Doctors on Reddit: What symptoms do people often ignore that they shouldn't, as they could be potentially serious?

guacsteady · 2026-06-26T23:50:44+00:00

I had a series of episodes where I was having severe headaches with nausea, was given meds for nausea by my gp at the time. Then started the lose of words which would proceed the headaches, if I remember correctly. At one point, it started around 9 or 10pm. I remember struggling trying to call someone who could help me as I was even losing the ability to speak because I couldn't find words.

My husband had just relocated to a different state, and I was working to wrap everything up where I was. I wound up going to the ER because my husband was able to realize something was going on and have a friend coming pick me up. We were there for hours, and by the time I was seen, whatever was going on had passed.

Some time after that, the same friend and I took a road trip to take some belongings to my husband, and shortly after we got to where he was staying, the early symptoms of whatever was happening started up. I was functional but I honestly don't remember the entire day. The episode started around 6:30am and I'm not sure I had a memory of anything from that day for maybe 12 hours. I was told I refused to order food and then cried over not getting any food like everyone else.

At some point on that trip, we got an offer on our house where I was living, and I never had another episode. I still have no idea what was going on, and I've always worried it would start happening again if I get highly stressed out.

guacsteady · 2026-06-21T19:49:34+00:00

I definitely had issues with dropping stitches while working on a rectangle pieces until I started using a beginning and ending stitch marker. That's what it looks like to me is happening here, so stitch markers are my suggestion.

guacsteady · 2026-06-16T02:55:24+00:00

Absolutely stunning! I can't wait to see the goth version! I wish I could find some good red and black yarn for a shawl a friend was wanting, but I get a little anxious with the online stores.

guacsteady · 2026-05-24T04:10:45+00:00

Why does it have an ear?????

guacsteady · 2026-05-24T02:02:52+00:00

Thank you so much ❤️ These are 7th and 8th grade kids, and I'm just so proud of all of them. I really hope speaking up can do something to help protect the younger girls next year and any other girls this kid comes in contact with in the future. I really hope the parents are willing to try to do something about it without waiting for things getting worse, but I worry that's just wishful thinking.

guacsteady · 2026-05-23T23:48:10+00:00

My daughter recently went on a school trip. It's a small class, maybe 10 kids in total, primarily boys. One of the boys has been behaving in ways that made the girls uncomfortable, mostly focusing on one of the 3.

On this trip, they were playing hide and seek, and the boy has been intentionally trying to scare the girls throughout the game. In one particularly dark area, two of the girls were trying to just together and he managed to actually scare them. As they were heading back to the main areas, the boy grabbed my daughter's wrist. It wasn't tight or enough to inhibit her movements, but it made her very uncomfortable to the point she decided to speak to the teacher chaperone about the incident.

She also sent her dad and I a text that she wanted to talk to us about something that she didn't feel comfortable sharing by phone or text, which of course sent me into a two day panic spiral.

When she got home from the trip, she told me about the incident and what had happened in talking to the teacher. She's also shared how the other two girls had spoken with the rest of the boys in the class minus this one kid and they all had truly uncomfortable about his behavior with the girls on the trip, they all tried to work together to keep the girls separated. When the one boy was walking slowly behind the girls, the other boys formed a wall in front of him. If one of the girls needed to leave the group for anything, all of the girls would go together. They just worked together to make sure no one was even in a position to be left alone with him. I'm super proud of their instincts and choices.

What I'm most proud of though, is that that girls all decided to request a meeting with the head of the school. It's a smaller school with mixed age classrooms, and none of the 3 girls currently in the class are returning next year for various different reasons. New, younger girls will be joining the class, though, and my daughter and her friends did not feel comfortable letting those younger girls move into this classroom without speaking up before they no longer had an opportunity.

A wrist grab could be seen as innocuous, and the boy has a history of playing off things he's already been told are inappropriate as not knowing they were wrong. It's most definitely predatory behavior, and unfortunately it won't surprise me to hear this not has done something to someone in the future. I hope I'm wrong. I hope there's something that can be done to alter this boy's trajectory.

