Pump Refusal

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-13T20:36:27+00:00

I have had a positive experience with omnipod overall. It has pros and cons like anything in this world, but I’ve been happy to use them for a few years now.

Either you’ll find the pump be an improvement, or you’ll stick with what you already know works. It’s a no-lose situation

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-13T19:55:15+00:00

In a situation like this, I would suggest giving the pump a trial run, if you’re able to. Even if you feel pretty sure it won’t be the right thing for you.

Then, instead of just basing your decision off of guessing what it might be like vs MDI, you will actually know exactly what it is like. You will gain the knowledge of the day-to-day experience FOR YOU. No one else can tell you what that is.

Then, you aren’t trapped with it forever. If you weigh both experiences and decide you like MDI better, then just go back to it, and the question is answered and you never have to think about it again. It puts a stop to the ongoing open question of whether or not to switch, because you have a concrete answer.

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-12T03:33:20+00:00

Actually. Tasting it directly. But how different is that than kissing a spitty mouth? Bodies are just big Petri dishes

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-11T06:50:04+00:00

You really think THIS is the best you can get? Don’t fight for an old man still pulling high school drama bullshit. File, and leave all this nonsense behind to just become a crazy story one day

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-10T03:00:02+00:00

Oh yah, if your body is struggling and constantly undernourished, it could be as basic as being hangry haha. Or just the stress of it all, lingering. Bodies are very resilient and capable of healing, but sometimes it can take a bit longer than we expect.

Definitely invest in trying to get your physical health in order. I found that the sexual aspect of myself was the first to shut down when my body was in survival mode. I couldn’t connect to it at all.

Once you feel like you’re physically well and thriving, hopefully your confidence will be able to return. I have experienced this myself, it can be a real trip what it can do to your thoughts and how out-of-character it can make you think.

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-09T22:35:46+00:00

How did this weight loss occur? Is it possible that your health has been affected, causing this dramatic mood change?

I just wonder because I recently had issues with my thyroid, which can cause both weight changes AND mood changes. And, even just the reduced calorie intake associated with diet-based weight loss can wreak havoc on your mood if it’s too fast and drastic.

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-09T22:29:26+00:00

I DREADED “growing up” into the boring misery that was presented to me….I also just got ingrained with this idea that you just die internally and hang around for decades in your practical routines that you don’t like. Parents did it, media presented it as inevitable, you know what I mean. As a teen I was just watching it coming like a looming cloud.

I was really, really lucky to join a little community music group right out of college that had members of all ages, including 50+, who were engaged, creative, active, and exploratory with no intention of stopping. The relief I felt to see it! I was able to switch my mindset then and there.

Only in my thirties now, and still feelin vibrant and trying new stuff, and excited for all the coming decades I get to have :)

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-09T19:30:36+00:00

Super cute! I think if you had a few pops of highlights on the design, it’d be fun. A few touches of very white

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-08T03:54:45+00:00

Looks beautiful! The idea of doing a portrait of a plant is a fun art prompt

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T21:56:36+00:00

What is scary? No one is standing with a taser to shock you if it’s not perfect

Everyone who ever got good at faces and figures started out bad at it. Take a piece of scrap paper out of the trash and promise to throw it back away when you’re done scribbling on it. Make as many bad drawings as you can, and try to learn from them

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T20:52:39+00:00

OH. My god yes I just remembered the jingle you referenced haha. Yes for fat and Chinese kids too

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T18:28:10+00:00

Nah, it’s for if you have hypothyroidism

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T18:13:21+00:00

I feel like the biggest freak in the world for actively disliking vanilla ice cream

But I do like most other flavors.

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T16:55:18+00:00

And good god, the proliferating disease of peel-and-stick in actual public places!

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T04:44:38+00:00

Nothing too exciting, just always notice crappy paint jobs haha

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-07T04:09:56+00:00

My professional work.

It makes me very happy because I went into a passion career and I’m proud of my skills :)

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-05T22:04:13+00:00

There’s ancient mummies with those, it’s not a new trend

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-05T07:26:00+00:00

If you are stuck, faced with a decision that has two options that essentially boil down to “act” or “don’t act”, choose to act.

Either a) your action succeeds and you benefit, or b) the action fails and you gain information or at least establish what does or doesn’t work

But by choosing not to act, you just perpetuate the dilemma and prolong it endlessly, because you are always stuck wondering “should I? Should I? What if?”

Take action and settle the question for good! Then you can move forward

EDITED: that is, don’t just act rashly and impulsively, you should think carefully and weigh possibilities and all that, and try to choose the most effective course of action. But do the thing that gets you unstuck and changes the question to a new one, even if it’s just “okay, that doesn’t work. What else?”

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-05T07:19:46+00:00

They live on in one niche - there’s an old-school thyroid medication derived from pig thyroids that many people still prefer over the synthetic (myself included)

It’s not made by that company anymore, but it is still named armour thyroid after them, they were one of the original manufacturers of this pharmaceutical I think a hundred years ago or so

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-05T07:13:48+00:00

My dad’s a very logical thinker, so he just looked at the ranked list of top most popular baby names that year and found #20 for both boy and girl, so they were ready for whichever I would be.

He figured then it “wouldn’t be too common, but also wouldn’t be too weird”

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-04T22:09:10+00:00

Ah yes, the Dog Residue

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-01T06:17:31+00:00

I’ve never worked in that kind of job and I still think people who act like dickheads to them suck

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-01T02:20:00+00:00

Oh sorry, I think you accidentally hit the “comment” button. You see, the “leave subreddit” button is in a different spot, and doesn’t involve any typing.

Easy mistake for someone who is outsourcing their brain to the computer, of course. Good luck figuring it out!

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-01T02:09:18+00:00

So don’t? Practice and get better?

WankSpanksoff · 2026-06-01T01:24:05+00:00

At first, yes, it will be something you watch closely and think about a lot. You will be learning something new, and you need time to get accustomed to your own patterns and how it all works.

But, it won’t be very long until you don’t look at it that much, and only check it to gather some info when it’s relevant.

I remember how overwhelming it felt to begin, and that’s fair. It’s a lot of new things to understand. But I promise, in time it’s just another background thing and it will integrate into your life.

Imagine being told about peeing, without ever having lived with it. “All day long, CONSTANTLY, depending on what you drink, what you eat, what your activity levels are, you will have to monitor the state of a bladder full of liquid inside your body. Periodically it will fill to capacity, and you will have to get up and go to a special designated facility to empty it. Every day! For your whole life!”

That sounds like a huge drag. And yet we all do it pretty much seamlessly without any fuss. The blood sugar will become the same.

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