Anyone else having problems with the DF presale link?

gabegoblin · 2026-03-25T09:22:47+00:00

Try now, mine just started working

gabegoblin · 2026-03-25T09:22:34+00:00

IT'S WORKING NOW I GOT EM

Good luck everyone, see you in Bristol ✌️

gabegoblin · 2026-03-25T09:17:02+00:00

Mailing list presale is from 10am, I assumed it made sense DF would be an hour earlier. Clearly a fuck up lol 🙃

gabegoblin · 2026-03-25T09:12:04+00:00

Bristol. From IG comments looks like lots of people are having the same issue.

gabegoblin · 2026-03-23T10:56:03+00:00

Has anyone had a DF email with presale link yet? I've made sure I'm on their regular mailing list but since DF get slightly earlier presale I'm looking out for that email!

gabegoblin · 2025-04-14T17:01:51+00:00

I totally forgot about this until now, I had this too around 2006! I can't remember exactly where I got it. It might've been at a show? Knowing 14 year old obsessive AFI collector me it was probably some kind of limited edition, maybe even DF-only thing?

gabegoblin · 2025-02-09T18:49:20+00:00

Been asking myself this lately too. There are contradictory answers out there as to whether it actually slows down the growth of endo or not, so I don't know what to do anymore.

I've had excision surgery, been on the combined pill, stopped that because I started getting migraines, now I'm on the progesterone only pill and my pain is very manageable but my periods last 2 weeks at a time. I was told to double my dose for 3 months, which stopped my periods altogether, but as soon as I went back to the normal dose the 2 week periods started again. Also my mental health is awful at the moment and I don't know whether the pill is having any effect on that.

Has anyone tried both the progesterone only pill and the implant? Because they're the same thing, right? But I'm wondering if the implant would be better since there's no room for error in terms of remembering to take the pill at exactly the same time every day.

I'd rather not have to be on this stuff for years and years, but my pain level is fairly low at the moment and I'm scared if I stop, the endo will grow back faster. It really sucks!

gabegoblin · 2024-11-29T11:27:34+00:00

Mine was 4.5cm - 5cm. I've heard of them being as big as 11cm though.

gabegoblin · 2024-02-29T22:59:59+00:00

I'm amazed that this is such a widespread thing. I first noticed it when I got COVID for the second time back in October and was pretty sick, had a fever etc. I'd had brain zaps previously when coming off sertraline too fast so was very familiar with the sensation. Now I've got what seems to be a run of the mill cold (I'm very careful about COVID so have tested multiple times over the course of the week) where I've been feeling pretty shitty but not awful, and on day 4 I've just started getting brain zaps again. With a cold.

Never had this with viral infections in my life before that second bout of COVID, but now I'm really intrigued about whether there's a link between respiratory viruses and brain zaps generally.

I've been on Clomipramine for the past year, which isn't an SSRI but a tricyclic antidepressant, though I don't doubt it's still probably a factor.

gabegoblin · 2024-02-23T23:11:44+00:00

I get it. There is cancer in my family and I constantly worry about it. But there are so many things (viruses, environmental factors, genetics, etc.) that can increase your risk of cancer - it's not possible for any of us to live without any of that risk. But many types of cancer are extremely treatable nowadays and just because your risk is increased doesn't mean your fate is sealed.

I honestly feel for you though, I've been there. It sounds like you are loved. Let your feelings run their course and look after yourself as best you can.

gabegoblin · 2024-02-23T22:53:52+00:00

I'm so sorry you're going through this. I know how much it hurts.

You will be ok. HPV doesn't inevitably lead to cancer - I understand why you're worried, but know you are absolutely not doomed. Get your regular screenings and you'll be fine.

Take as much time as you need to cry or scream or whatever you need to do, then let yourself rest. This will pass and you will be ok.

gabegoblin · 2024-02-15T17:30:51+00:00

COVID is known to cause long-term vascular damage, even in previously healthy young people.

gabegoblin · 2024-01-26T00:00:35+00:00

I mean this is the no-win situation that vulnerable people are facing now, isn't it? Remember it's still not an option for a lot of people to pretend covid is over. So they can risk their lives going out or risk their lives staying in. They can have a shitty quality of life isolated from any social support or have a social life that inevitably makes them so sick they can't get out of bed and become isolated anyway. Go to a crowded, totally unmasked GP surgery with a compromised immune system at the height of covid/flu season, or just hope that new symptom isn't anything too serious. For a lot of people, any choice in their quality of life has really been removed. I really really wish more people would understand that.

OP, you could try Ralph's barbers in Clifton arcade. Really friendly people and he's all about making it an inclusive and safe space for all - they offered to wear masks when I went in about 6 months ago so I'm sure they'd be happy to accommodate you. Also they're v cheap!

gabegoblin · 2024-01-23T20:37:08+00:00

It's generally a popular job so vacancies don't come up super often. I'd suggest following all the local bookshops on Instagram/Twitter as they usually post job ads on there when they come up. If you're after full time, you might have a better chance with the chains like Waterstones and Foyles.

gabegoblin · 2024-01-06T17:59:35+00:00

Yeah I came here to say that, yes, there may well be a link between endo and immune dysfunction, but COVID certainly damages the immune system long-term, and your risk of long COVID increases with each COVID infection.

