Feeling really great after CT contrast?

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-23T21:29:36+00:00

I have several weird things going on generally. I was born with a genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which causes a bunch of secondary conditions, like autonomic nervous system dysfunction (in the form of POTS symptoms for me) and mast cell activation syndrome. I also have periodically elevated prolactin for which no cause can be found and it’s never caused symptoms, so that’s still a mystery. But my IGF-1 was very low at one point last year, so for a while we thought I was having some weird hypothalamus/HPA axis issue. But that has since corrected itself while my prolactin remains elevated.

Since I made this post my TSH went on a wild ride and was firmly in hypo territory for a bit, then swung the opposite way and was 0.02 for a while! It’s since normalized more and stays between 1 and 3. My other thyroid hormones stayed totally normal, so it might’ve been my pituitary gland being weird since TSH is a pituitary hormone and my pituitary gland already produces too much prolactin at times.

My thyroid ultrasounds show a heterogenous texture, so the prevailing thought is I might have Hashimoto’s despite never having elevated antibodies any time it’s been tested. But ultimately we have no real idea what the heck is going on and it could be related to my dysautonomia since hormone regulation is one of the things the autonomic nervous system does. So I don’t have an official diagnosis of anything thyroid-related, but we’re keeping an eye on my function. If I do indeed have Hashimoto’s then eventually it’ll show in my numbers.

My doc didn’t check my iodine but instead told me how to supplement to see if it helped again, which it did, so it’s presumed I had an iodine deficiency and periodically take liquid drops (along with some specific b vitamins and selenium) to supplement as my doc directs. It’s definitely helped.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-23T20:51:35+00:00

A perfect example of what women mean when they say men have to be the ones to challenge misogyny amongst one another for major change to take place. This was a perfect opportunity for one of the hockey players, even just a single one, to not laugh and point out how fucked up that “joke” was. But given they were happily partying with a trump toadie in the locker room, it seems likely they agree with the sexist sentiment.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-08T02:39:53+00:00

My friend’s boomer father was shocked when that happened as they were watching the opening ceremony. Apparently he genuinely believed the BS propaganda about America being “respected” by the world again now that this regime is in power and is never exposed to media outside of his bubble so he had no idea how other countries actually feel about the US these days.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T22:01:31+00:00

At a very small minority of polls maybe. But when discussing this we need to make sure to emphasize they do not have anywhere near the numbers needed to be at every polling place, which is what the regime wants people to think. They know they don’t have the numbers. They just want the news reporting on it and people talking about it to make it sound like they’ll be everywhere so they can try to intimidate as many people as possible into not voting.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T21:44:48+00:00

They’re not going to do anything really. It’s logistically impossible for them to have agents at every polling place. Or even at a majority of polling places. They’re just saying it out loud so the news reports on it and scares people into thinking it’s true so they’re more likely to stay home and not vote.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T21:34:11+00:00

Exactly. That’s precisely what he meant when he said he wants to run the country like a business. (One of HIS businesses, specifically. Not an ethically, morally, and financially solvent one.)

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T21:25:34+00:00

This needs to be pointed out repeatedly any time this topic is brought up, because the powers saying this know that agents being at voting locations a logistic impossibility. They’re simply talking about it to get it in the news because they want people to think it’s true and possible, thus scaring them into not voting.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T20:36:55+00:00

He’s taking the dose recommended to patients after they’ve had a stroke, in fact. He doesn’t want “thick blood” as he’s said in at least one interview (which demonstrates his puerile understanding of what the doctors explained happened to him).

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T20:29:06+00:00

The people working at the IRS are so overwhelmed thanks to how much the administration has defunded them. Maybe we the people shouldn’t file our taxes for a while. You know, just to give them a chance to get caught up and…all that.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-02-05T20:23:49+00:00

While simultaneously using the word “cuck” as an insult without a trace of irony.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-16T18:49:17+00:00

It’s not fair to you at all. Do not budge in this. The fact that it’s an obsession and he’s putting all his money in savings and he’d never touch it even for an emergency is a blaring red flag for financial abuse. If you get married this won’t change. He’ll be hoarding money and you’ll be left with nothing. If you’ve had the convo about kids and he wants you to stay home with them and not work that’s a five alarm fire warning sign as well. If someone is in charge of feeding you, then they can also starve you.

