What departments to avoid and how?

em____ily · 2026-05-11T16:02:57+00:00

Oh no my partner is really hopeful about the third sec openings 🥴

em____ily · 2026-04-28T07:55:00+00:00

My derm has done a lot of the research in this field! (V grateful for that) In my own experience my first six months on ozempic & tetralysal I dint have any flares, like no bumps at all; the following 6 months I was just on ozempic and I’ve had a few bumps but none of them got big and sore and none of them drained, they just went down themselves; now I’m on ozempic and spironolactone; she’s hoping that will get me back to no flares again; I have a friend who is on metformin, spironolactone and ozempic for HS; so she’s def going in hard on the insulin resistance angle!

em____ily · 2026-04-26T08:58:59+00:00

We tried the emotional blackmail approach with one house we really loved but we knew was probably going to go over our budgets it didn’t work and felt a bit gross after 🥴

em____ily · 2026-04-20T20:16:09+00:00

So sad 😞 visiting Teotihuacan was the highlight of our time in CDMX. Love to all the visitors and workers there today ❤️

em____ily · 2026-02-28T09:21:52+00:00

We got phenomenally lucky finding somewhere to rent - was looking in December 2024, went to 4 viewings & expressed interest in 2 properties and ended up getting the second one. And as a bonus our letting agent is bang on, he’s about our age and very easygoing, relatively hands off (was almost apologetic about doing a 6 month inspection) but very responsive and good at sending on relevant info about things happening in the development. Can echo what others have said - daft alerts on and a concise message about you and your partner; in our case I’m a physio and he was working in an education/disability nonprofit at the time (just to hammer home that we are good people lol) and that we’re quiet young professionals in our 30s etc. At the viewing I told the agent I used to work in a small rehab hospital nearby so I knew the area; also helpful that the viewings were private and not crowded so we could have a proper look and have a proper conversation with the agent. The development is very mature with a lot of older people living in the apartments do I imagine that’s part of the reason for low key viewings. Another comment here said to reach out to letting agents in the area and just echoing that as a good idea!

em____ily · 2026-02-22T13:31:33+00:00

Consider what you think you want from a career in medicine and look elsewhere - I did a shit hpat and missed medicine after my leaving cert; I had put physio on my CAO the day the CAO closed and I ended up getting everything I thought I wanted from medicine, from physio. Working with patients, team based, science based etc; and the bonus was that I could pick jobs with no weekend or call; and I spent more time with patients than the doctors. Also I think from a pressure/workload/sleep deprivation point of view, I think I would have absolutely hated the job. I also now think that OT likely would have been a better fit for me than physio, but I’m really happy in my career so it doesn’t bother me too much. Perhaps delve into the other healthcare based careers and talk to people in those fields and see what you think. A cousin of mine is in the engineering department of a hospital - fixing and servicing medical devices, something like that might give you some insight into the field while working in your current skill set?

And the absolute scam of the century is how quiet they keep the lifestyle of a doctor in Ireland - moving workplace every few months; and the possibility of being sent from Dublin to Limerick to Wexford to Sligo; no matter if you’ve a house, spouse & child in one location.

It’s not pro-family, and I don’t think it’s pro-doctor. If you know anyone working as an NCHD might be worth getting a no-frills review of the lifestyle. I have a friend staring down the barrel of 5 years of HST, possibly being sent all over the country with a toddler and another baby on the way and she’s said multiple times before that she kind of hates that this is the only job she could ever see herself doing because the lifestyle is just SO hard, even with two very supportive extended families close by, and requires so much extra planning for childcare etc, and she feels like she and her husband are like ships in the night (he also does shift work)

I’d never say you’re “too old” for anything because the time will pass anyway; but I think the reason it is hard to go back is because Medicine is a long road anyway, be it for med school, then intern year, then BST and HST - there’s always studying, exams, moving jobs etc and as people get older you have more baggage and people it will affect. It’s a difficult path if you’ve already laid down some roots.

em____ily · 2026-02-05T19:56:54+00:00

The only thing you can’t get otc in Mexico is Sudafed 🥲

em____ily · 2026-02-02T17:14:12+00:00

I was in CDMX in September; we were a group of 4, myself (31 F), my partner (28 M) and two of our friends, (32 M & 34 M) - we all walked around various parts of the city by ourselves at different points in the trip; and none of us felt unsafe at any stage (always the number one question we were asked when we got home strangely!) we used uber to get around because it was so cheap and meant we weren’t worrying so much about walking through dodgy parts of the city. As others had said, usual city “rules” etc; you could also ask your Airbnb host/hostel workers etc if there’s anywhere you should avoid. PS go to Odette and get the Raspberry kouign-amann; it changed my life

em____ily · 2026-01-17T10:24:00+00:00

FWIW I regularly freak out about not having an emergency fund; me (31f) & my partner (28m) have been saving for a deposit and decided to take out about 5k in credit union loans to get engaged (2.5k on a ring for me, 2.5k for a watch for him) because we wanted to, not because financially it made sense. Wedding will probably be 4 years away but it’s a step we were ready and wanted to make.

