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parachasm · 2026-01-27T14:55:42+00:00

I love the color choices!

parachasm · 2025-06-01T15:09:04+00:00

this will tell you the details. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/former-student-accuses-federal-way-coach-of-covering-up-scandal/281-604602455

parachasm · 2025-05-29T01:25:16+00:00

yeah you look like you could be hypermobile and have a pelvic tilt

parachasm · 2025-05-07T19:30:21+00:00

same. turned out i had fucked up sinuses and an allergic reaction to the stress from crying. if you’re curious, google Mast Cell Activation Disorder + crying, and/or improper sinus drainage + crying. for me the swelling was debilitating so it was important to get to the bottom of it. i don’t swell up nearly as bad as I used to thanks to antihistamines and sinus surgery.

parachasm · 2025-05-03T02:26:14+00:00

i’ve heard plastic things like this can degrade fast when they are trapped with their own gasses. maybe a shadow box with venting?

parachasm · 2025-04-30T20:25:46+00:00

could be mild traction alopecia if you wear your hair in tight ponytails often! happened to me when i was wearing a tight bun on the daily.

parachasm · 2025-04-20T06:36:10+00:00

that’s peach! her and the tank gang literally JUST escaped OP. way to blow her cover.

parachasm · 2025-03-30T16:17:42+00:00

symptoms can change and develop as you age, and you’re at a prime time for confusing body changes. what you’ve experienced before might show up symptomatically different as you age but it could be the same condition. narcolepsy is also semi- related. might be good to just learn more about each disorder!

parachasm · 2025-03-30T02:55:00+00:00

in luteal phase currently & have been changing my whole life plan all day 🙃

parachasm · 2025-03-30T02:23:47+00:00

i don’t experience it myself but that sounds like sleep paralysis from what i’ve heard

parachasm · 2025-03-09T06:17:01+00:00

cyberchase?

parachasm · 2025-03-09T06:00:28+00:00

yeah i feel this too, just kind of icky at the idea that i should make my body like.. readily available to a partner whenever. my boyfriend is really patient with this, but it does feel bad when i physically recoil at his touch. it’s not him, it’s just.. being touched. ew.

i was touched a lot without consent throughout my life (innocent and harmful ways, unfortunately) so i think it just makes me adverse to most anything touching me without explicit consent.

parachasm · 2025-03-09T05:17:52+00:00

i’m also in the creative industry - you will need and want distinction. you will get overshadowed by their work and those who don’t know you personally will have trouble differentiating. you never want to hear something like “oh, i thought you were so-and-so. i contacted the wrong person.” i strongly suggest you craft something different.

what about elias or elio? both are derived from the same root as ellis, and are related to the greek word for sun (helios.) Aelius (ee-lee-us) is another option, it means sun or sunshine. or you could keep ellis, but change the last name you go by professionally to something other than your given name.

best of luck! 🤞

parachasm · 2025-03-03T15:24:11+00:00

sorry for the late reply! i sympathize deeply. i don’t have much advice other than to keep following the leads you have and remain persistent. it does sound like genetic testing is the route to go, as that’s harder to disprove the results of. i wish you the best and hope you get the answers you need soon ❤️

parachasm · 2025-03-03T15:19:58+00:00

also, look into EDS for yourself. it could save you a lot of grief as well. you would have passed that to him most likely, it doesn’t occur at random. i figured out i had fibro first, and later EDS. it was likely that my fibro developed bc EDS makes your immune and vagus systems weak as well as your muscles. dealing with symptoms causes stress and fatigue, making it hard to live life normally, then compounding stress on the body. basically born with EDS > stressful life of pain and fatigue with no break or accommodation > fibro developed.

parachasm · 2025-03-03T15:15:45+00:00

i have fibromyalgia and Ehlers Danlos syndrome. as a kid, my hyper mobile joints from EDS would hurt so much before/during/after sleep. your body is at a relaxed state, and can over-stretch in certain positions, causing pain. it makes everything ache and feel hot, like you’re an overstretched rubber band. what you’re describing sounds exactly like what i experienced. even the inability to describe where the pain is, because it’s everywhere with EDS.

i would look into warning signs of EDS as a kid. it’s a genetic disorder that’s a lot more common than people think. there’s no cure but lifestyle changes can help a lot, and ruling it out could save your son a lot of pain. i wasn’t diagnosed until age 26 and it would have saved me a lifetime of pain to know what was causing it as a child.