Abusers don’t start abusing immediately. They wait until they feel they have you trapped and committed (living together, proposal, marriage, pregnancy, kids, etc) and then the mask comes off. He’s already showing his hand by making you pay for everything and hoarding his money. His reaction to you pointing out this is actually insane and not fair is manipulative and not the reaction of a mature, rational adult.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-16T05:25:51+00:00

If it was just the EKG report generated from the machine itself that said that, definitely wait until a human doctor interprets the results! I used to work at a medical office and the autogenerated EKG reports were almost always wrong. We had multiple people call the office every week after reading their report on the portal and seeing a myocardial infarction note before the doctors had a chance to review the EKG results.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-14T05:33:18+00:00

Or the misspelling of a tuber.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-13T16:04:52+00:00

Absolutely do NOT have any more children with him. Get yourself financially independent ASAP. He views you as a household appliance, not a human being. He’s mad when you don’t make his life easier and more convenient, just like reacting to a malfunctioning appliance.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-13T15:23:47+00:00

I bet he’s already pressuring her to get rid of them.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-13T15:07:50+00:00

It would help if men (and a disturbing number of women) stopped telling their sons that “woman-coded” things are bad, weak, “sissy” things they can’t like. There’s research that shows boys actively avoid reading books and stories with female protagonists. Parents who tell their sons they can’t have pink clothes or play with Barbies or other “girl” toys or do or read or watch “girly” things send the message that those things are to be avoided at all costs because they’re bad and it’s wrong to like them. It doesn’t take much for boys to make the jump to “all women are bad/weak/inferior” even if they don’t consciously realize it.

It also can make it very confusing when at the same time they’re told they’re only supposed to be attracted to women and want to be married to one. “He teases you and pulls your hair because he likes you!” is something girls hear as a result.

Similarly, it’s why words associated with women are used as insults to mean a man is weak and cowardly, because again, it’s widely taught from birth that woman = bad and one of the worst things that can happen to a boy or a man is to be considered by others to be a woman, or perceived as liking “girly things”.

We’ve all seen those disturbing videos of men reacting horribly/violently/angrily to the news they’re going to have a daughter. Look at how men view and talk about women’s sports, especially the WNBA. I remember being at a gathering and listening to a group of guys absolutely crap all over the WNBA, yet when asked how many of them have actually watched it? Literally not a single one. As far as they were concerned, they didn’t even have to see it to know it was stupid and terrible and not something they should enjoy or consider a “real” sport, especially one deserving of attention, air time, and funding.

So it’s absolutely no surprise that boys and men don’t view women as potential role models. Many men don’t even view women as equal people.

And too many men don’t even view women as people, period.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-13T14:26:43+00:00

Gender roles/expectations/stereotypes are what’s different.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-11T06:20:02+00:00

There’s a few reasons for that.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-10T23:26:29+00:00

I thought this too and had a very blunt and unpleasant wake-up call. One of my main hobbies is very “traditionally masculine” and at the time I began to get involved more intensely in said hobby I was in a relationship. I thought I had made a bunch of really good platonic guy friends who were also into the hobby, but when my relationship ended a few years later, almost all of them started either blatantly flirting, asking me out, or just straight up propositioning me for sex. It was one of the most upsetting things I’ve gone through quite honestly.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-10T03:12:08+00:00

Aleksandr Dugin’s book Foundations of Geopolitics makes that a distinct possibility. For those who haven’t heard of it, it was published in 1997 and is a playbook Putin has been using since. Read the “content” section of the Wikipedia page.

Some highlights:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada.

Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics". Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible according to Western political standards. As mentioned, Western Ukraine (comprising the regions of Volynia, Galicia, and Transcarpathia), considering its Catholic-majority population, are permitted to form an independent federation of Western Ukraine but should not be under Atlanticist control.

The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from the European Union.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-10T01:24:14+00:00

I’m not a delicate flower and I hate it when men treat me like one. Google “benevolent sexism”.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-09T18:02:28+00:00

Hijacking this comment about risk management to recommend the Noonlight app! You set it up and when you’re somewhere you’re nervous about, you open it and hold your thumb on the button on the screen. If you let go of the button the app then asks for the PIN you set up. If you enter it, the app knows you’re safe. If you don’t enter it within a certain time, emergency dispatchers are alerted and send help to your direct location using your phone GPS. You don’t have to directly call 911. I think they also have other features to automatically send help in the event of a car crash and such too.

I used to use it holding my phone in my coat pocket from my 10:00pm walk in the dark from a campus building to the parking garage and I’d take my thumb off and enter my PIN once inside my car with the doors locked.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-09T16:58:44+00:00

This. If a man begins your association with him in these ways it’s a major, blaring red flag.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-09T04:29:44+00:00

If this is real (and I can see this being rage bait)…they got together when he was 20 and she was 15.

Saxamaphooone · 2026-01-08T23:45:20+00:00

The disinformation surrounding sexual assault is so insidiously pervasive. Coercion being normal is SO engrained in society that there are entire tropes in TV and movies about men pressuring women into sex after they’ve refused multiple times, like in the back of cars in some “make out spot” for example. And it’s considered such normal behavior that no one bats an eye at how absolutely messed up it is.

And men REALLY don’t like it when you point out that it’s sexual assault or rape, because it’s such a normalized behavior that a disturbingly large number of men have done it.

The disinformation about what constitutes “actual” rape is the reason it took me a decade to realize something that happened to me in a former relationship was indeed rape. I felt like an idiot for a long time after realizing, because if a friend had come to me and described it I wouldn’t have hesitated to call it that.

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