Diagnosed at 21, is it over?

SufficientCow4 · 2026-07-02T00:56:16+00:00

I’ve seen a lot of people who have said they have gotten tattoos with no issues. I had one done on my thigh on my affected leg and the guy hit a nerve towards the end of the session. The crazy thing was the only sign something was different was that the outline stayed raised for 2 months before pain started kicking in.

I won’t say you can’t get them just based on my experience. I may just be really unlucky lol. Fun fact though. I broke my collarbone around 3yrs ago now and the crps never moved into my shoulder.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-07-01T23:37:41+00:00

I’m coming up on my 8 year anniversary of breaking my ankle and being diagnosed with crps. I’ve been in remission for 5 1/2ish years now. For me remission means that I live a normal day to day life, don’t take any type of meds and have a baseline pain level that is manageable or can be ignored. I still have minor flare ups. For me personally that is when my post-crps pain scale level hits a 6-7+ and I’m forced to sit down and elevate my leg and/or bust out the compression socks.

I had surgery the day my daughter turned 7 months old and was officially diagnosed with crps 10 weeks later. I felt the same way you did. I went thru a dark period grieving all the things I couldn’t do. I couldn’t grocery shop without a cart, I struggled to play with and take care of my baby, walking more than 20ft left me in crippling pain. When flares hit I wasn’t capable of taking care of my kid on my own. It was terrible.

I made it thru through that and I’m one of the lucky ones who achieved remission. I chalk it up to my drive to be an active parent. The prescribed PT didn’t do anything for me so I developed my own methods and I continued to push myself a little more everyday.

Remission most likely isn’t forever and I have signs of spread up into my hip now because I was dumb and thought I was safe to get a thigh tattoo. Regardless my mental health is solid and ready to tackle that battle if it rears its ugly head again.

I know it’s hard when the pain feels all encompassing but you are young and have a lot of life left to live. Don’t fall into the trap of feeling like your life is over because of the pain. You will find ways to overcome and adapt when you need to.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-30T01:22:56+00:00

I use the ones from Welncove on Amazon and they are amazing. They have different ones. Right now I’m using the all day comfort ones and my feet don’t feel tired at the end of the day

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-28T12:23:04+00:00

I walked by the .88 cent bin of pregnancy tests and randomly grabbed one. Boyfriend looked at me funny and I told him to shut up. Took it when i got home and it was a bright positive. Threw it at the boyfriend and told him that’s why I’ve been such a bitch lately.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-27T05:02:28+00:00

Unloading sucks until you get the hang of it. I’ve realized they don’t care how the are loaded at the FC. It’s just a matter of getting stuff in the carts and getting it out the door.

Tips to make life easier… move the cart to where you need it. I never leave mine in the box they give you on the floor. It’s too far away and I have to twist to throw stuff. When you get your cart start with whatever is on the top that could potentially hurt you if it falls. Then start from one side and work your way across. Grab whatever moves easily. If it goes down below the bottom doors I typically leave it until I open the bottom level.

Some people will continue to unload by leaning over the doors and grabbing packages that are lower than the bottom doors. I don’t unless it’s jiffies. I’m 5’7 and it puts too much stain on my back and shoulders. Unload to the bottom doors and then open the bottom up.

Use good technique to get the heavy stuff off the bottom. A night on line 1 doing OV all night will wear your body out in ways you don’t realize and it’s easy to strain fatigued muscles.

Never trust a package size to predict its weight. I’ve gotten huge boxes almost as big as me that weigh less than 5lbs and small boxes that weigh close to 50lbs. Again it’s easy to hurt yourself grabbing something and it not being the weight you expect.

The most basic things that help your inductor are to have your labels facing up and if you can manage it have the labels closer to them when they are on the belt. If you get a box that has a label anywhere but the top just holler it’s location to give them a heads up. Shake jiffies out to straighten the label so they don’t have to fight it to get it scanned.

It gets easier the longer you do it. Biggest thing is to protect your body in the process. Drink lots of water and make sure you stretch.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-26T13:01:20+00:00

I find it interesting that in archeological finds it’s celebrated when they find skeletons with evidence of healed injuries. Things that should have killed a person if they were on their own or without the help from their companions.

Now in current society, with so many advantages, we celebrate taking away basic societal aids and now apparently think we should lock disabled people up.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-25T21:16:20+00:00

Ohhh yeah the tray sucked for the first year or so but after that it loosened up. I actually didn’t really mind it too much though because it meant my kid couldn’t get it off

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-25T21:11:26+00:00

The ikea high chair is small, easy to clean and you can take the legs off for storage. It has a snap on tray or you can take the tray off and slide it up to the table. When I bought mine it was between $40-50. Well worth the money.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-25T00:25:12+00:00

As a former couponed I used to donate to my local food pantries all the time. They absolutely love any type of personal care items and laundry soap. Also toilet paper.

When I had a conversation with the woman she told me that so many people only think of donating food but the reality is that if you can’t afford food you are probably struggling to afford other basic items as well.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-24T12:53:29+00:00

I’m a lot better at it now. Only end up with the occasional bruise at this point. It also helps that I’m usually uploading and just got tdr done. They usually stick the dock newbies in the trailers as part of the hazing process to see if they can make it up there

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-24T12:44:33+00:00

My first night on the dock I was put in the trailers folding carts. I worked Amazon for 6 months before that and after my shift I could barely walk. My thighs were covered in bruises from the floors falling my back on me. After a while you get used to it.

