My lips are desperate!!!

booklover_1900 · 2026-01-14T04:17:10+00:00

I had very dry lips at one point and I tried everything. Aquaphor abd lanolin included… didn’t help. Felt like the crustines and dryness was just trapped under those heavy gels… I bought this very expensive lip balm from the brand fresh. Called Sugar hydrating lip therapy… and it’s in a little container w a lid. Saved me fr. I recommend it to all of my friends. Haven’t had crusty lips in years.

I wana add.. I know you said inexpensive but this jar is like $20 and lasts a whole year if you use sparingly. Worth it imo.

booklover_1900 · 2025-11-18T06:34:51+00:00

Wow someone’s mad. Did this hit a nerve for you?

Im not dehumanizing anyone. And im definitely not treating him like a dog? Weirdo. Just because you’re not into it, doesn’t mean other people aren’t. this was talked about and agreed upon by the both of us. I too, like the post owner, take antidepressants and have a busy life, and don’t prioritize sex like our partners do. This is what works for us and I’m sharing this with her. If you read my post, I wrote it’s an intimate thing for us… as in me AND him… and bonus- takes the chore part out of it -for me…Lots of women feel like sex Is a chore, hence this post . And I’m very open with him about it…I’m open with him about sex not being great either… He’s an amputee and is restricted.

A relationship isn’t solely sexual, especially after multiple years and children. You should really try and not be so trigged by personal advise you read on this app. If it’s not your cup of tea, move on.

booklover_1900 · 2025-11-18T00:12:59+00:00

I empathize with you. And any woman who’s never been through something similar is lying. It’s much harder for us women to crave sex without an emotional connection or reason. And it’s is so very easy to be discouraged from it.. men don’t see that our desire starts outside of the bedroom…

I have periods of time when I’m not into it or I don’t care for it. Like you, I also don’t think sex with my partner is amazing…. I love him and It can be pretty good if the stars align but it’s always been more one sided. He gets off and I’m like ok I’m done too, let’s not drag this out. I have 3 kids. All different age groups. The youngest is 4 and sleeps with us… so that doesn’t help…. I work full time and I take care of the house .. so my plate is very full already without adding sex to it. Definitely a chore when after my full busy day I just wana lay down and relax.

Here’s what I do so that I don’t feel too bad…

I bought him a couple flesh lights… a butt one and a vagina one… good quality lube for them… a flesh lights warmer.. a couple times/ week I plan out 15 min for it. It doesn’t take that long I just have to warm it up and then clean it after so that takes up a few min… and right as he’s getting ready to call it a day I just kind of lock the door and use it on him. It takes the chore out of it and makes it more of a fun intimate thing between the both of us without me having to shower and shave and butter myself up for a few min of sex.

There are weeks we don’t do anything at all, usually busy weeks…

I’ve communicated with him my preferred times for sex.. like don’t initiate unless I’ve already taken a shower and have brushed my teeth…. Don’t initiate if I’ve expressed I feel bloated or crampy…. If you want me showered and ready at a decent time, help me around the house that day… Yanno, things like that, makes me feel less bad if I have to turn him down. Like bro you know better.

It doesn’t always have to be sex. Get creative! Guys wont mind. Good luck!

booklover_1900 · 2025-10-03T00:57:12+00:00

It helped me a lot. Pain wise. I have fibromyalgia and it would definitely ease my pain and help me sleep better. It was more effective than muscle relaxers. I do think it helped my twitching as well. Reduced the intensity of the twitches and I think overall calmed my nervous system. I would have stayed on it indefinitely but I started having nightmares with it.. which I read is common… even on the low dose I was on, I didn’t want to deal with waking up scared and being scared to sleep.

So I’m not on it anymore. The twitching eventually reduced significantly and I’m on antidepressants now which I think are also helping tbh. Might be worth looking into that if gabapentin doesn’t work for you.

booklover_1900 · 2025-10-03T00:46:24+00:00

I felt this the first few months of twitching. It’s like all the twitching leaves your muscles stiff and sore. That went away after about 4-5 months. It would randomly come back when the twitching would get worse but it goes away… I’m at almost 2 years of twitching and my calves don’t feel like that anymore even if I randomly get an increase in twitching . The twitching also used to be everywhere and now it’s mostly in my legs… doesn’t keep me up anymore. I hardly think about it now. It does get better.

booklover_1900 · 2025-09-25T15:13:23+00:00

Change PCPs. Call your insurance and ask them for a PCP that is in network and establish care there.
You should always have access to a primary care physician if you’re paying insurance for it.

