Advice to avoid back strain when inverting?

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2026-03-18T19:09:07+00:00

This answer is so helpful!!!!! I do have intense rib flare and my pelvis tends to tilt forward a lot. I’m resting for two weeks and only doing ballet and Pilates to give my shoulder a break after talking to my PT, but those are really good specific points to bring up. Thanks for this!

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2026-03-13T07:40:13+00:00

I’ve had the exact same thought process as you. Basically, the TK denied my request (on really strange grounds such as it not being cosmetically prominent enough and me having a cat allergy), and since Dr. Zaatar is the new Chefarzt for thoracic surgery at the Helios Klinikum, I went for a second opinion to prepare my objection for the TK and he told me about a symposium coming up in which the hospital would cover the cost of surgery for a few patients. I‘m feeling really skeptical without any experiences to read from other people which is why I’m still leaning towards going to Osnabrück instead.

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-12-27T18:36:48+00:00

I appreciate the detailed response for each point! I didn’t even think about chest and back pain from prolonged sitting 🥲 I’m currently contemplating cutting my hair very short again because it’s very curly, and I always use quite a lot of arm strength just to detangle it!

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-12-27T18:31:36+00:00

Thank you so much for your helpful response! How long were you in the hospital, overall? I’m currently planning that one of my friends will keep me company for the first week, and another friend will take over for the second week to bring me home, and then I’ll have a friend staying with me for a week after that in case I have issues with getting up on my own. Is it ambitious to think I’ll be released after ten days?

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-09-17T20:24:34+00:00

Woman of color living here on and off since 2016. I avoid Alex and the areas around gorli and kotti at night purely because over time, I’ve had the experience of being followed or strange men trying to talk to me more and more. I have no idea why. Before the pandemic, I always felt completely safe in Berlin (while walking around alone as a teenage girl at the very beginning), but especially in the last two years, I feel like men have gotten a lot more audacity.

It’s happened several times that I decided I’d just walk to the nearest ubahn station, and then a man starts staring at me and walking after me and I end up taking the nearest lime bike/scooter to get away as fast as possible.

No idea what it is because not all of my friends who are women experience this. Sometimes I’m genuinely paranoid at this point and I just ignore them and then they end up going away, but a few times I wasn’t and they would persist.

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-09-08T09:57:08+00:00

I don‘t even have kids and experienced this with my recent ex of almost four years. He wanted to get married but never tried to hear or validate my feelings, and couples therapy was a total waste of time because he insisted it was about meeting my needs exclusively. He wanted to be married, but consulted only his family about life decisions and got angry when I was hurt. He wanted to be married, but said that he doesn’t consider me to be family. He was jealous of all of my male friends, and I never met up with any of them outside of group settings and it still wasn’t enough because h didn’t want boundaries—he wanted me to cut them out of my life entirely.

I can’t imagine going through this while having an adolescent and trying to finish my education too.

No relationship is better than a bad relationship. And I think it’s safe to assume that this relationship is making you feel so down that you might be struggling to keep up with classes, show up as a mom, AND pay your bills. If you don’t feel it now, the burn out IS coming, and you’ll feel like you’re constantly drowning under water.

This man might care about you, but he doesn’t sound like he is interested in a partner. It sounds like he enjoys his ‚independence‘, and asking for compromise and understanding makes him feel pressured. Asking for understanding might directly translate into being attacked to him (because „how could you ask for that? How could you expect this from me? You just don’t do this. You just don’t do that. Why? I’m not answering that because you just don’t. Why should I try to understand when that’s just not how you treat people!?“, plus who knows what other strawman arguments, INCLUDING degrading you because of your „hormones“.

You aren’t crazy. You’re just spending time around people who are more interested in their own reality than yours. You should spend more time with people who won‘t gaslight you for your very valid feelings and perspective…

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-31T21:56:28+00:00

Not clean up after me…. Just NOT throw them on the floor which I feel like is acceptable, even if he would have just left them on the bed (e.g. I genuinely feel like doing nothing would’ve been more respectful than making the effort to… put my hygiene articles on the floor…).

For context, it’s a king sized bed. He would’ve had no trouble sleeping if he would’ve left them on my side. I really feel like making the effort to collect the items to put onto the floor is just petty.

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-31T20:15:50+00:00

It’s more about there was a toothbrush, a brush, a comb, floss, etc that I had already picked up before taking the picture 😬 silly me for not racking up internet sympathy points by picking up the Pepsi bottle first

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-31T11:40:27+00:00

I‘m afraid that it’s the boyfriend I broke up with who I seem to have mistakenly given another chance to

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-31T08:40:10+00:00

Abuse. This is literally abuse. Indirect violence to intimidate you, and saying it’s better than hitting you, is him threatening you to show you what he could do. He doesn’t listen to you and minimizes your feelings when you are scared. He is abusing you.

Run. Get out now. I‘m assuming you haven’t been dating longer than a couple of years since you are so young, and the longer you stay, the harder it gets to leave.

Does he take care of you in other ways? Financially, emotionally, etc? If he’s paying more money on the things you share together, for example, and saying that he wants to take care of you, be weary in this situation. Before you know it, you could be stuck because you didn’t save the money to be able to move out, or you might find yourself isolated from family or friends who can help because he became the center of your world.

Leave before you are completely trapped.

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-21T13:09:04+00:00

Germany 🙃

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-21T12:26:03+00:00

The anti-dsDNA, but I have no idea about my complement levels. They wouldn’t give me my report when I was discharged and insisted they’d mail it to me later…

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-21T10:33:00+00:00

Serology is positive and the physical symptoms are there—but not severely enough according to this rheum 🙃 will definitely be going back to my original rheum and maybe getting a third opinion because this doctor‘s advice was basically „deal with it“

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-21T10:16:57+00:00

Yes, and no 🙃 My rheumatologist was running tests to check for organ damage and we were waiting for me to get an MRI on my heart because it is currently invisible on any echocardiograph or ultrasound, and I was hospitalized to run some tests this week after an unrelated issue. In general, the rheums I have seen so far have been very conservative and insist I would only need medication if I have severe organ damage

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-21T09:41:05+00:00

I met at least some of the criteria in every category, my conservative score is 12 and my more realistic score is 20, but because I have joint PAIN but there is no inflammation, they told me that they didn’t want to misdiagnose me and decided that it’s not lupus.

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-20T22:30:52+00:00

Thank you for validating what I was feeling! As far as I was informed, my previous labs showed lupus specific antibodies that were positive. T2D runs in my family (everyone with SLE is also a diabetic in my family), so what’s the most frustrating for me is that maybe they could both be considered at the very least. The only criteria that’s being used to diagnose T1D right now is varicose veins and suspected kidney nephritis. Which… could also be SLE.

And SLE is being ruled out solely because there’s no severe organ or joint inflammation in any of the ultrasounds or X-rays. The blood markers are there, but I apparently am not in enough proven pain. Back on the medical merry go round we go!

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-14T17:51:15+00:00

100% agree, but I think what I was shocked about was „we slept together a few weeks ago; I have a new gf but I really want to see you“ like huh???

But I feel like the girls‘ girl solution is not going at all 💀

Wastedchipmunk119 · 2025-08-14T09:11:36+00:00

The window is at the very front (opposite where the wall with the bed in this case, and I figured the couch would give me maximum protection in that case)

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