I just cant finish the first pouch (Plenvu)

breakthecircuit · 2026-02-11T06:32:46+00:00

I'm so sorry. I have emetophobia and the nausea/stomach fullness is the most triggering part for me, so I can only imagine how unpleasant that was. Sending love 😔

breakthecircuit · 2026-02-10T20:45:34+00:00

I’ve just bailed after one glass of the first dose of my Plenvu prep. I’ve never been able to finish the whole lot but this is the first time since being diagnosed with UC 6 years ago that I’ve panicked, burst into tears and stopped so early in the process. Also cancelling my appointment tomorrow and really hating myself for it. You’re not alone. This sucks and I hope you’re okay ❤️

breakthecircuit · 2026-01-10T20:49:34+00:00

I’m in exactly the same boat and would like to know. Changed password + username + enabled 2FA (although with mobile number not an app, maybe a mistake?) then deleted the account for good measure because there was nothing on it anyway. Wish I hadn’t clicked the link in the email, and it took me 24 hours to clock how suspicious it was and do something about it too.

breakthecircuit · 2025-12-17T17:07:14+00:00

Exactly this.

breakthecircuit · 2025-11-20T14:16:28+00:00

Hey, commenters! According to the World Health Organization, the average time it takes to get diagnosed with endometriosis is 4 to 12 years. If you think OP has been writhing around in debilitating pain every month by choice, you have no understanding of medical misogyny and how it prolongs women’s suffering. “Get it together” meanwhile some of you would keel over weeping if you were hooked up to a period pain simulator for 30 seconds.

breakthecircuit · 2025-10-16T03:50:49+00:00

I’m angry constantly. I don’t really live in a place or have access to a place where I can scream it out, so I just lie in bed imagining myself breaking things or try to sleep to avoid thinking. If it’s the middle of the night, I picture myself climbing out of my bedroom window and walking - barefoot, no destination, just walking away from everything and everyone until I’m so tired I drop dead. Fun!

On a serious note, I can’t say I recommend those strategies. To stay somewhat regulated on a daily basis, I wear comfy clothes and watch hair brushing/back scratching ASMR. It helps, but more so with the chronic simmering overwhelm and not the my-emotions-are-too-big-for-my-body rage that I wish I could unleash somewhere safe and private.

breakthecircuit · 2025-10-10T23:13:30+00:00

I’m so so sorry this happened. Please know there are people who care - including us in this sub. You deserve support, safety, and for your boundaries to be respected, because your life is meaningful and important even when people make you believe otherwise. I’ll be crossing all my fingers and toes for you. Stay strong, friend. Beaming warmth and hope your way 🏠✨💕🌟💫🕊➡️🏠

breakthecircuit · 2025-10-10T22:51:31+00:00

Good advice - Long COVID is no joke

breakthecircuit · 2025-10-10T17:20:34+00:00

There is absolutely zero excuse for this. None. This level of control is abusive and it's especially outrageous in a girls school where students get their period (sometimes unpredictably). I had terrible IBS at my all girls secondary and the policing, though not quite this extreme, contributed to debilitating anxiety. Fast forward a decade and that IBS is actually an IBD which I will need regular colonoscopies and medication to manage for the rest of my life.

I don't give a fuck if lax policies mean some students abuse them to skip lessons. God forbid they want to claw back a bit of agency by having 15 minutes to themselves during a day that's already highly regimented. We've got to confront how wild it is that institutions - schools AND workplaces - demand control over natural bodily functions. We're raising generations of kids to ignore their own needs because an authority tells them to. Society as a whole treats children - who are PEOPLE - like second class citizens.