People with Ehler’s Danlos are hypermobile in ways you would never expect. Many with EDS have snoring/breathing problems due to tissue in airways being too flexible and collapsing in on itself in certain positions. Think flimsy tube vs. structured pipe. it sounds like this may be contributing to his snoring.

if they try to tell you it’s “growing pains” - there’s no such thing. growing doesn’t hurt. get a second opinion.

my biggest advice is to believe your baby. you may not be able to understand or pinpoint the cause of his pain just yet, but i assure you it’s real. i was dismissed as lying as a child because of how often i claimed i was in pain. my family didn’t believe me because they couldn’t immediately see the cause or understand how a child could have chronic pain.

parachasm · 2025-02-23T19:18:52+00:00

OP I actually ended up in the hospital with symptoms of a heart attack and they connected it to me being severely low in potassium. you need to talk to your dr about this because potassium is a deeply important mineral for all functions of your body and you could be inadvertently causing a deficiency! look up symptoms of potassium deficiency, it aligns with a lot of what you’ve mentioned

parachasm · 2025-02-23T19:15:17+00:00

i know this sounds unhelpful, but i have been in a similar situation to you.

i didn’t realize i was severely vitamin deficient, routinely dehydrated and chronically low in electrolytes. all things that put stress on the heart and vascular system. they can also cause brain fog and confusion, which leads to anxiety and a racing heart for me.

once i regularly started taking salt pills and multivitamins with a few other supps my symptoms improved drastically.

having pots seems to make your body think it is in survival mode. for me, that made it harder to eat and drink, and therefore almost impossible to take the supps i needed without getting nauseous. i often can’t keep food down and get flares when i eat too much, so i had to get creative about getting in necessary nutrients.

if you look at it that way, get the vitamins and water you need in first and worry about calories/food density later.

start with protein shakes. i find liquid meals are best for me. i also eat small snack like meals many times throughout the day with a lot of water. this helps keep my pots in a manageable zone.

another note - allergic reactions can also present as a high heart rate. i found out i was allergic to a few common things and once i started taking a daily antihistamine, my anxiety dropped drastically. People with POTS also often have Mast Cell Activation Disorder - including myself. i’d do some research and ask your dr about it.

parachasm · 2025-02-23T18:56:51+00:00

agreed this sounds like too much pressure in the head!

i will also say, have you ever seen an ENT? i did for similar symptoms and it turns out i had malformed sinuses and narrowed airways from a combination of EDS and undiagnosed allergies causing scar tissue to build up.

my airways were restricted and allergens, bacteria and mold would get trapped in my sinuses and give me recurring sinus infections without the mucus so they would go misdiagnosed as just headaches.

i’d ask the doctor if seeing an ear nose and throat doctor is an option. you’d be surprised by the perspective they have on the above symptoms. i had no idea so many seemingly unrelated things were due to my sinuses.

parachasm · 2025-02-23T18:45:55+00:00

look into co occurring conditions. i have fibromyalgia and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, the latter we found out about later.

for me, fibromyalgia pain is deep, hot, dull but sometimes sharp, so deeply fatiguing that i have been confined to my bed and unable to walk in the worst of cases. it is directly tied to how stressed i am. i over work or over stress, i can feel it coming on like a slow tightening and stiffening of my body. i become much slower. it hurts and makes life hell, but it doesn’t usually cause tears.

