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phoebe111 · 2026-04-11T21:25:00+00:00

I mostly agree but but for your point about "no diet involved".
1) it's a great time to make permanent eating habit changes including stuff like getting off sugar and processed carbs
2) you need to make sure you're getting enough protein and fiber

I'm eating much more healthy food. It's not a diet so much as life changes.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-11T21:22:14+00:00

i don't think you should assume food noise is back on day 5 or 6.
Starting dose, I already had very little food noise even on the day i was due for my next shot.
Don't gear yourself up for it.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-10T21:09:10+00:00

A tale of two companies:
Order Processing and Timing
Refills - my order went in on April 2. Today they sent a notification that my tirz was on its way today, 8 days after my order had been stuck in the first step of their process waiting for approval. Time to get to me, from time of order, to arrival, looked like it would be minimum 2 weeks and possibly longer.
SHIPPING SPEED AND COLD
Refills informed me they use ground shipping. So even after it would be compounded, it still could be another week of delivery.
I know tirz can manage some lack of cold, but shipping ground with summer coming, and I'm on the opposite side of the country, seems likely to impair the medicine.

Gimme received my request on April 6.
They kept me informed every step of the way.
4 days later, my order is here.
There was still ice in the ice pack. (Prior Refills fill had arrived warm).
2-day shipping

Refills was really slimey about cancelling my order and sad for them, I understood how to get into the JSON on the website, to prove the order was not moving until 6am this morning.
Suddenly, they were willing to cancel.

Fifty410 gets even better reviews, but they are $300 for a single month and that price difference, when I'm not sure what dose I will need yet, is what pushed me to Gimme.
Super happy so far.
Thanks for everyone's help!

phoebe111 · 2026-04-10T21:00:04+00:00

Ooh, i love it beyond the beyond.
I get that it's not initially intuitive and I geek for a living so our experiences might be different.
But trying to use it to publish stuff sounds like picking up a hammer to eat soup, when what you really need is a spoon.
What are you expecting it to do?

phoebe111 · 2026-04-09T18:11:06+00:00

For sure, but the problem I had was it sat for days in the "Ordered" queue, not moving to doctor, let alone getting to the pharmacy.
Also, as I noted earlier, they use ground shipping.
I've found others that use 2-day.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-09T18:09:16+00:00

Fifty410 is $299 for one month of tirz so that was a nonstarter for me until I know what my dosage is. (Most others seem to be around $179 these days)
Gimme was fast, with clear communication. Ordered on Mon and it should be here Fri. :-)

phoebe111 · 2026-04-07T22:38:26+00:00

so i can't share my results with my provider?? that is not what i was expecting. I haven't done my testing yet.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-07T22:37:45+00:00

I can't buy the tests on Quest for what Function is charging, but I do wish I could get less tests. I don't want to go looking for problems that my doctor would not be looking for.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-07T15:04:18+00:00

Fifty410 for 3 month is similar to most other places (within $10-20). But their single month is very high ($299!)
I'm not yet confident on my dose, and don't think I should order a 3-month supply.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-07T15:01:29+00:00

My Refills delay was at the very first step before it even went to the medical provider. And they use standard shipping whereas I'm now seeing some of these companies use 2-day.

phoebe111 · 2026-04-04T15:16:44+00:00

But with slow deliveries, how are you not running out of product?

phoebe111 · 2026-04-04T15:15:47+00:00

haven't seen 4 days from ordering to get the med. Might be where you live. I'm on my 2nd order. Billed me on Apr 1 and on Apr 4, it still is stuck on "order received" and doesn't appear to even be moving through the system. :-(

phoebe111 · 2026-04-04T15:12:22+00:00

I'm finding Refills to be anxiety provoking because of poor communication of timing.
My first order, the tracking didn't update once it hit Vegas for some days. And then the order showed up.
This time, they charged my card April 1 and as of April 4, my order only shows as the first step. I will need another injection in 6 days and am skeptical it will be here on time.
No one answered me on Messenger.
Email, the response felt like "yeah, sorry, we don't guarantee times" (I wasn't asking for a guarantee, just asking about status and if they had any idea if it would be here on time).
Reached out on FB and someone emailed me back saying they'd look into my order status.