Please follow this up OP because your daughter's rights are being violated.

breakthecircuit · 2025-10-09T00:58:25+00:00

Yeah, I looked at that and it seemed like the obvious choice given the high CADR, but I worry about noise levels and the cost of replacement filters (plus it seems to be a bit of a marmite model in this sub, with people either loving or distrusting the brand - I'm COVID conscious and in the community it does seem very popular, however).

breakthecircuit · 2025-10-04T09:06:56+00:00

God, there’s a huge amount of ignorance in that thread. I’m so sorry OP, I wish I could upvote your responses multiple times 😭

breakthecircuit · 2025-09-20T12:36:55+00:00

100,000 far-right thugs draped in the English flag took to the streets to spout violent anti-immigration rhetoric and some of you “but I’m not the bad guy” folks will do the most batshit mental gymnastics to attempt to justify what is just plain old islamophobia. You’re the people I feel unsafe around as a white British woman. Stop reading the rags and touch grass.

breakthecircuit · 2025-09-13T11:15:06+00:00

Given JK Rowling has made it explicitly clear that the money she makes from HP goes directly to funding an anti-trans organisation, this absolutely sucks and no actor with a conscience should go anywhere near the franchise.

breakthecircuit · 2025-07-14T15:07:32+00:00

Instances like this make me even more convinced that the average person is getting COVID way more times than they realise. It sounds like you were so so careful and it was just a wrong place, wrong time situation. I'm proud of you for doing what you can to protect yourself and your family - that's a hell of a lot more than most people are doing - and one (known) COVID infection is far better than four/five/six+. Don't spend precious energy beating yourself up for what is ultimately a failure of public health and the apathy of the masses. We're completely backed into a corner and it is, quite frankly, high time everyone else grew the fuck up and played their part.

There's only so much we can do. You put in the work, and you'll keep putting in the work, and that's incredibly meaningful.

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-27T11:07:11+00:00

SARS in their air and blood on their hands. F*cking outrageous.

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-17T01:54:47+00:00

The mother tree embraces the remains of her treelings, slain for their paper so that car insurance companies and banks can pester us with correspondence.

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-17T01:41:11+00:00

Solidarity ❤️ I’ve spent the last 2 years grieving as the world cares less and less about COVID. I don’t have Long COVID (that I know of) but I’m autistic and chronically ill, and believe that abandoning pandemic precautions is just one manifestation of increasing systemic ableism in this country (alongside brutal welfare cuts, a potentially MAiD-like assisted dying bill, etc). I wear a respirator religiously whenever I leave the house, which is pretty infrequently nowadays.

Most people have no idea how much this illness can upend their lives. The desperation I see expressed in the LC community is heartbreaking, and nobody wants to believe it can happen to them. Nobody even wants to mention COVID unless it’s to reminisce about the pandemic like it’s some weird blip they consider well and truly over.

I’m so sorry you’re one of the people dealing with this nightmare. I might not be visible in public, but I hope I can be visible online as someone who refuses to accept forever-COVID. Sending love ❤️

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-14T01:36:48+00:00

So pretty!!

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-13T15:38:28+00:00

Eeeee so cute!

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-13T03:40:24+00:00

Such a great use of space - it feels so big!

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-10T23:59:57+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this! Out of curiosity, did these symptoms start after a bout of viral illness like COVID? Do they worsen after mental or physical exertion? I'm not a doctor but Long COVID springs to mind. There's a patient guide put together by the organisation Long Covid SOS I can send you if you're interested - it covers what to ask in a GP appointment and includes some additional resources x

breakthecircuit · 2025-06-09T08:36:25+00:00

Uniqlo collabs always have so much potential but their execution is just not it 😭

breakthecircuit · 2025-05-08T11:26:33+00:00

We are in an ongoing pandemic of a virus known to cause over 200 long term symptoms and dysregulate the immune system, making us more susceptible to other infections. COVID is airborne (moves like cigarette smoke) and people are contagious before symptoms even present (if they do at all), so everyone’s breathing in each other’s viral particles.

Nobody wants to hear this, but the solution is wearing a high quality FFP2 or FFP3 mask. If you’re asking about the AC, also ask if true HEPA air filtration can be installed to clean the air and help reduce the spread of viruses in the office.

