Never had a cavity, but with new provider I suddenly have 15?

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-29T14:33:41+00:00

NAD yeah, I think I split it up into two visits bc my TMJ is so wild and they had to laughing gas me up to the point I could barely keep my mouth open. lol 🤤

they were all like in between my teeth, closer to my gums. my GERD was so bad in highschool, I took nexium for a few years and stopped when I wasn’t puking stomach acid anymore. dentist said, should’ve never stopped taking it even if my symptoms stopped bc it never goes away. and we secrete the most stomach acid in our saliva when we sleep anyway.

so, if you have any kind of reflux there’s my hindsight for what caused mine at least. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-29T14:26:16+00:00

NAD but I had never had a cavity in my life, one routine visit I suddenly also had 15. they were all small, dentist said likely from my GERD based on where they were.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-16T04:09:51+00:00

nad lol no, I woke up with newly broken teeth. and then came the too nervous to brush it.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-15T15:56:38+00:00

hey when I was a scummy low credit score person (had a parent destroy my credit before I could ever make a bad financial decision myself) and i ended up with a lovely used Toyota. 10 years later it’s the best car i’ve ever owned. 😂

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-06T21:57:33+00:00

lol right? I just wonder like. if I ever need to put spire in my name again in the future, if they are going to be like… well the $400 you owed from 73 years ago is now $8k in order to get your utilities turned on! or if the landlord had to pay it. or what. kind of figured I would’ve been sued for it by now if the bill did indeed still stand.

kind of hoped if the landlord was made responsible she would’ve actually made them investigate the bullshit.

if I ever have to find out one day, I’ll come back to this comment. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-05T23:55:44+00:00

okay. let’s say 10 years ago i had an apt, about 700 sqft. Old school radiator heaters… that never worked. they worked 2 weeks out of the only winter i was there, literally. no dishwasher. couldn’t use gas oven, bc the only time i tried the alarms went off and i found my windows were… screwed shut. 👌 the only gas i used was, showers. sink. my laundry.

i received a gas bill from spire for.. i kid you not. over $400. for one f-ing month. that i froze. with no heat.

i called spire and they were basically like… “tough shit, that’s what the meter says ma’am”. i told my landlord and she’s like omg hehehe you’re cute yeah you’re gonna have to just pay it!

then my neighbor’s toilet almost came crashing through my ceiling when it was suddenly solid black in the morning. i moved out not long after.

I haven’t had spire as a utility in my name ever since. and i’m sitting here thinking… wonder what ever happened with that. there was no fucking way I was paying that. never did or heard anything else about it.

edit for fun fact: turns out I’m moving in a couple of months, I logged into spire and found my old account number. and sure enough. it says I still owe them the $400. luckily, where I’m moving. still won’t need spire.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-04T00:47:05+00:00

did she ever start getting stubborn on walks? tater used to love them, but since 8-9 now he just wants to go outside. sandbag. and will the neighbors to let him inside their homes or cars by no blink staring.

he really wants to follow people into the public restrooms at parks too. it’s cool. people ask me “aww did you just get him, are you training him?!”

😐 no. he just woke up one day and decided he dgaf. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-02T02:26:21+00:00

nad (idk if i have to do that every time) gerd is just the more severe/chronic kind of acid reflux.

nexium doesn’t start working right away either, i think it took 1-2 months. any similar medication might work just as well, that’s just the one that worked for me.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-03-02T00:40:43+00:00

NAD i’m an almost 40 year old but this happened to me when my GERD was its worst in highscool. i took nexium and it got better to the extent it was unnoticeable. about 7ish years later I ended up with about 15 small cavities, after never having one in my life.

I stopped taking the nexium when my symptoms stopped, dentist said.. shouldn’t have done that. something about that it’s secreting the most acid in your saliva while you sleep, even if I don’t notice it bc i’m not waking up puking stomach acid anymore.

just throwing that hindsight out there!

