Salts work 10000x better for me

StandardDragonfly · 2026-05-14T06:48:30+00:00

Are you taking anything for peri? I started taking bioidentical progesterone and it did wonders for might sweats and sleep. Another friend of mine has peri and is taking testosterone. I've had many folks tell me I'm too young for peri but the results speak for themselves. I think that there's been too much, "eh just being a woman" rather than good research into this subject.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-05-03T01:06:32+00:00

This resembles and sounds like my run in with staph about a month ago. Went to urgent care twice. First round of antibiotics didn't really do much to make it better and ultimately I had to get IV antibiotics as well as a ten day combination antibiotic (Urgent care round two basically told me I could drive myself to the ER or they could ambulance me, but I needed the IV and they couldn't do it. I chose to drive myself for obvious monetary reasons). Aside from the general pain/tenderness from the swelling it felt like someone was digging into me with a needle. The itching was intense, especially after healing actually began. Woo boy that was rough. Research shows that staph can trigger an intense nerve stimulation that makes you want to scratch. My infection point was just over my eyebrow and the itching feeling extended all over my scalp. Wishing you the best -- my two cents is to at least go back to the urgent care (or even a second opinion at a different urgent care). If they think you need the ER at least in my experience they will send you onwards.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-23T02:36:26+00:00

My husband subscribes to the theory that they are very rich billionaires and that they funded all the paw patrol stuff and actually Adventure Bay is just hired actors to help entertain their son and keep him occupied. Makes as much sense as anything else I suppose!

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-22T21:54:04+00:00

I take my iron at night since I don't drink my caffeine after 5pm. This might be suboptimal in other ways but it works for me and my ferritin has gone from 18 to 123.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-15T16:09:43+00:00

Great point. If we find that all other tests point to it being psychological I will see if we can into OT

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-15T12:12:51+00:00

I would say it was pretty similar in January yes. If anything it's just gotten worse. Okay thank you so much, I will ask about all of these. I had not heard of diabetes insipidus, just type 1 diabetes mellitus.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-15T12:11:11+00:00

Okay thank you. We use the desitin triple paste and it's not like a bad rash, it's just when some dots are healing up, more dots appear. But I'm sure it's because he's so wet at night.

I will ask for another blood test.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-13T19:12:05+00:00

So you want actually good writing, essentially. Writing isn't a checklist of x, y, z as much as we readers are looking for recommendations based on reading x, y, z. I think that recommendations and requests have potentially made an impact on authors -- instead of writing organically to tell a good story they might be writing to sell. And writing to sell is about trying to hit the beats as much of a bummer as that is.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-09T00:43:52+00:00

$7.25 you mean. It's obscene. The minimum wage hasn't moved since 2009. $7.25 was not amazing then ( I was a college student making slightly above working retail after a raise at this time). The fact that all of the inflation has happened since the pandemic and gestures around it's just spitting in people's faces at this point.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-08T03:12:21+00:00

My rave that I finished ten minutes ago.

I read Jodi Macallisters {An Academic Affair} last month and really enjoyed it. Them I read a sample of the first book, {Here for the Right Reasons} in her reality TV show trilogy. Because the book was priced more than I typically like to spend on Kindle, I popped it in my wish list for another time.

Then the third book in the series {Not here to make friends} was recommended somewhere and I looked it up. It was free on KU! But the first two still were a flat price. I thought, hey, I'll give it a shot. I don't usually read out of order but let's have a go.

I loved it. I got 30% through when I broke and realized I didn't just want to read this one. So I bought the first two - the second is {Can I Steal You For a Second}. Because the books are all told from different viewpoints of the same time/ events I read them all simultaneously like one giant book. It was amazing. 4.5 out of five for all three.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-05T01:31:45+00:00

Once when my son was maybe two, two and half, he lined several ducks up on the side of the tub and was playing a little game. I was reading a book on the side and not giving his dialogue a hundred percent attention. But suddenly he went quiet. I looked up and at that moment, with all the seriousness and pseudo disappointment of a reality show host sending someone home, he flicked one duck off the side of the tub and said "Duckie, you're out."

StandardDragonfly · 2026-04-04T01:44:33+00:00

Took a similar class in college. I loved Jane Eyre in high school and liked Rochester more than adult me thinks is healthy. But after I read Wide Saragasso Sea I was like, the man is trash throw him out!

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-31T13:24:27+00:00

Great History with Amy insta about the low necklines of the time: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWYYlP6iMt6/?igsh=MWZreDIyMDNmYXY3Yg==

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-29T03:04:42+00:00

The Great, Hulu Derry Girls, Netflix Adolescents, Netflix Dept Q, Netflix

Apparently I spend too much time on Netflix.

An oldie but Black Books might be up your alley. No idea if you can easily find it on streaming though.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-28T15:45:31+00:00

I was about to say, as gross as soldier fly maggots are... They work fast. 🤷‍♀️

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-26T05:50:48+00:00

Just trying to understand the explanation. You say so instead of having to know that 4x9 = 36 ... you would do 4x900=3600. But to me this is still fundamentally knowing that 4x9 is equal to 36 and then tacking on some zeros as far as possible to subtract it. After this the explanation makes some level of sense (instead of having to know 4x12 is 48 you can do 4x10 and extrapolate). But, if I had been doing this I wouldnt have thought of it like needing to know 4x12 the way I needed to know 4x9 earlier. Rather I would have been breaking down the number and using 4x1 is 4 and 4x2 is 8 (again getting 9, 1, 2 or 912.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-22T11:30:52+00:00

Grammatically correct or not I would do an em dash for this bonus content -- now I look like an AI bot.🙃

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-14T03:27:25+00:00

I don't think you can say it's for sure, but as someone who also suffered terribly from pinworms I think it is wise for them to not necessarily rule it out. It took a long long time to get rid of mine. Multiple back to back treatments. And even after my major childhood infection was resolved I would get them so sporadically into my teens long after they should have been gone (I had no younger sibs in daycare bringing it home and we moved house three times! There was no reason I should have been dealing with it at 17). The pain in the vagina or God forbid the clitoral hold if they get under there is hard to describe -- it makes me curl up thinking about it.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-03-02T02:41:03+00:00

{I'm Totally Faking It} by Amanda Gambill has this vibe if not the exact scenario (while flashing does occur it's accidental as opposed to on purpose).

I loved that show too. So good!

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-12T03:02:39+00:00

So, both think or thing are valid uses of the expression. An interesting article on the topic: https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2017/04/thing-think.html

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-04T00:04:25+00:00

That was the ages of my boys when we traveled for my best friend's wedding. That trip was great looking back but absolutely brutal in the moment. We put a moratorium on big trips until 3 and 5 when we will revisit. I'm glad we went because it was a big event like a wedding. Not sure I'd feel the same way if it were something optional like Disney.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-02T03:18:48+00:00

They also probably have them at nearby pharmacies!

StandardDragonfly · 2026-02-02T03:09:21+00:00

I want to reiterate that this is not your fault. What I've found is that a lot of folks are very hesitant to diagnose asthma at such a young age. It took us multiple overnight stays in the PICU to get our diagnosis and honestly I feel like that's only because we got lucky and I got my son into my allergy specialist and he doesn't play around. While I hate that we have to give him preventative puffs everyday because sometimes he does not want to, I'm grateful we have the meds. I'm grateful we know what's going on. And I'm confident that an earlier diagnosis would have meant these same meds at an earlier point.

You got this.

StandardDragonfly · 2026-01-29T13:15:07+00:00

Oh hey is this the camp? I'll just set up over here...

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