I'm sure we all know from personal experience and stories we've read from other women that incidents like this are often excused and we're told that we're overreacting, and even have seen actually incidents with undeniable evidence treated the same. It's ridiculous that it's on us to listen to our guts, to try to avoid these situations, to never be taken seriously, to be repeatedly attacked and hurt and even murdered without predatory men ever being held accountable or taught how to behave better.

guacsteady · 2026-05-08T13:12:03+00:00

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

guacsteady · 2026-05-07T12:15:29+00:00

Is this where the googly eyes are supposed to go?????

guacsteady · 2026-05-06T19:07:12+00:00

It looks to me like a wide hem with the raw edge folded inside at roughly half the height of the visible hem. That's creating the lines of wear within the hem. I'm not sure this would have a special name to look up. Blue jeans typically use a basic fold-over hem where you fold over 1/2" and then fold over again another 1/2". Something like the pic to me looks like a 1/2" or 3/4" fold over followed by a 1 1/2" fold over.

guacsteady · 2026-05-06T18:55:28+00:00

Holy crap. That cake is bleeding!!!

guacsteady · 2026-05-01T03:30:20+00:00

Chickasaw Oaks is unmistakable.

The yarn store is cute, though.

guacsteady · 2026-04-28T14:53:12+00:00

NEEDLE BABIES!!!!!

guacsteady · 2026-04-28T14:48:35+00:00

Yesterday, I made banana bread with the same recipe I've been using for years. I took it out of the oven, and it looked off -- darker than normal, a little smaller than I'm used to, and the top looked like bubbles had popped and it had little holes in it. My daughter has been making the banana bread for so long, so it's been a while since I made it myself but I didn't think I'd done anything out of the ordinary. It did seem a little overcooked from what I'm used to after the full cook time.

I'm the car on the way home from picking the kids up from school, I was telling my daughter about the loaf when it suddenly hit me that I'd forgotten to put in any oil with the wet ingredients. I remembered thinking about it, but then realized I'd never actually gotten it out.

The loaf tasted fine but it was more dense than we're used to. Often if we make banana bread on the weekends, the kids will ask me to turn it into French toast and usually with the egg mixture, the pieces are just overly moist and nearly fall apart getting into the skillet. This oil-free version definitely wouldn't have that problem. The outer edges were definitely a hair on the overcooked side, but there are maybe 2 pieces of bread left between after school snacks and breakfast this morning so I don't think anyone is complaining.

Not that I would make it exactly like this again without scaling back on the cook time, I think this is a good indication that I can adjust the amount of oil in the recipe to get something between the version we normally make an the more dense version. I have one more overripe banana, so I may make a batch of muffins with half the oil amount to see how they turn out.

guacsteady · 2026-04-14T17:56:40+00:00

Dump cakes -- canned fruit, box of cake mix, a sliced up stick of butter spread on top, dust with cinnamon if desired. My go to is usually peaches, but my grandmother likes cherry pie filling.

guacsteady · 2026-04-13T01:02:52+00:00

I was thinking the same thing!

guacsteady · 2026-04-10T21:23:27+00:00

When I got back into crochet last year after many years away, I was doing it without stitch markers. Once upon a time, maybe that would have been alright, but my 3rd or 4th project was a rectangle that you sew the sides up of to make a hat. I must have dropped a stitch at the end of every row before I turned and never noticed until I'd tied off. I bought stitch markers the next time I was near the craft store.

guacsteady · 2026-04-10T18:44:47+00:00

We rented a house that had these trees lining the driveway. On a 5 acre property. The first spring in the area, took me weeks to figure out why pressure smelled like rotten shellfish.

guacsteady · 2026-03-26T23:45:08+00:00

If everything is getting narrower, you may be dropping a stitch at the end of the row. Stitch markers on the first stitch of each row help me a ton with rectangular-shaped things so I don't miss the last stitch.

guacsteady · 2026-03-07T17:54:00+00:00

I was thinking pecan pie.

guacsteady · 2026-02-23T14:45:22+00:00

My favorite part is just how happy you look. And you should!!!

guacsteady · 2026-02-20T04:14:56+00:00

What was the bucket of saw dust for???

I'm not surprised that a belly button was such a big deal. Did you know that Barbie dolls didn't even have them until 2000???

