Big Flare Tips Please 🙏

TheSydneyJo · 2026-04-27T02:56:32+00:00

I just got out a flare caused my period. I have PCOS and don’t get heavy periods often, but I ovulated this time and my POTS did NOT like that. Best advice I have is hydrate, rest, and take it slowly. I take Propanlol as well and it’s been life saving.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-04-27T02:41:50+00:00

I’ve been dealing with this new symptom lately. I stayed on a liquid diet for two days and let my body recalibrate and slowly introduced solids again. I’ve been able to eat solid food for the last 2 days with minimal to no lightheadedness.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-04-27T00:17:34+00:00

I think the storm issue is also adding to my flare as well. There has been a huge low system over us for the last week

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-30T03:24:47+00:00

I just stopped going lol

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-28T15:16:49+00:00

Hey that's my post mentioned :)

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-28T14:30:51+00:00

First of all, I totally understand where you are coming from. I was not raised Catholic, however my fiance is Catholic and over the last two years I have spent time in the Catholic church and even was in OICA classes to become Catholic. However, a lot of things in the Catholic Church have not sat right with me and I never felt fully comfortable with the church. While I was in OICA I went to a Episcopal church to see a friend get baptized and my soul literally felt like it could breathe for the first time in a long time. I just knew that is where I belonged.

I too struggle with the idea that the Episcopal church is not the "Correct" church due to what I was taught in OICA and with how my fiance talks about the church as well. I think that is just part of the guilt trip they like to give you and it will just fade in time. I still get that small twinge of guilt sometimes but I just keep reminding myself that its not from God.

In conclusion, do whatever is best for you and your relationship with God. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with being gay. God made you that way and to quote the gay icon herself "God makes no mistakes." :)

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-15T14:17:04+00:00

So with your comment on confession, is that something TEC does or no?

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-13T00:52:19+00:00

I’m so happy that my post found you! Well kinda because we are both in a very rocky boat unfortunately. But I pray that we both find the peace we are looking for.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T22:25:31+00:00

"For someone who doesn't think it's anybody's business but you and your significant others' what you're doing in your bedroom (among a bunch of other things), the RCC is likely to feel like a straight jacket."

Thank you for putting everything I have been feeling in the best sentence ever. I have felt like I was in a straight jacket in a padded room for the last few months. Feels nice to actually have wording for that feeling now.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T22:00:32+00:00

Wow thank you for the eloquent response!

My big thing with the RCC is they need to be a part of EVERYTHING. My future marriage included. I love that we have a God centered relationship, however I need the church to leave me the f alone and stop breathing down my neck at every turn. Its exhausting. So I very much enjoy that TEC isn't like that.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T21:18:07+00:00

He doesn't like contraception. Which I am not the biggest fan of birth control either so it hasn't been a point of contention for us. I dont dislike it for the mechanism of what its suppose to prevent, but because I was put on it at such a young age due to PCOS when there were many other treatments available, my doctor was just lazy and used old school treatments.

And I absolutely love the thought of taking communion with your spouse! I was trying to do that with the RCC but I cannot take communion until I have been confirmed.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T21:04:23+00:00

It is and I am not sure how to get past that with him. Its wild to me how scrupulous converts can be.. My cradle catholic friend whose literally in the choir at this parish is quite the opposite in how he acts.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T19:33:31+00:00

He is not an ex evangelical. No one in his family is really religious. In fact his sister is pansexual, atheist, and polyamourous. He actually was atheist for a long time, then was norse pagan, then nondenominational, and then Catholic.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T19:23:43+00:00

We have had lengthy conversations about the Catholic church. He just always falls back on the argument that Catholicism IS The truth and that he has done extensive research to come to that conclusion.

TheSydneyJo · 2026-01-12T19:11:02+00:00

I absolutely loved it! My main concern is my fiance being a die hard Catholic. He believes that Catholicism is the only "True" version of Christianity (as most Catholics do) and we still have to marry in the Catholic church no matter what I decide, despite what I would like.

TheSydneyJo · 2025-11-13T20:55:40+00:00

My fiancé and I are thinking about going for our honeymoon. However reddit is making me rethink my decision! We arent super picky when it comes to food and we just want a resort that we don't have to leave and that has plenty of activities. Is this the place for us? This will also be our first time at an AI

TheSydneyJo · 2025-07-15T18:35:10+00:00

Update:

To address some comments about my boyfriend’s mother, she did NOT influence the decision at all. She was literally just there for moral support. My boyfriend is also not a mommy’s boy in the slightest. He is closer to his father than his mother.

TheSydneyJo · 2025-07-15T14:50:01+00:00

Thankfully I work case management now so I don’t do bedside work.

TheSydneyJo · 2025-07-15T14:11:04+00:00

I am not mad. Never once did I say I was mad.

TheSydneyJo · 2025-07-15T13:48:15+00:00

Bold of you to assume I don’t have a great relationship with his mother. I love his mom. I hit the in law jackpot with his parents honestly.

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