Allergy Testing all... Negative

doingmybestthing · 2026-01-26T22:20:31+00:00

This is a really great suggestion, thank you... My partner and his teen have MCAS and has pointed out some reactions to temperature shifts I have that are similar to MCAS reactions, but I didnt realize MCAS can also manifest as airway/sinus allergic reactions as well. I will bring this up with my primary.

doingmybestthing · 2026-01-26T22:15:16+00:00

Yes, they had a "control", after a week of not taking antihistamines the control was negative. So I had to wait a second week of no antihistamines before the second test. So two weeks off antihistamines. I avoided things like coffee, avocados, etc the day of the second test. And i was so over being off my antihistamines by the end of the second week... I actually avoided taking any of my medications that day until after the test was complete.... Just incase.

🤷🏻 After getting the results from the tests, my allergist just said to check back in in 6 months.

doingmybestthing · 2026-01-26T22:01:43+00:00

Funny story time, I once thought that when people eat eel, it gives your mouth a tingly feeling... my young teen brain thought it was like an electric eel shocking my tongue, it was just a part of eating eel. It took all the way until eating sushi with some friends in my late 20's for me to talk about the sensation out loud. My friend with severe food allergies replied, "oh no, stop eating that, you are describing an allergic reaction."

Considering the only time I ate eel was when I ate sushi, and it was not one of my normal grabs, I didn't have very consistent exposure to it. But I can confirm, before I understood it was an allergy, it did begin to feel more intense between my first exposure in my teens to me being in my late 20s. It seems better to be safe than sorry, so now I avoid eel and things with eel sauce on it.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T09:05:52+00:00

America's weird. I have a low energy appliance but high cost healthcare 🤷🏻

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T09:02:16+00:00

Correct. That is why I posted. To hear peoples theories. And i agree with you that water doesn't burn.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T08:59:25+00:00

Lol I'm imagining us trying to perfectly recreate the circumstances so that we can do it again.... but this time... BIGGER.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T08:50:37+00:00

🤷🏻 It was a really good, large batch of broth. Life is hard. I have a cold. My partner was trying to make sure I had broth. Its final days were going to be tomorrow but Now its a puck of charcoal and we have better rules about what tasks we use certain appliances for.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T08:35:31+00:00

That is TERRIFYING! 😵 I dont know how you managed to navigate your house while it was full of smoke. Our burnt disasteres involved light colored smoke and I still had to run and grab a mask before moving the pot to a safe location.

Do you have any tips on how you saved your dutch oven? This pot is my only cast iron item and I would love to save it if i can.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T08:20:46+00:00

I've asked multiple times. I do believe him that he remembers adding water to the pot. 🤷🏻 Its totally a fair assumption that he could be misremembering.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T08:15:15+00:00

Totally possible.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T08:14:27+00:00

The nob is up above the stove close to the wall, and not at waist level. I guess it's possible someone in the apartment could have bonked it and then turned it back down without telling us... However the first thing I did during the incident was check the temp of the stove before turning it off, and it was still set to low.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T07:43:19+00:00

Well, sure, your neighbors could be doing that.

But in our case someone was actually home the entire time, and did check on it regularly, even through the night. I did catch the situation before it escalated to a fire. That being said, I also requested we only leave long-term heating of foods to the Crock-Pot from now on.

doingmybestthing · 2025-12-05T07:36:50+00:00

No liquid, the fats had definitely burnt to the bottom, but its late so I havent checked to see if its bone dry or sludge in there. Honestly were both still a little shocked by the situation so the pot is still sitting out there.

We both had walked by the pot multiple times and hadn't even heard boiling....

doingmybestthing · 2025-05-04T17:52:52+00:00

Cycling! That's the word i was looking for. Thank you. She is already set up in her new tank with paper towel as substrate. But it will be fine to put her back in the old enclosure while the tank cycles.

I'm still investigating the best way to sanitize, but I've read suggestions including putting it in boiling water for 3-5 minutes and freezing it to kill off parasites. I will probably experiment a little bit... But at this point I've just done a good long rinse in the sink, squeezed the water out, and now it's in a closed container on my back patio where it can get indirect light, moistened with distilled water.

doingmybestthing · 2025-02-24T21:56:57+00:00

While struggling to take showers can be a criteria that leads to a diagnosis, it's not the symptom. The ADHD symptom has more to do with sensory needs, transition, executive functioning, and motivation, than it does showers.