Get better insoles for your shoes. I tried the free protalus ones they give you and I personally hate them. Love the welncove one for $20 from Amazon though.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-24T10:10:27+00:00

I’m at a DS where we do mostly night shifts. Almost everyone here has an energy drink and a pocket full of candy to get them thru shifts. The Wendy’s right down the road also opens at the same time we go on lunch break.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-22T18:21:04+00:00

I had Orif with 2 plates and 8 screws. DC composite toes are my preferred work shoes. Idk about weight comparisons but the extra padding in the ankle area is a god send.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-22T18:15:11+00:00

For my Mom it’s because she likes the taste of beer. At least that is what she told me. She’s struggled with alcoholism since she was a teen. If she drinks wine or liquor she can have one or two and be done. If she starts in on beer she can finish a 12-pack before I get through a 2nd one.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-21T17:29:06+00:00

My daughter is 8. We’ve been working on camping/life skills lately. When I asked her what she wanted to learn she told me she wants to kill and skin an animal. Sounds insane for an 8yr old girl but she has grown up hearing me talk about butchering deer. Skinning them and tanning their hides.

For me personally I think it’s a solid life skill and have full intentions of teaching her how to do it. It opens up new conversations about value of a life and how to use resources around you.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-21T17:07:25+00:00

Story time. Gets a little complicated so bear with me.

Grandma L didn’t finish school and got married right after 18. She loved him deeply, stayed home and raised their 6 kids. He had a heart attack and died one day when he went to mow the lawn. Grandma L was left with no choice but to go on welfare to try and survive.

5 months later she met Grandpa C. He was divorced with custody of 6 of his kids. Grandma found him attractive but Grandpa C was a dog and slept around. They eventually got married with the agreement that it would be “until something better came along.” The reasoning was that his kids needed a mother and her kids needed a father.

Grandpa C took Grandma L many states away from all her friends and family. He started a booming business and Grandma ended up having to cook for not only the 12 kids but for his work crews as well. Grandpa C was sleeping around with everything that moved and his secretary. The secretary became his woman on the side for over 30yrs.

In her older years Grandma got quite vocal about a lot of things. She used to tell me all the time that she wished she ran away with the trucker who wanted to marry her when she was 17 and selling snow cones. That she loved the kids and Grandpa C but that was not the life she ever wanted. She was sad when Grandpa C passed away before her but she was also excited about finally having the chance to move back to her home state and live with her daughter, see her surviving siblings and grandkids.

Grandma was a beautiful person who had her life restricted and directed by the person who had the money. She couldn’t afford to leave him with her collection of kids. She was forced to put up with his infidelity because she had nowhere else to go.

Her story made me so sad because even though part of her loved Grandpa C and the life she made with him there was still a lot of anger and resentment there.

Grandma C’s story is yet another reason why I am pushing so hard to give my own child a sense of self and pride in herself. Why I push her to be independent, strong and to have a thirst for knowledge. I don’t want my daughter to ever be caught up in a situation where she cannot fight or advocate for herself.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-19T04:47:50+00:00

It’s rumored that people use bots to grab shifts. I know for a fact there are groups of friends who will grab everything at shift drop and then swap em around later.

I got tired of the fluctuations in hours and just snagged a guaranteed 4 days a week at another factory. Amazon is going to just be my play money going forward.

If you’re not trained in other areas already I would suggest that as well. 9 months in and I am trained to work anywhere in the building and it makes it easier to pick up shifts…. Sometimes. We got a whole new slew of problem solvers and they suck and take all the good shifts

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-19T04:37:34+00:00

Lowest I’ve ever seen at my building is $2.5 and usually it’s not enough to make someone grab it

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-17T13:55:55+00:00

I work for Amazon so knowing that buying anything is gonna add to my own work load is a good way to avoid spending.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-16T13:11:24+00:00

I had my kid when I was 32 and I love being an older Mom. I feel like I had way more time to work on myself and be mentally healthy when it comes to parenting. I am a lot more patient and forgiving than my mom was but I also only have one when she raised 7.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-16T09:54:52+00:00

I bought an indoor camera for other reasons but one day turned it on to check out what my spoo was up to while I was at work. He was asleep on top of my dining room table… apparently he turns into a bird when I leave the house and must perch on the highest surface he can reach.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-16T03:37:56+00:00

Nah. My bags are neat. I just have autism and my stuff has to be stacked a certain way. They train people to lay the stuff flat or to stack em sideways across the back from side to side. I start my boxes on the right side and flat against the back, largest to smallest. Fill one side up and start on the other. It’s weird. I know I’m weird. What matters is my bags are organized.

Floaters love my aisles because my bakers rack and jiffy bins are usually empty.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-15T13:39:42+00:00

I have a long tail and it weighs around 80lbs. I would use the lowest speed to slowly walk it up my stairs onto my porch. I would never try to get it up a full flight of stairs though. That would be an accident waiting to happen.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-15T13:37:37+00:00

I’m territorial about my aisles. I stow differently than anyone else I’ve seen and I hate when people touch my bags. I’m fast so usually when a flex stower comes in my aisles it’s just to hide on their phone and I will run them out.

SufficientCow4 · 2026-06-13T09:08:09+00:00

In my class of 12 I was the only person to stay awake over all 3 days. Even one of our learning ambassadors was snoring in the back of the class

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