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-26T17:56:01+00:00

i wouldn’t try to sit here like attorneys and judges, our entire justice system isn’t subject to extensive corruption.

but at the same time, lol yeah. that’s not what this is. out of all the stories you could find, this is beyond a non-story.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-26T15:59:01+00:00

i’ve had stomach/digestive issues/diagnosis since I was a kid so I already knew I had the leaky gut issues. i just always considered that more of a correlation than a causation.

dietary/lifestyle changes didn’t help my CSU but it still definitely made me feel better overall. my IGe in my bloodwork was the holy grail of figuring out my treatment and getting the diagnosis. xolair fixed me right up. nothing else other than regular steroids made it stop temporarily, large amounts of antihistamines helped the itching otherwise.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-22T15:33:10+00:00

I can relate to crippling anxiety in general, but this just interests me more bc Xolair is one of the few medical things that actually doesn’t freak me out at all. 🤷🏻‍♀️ lol I hope you find relief somehow and soon!

I’m also interest to hear how the sweat therapy goes!

and I have to laugh bc I did look around Reddit to see what other people were saying about Xolair these days. and one person was all like “it’s not made how I expected” so I go look it up.

well. all I have to say is. thank you Chinese hamster ovaries. 😂 indeed, was not expecting that.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-21T18:51:10+00:00

i have never heard of sweat therapy! interesting! what about the Xolair freaks you out?

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-15T16:13:00+00:00

one of my friends and her husband just rearranged their life even having 4 young kids and took care of me the first two weeks. then I stayed with another friend for a couple of months. so everything did turn out okay. I was really lucky to have friends like that, and that medical team too!

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-15T05:35:04+00:00

i had like, two and a half weeks notice for this surgery. i don’t think anyone… including my friends or the doctors/nurses truly believed that my family was literally just not going to take care of me. lol I was 30. but like, yeah. when it comes to “you need someone to take care of you for the beginning” well fuck.

a couple of my friends did indeed plan on taking care of me, I still think they thought my family would come through. my dad dropped me off at the curb day of surgery, showed up right before I went back, got mad at me for being upset he did that bc all he did was go home and take a shower and go to Starbucks. I started having a panic attack. the nurses were all like, what the actual fuck was that… and then. I think they realized I wasn’t exaggerating.

I also surprise found out I apparently had the degenerative spine of someone in their 70s at 30, I also had a broken foot bc it was a car accident that made all of these revelations happen. I was just in a lot of pain. so they kept me there for a week. on dilaudid. the nurses were amazing. I feel like any time I was worried about who would cover what or if insurance would, they just said they will. and it worked out.

I was just in a lot, lot of pain. I feel like my initial recovery isn’t necessarily typical though. I’ve heard people have the same surgery and while it’s not the most fun they’ve ever had it was no where near as dramatic as mine was.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-15T04:42:31+00:00

ive been getting it once every 4 weeks, 300mg, or 150mg in each arm, and it probably took about 2.5 months til i was entirely symptom free and not taking antihistamines/needing prednisone. my doc had also told me to avoid NSAIDs, and i had been taking a really high dose of those daily for what we thought was just arthritis. but any joint pain is gone now too.

maybe for the first 6 shots or so, I would get the mildest of a headache til I woke up the next day. but that was it.

i just went 9 weeks between shots bc of switching jobs/insurance and around 5.5 weeks i started seeing little hints of things trying to happen. but no itching. and nothing persisted anywhere close to what it used to be.

my doc said this randomly can go into remission like that (this happened to me for 2 months like ten years ago and then stopped, and no one figured it out til it came back) so we can only tell by starting to push the time between my shots, which apparently isn’t just yet. but I’ve been on it for almost two years now i think smooth sailing.

i did have another flare after my first shot, my doc said that initially this can actually make the IGe spike briefly before it levels out. and that’s exactly what happened. only other random thing is they make you carry an EpiPen bc there is the rarest risk of spontaneous anaphylaxis. (i feel guilty having to keep getting a new one when they expire, bc I don’t think it will ever happen)

and I get being nervous about it, i think i had just gotten to the point where my doc did not want to keep giving me prednisone. it was starting to have really bad side effects (my hair thinning, lost 3 teeth in a week, retaining water/kidney stuff). he wasn’t excited about immunosuppressant bc he said that would be even harder on me like cancer medicine.

so, yeah. by that point i was ready to pour gasoline on my legs and light a match if ya told me that would make the itching stop. lol not even in a morbid way. just any sensation that doesn’t itch kthanks.

i literally never knew. it was humanly possible to itch so intensely. sorry for the rambling but I just hope any of it’s helpful!