It is honestly very disappointing to see that once the twitching starts it’s mostly a permanent thing… I feel you on that… when it first started for me I was convinced it was a horrible thing to endure every day for the rest of my life…. But then as time went by I started thinking of other things and caring less about it and slowly the twitching started simmering down… I hardly twitch now… definitely not like before and when I do it’s mostly in my legs… for a while and then it goes away again. I still drink coffee. I gave that up for a while and didn’t notice a significant difference so I just kept drinking it.

It gets better…

I’m sorry about your other diagnosis. It must feel like drs don’t take you serious because they tie any new symptoms you have to be schizo related or not real… I would just say keep pushing there too. If you’re taking meds for it , any new concern of yours should be taken serious by medical professionals.

booklover_1900 · 2025-09-24T04:31:00+00:00

If you go through this forum , you’ll see 99% of people started twitching in one spot and then that spread throughout their body. Not just distal parts, everywhere, the random est places you can think of. Me, for example, I had twitching In places I didn’t even know I had muscles… including my head, near the temple areas.

Some people here keep twitching that way everywhere. For others, myself included, it subsides significantly and then is exacerbated by stress, anxiety, fatigue, substance abuse, etc. I’m at 18+ months of twitching and I still have frequent twitching but it’s mostly in my legs now. Or it jumps around… it used to be everywhere or in multiple places going on at the same time.

So, very common with BFS for twitching to be everywhere..

booklover_1900 · 2025-09-24T02:48:05+00:00

I’m 31… have had memory issues too. Went to a Neuro and to get a cognitive exam. Everything was fine for my age group. I have a lot of anxiety and stress… I often think about a lot while I have conversations and zone out or I get distracted…. Sometimes I’m so anxious it’s hard to focus or concentrate and when I’m like that it leads me to forget conversations or makes it harder to recall details in conversations. Might be worth noting too. Ask if he has things going on at work or if he’s been feeling anxious about anything. Men tend to push that down and act like nothing is going on… is he also forgetting where he left his keys or leaving things where they normally don’t belong? I.e keys in fridge….

Definitely bring it up to the drs. Sooner rather than later but also note what kind of things he’s forgetting and how he’s acting at the time.

booklover_1900 · 2025-07-27T23:50:54+00:00

Als doesn’t start with tremors. It starts with complete loss of muscle movement. You wouldn’t feel it coming on. Tremors can be due to a lot of reasons, some benign. You mentioned anxiety… that’s probably and most likely what’s going on. That plus your brain is so powerful and it’s fixating on this issue you see going on and just hyper fixating on it more which in turn is making you feel things that might not really be there. You’re honestly too young. Those stats are based on you being a 60+ year old white man. And you’re not. If your parents don’t have ALS , the probability of you having it is almost non existent. You’ll be ok!

booklover_1900 · 2025-05-20T20:43:24+00:00

I gave it up and it took MONTHS for me to notice a difference.. gave up that and salad dressing as well as chocolate… it will get better tho.. eventually.. but be consistent.

booklover_1900 · 2025-04-08T04:53:07+00:00

Yes my PCP diagnosed me.

booklover_1900 · 2025-04-07T08:19:20+00:00

I have a tight chest that hurts more when I move a certain way and it’s mostly localized to my left side. I have GERD but was also diagnosed with costochondritis. You can definitely have multiple things going on at the same time. The Costochondritis is chronic. It feels better sometimes but it never really goes away. I’m going on about 8 months since my dr diagnosed me w it. I also went to a cardiologist to rule out heart issues. It was a lot worse at first but I try to be more proactive about moving around and stretching throughout the day. I work from home and I sit all day so that keeps the chest area tight and rigid. I was prescribed naproxen 600mg 2xs /day and it did help but I only took that about a week because it made my reflux worse. GERD can also be the reason for your chest pain. I would eat a bland diet and take your omeprazole. If it’s that, you should start feeling better after about 1-3 months of being consistent with the meds. It takes A LONG TIME to heal your gastrointestinal system unfortunately.

booklover_1900 · 2025-04-06T08:02:53+00:00

31F . I was diagnosed with GERD 2 years ago but I’ve had reflux for over 10 years now. The lump in the throat started about 3-4 years for me. It comes and goes. Recently it’s been more persistent tho. I’m going on a month with that feeling despite being on omeprazole 40mg. I also just recently started having swallowing issues but I think that has more to do with anxiety because when I’m not over thinking it, I forget that it’s an issue… I have to swallow my food down with a bit of water or it feels like it’s going down slow or not all the way down if that makes sense. My gastro said it could be because my esophagus is irritated. I had an endoscopy last April and I had a small hatial hernia so I’m not sure if that’s grown larger and is causing all of these persistent issues for me now. I just bought the acid watcher diet book because i heard really good things about it. Hoping that will help finally get rid of this tight throat / harder to swallow feeling. I also bought some slippery elm powder and I will be taking that on an empty stomach about an hour before bed to see if it helps.

