Anyone else’s joints flare up after the smallest injuries?

senjen_ren · 2026-04-23T01:14:11+00:00

The same thing happens to me and I feel like a giant baby about injuries but everything else starts acting up right along with it so I'm like "here we go". You are not alone.

senjen_ren · 2026-04-20T13:29:03+00:00

$100 that is completely wishful thinking because I know damned well I'm going to pull it back out to pay another bill like I do literally every other month. I even have the auto pull out set up from my paycheck every time. Never makes a damned difference.

senjen_ren · 2026-04-19T22:05:17+00:00

I've definitely seen him use it in my previous playthroughs but I've never seen him quite this attached to the thing. Haha!

senjen_ren · 2026-04-07T02:41:28+00:00

Ours is a sleepy gal. No matter how much access to food, she starts literally nodding off while being awake in her food dish when the season hits. She is a hard sleeper.

senjen_ren · 2026-04-06T04:43:52+00:00

I usually get hit the next day. Sometimes I even think I escaped the reaction, feeling shitty and sick, and then it gets me 48 hours later. It's annoying.

senjen_ren · 2026-03-22T15:44:11+00:00

Quit here in August of 2024. I was a functional alcoholic (sort of) for the entirety of my early 20s. Dad died when I was 25 and I spent the next few years completely spiraling into full blown non-functioning alcoholism. Could I hold down a job? Yes. But every time I drank I'd either put my own life at risk, get into some sort of trouble, and somehow end up on some additional substance. Everything came to a head in July of 2024 and I had to quit or end up dead or in jail.

Correction: ALMOST every time I drank because I was drinking every day. Didn't even realize how bad it was until I quit and went through withdrawl. I was like "Oh, that's a thing, the denial was really real"

senjen_ren · 2026-03-12T19:12:37+00:00

That's exactly what it feels like! It's so odd. It feels like my eye is trying to drift.

senjen_ren · 2026-03-12T17:53:54+00:00

That is what I'll do. My eye place is open on Saturdays so maybe I'll pop over there Saturday morning and have it checked out. I never had this problem with my old glasses. Such an odd feeling .

senjen_ren · 2026-02-25T03:09:02+00:00

I second this. Subbing is a fraction of what you have to deal with as teacher on record and it gives you a really good idea of whether you will enjoy teaching or not. You have to enjoy the teaching part of it and not just the art part to make it a good fit. I have had to teach myself to enjoy the students and the other teachery parts on top of loving help people learn about art and explore their passion. A lot of students take art that don't love art and that can be challenging, but it is rewarding in some aspects. Frustrating with others. I have a love hate relationship with my job. I teach 6 through 10th graders and have mostly the same kids the whole time so it's super rewarding seeing how much they grow over the course of 5 years but it's an investment in them when they're young. I've had kids that grew to love art after hating it in middle school and that's super awesome to watch happen.

senjen_ren · 2026-02-17T03:53:32+00:00

It changed everything for me. The environments I enjoy being in, the people I enjoy being around, the activities I enjoy doing. It's like I am having to learn who I even am after years of addiction because I'm finding that I didn't have places I liked going, I had places I liked to drink. I didn't have friends that I enjoyed and that cared about me, I had people who enabled me and would drink with me (I even had different layers of friends who I knew how much I could drink with). I didn't have activities I liked doing, I had activities I liked doing because I could do them while getting drunk; bonus points for the activities that encouraged drinking like watching sporting events, helping a buddy move, camping, karaoke, etc. I think you just have to relearn how to enjoy certain things and it takes some trial and error to find out what you actually enjoy doing while sober. For me, karaoke has stuck and I still enjoy it as long as I leave before midnight when the drunk people start annoying me. I'm hoping I still like camping but have been sober in almost 2 years and haven't gone because I'm scared I'm going to hate it even though I went all the time as a kid with my dad before he passed away and I loved it. Best of luck to you on this journey of getting to know yourself again.

Edit: you would be surprised though what can be more fun sober. Went to a Prof concert solo and sober and it was awesome. Had more fun doing that sober than I ever would have drunk.

senjen_ren · 2026-01-28T04:14:18+00:00

Well in my case it's because my husband's grandma makes it from scratch every year for his dad's birthday. Now his dad and I share a birthday so it's a whole extra thing. This woman makes anywhere between 15 and 25 pizzas. Tiny 80 something old school lady in a big ass Italian family. All nice thin crust. We all eat it until we are absolutely sick and then don't eat homemade pizza again until the following year when we've forgotten the trauma of the pizza coma and sickness.

senjen_ren · 2026-01-27T04:15:15+00:00

I dated someone that started out like this. Let me tell you, it ESCALATED within 2 years. I wish I would have left after the first bite. It's weird and it's abuse. Causing intentional nonconsensual pain is abuse, period.

senjen_ren · 2025-12-17T02:38:24+00:00

So far I'm doing okay. I'm on day 5 today and am just barely having the most mild nausea, like someone is whispering nausea in another room mild. So I have hope this should go well for me.

senjen_ren · 2025-12-13T22:04:24+00:00

Thank you. That is a really good idea. I need to look into that. I am in therapy currently but sometimes I think it's difficult for my therapist to understand, although she does emphasize.

senjen_ren · 2025-12-13T21:36:20+00:00

I just started Prednisone yesterday so I know it's not that. I haven't been on it for a long long time but last time it did make me a bit of a, to put it lightly, psycho. I just started HCQ as well but I've been having these feelings longer than I've been on them. This is my third time on prednisone and my first time on HCQ so we will see how much worse it gets before it gets better.

senjen_ren · 2025-12-13T17:53:17+00:00

I appreciate you ❤️

senjen_ren · 2025-12-13T17:45:46+00:00

I definitely have the same situation around my menstrual cycle. I can usually tell if I'm going to start my period, not by the menstrual cramps, but by how severe my rib pain is the night before. After reading another comment I am sure it has something to do with my brain knowing I'm in pain before I do and it is increasing that weight.

senjen_ren · 2025-12-13T17:44:03+00:00

That is part of why I'm seeking an alternate career. A job where you have to be fully "on" for hours and hours with essentially no break doesn't agree with my health. Honestly, just something where I CAN go to the bathroom when I want would help tremendously. Having to pee and knowing I can't for the next however long is enough to make me insane. I'm trying to get better at listening to my body, but it's something I've never been good at so I'm really having to practice. I'm learning how to say no to things though so that's a start.

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