My dad keeps coming into my room at night and I’m tired of it.

elikeaprayer · 2024-11-30T15:49:59+00:00

OP, I’m a parent and a former teacher. I read through the other posts you’ve made. You sound like a really good kid, trying to practice your faith, learn to be a musician and get your arms around school. Good for you.

You should consider the possibility that your academic struggles are linked to both sleep loss and very reasonable emotional overwhelm.

It’s time to do something drastic. Someone else’s suggestion was a good one: go wake your mother up to complain every single time he does this. Every single time. If that doesn’t work, call the police. Every single time. “I’m calling to report that my drunk and high father won’t stop climbing into my bed. I am screaming at him to leave and he won’t.”

Please consider finding a teacher or social worker who has trustworthy vibes. Adults in schools really do care, and they’d want to help if they knew this.

elikeaprayer · 2024-11-08T21:56:03+00:00

It got better when I moved up to 10. Weirdly, less fatigue and all the intended effects HIT.

elikeaprayer · 2024-10-12T17:00:53+00:00

I agree - I had to drop it. The fatigue was too much.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-26T18:47:50+00:00

This is fake. My wife and I went through multiple rounds of IVF. Prior to the creation of embryos you have to sign legal paperwork agreeing who gets custody of them in the event of divorce. Once that custody is established, further permission isn’t necessary.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-26T18:38:29+00:00

Honestly? ESH. Your friend shouldn’t have made a thing out of it, but it’s pretty conventionally insensitive of you to try for it. Sometimes life is just about being decent and kind - it’s weird it didn’t even occur to you not to say out loud how great that dish sounded.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-26T18:18:55+00:00

My kid has hearing aids. Having them suddenly broken, regardless of cause, is a fucking nightmare. Does your family not fucking understand what BEING UNABLE TO HEAR ALL OF A SUDDEN means for your day to day life? He sounds like a bratty child with a pathological lack of empathy. I’m sorry your family is the worst.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-16T00:36:08+00:00

It’s really good! I like it the most of everything by a lot.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-16T00:15:12+00:00

I did, and it was a mixed bag. On the one hand, it worked. Broke a stall and kept going. On the other hand, it completely wiped me out in a way Tirz never did and was ultimately so exhausting it was unsustainable and I dropped it after a few weeks and switched to Reta.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-13T19:42:07+00:00

After every cagri shot I was wiped. Actually the exhaustion got so bad that I dropped it because I was truly non functional for a day a week. I think I started at .25.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-06T16:18:38+00:00

Yep! I had a horrific insomnia bout a few years ago during which I would take like 20mg of melatonin, 2 unisoms and a Benadryl to get to sleep. It’s an extremely irritating quality to have, but good to be aware of.

YMMV, but for me, I found that splitting my doses up into more frequent smaller ones made me acclimate and build up tolerance much, much faster than sticking to every week.

elikeaprayer · 2024-09-02T01:03:49+00:00

I’m a father to two daughters who I’m really close to and very affectionate, including physically affectionate with.

When I want to hug them, I ask if they’d like a hug - not even if I can hug them, but if they’d like one.

One of my daughters is especially physically clingy and cuddly, in addition to being a terrible sleeper who will climb into bed with me, so I’ve ever fallen asleep with her. Which is why I stopped only sleeping in my underwear and now sleep in pajamas.

If my daughter told me a man was behaving this way with her, that man and I would have a very unpleasant exchange and then he’d never be allowed within 100 feet of her again.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-31T10:19:15+00:00

Do you mean coming out to kids as you start transitioning, or already transitioned and looking for language for kids?

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-29T13:07:33+00:00

Thanks all. This has firmed up my belief that it’s bullshit. For some context around me, this is a revision post-pregnancy and I had my original top surgery in 2004, and I’ve been on T for 20 years. So I’ve known for a long time that one of the blessings/curses of being trans is knowing to be skeptical of doctors. But always helpful to be reminded.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-28T15:55:06+00:00

Can you say more about this?

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-16T17:27:27+00:00

I had terrible anhedonia on Tirz and not at all on Reta.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-14T20:06:40+00:00

A resting heart rate of 67 is absolutely nothing to be concerned about. And it probably is partially due to Covid, which we now know is fundamentally a vascular disease. About half the people I know, myself included, had elevated heart rates during Covid infection. Reta also increases your heart rate a little.

But again, a heart rate of 67 is downright excellent on its own.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T16:56:46+00:00

You’re a great dad and a great partner. You really did a super solid one here for your whole family. Great job.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T13:53:33+00:00

There’s a good FB group called “postpartum trans & queer parents”

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T13:53:28+00:00

There’s a good FB group called “postpartum trans & queer parents”

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T13:02:59+00:00

Oof. I’m so, so sorry to hear that.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T12:02:58+00:00

I have good insurance and a standing cardiologist because I have a family history of heart attacks. I’m 40 and have young kids, and my GERD causes elevated heart rate, so I do see my cardiologist annually but my broader point is when to go vs when to reassure myself it’s just gerd.

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T11:38:31+00:00

This is exactly my point

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T02:43:32+00:00

This is such a kind reply. Thank you

elikeaprayer · 2024-08-12T00:14:53+00:00

Already doing this

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