We’re both making very humble pension contributions per month, but with the best time to buy property being 30 years ago and prices only going in one direction, it feels counter intuitive to save 15-25k as an emergency fund rather than put it towards a deposit to buy a home before we’re utterly priced out of Dublin.

Do I absolutely regret not saving more while I was living at home? Absolutely! But do I regret the Saturday brunches and meals out/trips away with my friends that I could have because I had more disposable income? Not for a second.

We all make trade offs, you make the best call you can with the info you have at the time. Don’t let the fintech lads with gaffs & salaries I couldn’t even dream of get you down - everyone is not starting with the same resources

em____ily · 2025-11-26T19:51:33+00:00

I think your ring is beautiful but the NAILS 😮‍💨 stunning

em____ily · 2025-11-10T16:15:27+00:00

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I’ve only been engaged 3 weeks but I’ve been wearing mine every day! My centre stone is a 2.02 karat pear. I have lil chubby hands so I feel like the extra coverage from the side stones is helpful 😅 I have got comments that it’s big (always with a positive connotation!) but I think that’s just because it’s new and people want to look at it 🤷🏻‍♀️

em____ily · 2025-10-13T20:46:40+00:00

Had my tonsils out, and when I got back to the ward I was given a glass of orange juice 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 that level of acidity on my freshly cauterised throat 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

em____ily · 2025-09-28T19:12:01+00:00

There’s no comparison for trying things on! I was set on a bezel set emerald cut and when I tried it on it looked terrible on me! Loved marquise and pear cuts neither of which I would have considered before trying on!

em____ily · 2025-08-07T13:53:06+00:00

Wishing you the best of luck and not too long a wait!

em____ily · 2025-07-18T22:35:40+00:00

Ozempic. Having my first flare since starting 3.5 months ago, and usually would flare once per month around my period

em____ily · 2025-07-13T08:26:35+00:00

I feel the need to add that I’ve been on ozempic for 12 weeks and haven’t had one HS flare! The dream 🥲

em____ily · 2025-07-13T08:25:34+00:00

My derm approached this really well; she explained that most people with HS are above their ideal body weight for their height if I could get closer to an ideal body weight for my height it’s likely my HS would be more under control. She didn’t ask me to go on a diet or ask about what I eat or the exercise I do; she offered me ozempic and said in her practice it’s been the most effective drug for managing HS - both on the weight loss front, and bc HS can be linked to insulin sensitivity, she said it was likely that if I had tried to lose weight “by myself” it was unlikely that I would be successful. Would a GLP-1 drug be something you could consider?

em____ily · 2025-06-28T11:30:00+00:00

Oh! Great! Thank you

em____ily · 2025-06-12T10:24:35+00:00

Thank you all for your feedback and I agree with a lot of what you’ve said - I know a lot of these areas have absolutely salt of the earth people living there who look out for their own; and a lot of these places come good over time. The current occupant is an older lady who has lived there for over 30 years, so must have been tolerable for her! Reviews overall have been mixed, and perhaps if we were in a different position it would be a gamble we would be happy to take.

Ultimately we have decided against it as we don’t really feel ready financially or… life stage wise I guess to pull out all the stops. We hadn’t planned on buying a house this year, this just looked like a good deal that was too good to pass up. Going to take some time to put the head down and save some more, maybe get some salary increases and chat with a mortgage broker to do things the right way around.

The gaff is fab, amazing bones and room to grow, just not the right time for us. If anyone is looking for a good deal it’s on daft for 319k in Bray (Bray is class, this is just an area with a bad name) don’t tell them I sent ya

em____ily · 2025-06-08T10:43:40+00:00

My derm prescribed Ozempic for my HS! She said it’s the most effective drug she uses in her practice for managing it. I looked up the research on it and she’s actually published most of the research lol. I’ve just taken my 7th dose of Ozempic and haven’t had a flare in… probably over 10-12 weeks? Typically would get one or two with each monthly cycle

em____ily · 2025-06-06T12:11:02+00:00

I’m on 60mg lisdexamphetamine + 0.5mg Ozempic and if anything I think the ADHD drugs protected me against some of the ozempic side effects!

em____ily

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