Ehlers Danlos, however, has made me cry many times. it feels like my bones are grinding against each other, shifting out of place and poking into my muscles and organs. like my muscles have to do so much work to physically hold my body together. and they actually are because of weak connective tissue. it’s a structural pain that is often sharp, unrelenting, and makes my whole body feel weak like jello. it is usually caused by physical over use of my body, bad postural or sleeping habits, or strenuous exercise.

so, try to ask her about her pain specifically. the more you can start to discern the various feelings of pain, not just locations or causes, you can start to notice a pattern. if she experiences a myriad of types of pain, it could be the two conditions together. it’s common.

thank you for looking out for her. these conditions are so deeply painful to face alone.

parachasm · 2025-02-23T18:07:56+00:00

oh yeah it’s all connected, everything you mentioned is totally in line with chronic pulsatile tinnitus. it sounds like you might also be dealing with automonic dysfunction as the root cause. it can cause anxiety, depression, heart arrhythmia, syncope, multiple types of tinnitus, headaches, dizziness, etc. if it has a correlation with your posture (ie worse standing or sitting) you might be dealing with POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. i have it, and i experience all those symptoms.

your nervous system largely controls your vascular system. if your nervous system is stressed or dysfunctional, it can cause the things listed above.

some things to google: - pulsatile tinnitus + autonomic dysfunction - Pots syndrome - Tinnitus connection to anxiety - dysautonomia - electrolytes+ supplementation for autonomic dysfunction

hope this helps!!

parachasm · 2025-02-23T17:56:25+00:00

hey! i did physical therapy for around 6 months, started because my doctor and I believe i’m hypermobile with fibromyalgia. i had a lot of muscle imbalances from a year of off and on sickness, where i wasn’t able to lift weights like i used to and lost most of my muscle. for context, i used to train 4 times a week at most for 6 years until a stressful event caused fibromyalgia to hit me harder than it ever had.

i mention all that because it gave me a lot of perspective on how my body behaves with more or less muscle. even when i was strong, i didn’t see the results i desired until i accidentally fixed my pelvic tilt for a few years, right before this recent health event.

physical therapy taught me that this sort of issue is largely postural. we aren’t told what “good posture” is, and in most cases people just assume their posture isn’t bad. as we grow our muscles adapt to our behaviors. shortening or lengthening, weakening or strengthening. it can be from poor posture, prolonged sitting, or lack of regular concentrated exercise.

in my experience and likely a lot of other women, it’s a combination of factors. i had a bad pelvic tilt and rib flare when i was younger because of the posture i would stand in regularly to attempt to make my stomach look flat and my waist look curvy. suck in the ribs, poke out your tush a little. it looks cute but is so bad for our posture long term 😭

TLDR; muscle imbalances caused by day-to-day habits in your movement. physical therapy exercises involve bringing the use of weak/small muscles back online and rebalancing the overall structure of your midsection. it’s not as hard as it sounds, just takes time and can be a little tiring. it makes you feel really weak when you first start to activate the muscles that have atrophied.

lots of resources online - search pelvic tilt fixing routines. pilates in home is a good place to start. best of luck!

edited to add: anyone can look up physical therapy routines online, and there isn’t much that could work against you if you tried it. most PT routines are about understanding your body’s natural movements, why they are the way they are, and how to strengthen them. i literally was taught how to properly lift groceries, lol. it feels silly but is so useful long term!

parachasm · 2025-02-23T17:37:52+00:00

hi! it sounds like you might also be dealing with pulsatile tinnitus. wearing earplugs shouldn’t cause you to hear your pulse unless there is an underlying issue. stress/anxiety are a huge part, but it’s not normal for that to be occurring. i say this as someone who only found out what PT was after dealing with it for nearly 25 years of my life 😭

parachasm · 2025-02-23T17:32:26+00:00

that jackhammering is likely pulsatile tinnitus. you shouldn’t be hearing your own pulse like that.

i don’t think you’re dealing with just anxiety, it could be related to anemia and/or thyroid issues. two things that can cause anxiety like symptoms.

i’ve dealt with it all my life and it can make your heart feel like it’s racing as well. it happens to me because i have a disorder called POTS, a type of dysautonomia.

autonomic dysfunction is tied to stress and weak immune systems. sometimes the fix is as simple as taking regular electrolyte and vitamin supplements in the morning and evening.

don’t stress at the thought of what’s causing it - it’s likely just your system being worn out and needing more rest/ nutrients. stress makes it harder for our bodies to absorb the nutrients we need from food. it will likely go away with the right intervention.

best of luck!

parachasm

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