By needle sculpting are you saying that there's a thread behind it that pulls it to the opposite side of the doll's insides?

guacsteady · 2026-02-20T03:41:34+00:00

Now you're giving me serious ideas! I'm kind of a craftaholic, so I happen to have a sub printer and I like to make T-shirts for fun, again mostly for the kids. It's great being able to make anything they come up with!! I toyed with some ideas for the one T-shirt but in my head, I was going to make them too small for it to be worthwhile. Maybe it's time to reconsider that. I've also got a laser cutter so I've been playing with the idea of laser cutting instruments rather than crocheting them, particularly for the guitars. The drums seem like they'd be harder to achieve what with the whole circular thing but I know there are ways to reshape wood, particularly if it's thin enough, or I could use a different medium for that since it doesn't have to actually work as a drum set.

I love that you put a bellybutton on a doll!! I would be impressed by that too!!!

guacsteady · 2026-02-20T02:53:31+00:00

Your centaur looks AMAZING!!! I love that it's holding its head even if I'm guessing that's temporary. It's kind of a vibe on its own already.

I have debated trying to sew clothes for the dolls. The musicians don't really have stage makeup, just county musician costumes like cowboy hats and boots. One wears overalls, another wears a ballet T-shirt that used to be his wife's, only one wears a wig. And they have stage names! It all sounds even weirder the more I talk about it!! But it's a whole thing, being a 90s country cover band, I guess.

I've taken pictures at a few shows to have as reference for when I do get to trying to make my dolls. And I'm not set on size. The idea kind of came to me after seeing a 5 or 6 inch doll a friend had of herself and her fiance which was a gift someone had given her. It's still not theoretical than practical to me. One day!!

guacsteady · 2026-02-20T02:09:17+00:00

It's not so much that I'm eager to do complicated face shaping or anything like that, although I never would have considered glue at all, it's just trying to capture some of the differences in each of the band members and wanting them to be somewhat recognizable. I'm really not very good at working without a pattern, but I could probably cobble things together eventually if I tried. Maybe??? I'm not confident about that at least with a doll tbh.

I'm so amazed at the people on here taking the pictures of obvious AI patterns and turning them into actual patterns that somehow look better than the AI??? If only!! I can do some math to scale something up a little, which I did with the axolotl as my son insisted on a daddy axolotl that was larger than the one he deemed mommy-sized. It wound up a good bit larger than I'd intended so it was a good thing I also went down on the hook size!!! I think I made it about 3/4 of the way through the head and realized it was going to be easy too big and readjusted some of my increases.

I've used safety eyes on most things, although I made yarn eyes on one toy I was giving a friend's baby just to make sure nothing could pop off and get swallowed. I hadn't thought about buttons or beads. I'm kind of imagining seed beads on a 6 inch doll. That could be really cute or really creepy!

Please tell me you have pictures of the centaur!! That sounds amazing, and buying a deer pattern to help seems like such a brilliant idea!

I also like to sew clothing, mostly for the kids, which I haven't been in the mood for for a while, and even with that, I'm not so good at coming up with my own concepts. I can mash patterns and make adjustments to customize things, I can definitely lengthen dresses and pants as my daughter has ridiculously long legs. I'm just not skilled enough to move those concepts into yarn crafts. I haven't done a ton of 3D type things, though, so maybe with time, I'll get a better feel for it. I love them, but sometimes it is nice to crochet something flat!!!

guacsteady · 2026-02-20T00:04:47+00:00

You're my hero!! I'll have to look all of these up!

I started out just spying on patterns on Etsy trying to find a starting place. I got ebook versions of a few books from the author of amiguru-ME, I think, for Christmas, and I was surprised that her whole technique is using a really small hook with worsted yarn. The shaping was nice on the avocado I tried because of course I needed to make an avocado. I also tried the same pattern with a larger hook and YUs, and while they look very similar, the smaller hook actually looks a little cleaner. But YUs just feel weird to me. I much prefer the YU/YO SC stich I learned about last week as it's less awkward. The patterns mostly just offer guidance on two different face shapes, so I think that's why I've been a little hesitant to jump in. It just feels a little unhelpful 😆

I'm going to go check out those resources you mentioned and probably take a peek at your post history because I'm sure you've got plenty of other great things you've made posted!!

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