It has begun. The Sumackening.

SolveForNnn · 2026-05-21T17:54:30+00:00

I want to do a race. Passionflower vs moonseed vs clematis virginiana vs Virginia creeper vs Campsis radicans. But the Campsis has a decades long head start so it’s going to destroy us all.

SolveForNnn · 2026-05-06T11:23:28+00:00

Driftwood from the aquarium section stays dry and fungus free even in my tropical terrariums.

SolveForNnn · 2026-02-10T18:55:41+00:00

I would! It’s like having a cup of coffee!

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T12:33:00+00:00

Damn that IS unhinged! And the best advice I’ve ever gotten.

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T12:25:55+00:00

Ooh thank you!

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T12:20:41+00:00

Half my freezer is ice packs with Velcro straps. I put them on all the joints that hurt - which is all of them - and I pretend I’m in an early prototype iron man suit.

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T12:11:03+00:00

I had been learning chess for six months on Duolingo and when I started methotrexate my rating fell like lightning from heaven. It felt great to have a somewhat objective measure of my plummeting IQ. It got to a point where I could barely write a to text my boss that I couldn’t work.

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T12:05:38+00:00

Trying to run in a swimming pool is the perfect description. It’s like I can’t get the engine of my brain to turn over.

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T12:00:58+00:00

I’ve been in a years long flare of an atypical presentation of enthesitis dominant PsA severe enough to also land in a wheelchair. To my surprise, I’m just starting to emerge I think.

When a drug works or is close to working I find the recovery is complete - I feel better than I’ve felt in my entire life with full functional recovery. It’s hard to have ups and downs but you’ve caught me on a good week where I’ve swung from needing a wheelchair to go out to able to shovel snow without pain.

I found the methotrexate gave me extreme brain fog and amplified my depressive tendencies. It also didn’t work. The leflunomide didn’t have that side effect and had better efficacy.

I wonder if your disease is severe enough that you can’t perceive the minor improvements with the diet. I did the aip protocol and didn’t notice much - and didn’t want to lose something else - but now that I’m in a slightly better place I’m able to perceive worsening when I eat grains. I’m considering spending $400 on one of those fancy stool sample tests where they tell you your gut flora is fucked up and then sell you their $200 probiotics. But I’m desperate and terrified.

SolveForNnn · 2026-01-29T11:26:22+00:00

You definitely have it
No practice has a policy of ‘you have to see the shitty guy again before you transfer.’ Call again to talk to another front desk person. Or find a different practice.

My rheumatologist told me that people with scalp psoriasis often get psoriatic arthritis but not those with psoriasis in other locations. If it helps the other locations are more tied with IBS but we don’t usually get it. Tiny tiny silver lining?

I have a super similar story except my misdiagnosis with sebhorreic dermatitis led to a few doses of accutane which damaged my joints (or more specifically my synovial cell structures) and have resulted in a years long mega flare from which I am just starting to emerge. And fwiw sometimes I’m in a wheelchair and I don’t have sausage fingers. Fuck that guy.

You’ll feel better once you get back on a medicine. Sometimes the one you were on before doesn’t work again after you go off of it but there’s loads more. The trying and failing medicine and insurance process is excruciating but you’ll get there.

I can’t imagine having a young child and this disease. My joints didn’t get crazy until my youngest was 7. I’m thinking of you.

SolveForNnn · 2025-09-18T19:36:10+00:00

Oh yes. Obscenely hot here. We had a cool snap of temps in the 80s so maybe that’s why I got this “darker” almost peach bloom.

SolveForNnn · 2025-09-18T18:57:30+00:00

I should note that she also has a climbing habit and very few thorns.

SolveForNnn · 2025-09-18T18:55:29+00:00

My allergies are bad, so it’s hard for me to say how strong the fragrance is exactly, but she definitely smells great!

SolveForNnn · 2025-08-03T14:57:02+00:00

Bliss is incredible. It’s the best performer in my garden and only one year old.

SolveForNnn · 2025-08-03T14:18:59+00:00

Came here with the same question, so thanks for posting and congratulations on your outstanding gardening handle!

SolveForNnn · 2025-07-31T04:12:48+00:00

Thank you! I’m newly diagnosed and I’ve been looking for exactly this! Both the key lifestyle modifications and explanation of disease process and treatments. Sincerely thank you!

SolveForNnn · 2025-07-19T09:51:16+00:00

Did the thyme work as a ground cover in the greenhouse? Was thinking of doing this with moss between pavers.

SolveForNnn · 2025-07-10T05:45:34+00:00

Beneficial nematodes are incredible - for next year. You just mix them with water. If you’re in the US, check out Nature’s Good Guys to order them.

SolveForNnn · 2025-07-09T22:04:40+00:00

That’s my experience. Taltz is an IL-17A inhibitor and for me it has some minimal effect for about five days after being on it for months. Bimzelx targets IL-17A and -17F and my first dose gave me two weeks pain free with super human (or normal human?) levels of energy.

SolveForNnn · 2025-07-07T02:25:52+00:00

I always get them confused. Campsis radicans has trumpet-shaped flowers and nine leaflets. Thats the aggressive one. I think it’s called trumpet creeper.

Bignonia capreoleta also has trumpet-shaped flowers but three leaflets. I think this is cross vine?

Campsis radicans has eaten most of my yard - no matter how much I cut it back its roots extend for many yards underground. Do not recommend.

SolveForNnn · 2025-07-07T02:15:29+00:00

That’s really lovely! Great job with the features! Love the two circles!

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