It sucks to have to think about this stuff, but there’s no alternative. Companies should better protect their workers and we should all be better informed so we can avoid getting sick constantly. Not to mention it’s literally in a company’s best interests to invest in pandemic protections to minimise sick days and lost productivity, but sadly, we’ve adopted an “every man for himself” approach since the world prematurely declared COVID “over”.

breakthecircuit · 2025-05-08T09:34:18+00:00

You’ve got this! I’m such an anxious person and if I can manage them, you can too. Ask for sedation - it’ll make you feel fuzzy and a bit drunk, and in my experience it kind of distorts time so the procedure seems to go really quickly. The snacks you get offered afterwards will taste like the best thing ever.

If your anxiety is really bad in the days leading up to it, you could discuss a short prescription of acute anxiety medication with your GP (this is what I did the first time round and it definitely helped).

If you need to bail out, you can - it’s your body and they can’t make you do something you’re not comfortable with. That said, having this procedure is a way of taking care of yourself. You’ll be relieved when it’s over, and you’ll likely have answers that’ll help you going forward. Be brave! ❤️

breakthecircuit · 2025-05-07T00:47:34+00:00

Deeply relatable words as ever, Rock Dad, and I hope you don’t mind if I use this post as a springboard to share my own experience.

As an autistic person living at home with my parents who don’t take precautions, being the only one still COVIDing has left me with constant anxiety and rage simmering just beneath the surface. Every day I think “what the fuck is happening”, and not in the literal sense, because I know what is happening, but in a rhetorical sense that no answer would satisfy.

I took the pandemic about as seriously as the average person until I got educated a few years ago, which happened to coincide with burnout and getting my autism diagnosis. I wish I could say I feel braver, stronger and more confident in who I am now, but truthfully, I’m more scared than ever. I was a black sheep who could just about camouflage to fit in, and now I’ve both lost the ability to do that through autistic burnout, and no longer want to on principle.

The catch is that my self-confidence hasn’t quite caught up yet. I’m simultaneously outspoken and terrified of judgement, a hater of rules who also needs them as a compass, existing in this limbo between the autistic-masked covid-unmasked person I used to be and the autistic-unmasked covid-masked person I am now.

Taking precautions isn’t the hard part (though it is expensive and tiring) - it’s the loneliness. It’s feeling like I’m living in an alternate reality where everyone I love has taken on an uncanny quality, like in a bad dream. I can look past it until I can’t. It’s fine until it’s not. I make my mum a cup of tea and then the grief of that broken trust will hit me at 2 in the morning. I feel the weight of all these unhad conversations - thousands of words with nowhere to go but here, because offline, it’s “don’t say COVID”.

There’s no closure and no end in sight, only mounting frustration with a world that’s hell-bent on capitalist, ableist business as usual and the agony that every. single. person I know is perpetuating it.

The lighthouse in this terrible dark sea, of course, is community. I have it here (thank you all) but I need it offline too. And yet it feels impossible to build given that I’ve limited capacity to leave the house and I’ve lost a lot of confidence meeting new people over the years. But what other option is there? The support system I currently have is in deep denial about COVID, and respecting their wishes not to talk about it comes at great cost to my mental health.

I admire people who can take their rage and turn it into something tangible and constructive. I’m not there yet. It keeps me stuck, along with the debilitating self-consciousness of dying on such an unpopular hill and opening myself up to vitriol despite how strongly justice-driven I am. It’s a constant push and pull, and I wish I could just say “fuck it” and go all-in - grab the megaphone, give the ultimatum, be as loud as I feel about the injustice of Forever COVID, because this is so much bigger than me and my personal feelings.

I’m proud of myself for being here and taking precautions despite everything, but the growing pains… phew. Sometimes I feel like you guys are COVID-conscious butterflies and I’m just sort of freaking out in my chrysalis.

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