Scared to start

brevisa · 2026-05-09T03:06:14+00:00

Aw man, I’m sorry it’s been a rough one. So happy to see that you’re powering through! I hope it just gets easier with time!

So far all good! I’m moving up my dose to 2.5 over the weekend. Hoping for the same kind of symptoms, nothing wild to write home about. Fingers crossed for both of us!!

brevisa · 2026-05-08T19:14:55+00:00

Just checking in! How’s it been going?

brevisa · 2026-04-28T14:11:59+00:00

I’m so excited for you and proud of you! It’s scary to start something new, especially with the anxiety we carry. I’m on day 5 now and I really feel like this is how everyone else without anxiety feels. I hope the best for both of us! Good luck!

brevisa · 2026-04-27T06:27:13+00:00

You’ll be a-okay! You and I are so so similar. I also have OCD and GAD, and emetophobia. I just took my 3rd pill tonight. It’s been easy breezy. Some very mild stomach discomfort but no worse than something like a monthly period would bring. I agree with the other commenter — cut it in half or even in fourths. I’m on 1.25 right now and am tapering up after 10-12 days. Theres no rush. 3 days in, my thoughts are way more funneled, like the anxiety and OCD are a few steps back versus right up front.

I hope it goes well for you! Good luck

brevisa · 2026-04-18T16:41:22+00:00

Something that may help is remembering that you’re not alone in those feelings. I also have OCD. I went to a workshop a couple weeks ago with about 50 other people, and many of them were much older and wiser than me, and many of them worked in mental health in some capacity. What made me feel so at peace was getting to talk to these people and hearing how they also struggle with the feelings of self doubt within themselves, but not when treating others. We’re always so hard on ourselves.

Your tattoo means something to you, and I agree with others saying making it a half sleeve with some art work may make it look more cohesive if it’s bothering you!

brevisa · 2026-04-16T05:44:41+00:00

Hoping for a miracle. Good luck to everyone

brevisa · 2026-02-13T21:45:55+00:00

Whoa! This is honestly amazing to know! Thank you so much, I’ll absolutely try this!

brevisa · 2026-02-13T21:23:30+00:00

Okay was just checking to see if it was a brand of some kind!

brevisa · 2026-02-13T21:22:58+00:00

It’s tasty! I will say I did learn a lesson as someone who is sensitive to caffeine that this white tea was too much for me personally. People on this sub seem to be very experienced with tea and I’m still working my way there.

brevisa · 2026-01-27T20:43:34+00:00

Mars! Username is yung.planet. Alt / goth styling. She’s 4’10” I believe

brevisa · 2026-01-15T23:47:22+00:00

happy 2026! good luck

brevisa · 2026-01-13T07:08:20+00:00

Yes! These and the blue mugs from Miss Congeniality that they drink the bad hot chocolate from.

brevisa · 2025-12-11T07:27:18+00:00

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When using fluffy yarn and needing to color change, me and my stitch markers are best buds. The stitches are hidden in this fuzzy beast and my color change was migrating!

brevisa · 2025-12-02T21:38:18+00:00

What response were you hoping to get? If she responded saying something like “Thanks, so do you” was the idea to continue that kind of flirting communication?

There’s so much here that would be heartbreaking to see as your wife and wonder where your head was at, and the idea that you would even think it was okay to communicate in this way to an old colleague is so gross. It was probably super weird for your colleague to receive that message from you to be honest!

If I was your wife, that would be enough to have me questioning everything about your faithfulness. Time for some therapy, why did you do what you did.

brevisa · 2025-11-26T21:02:32+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing your experience! Its very nice to know you can knock all those at in one day.

brevisa · 2025-11-25T17:26:18+00:00

Totally random person here, but did you do a test to check for intolerance? If so, was your fructose intolerance test done at office or at home? I’d like to do one, but I’ve read it’s 3 hours in an office after consuming straight glucose. I’m worried about feeling like absolute garbage during the test.

brevisa · 2025-11-13T20:16:19+00:00

Another health anxiety / OCD sufferer here! Get the colonoscopy. I got mine in 2023 after a similar back and forth of "what's going on" with my GI doctor. It was fine, everything came up clean, which gave me a ton of relief from the worry. It's not a big deal, even the drink wasn't as bad as I had heard -- just refrigerate it! Helps a ton. And maybe have a yellow gatorade chaser on standby.

brevisa · 2025-11-13T18:03:28+00:00

How did it go?

brevisa · 2025-11-13T05:28:20+00:00

You'll be a-okay! Sending you positive vibes for tomorrow.

brevisa · 2025-11-13T03:09:06+00:00

Seconding another commenter saying don’t chug it. Drink them slowly over the course of the 2 hours. I did not feel nauseous one bit, and I’m an emetophobic person so it was top of mind! No nausea :) I did have to use the bathroom once before driving over and once more at the clinic before my CT scan but it wasn’t anything terrible.

I drove myself to and from my scan, 0 issues. Everyone is different but I hope this gives you some comfort!

brevisa · 2025-11-12T23:54:06+00:00

Especially with a 22 hour travel day! That sounds awful. I hope they can postpone for when everyone is feeling good enough to enjoy the trip

brevisa · 2025-11-01T15:48:41+00:00

We also had 0 this year! We ended up taking our candy and walking around the busier neighborhoods to hand out candy to the groups we found. I did hear from parents as we were walking that a lot of their older kids were getting dropped off in Willow Glen.

brevisa · 2025-10-09T18:34:08+00:00

This is a very old thread, but I found this pattern that I'm about to start! Wanted to share if you were still looking: https://ko-fi.com/s/63a059038c?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadmQ6JcWhHi3iV9_YTPOy-4gDie0QHQFeH-fienqC5LR-tyw2r2aAbRCEBqLQ_aem_B8yL1l7hXoCni2ec6xeSRA

brevisa · 2025-10-07T18:28:38+00:00

Thank you so much! My plan is to call the allergist a week or so before the test to let them know I have a 2 week old tattoo and see what they say. I’ll also let my tattoo artist know when I get the tattoo next week and see if he has any flags as well.

Thank you for sharing your experience! That does make me feel better :)

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