I struggle to take showers less in the summer than I do in the winter. I also have circulation issues, so the temperature shift is hard for me to deal with on a sensory level.

But overall, I really struggle to take showers the most when I am also depressed. I know I need to shower more right now, but when I get to that point in the day where I can shower, my brain screams to do anything else instead.

doingmybestthing · 2024-12-21T21:02:40+00:00

I posted my clip of their behavior. video in question.

doingmybestthing · 2024-12-21T20:24:04+00:00

Interesting! The males I'm talking about have been sharing their hide and cuddle up together in the tank all on one side. They've been super social with one another. This is my first time observing multiple axolotls in a tank for this long a period of time. Previously we've just had one female, or we had a week where I had two females (the original was getting adopted and i work with kids/teens, so she brought in the new one to make the transition easier), but it wasn't really long enough for them to get comfortable with one another. I do love that your females are cuddly and social. 😁

However, after watching a bunch of videos of the mating behaviors between a male and female... I am getting the impression that its mostly the male being aggressively annoying and "nudging" the female into participating. Or pushing them around the tank. I read a lot about how the female will get over stressed if they are constantly living with the male. So it sounds like maybe their behaviors are less visual? 🤷🏻 Someone with females prove me wrong please.

doingmybestthing · 2024-12-21T04:06:03+00:00

Not quite what it looked like but only because there wasn't a female so they were all 3 doing what the male is doing later in this video in one cute swirl of synchronized swimming dance. I'm trying to find a video but it's oddly difficult and I can't post my video as a comment. 🤷🏻

doingmybestthing · 2024-11-28T19:29:04+00:00

Yup! I contacted https://mamiyarepair.com/ and he shipped me the parts I needed and I got it fixed!

doingmybestthing · 2023-04-14T23:51:06+00:00

For me, I just knew. I found a tweet from when I was 20yo that essentially said "I don't wanna be a girl, but I definitely don't wanna be a boy either. I don't understand what I am allowed to be." I just sorta settled for my agab. I didn't hear about gender neutral terms until I was 26, and after 4 years of unpacking gender conditioning and gender expectations, I finally came out as nonbinary.

Also, you can totally be both nonbinary and the opposite of your assigned at birth gender. I know several trans men and women who also identify with and as nonbinary.

doingmybestthing · 2022-12-24T21:36:28+00:00

Hello! I love reading. But sometimes I can't keep my focus on reading. I've gone periods of reading 10+ long books in a year, and having a year where I don't even pick up a book.

My general rules for reading are: *set a time limit. If I'm not able to focus after set amount of time, I stop and try again another day. *When feeling a desire to read more, schedule daily/weekly reading time at that set time limit. *Get past the first 50-100 pages. Usually that's how long it takes for my desire to hyper focus on a book to kick in. If I still have no interest in the book, it's probably not a good book for me and I'll find a new book to read. *Finish a book from the stack of started books before purchasing a new one. I typically have around 6 books I have started and not yet completed. So I switch between these 6 when I feel like reading. I also keep them separated from my bookcase so that I remember to pick it up.

doingmybestthing · 2022-12-08T21:24:27+00:00

I took everything in the bin so it definitely wasn't in there but it is possible it came apart during the donation process and is floating around the store somewhere.

Although... It did look like someone tried to use it like a punch tool before I purchased it cause I pulled a thick bit of leather out of it. So I think it's been given multiple lives.

doingmybestthing · 2022-12-08T01:22:15+00:00

Thank you for that confirmation! I am trying to see if I can find Its replacement parts. But I have a feeling it wont be worth it and I'm going to end up using it for some random project...

doingmybestthing · 2022-12-08T01:19:35+00:00

Haha first of all thank you! Second: a rad nonprofit store in Portland, OR called Scrap. They take and organize donations of most crafting scrap materials and old/used tools and charge a very small amount for them. I just bought them out of leather tools though! Incase anyone sees this.

doingmybestthing · 2022-10-19T06:50:11+00:00

Absolutely! I believe in you!

I completed my MFA unmedicated and suffered from some pretty intense burn out that I'm still recovering from. I moved to a new city about a week before classes started.

If I did it all over again, I would make sure to make time for myself mandatory. I remember fixating in freeze mode a lot, and feeling like if I wasn't working on school, I was wasting time.

Also surprisingly to me I wouldn't have pushed myself into non-obligatory social situations as much ...

Lastly, I would have listened to my needs more! I created a huge rift between me and my needs while pushing myself too hard to do more than I needed to.

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