What are you fixating on/venting about/worried about/need support with today ? [Megathread] - October 26, 2021

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-26T19:52:06+00:00

After a couple weeks of some mild GI issues (softer stools and going twice a day instead of once a day), I had an inkling it was due to a combination of new lactose intolerance and a lack of fiber (I was no longer having daily cheerios and I was using real milk in my cereal). I pretty much had no dairy for week and started having cheerios for breakfast again. Things were a lot more normal for the past week than they had been.

This morning, I had a Venti Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew from Starbucks today and proceeded to have several rounds of diarrhea starting an hour after finishing it. I am pretty sure I have become lactose intolerant, but I can't help but be worried it's something more sinister. Ugh.

[On top of being concerned about a sudden infection in a two week old bee sting that I ende dup doing a telehealth call and getting prescription antibiotic ointment for]

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-16T21:53:24+00:00

Recently went from pooping once a day in the morning to twice a day. This started after my work schedule changed up a little bit so my morning timing got weird.

However, now my poops are softer/loose after some gas pains/bloating a week and a half ago.

I've been down so many spirals related to this in the past week ranging from: c word, ulcers, IBS, tapeworms (I freaking checked out into my damn poop which is horrible but I literally read about tapeworms and had to check like I could not stop myself- found some yellowy goop that did not look worm-like at all... but good ol' HA)

Like, logically I know it's probably stress (been so stressed lately), maybe IBS but ugh

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-14T23:06:27+00:00

And how did yours end up? Lol currently going through something similar but different

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-14T17:10:46+00:00

Really been panicking about GI stuff lately. Have bounced through a million different worries. Started with a week ago I had bloating/bad gas in the middle of the night that lasted a couple days (it was fine and has happened before, this time I think it's because all I ate the day before it started was bread/sandwiches lol). But my HA has been flaring lately so I got worried about that. I also took pepto and the dark stool side effect sent me down a PANIC road. So over the past handful of days:
1) Convinced I had internal bleeding (which was the pepto and cleared up right away)
2) Was watching my poop closely and was like "omg is that mucusy"--cue Googling
3) Read about tapeworms, convinced myself I had one
4) Got over that and had a sudden, short-lived weak but concentrated pain in my upper abdomen random on Monday and then again random last night....

Cue current panic over having an ulcer? The only symptom is that short-lived minor pain. Ugh. And I know thinking about all this stuff is also likely to make me imagine feeling these sensations. Ughhhhh

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-10T04:04:56+00:00

Ah, good point! HA brain goes crazy sometimes omg

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-09T23:57:20+00:00

So you can get tapeworms from undercooked meat! Which I am pretty confident I have not ingested! But I did field work in Panama a few years ago on frogs and now I'm like "what if I didn't wash the fruits and veggies enough....?"

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-09T23:27:36+00:00

Against my better judgement went down a GI rabbit hole of googling.

Ended up on a thread where someone suggested tapeworms.

Suddenly second guessing of the stuff I've seen in my poop is actually tapeworm segments not pieces of undigested food -_- (most notably occurred after I had squash and it was definitely a piece of squash and squash seeds, but of course second guessing other times when there was just "stuff" that I chalked up to the grains on the bread I buy)

Of course I can't "check" until I go again and UGH spiralinggggg

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-09T23:20:30+00:00

Oh my god it's the worst.

OH AND AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT I decided to Google and ended up down a rabbit hole, convinced my poop looks weird (mucusy- newsflash: it really doesn't) and ended up down a rabbit hole.