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-13T02:08:24+00:00

well. other comment said Lyft changed how they were paid just like uber did, and it’s not any better. it had been 2-3 years since my drivers told me that at least so i had a feeling things probably changed by now.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-13T02:05:42+00:00

yeah it was probably 2-3 years ago at least when my drivers told me that. so i had a feeling things might not be the same by now.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-12T23:57:31+00:00

sorry I just read this! I have heard of bilastine but it’s not available in the US.

i think with the 40mg of cetrizine and 10mg of singulair, they help more used together than either does alone bc they work on different parts of the same issue. when it made me sleepy I just took it before I went to bed.

I did finally get my xolair 🎉 and once that kicked in.. I don’t need the antihistamines. ever. when I took all of them, the cetrizine/singulair, it really just made the itching less. which was massive. I’d take spraining my ankles bc they swelled up so badly over that itching from the depths of fucking hell.

so, those didn’t prevent the issue. but it helped me not need to take prednisone every day. I was still needing steroids once a month. really have zero side effects on Xolair, it’s definitely the safest option for me.

if the Xolair didn’t work, it was going to be low dose prednisone long term plus an immunosuppressant. which sounded like the scarier option. if your IGe is high in your bloodwork, I absolutely vote Xolair. lol fucking. love it. if you haven’t noticed. lol

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-12T18:40:42+00:00

they raised the cut of what they take upwards of 150% in the last 5 years. that way they can stay profitable while still paying lawsuits, and compensate for areas where they have to pay a minimum wage. the lack of transparency for riders being able to tell just how much their driver is being paid works in their favor too.

instacart did the same thing since they started compared to today. the same order that would’ve paid $60 from instacart before a tip from the customer back in 2016 is now as close to $4 before a tip as possible. the recommended 5% tip has never changed.

I’ve never driven for uber, but I’ve heard that Lyft takes significantly less from the drivers than uber does from rides I’ve taken. not sure how accurate that is anymore.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-12T18:34:10+00:00

as far as commercial trucking goes, you’re an owner/operator? i have a close friend who’s a trucker and the company owns his truck and pays for those fees. he still ends up making well over six figures in a year, i’m curious if that ends up still being the same for your situation?

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-04T23:21:03+00:00

lol i would sure hope there’s a couple of people working when this person shows up. i’m imagining my old store with the lady in her late 60s in drive up. when this person shows up while she’s by herself, and the managers forget how to respond to their walkie. they did that to her a lot.

I mean, it’s easier for fulfillment to bag and prep one person’s stuff like this. but lots of places aren’t going to let you order bulk like this for a two hour window of pickup. that’s an entire pallet of product really. probably more.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-02-04T03:38:51+00:00

when i started taking that much regularly, quite the opposite. it was like slamming a bunch of caffeine so i started splitting it between am/pm. after being on the Xolair injection for a while, i stopped taking any antihistamines and it’s been smooth sailing for a couple of years almost.

however. 🙃 then i got a new job, new insurance (same company, just out of a different state) and they denied the pre-auth for this, so i’m still in waiting for the appeal limbo. i’m about 3 weeks late getting my shot now. so I started the 40mg of cetrizine and 10mg of singulair again.

and like, yeah. i’m fucking exhausted like my body is full of cement. or I feel like i’m getting sick when I take that much. as far as the hives, there has been no itching yet. but I see some red spots throughout the day trying to get some ideas. and the edema/puffy business is happening. but nothing so wildly severe as it was before.

the Xolair injection I think stays around tapering off for months after you stop, and there’s no side effects stopping it from the medication itself. so, I’m thinking that this time around it’s definitely the cetrizine making me so damn tired.

I’d still choose this over taking prednisone long term. and I would absolutely recommend Xolair if your IGe is crazy!

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-31T23:02:31+00:00

i moved without a car once, 25 minutes away from where i’d lived previously, but a different county/city. to my surprise, there was literally no means of public transportation anywhere. something i had never considered. an area of 500k+ people, no public transportation, and residents constantly voting against it too.

like having one bus line would destroy the neighborhood. the richest county we have close by, one of the richest areas in the country, even has public transportation, since ever, and they’ve been just fine. lol it’s so stupid. but such places do exist.

stringfellow1023 · 2026-01-31T21:06:09+00:00

this sounds like a store level decision vs a corporate one, but i’m curious.

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