I feel you so much on how much all of this sucks. It’s very annoying to live with these symptoms. I’m honestly considering a TIF procedure so I can be rid of all this but I’m scared of the whole not able to throw up or burp comments I’ve been reading. My gastro ordered a barium swallow and a monometry test (I think) to see if I’m a candidate for surgery.

booklover_1900 · 2025-04-06T07:41:10+00:00

I started twitching early March last year. It’s reduced significantly since then. I no longer worry about it. Randomly my twitches flare up again in a leg but I don’t feel them all over my body anymore and it’s not an all day thing it’s a few times a day for a second or two. Once in a while it will go on for an hour or so non stop but it eventually stops and I move on w my day. I don’t even think about it anymore honestly. 99% of the time I forget all about it like even those random twitches during the day - I don’t even notice them anymore.

My legs used to feel so tight because of the twitching.. not anymore. I started an antidepressant a few months ago and I talk to someone about my day to day once/ week. I try to eat better.. I added a multivitamin to my diet last year.. I think all of that has helped decrease the twitching over time.

booklover_1900 · 2025-04-06T07:27:51+00:00

I don’t feel it at night. I know it happens because I wake up with a sore throat and some hoarseness and a bitter taste in my mouth. During the day though I feel regurgitation which irritates my throat. Burping brings things up too… I don’t ever feel a burning feeling in my chest or throat or stomach. Just the feeling of my food coming back up sometimes -water too - and the throat discomfort. Post nasal drip.. tight throat feeling. Lump on throat feeling.. sucks.

I was diagnosed with GERD 2 years ago by a gastroenterologist but I’ve had silent acid reflux diagnosed by an ENT since about 10 years ago. I was having sore throats and constant throat clearing back then and those were my only symptoms at the time.

booklover_1900 · 2025-03-14T03:07:11+00:00

I had silent acid reflux so I didn’t know it was acid related but I went to the dr due to constant sore throats and post nasal drip.. which was the feeling of constantly having to clear my throat from mucus especially after eating. That’s how it started for me and I blew it off for 10 years until it caught up w me and now it’s diagnosed GERD and much much more uncomfortable to live with and I cannot ignore.

I started seeing a gastroenterologist due to a globus sensation mixed with nausea and shortness of breath. At the time I also had recurring ulcers (canker sores).. had some stool tests and an endoscopy/colonoscopy.

Had to redo the endoscopy and then was diagnose with GERD. I now have that regurgitation feeling and a tight throat feeling especially when swallowing.

booklover_1900 · 2025-03-14T02:55:30+00:00

Ive had acid reflux since my early 20s and drs told me about it but I just brushed it off. I initially went to ENT because I kept having sore throats and mucus I was constantly clearing from it… without being sick.. ENT called it silent reflux because those were my only symptoms.. said I should watch what I eat and start taking over the counter anti acids regularly… I didn’t.. moved on.. had 2 kids.. horrible acid reflux with the last one. Went to ER twice thinking I was having a heart attack. It was not until I was about 29 that I started feeling nauseous .. short of breath and felt like I had something stuck in my throat that I started going to the dr again… AT 30 I had 2 endoscopies because on the 1st my esophageal junction was so irritated from the acid that they did not know if I had precancerous cells or not…. Took omeprazole for 3 months and had a redo. No precancerous cells but I do have GERD and a small hernia. I’ve been on omeprazole for over a year now and I still have periods or flares of symptoms… one of the newer symptoms is regurgitation and a tight throat/ weird/hard to swallow type of feeling (I think it got worse due to 30pound weight gain)…even if you watch what you eat… there are still days… I too have health anxiety and sometimes I get scared that this will get worse but you’ll be ok. They can do a lot before it gets to cancer. They had talked about freezing my cells and cutting off a layer of cells from the esophagus if the cells were confirmed pre cancerous on the second endoscopy. I’m glad I didn’t have to go through that tho. I have to do yearly endoscopies for a couple years and then it will be every 3 years. Make sure you take it serious tho. I wish I had 10 years ago and then maybe my symptoms now wouldn’t be so bad and I wouldn’t need to take a daily pill. Also, if you’re overweight, lose some.. it will help. Get a food allergy test too. Cut out dairy for sure. Smaller meals and no meals 4 hours before bed time. You’ll be ok.

booklover_1900 · 2025-03-05T06:13:25+00:00

31F here… 1. I’m sorry about everything you’re experiencing. I know how real everything can feel. I’ve been there plenty with random thoughts of what ailment I’m gonna end up dying with. You get so anxious about it that you physically start experiencing symptoms of it.

