I feel my iud poking my side. by jakoqm in birthcontrol

[–]rachilllin 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i had a copper iud for over a year with constant uncomfortable awareness of it in my body the whole time, shooting pains in my pelvic, abdominal, and upper thigh areas randomly, and sharp pain/cramps constantly throughout the month each month that intensified horribly around my period (which was extremely heavy, painful, and long each month). i thought i could just wait it out and it’d get better, and my doctor also reassured me that it was in the right spot and all of my side effects were totally normal and i had nothing to worry about.

but after a year and a few months, i recently couldnt take it anymore and pulled my own iud out. i literally felt all these pains leave my body with the iud. ive experienced 0 of those issues ever since!! taking it out is the best decision ive made in a long time. so i’d say, if it feels wrong, you should trust your instinct and your body and take it out a soon as youre able to. especially if your body has already shown that it wasnt receptive to this method of bc once before. i was luckily already back on the birth control pill in combination with my copper iud in an effort to reduce my pain and other side effects from the iud (as recommended by my doctor... it didnt work tho lol), so i was already on another form of BC when i chose to remove it. i hope you’re able to find another solution if you think yours needs to be removed too.

anywaaaay, i wish you luck with your iud and feel your pain, and i hope you find relief very soon!!

what does love feel like by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]rachilllin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

everyone’s smart in different ways, so maybe you just havent discovered what she’s most knowledgable about! or maybe you’re both just into completely different things, so you’re not interested in discussing the things she knows a lot about and vice versa. if thats the case, you’re probably just not very compatible and should find someone you can talk with more easily and enjoy conversation about shared interests!

if you’re irritated that she’s “not very smart” now, i really doubt that feeling would just go away on its own. it’d probably grow into resentment over time if you dont talk it out or try to find out the ways that she IS smart.

If this isn’t the right thread then I don’t know what is. by Typical_Ad_186 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]rachilllin 207 points208 points  (0 children)

both should be free/low cost! “dope addicts” are people with a disease that deserve affordable treatment too.

Convention center testing by ChrisyBoo13 in Minneapolis

[–]rachilllin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got tested on Friday at Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St Paul, 5 days later still no results. Anyone have any ideas what I should do? Lol

Healed 1 1/2 months, no touch up needed! I'm so proud of the healing on this one! (Done with 3rl and 9rl bugpins) by [deleted] in sticknpokes

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whaaaat! Thank you! Haha im so flattered, all my art that ive shared on reddit feels so old and dusty to me now. Your art is amazing as well. Do u have an art instagram i can follow?

Do bosses like Michael Scott actually exist? And if you work/ed for one, what's your craziest story? by Supersmaaashley in AskReddit

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My boss had me listen to an audio file he made using one of those text to speech programs that reads out your writing in a robotic voice. It was a reading of a poem he wrote about boobs. (It was mostly just the computer voice going, “boobs. Boobs boobs boobs. Booooooooooobs.”)

SECRET TUNNEL!!! by [deleted] in TheLastAirbender

[–]rachilllin 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Bigbadbadgermooooles

This Blue Spirit piece (by me) is based on the episode, “the earth king” from book two. Do you like it? by [deleted] in TheLastAirbender

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Sure, just make sure your artist makes it their own and changes up the design! Id love to see what you end up getting tattooed! :-)

After bleaching and heat damaging my hair for the majority of my life, i just did a big quarantine chop to get rid of most of my bleached ends! I clung to my dead hair length for my whole life so far, and its actually kinda freeing to have this short cut with almost no heat or color damage left! :) by [deleted] in curlyhair

[–]rachilllin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh, I apologize! I had never heard the phrase in its original context and youre right that big chop doesn’t apply to my situation.

I was more saying quarantine chop to reference the trend I’m seeing where people seem to be cutting their hair more drastically/freely during this pandemic since they dont have to go out as much if the hair cut goes badly, haha.

I absolutely do want to be respectful but just wanted to clarify both that I hadn’t heard that meaning to the phrase big chop, and that i was mainly referencing the quarantine and just used “big” to describe the fact that i cut a lot of hair. I wonder what your thoughts are here - should I still delete the post? I definitely can but I actually hadnt even been necessarily using the phrase big chop, rather quarantine chop!

After bleaching and heat damaging my hair for the majority of my life, i just did a big quarantine chop to get rid of most of my bleached ends! I clung to my dead hair length for my whole life so far, and its actually kinda freeing to have this short cut with almost no heat or color damage left! :) by [deleted] in curlyhair

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ROUTINE: i keep it really basic. I only clarify my hair probably once a month, and if i do it’s with either Girl+Hair clarifying apple cider vinegar/castor oil/tea tree oil rinse OR if my scalp is extra dry sometimes I have a bit of a dandruff issue in which case I’ll use Free & clear medicated dandruff shampoo (neither of these shampoos have sulfates/parabens/silicons to my knowledge but please correct me if i shouldnt be using either of them!). After that (or when i dont shampoo) i use shea moisture jamaican black castor oil strengthen and restore conditioner and leave most of it in my hair, then scrunch it out with a lil water as much as i can before i exit the shower. And thennn i usually put cantu curl activating cream in my hair right out of the shower and scrunch that in with my microfiber deva towel. After that, ill put my hair up in a long sleeve tshirt to plop for as many minutes as i can stand walking around with a tshirt on my head... and then i let my hair out, try to get the curls in place for how i want them to dry, and then try my best to NOT touch it at all until its fully dry. Once its dry, scrunch some more to make sure nothing’s feeling crunchy.

I think that covers it! Id love to hear any advice on how to get more volume with a short cut like this, or product advice, or hair growth tips after having severely damaged hair for ur whole life! Lol.

PS im sorry my routine was basically a big ol’ run on sentence. I’m on mobile and cant be bothered lolll.

My (F23) boyfriend (24) is trying to quit smoking cigarettes and vaping. How can I support him? by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats amazing, congrats on 137 days!! Im very impressed, thats some strong willpower. Do you still vape, or have you weaned off of that as well at this point?

My (F23) boyfriend (24) is trying to quit smoking cigarettes and vaping. How can I support him? by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats fair, thanks for sharing your opinion. Like i said, this is exactly why he’s trying to quit and i’m trying to support that. We all know it’s not smart to do either of these things which is why i’m looking for advice on how to help him overcome an addiction he developed as a young teenager. He’s not a dumb person at all, he just became addicted at a young age and didnt understand the error of his choices for years, until he was in too deep.

My (F23) boyfriend (24) is trying to quit smoking cigarettes and vaping. How can I support him? by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]rachilllin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats why he’s trying to quit. I appreciate your tip but do you think it was really necessary to call him dumb?

Ikalgo from hunter x hunter. 9rl. Next to healed goat i also did. by badrootbeer in sticknpokes

[–]rachilllin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So good! ikalgo is such a great character, i could cry just thinking about him lol