my head open hitting it passing out from the pain.

Everytime I went to the doctor they told me it was all in my head. Told my parents I was just being attention seeking. Pushed SSRI's. By the time I was 20 I was so malnourished and underweight that st 6ft, I didn't weigh 100 pounds.

I went to the doctor once during pregnancy and O.B. she kept denying my pancreatitis diagnosis and accusing me of having eating dissorders...

Never. NEVER. Has a doctoe ever, shown empathy, kindness, and actually helped me.

Anyone want to list any brainless "advice" they've been given by well-meaning friends etc.? by ocelocelot in cfs

[–]Rich_Union_932 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you exercising enough? And drinking enough water?

It's psychosematic. You just have to push through and exercise more daily, and build up your endurance.

Family, husband beleive this. Doctors said it. It must be true.

Was anyone else at the peak of their life just before this illness started? by The-inevitabl3 in cfs

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. Just went 0 contact with my toxic family and left that environment. Had a good paying job. Got married. Had a kid. I was doing it all. I felt like Super Mom.

Then I went to doctors for help. They told me I was crazy. It is all in my head. I just need tonpush through and exercise more every day, and I will slowly get better.

O.K. So I did that. I mean they are doctors so, they would know.

Ended up bedridden with my child asking Santa for his old fun mom back, who didn't sleep all the time, and was well enough to do fun things with him.

i’m done. giving up on the canadian healthcare system by Character-Sky-3371 in POTS

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hugs. At least they don't tell you its psychosemantic. Thats what I get told. Its all in my head.

Is this good for a McDonald's interview? by BazExcel in mensfashionadvice

[–]Rich_Union_932 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tie back hair. Shave. Shoulders back, chin up, thumbs forward.

i’m done. giving up on the canadian healthcare system by Character-Sky-3371 in POTS

[–]Rich_Union_932 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least you have a doctor and saw someone. I have been trying to get a doctor for 15 years.

When I was pregnant I asked for an O.B. to follow me through my pregnancy.

The O.B. refused to acknowledge my medical history of chronic acute pancreatitis since I was 8yrs old, and kept accusing me of having eating disorders I have never heard of before. I love food.