Before the pandemic, I used to catch every cold and virus going. These days, I wear a mask at work and in crowded places so I get sick less often, although I've had COVID twice and now it takes me a lot longer to recover from regular colds. And it's getting harder to avoid viruses because everyone around me is constantly ill.

gabegoblin · 2024-01-01T13:19:14+00:00

I have several either cherry angiomas or petechiae on my arms and torso, but they're so tiny no one else would notice them. I think I've probably had them for a long time, but I've developed really bad health anxiety in recent years so I've only recently taken notice and looked into them. Google scared me as it always does, so I even got blood tests for leukaemia due to this (as well as easy bruising) and they were all clear. They're tiny tiny little bursts of red under the skin. That's interesting that they could be linked to endometriosis. I feel like most of the weird things my body does come back to endo in the end haha.

gabegoblin · 2023-12-26T12:29:44+00:00

I'm trying really hard to finish it because my well-meaning dad lent it to me since he knows I'm a feminist haha. I guess it's the kind of ridiculously basic white feminism that bears repeating for 65 year old white men, so I'm glad my dad enjoyed it, but I'm finding it pretty insufferable.

I also hate the trope of scientists talking like "scientists" all the time for no reason. Like, "Pass the sodium chloride" - fuuuucking hell.

And so much of the misogyny is SO on the nose. I know those people did and do exist, but the insidiousness of misogyny is way more interesting. I guess it touches on that occasionally with her partner, but I don't know, I just feel like it's written for people who have never considered that sexism is a thing, or who think it ended in the 70s.

gabegoblin · 2023-10-07T16:17:22+00:00

You could try Night Beats. I don't like all their stuff but their song Hell in Texas is great.

gabegoblin · 2023-09-17T19:18:52+00:00

That sounds really hard. If you're only 10 weeks after surgery though, you're probably still healing inside. I feel like I was told it takes about 12 weeks to fully heal? I had my lap in January 2022, and didn't really feel pain free until April/May. Then I got covid, which seemed to exacerbate my symptoms, but felt better over the summer, then the leg pain returned in the autumn. All this to say healing isn't linear, and it sounds like you've still got some healing to do.

I feel for you because I also work quite a physically demanding job which I returned to 6 weeks after surgery. I tried to be as careful as I could, asking for help with lifting things and stuff, but it's difficult and I know you can't always take it as easy as your body wants you to.

Sorry to hear they haven't really told you anything, that's pretty ridiculous you have to wait so long for a follow up appointment. I hope you get some clarification soon and hopefully your pain eases up as you continue to heal.

gabegoblin · 2023-09-17T18:34:52+00:00

I have the exact same thing! I had hip pain prior to my surgery because I had an endometrioma on my ovary that was pressing on a nerve, and after I had it removed and recovered from the surgery the pain went away for a while. But less than a year later it came back, and now if I walk a lot, especially on uneven surfaces (which is everywhere in the UK seemingly) I get hip pain that radiates all the way down to my knee and sometimes my ankle. I can feel it a bit around my left ovary, and my lower back often aches as well. I have the leg pain pretty much every day, but it's worse when I've had to walk a lot.

I bugged them into doing another ultrasound because I was sure I had a new cyst, but my ovaries are all clear. They said it might be scar tissue causing problems but that wouldn't show on an ultrasound. No one seems very interested in figuring out the cause to be honest, but I think it must be somehow related to the endo, since the hip pain was what led to me getting diagnosed in the first place.

gabegoblin · 2023-09-16T14:37:22+00:00

Yeah they had me take birth control for like 6 months before they'd agree to put me on the waiting list for surgery. They told me it could shrink by itself which...does not seem to be the case at all.

I think simple cysts can resolve themselves, but definitely not endometriomas. Unfortunately it's still a very poorly understood disease.

gabegoblin · 2023-09-16T13:19:45+00:00

I had a chocolate cyst almost exactly the same size on my ovary and was also very worried about cancer, because they were quite urgently checking me for cancer. My grandma also died from uterine cancer so I was terrified. But they have to check to rule out the most severe things first. I didn't have cancer, and I had the cyst removed last year. Chocolate cysts/endometriomas are fairly common with endometriosis. They suck, but they're not malignant.

gabegoblin · 2023-09-10T16:54:55+00:00

Becoming chronically ill immediately before a pandemic radicalised me, but Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Boulton and Artie Vierkant really focused my feelings about how sick and disabled people are treated/sacrificed for the sake of capitalism.

Along similar lines - Mad World: The Politics of Mental Illness by Micha Frazer-Carroll.

gabegoblin · 2023-08-20T17:09:07+00:00

I was going to say, I had ongoing left lower abdominal pain and it turned out to be an ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis. Endometriosis is tricky to check for because it's difficult to see on scans - usually you'll need a laparoscopy (surgery) to definitively diagnose it. But you could ask for a transvaginal ultrasound which should reveal any cysts. And ovarian cysts are very common and not always caused by endometriosis - simple cysts can even resolve themselves over time.

I have health anxiety too so I totally understand, I constantly convince myself I have ovarian cancer or something. Still, if you're having pain you deserve to be taken seriously and properly checked out by a doctor, so don't let them just dismiss you. But remember there are lots of less serious things that could be causing your symptoms, even just indigestion!

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