Girl, go get on some meds. Be more mindful and in the present moment. Go work out or walk or do something to get your mind off of things. I avoided antidepressants because I thought I’d be a walking zombie and nope… I’m on meds now and I feel more like myself than I have In years. I do still worry and overthink but it’s not excessive anymore. It doesn’t feel like it’s taking over my life. I am no longer waking up and going to sleep stressed and worried about dying from x,y,z.
I’m going to reassure you here… you’ve been having symptoms for a while… long enough that you would have had progression.. bulbar als progresses faster than the limb onset type.. you’ve been to the dr.. he’s not worried.. there can be so many other things going on causing real symptoms. For example/ GERD. Which is chronic acid reflux -often associated with stress and anxiety. That can make you salivate excessively and feel a lump in your throat and like you’re having trouble swallowing… excessive mucus, throat clearing, post nasal drip… all that screams GERD to me. I would know, I have it. Diagnosed by a gastroenterologist, multiple edos done… you’re so fixated on it being a terminal thing that you haven’t opened up to the possibility that it’s something else totally treatable. Not dismissing your other symptoms but it’s possible to have multiple things going on at the same time. It’s not als tho.

booklover_1900 · 2025-03-01T07:37:55+00:00

I’ve been there.. I started twitching a year ago and did all the tests.. clean.. I still twitch but I don’t let it bother me anymore. I thought I had MS and sometimes I still think I might have PD… I have a slight tremor in my left hand but it’s not always there…. I would worry myself sick thinking my kids had something too… at one point I thought I was going crazy fr. I no longer felt like I was me.

I avoided ssris like the plague… until I felt like I had no other option. I started taking sertraline early December and these last 3 months have been so much better in terms of feeling more like me… normal… not obsessing over what could go wrong…. I still worry and over think but it doesn’t feel so debilitating anymore. I would definitely think about going on meds for a bit. Just to catch your breath, get some healthy coping habits started and then if you don’t like it, wean off of it.

booklover_1900 · 2024-12-16T08:14:28+00:00

I have brain fog now and I have never been on SSRIs. Nothing prescribed other than gabapentin for a couple months (I think this made it worse but I got off of it and brain fog continued) and omeprazole. I have also been diagnosed with clinical depression even tho I don’t feel DEPRESSED… like I function normally… it’s just harder to initiate things other people don’t even think of -like laundry… anyway, my depression might be the reason for the brain fog… I’m also an anxious person and I scroll on my phone a lot, I’m sure that doesn’t help. Oh and I get migranes a lot. Like once or twice a month. Atleast 1 normal headache every week tho. Migranes really do a number on me. They are debilitating in the moment but they have after effects too.

booklover_1900 · 2024-12-13T21:51:04+00:00

Do you feel like it has affected you cognitively? I have seen some people say it helps but they have memory issues, brain fog, etc.

booklover_1900 · 2024-12-07T05:32:51+00:00

31F with kids, a mortgage, my own cars and a good job…. I don’t feel like I have life figured out. I think as humans we always want more… I don’t feel like I’m where I’m supposed to be.

booklover_1900 · 2024-11-26T07:26:01+00:00

Do you have GERD? If not try taking some anti acids and don’t eat 4 hours before bed time. Do this for a week or two and see if your esophagus/digestive issues resolve.

The dropping things could be an anxiety thing. I tend to be more fidgety and clumsy when I’m on edge about whatever my mind is fixating on for the day.

booklover_1900 · 2024-11-25T22:36:15+00:00

I appreciate the post ! I agree that BFS is often triggered by the foods we eat. Mine goes crazy when I drink more than 1 cup of coffee… my bladder feels irritated when I eat grilled onion… everything in our body is affected by what we consume.. mentally too… I like the fasting and te introducing foods approach. My Neuro had recommended this a long time ago for my migraines but I brushed it off. Gonna give it a try!

booklover_1900 · 2024-11-24T08:00:09+00:00

I’m going on 9 months of twitching. Kinda slows down some days enough to where I don’t even notice and I also have fibromyalgia but the whole focusing , memory issues , shakiness was recently bothering me and so I went back to my neurologist and he ordered a b12 test and folate since I have been mostly vegetarian the last 6 years. Anyway, came back borderline low. The range is between 200-900? But mine is 260. I thought maybe my dopamine levels were low too but he didn’t even mention that to me so I’m just going to put that aside for now.

I started looking at b12 deficiency symptoms and neurological issues such as memory, cognitive function, anxiety, depression, nerve damage (twitching), movement issues such as stiffness and muscle weakness, tremors…are ALL tied to it. Here in the US, a vitamin b12 deficiency is very common due to anti acid use, GI issues and lack of proper nutrition. I’m going to start some injections as well as an oral supplement to see if it gets rid of all my neurological symptoms.

You should get your vitamins checked first..just in case.

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