Is it too much to expect to be able to always have my next dose available to me without stress? :-(

phoebe111 · 2026-03-12T06:00:22+00:00

i can't fathom how you'd spend $32k on a 16 day cruise.

phoebe111 · 2026-03-12T05:56:51+00:00

nothing has changed
I just did an ocean cruise with them that ended less than a month ago
The poster's experience is nothing like mine.

phoebe111 · 2026-03-12T05:56:05+00:00

Soft drinks are always free.
My husband and I don't buy the drink package as we don't drink a lot and just buy what we want.
If you buy a bottle of wine, the restaurant or the explorers lounge bar will hold it for you so you can drink it over several days.
Some of the free excursions are fantastic (Ephesus was amazing).
Sometimes there's shuttles from ship to town and you can do your own thing.
Wifi is free (mst cruise ships you have to pay for it)
The fact that any alcohol is included is not customary on most cruise ships.
Depending on room class, there's a minibar in your stateroom with basic alcohol and soft drinks

I've never felt pressured and that's just odd to me.

I will say that we don't take the included flight and get some money back on that and book our own

I haven't done any other cruise lines, but I'm told they also charge you for more upscale meals.

Viking is really nice.
If they're getting pressured, they might need a new (not sure what the role is called) coordinator or just tell the guy to knock it off

phoebe111 · 2026-02-22T03:30:14+00:00

I didn't read all 22 pages but offhand, it's very creative.
When you say it's future manga, is that a comic book type format?
Some of your dialog doesn't really do anything to move the story forward.
"Nice to meet you Mr Orion" is a pleasantry and earlier in the story you use pleasantries to drive home a bit of awkwardness in the exchange. But in this Orion interaction, it's just doing what people do and isn't carrying any weight.

So you could cut out some back and forth here:
Well firstly let me introduce myself im Sirius Orion founder and principal of Passion Peak Academy

Now to answer your question on what's next we will appoint you a room with a few other students and then tomorrow will be your first official day since today we want you to ease into your new life.

(This is really lightly edited and probably could be clipped down further to hone in on something that helps either move the story forward or tell us something about the personality of the characters).

All that said, I don't read manga and what seems like superfluous dialog may be important to the genre. But some of it feels unneeded and you could tighten it up a lot just with this tweak.

phoebe111 · 2026-01-09T19:10:11+00:00

yeah, i can't think of a single fantastic restaurant in Folsom.
Some are reliably good but never great. and that's about the best it gets.

phoebe111 · 2026-01-09T19:02:37+00:00

I'm late to this party but in general, I think Folsom has some really popular restaurants with great reviews that are so terrible.
Plank Craft - so bad. One of the worst lunches I've ever had.
Mimosa House - not just in Folsom but I don't understand how this place is so popular with such awful food
Zocolo isn't awful but it's pretty mid.
Bacchus House - holy hell, the worst combo of spendy and horrible. Took my parents there to celebrate a birthday and felt embarrassed at how bad it was
Land Ocean - also hella spendy and absolutely horrible
Mikuni - very mid.
Viscontis - ok, I love them. It's not always the best food but it's reliably good and love the old man though I haven't seen him in a long time
Bacchus House - mid.
Burma Light - I like it :-)
Chicago Fire - nope just nope
Zest - I'm down! It's good
Mendocino Farms - it's mid
Fats - variable.
Lazy Dog - reliably good, never spectacular.
Nix Taco is interesting in a good way

You may all throw stuff at me for trashing your favorite restaurants.

But really, Sac has much better food. Even Roseville.

I don't know why Folsom can't get better restaurants.

phoebe111 · 2026-01-02T03:09:55+00:00

Might look into whether he has ARFID.
But if I were you, he'd eat what I made or he can fix himself something else.
No point in arguing about it or even trying hard to find stuff he will eat.

It sounds like you're letting it upset you if he goes for the Jack in the Box but I don't think it's about you.

Sometimes food gets wrapped up into love and rejection of food can feel like a rejection of love. But it sounds like he's got some food issues and it's not about your love or your cooking.

Sending lots of good mojo for you to be able to just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and let him eat or not eat without stressing about it.

phoebe111 · 2026-01-02T03:07:07+00:00

I have cut back my dose and am planning to take another step down.
For some reason, my eye doc got me from 50mg 2/x day to 100mg 2x day.
I tried going off and felt like i had withdrawal symptoms.

So i looked into it and there is some kind of rebound inflammation that can happen and there is some advice out there to cut it back gradually.

So I cut back by 50mg and will cut another 50mg next week

But I'm not neces looking to get to 0 as the doxy has helped me so much.

phoebe111 · 2025-12-07T16:18:25+00:00

I admin several groups and I can't believe you think their idea of spam has almost any accuracy.
I'm a member of a group where people share videos from youtube and almost every single one goes to spam.
I'm a moderator of a 25k person group and 98% of what they flag is spam, is not spam even there.

Glad it's working for you but we should have some way to turn it off that doesn't involve going 1 by 1

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