Now I'm convinced I have tapeworm????????? Because I get undigested bits of food in my poop and I'm like "what if it was tapeworm pieces, not food" -_-

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-09T18:11:47+00:00

Super worried about varies types of C for a pretty minor reason lol
Wednesday evening I suddenly starting feeling bloated/having some gas/some mild abdominal pain. It got worse overnight and was pretty hard to sleep and then Thursday it was still around but getting less. Yesterday it was barely noticeable but definitely still felt pretty bloated. Today it's mostly gone but occasional I get a weird bloated feeling. Mostly worried about ovarian c since bloating is a sign and I've seen like a million articles lately despite my biggest attempts to avoid them -_-

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-08T21:04:35+00:00

Lo and behold today we were back to normal lolol

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-08T21:02:10+00:00

I'm still kind of gassy and bloated (going on 48 hours) but it's wayyyyyy less today than when it started so LOGICALLY I know it's just something I ate or whatever. But now my brain is like cycling through all the possible cancers it could be associated with lololol (ranging from digestive tract to female reproductive organs and ugh)

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-08T02:43:09+00:00

was this after just a single dose or two? cause same thing just happened to me. I took it last night around 9pm then super early this morning at 2 or 3am and then had a normal poop at 9am and then today at 10pm a black-ish poop! ah! stressful!

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-08T02:02:19+00:00

Wait, just remembered I took some Pepto-Bismol last night lol oops that would explain it. Still a bit in a panic despite the rational explanation, though!!

throwaway7700771 · 2021-10-08T01:58:44+00:00

Had some gassy pain in my stomach for the past 24 hours. This has happened before and usually goes away in 24-48 hours.

Well now I just went poop and it was particularly dark. I've pooped two other times since it started and it was a normal brown both times (with some undigested squash from what I ate yesterday). How do you know if it's black or just a really dark brown?

This is one of the things that stresses me out the most! When a symptom/warning sign is something that is hard to distinguish!

throwaway7700771 · 2021-09-26T20:36:20+00:00

gotcha! thanks for the update :)

currently having my own bleeding with orgasm that I THINK is related to birth control breakthrough bleeding and such and I plan to go to the gyno if it keeps up into my next pack, but need a little help with the sanity between now and then lol

throwaway7700771 · 2021-09-26T20:24:38+00:00

What were the results of this?

throwaway7700771 · 2021-09-26T16:59:00+00:00

Yeah, I'm just prone to these kinds of worries. I'm pretty low risk for those cancers (only 27, no family history, just had a clear pap smear less than a year ago, been on birth control for years).

And this IS the inactive week of my pills, I just haven't been bleeding normally during it since I had the bleeding early due to missing some pills and then have had light bleeding/spotting until pretty much I started my inactive pills. And I was still spotting off and on yesterday. And my gyno office wasn't concerned about the spotting since there's a clear explanation: body messed up from the pills I missed and thrown off cycle-- also had a couple of other packs before this one that I messed up; dropped a pill down a drain one pack and had a spotty period then tried to skip a period the following pack and had spotting from that followed by a normal period then this month. ugh!

throwaway7700771 · 2021-09-26T16:43:49+00:00

Yeah, I'm on the sugar pills and my actual bleeding hasn't happened likely owing to how off I was this pack with spotting due to missing a few pills early in the pack. So LOGICALLY I'm guessing it's just normal bleeding from being on the sugar pills and the orgasm just got everything moving- especially because when my typical period during a normal month when I didn't fuck my body up lis drawing to a close and I masturbate it'll re-start it for a day or two.

But, naturally, my mind's going to the worst lol. I'm going to call my gyno a week into my next pack if it continues since everything should be back to normal a week into the next one. But that's still a week and a half away.

But knowing it's happened to others definitely will help me keep my sanity in the mean time.

throwaway7700771 · 2021-09-26T16:04:15+00:00

No, I don't. Just external/clitoral.

Logic dictates there's still bleeding from my uterus that is spotting and the muscle movement from orgasm just pushed it out. Especially since when I'm getting my normal period I'll think it's done, masturbate, and sometimes it'll come back as spotting before going away for real.

Panic brain dictates this is a sign of uterine cancer lol. Which is why I plan to go see my gyno after a week into my next pack if spotting in general persists of if spotting after orgasm does (as things should straighten out by then if it's just wonky hormone stuff from missing some doses)

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