#Gut Problems

[leroyblazeintheflesh]

Since you jerks have been so interested in me getting beat up lately, here’s why I lost to Jonny…

[nondivisable]

I always get scared when an "intuitive eating" creator shows up on my tiktok feed because I know it's gonna be a coin toss on whether they're gonna say actually interesting stuff or they're gonna say something that will piss me off and ruin the rest of my day

for example there's this one girl who does "eat what you want, add what you need" videos, that's interesting. she's not denying her cravings, she's honoring them, while also showing us different sources of various nutrients we can add to our plates. cool

but the other day, this woman showed up on my feed saying that eating at scheduled times is a kind of eating disorder?!?! because you're not eating when your body tells you to, rather forcing it to eat at "random moments". leaving aside the fact that if you work or go to school in person you HAVE to eat at scheduled times, that's just not feasible for a lot of people.

I am autistic, I have gut/digestive issues. a lot of the time, I don't have hunger cues. if I only ate when I had hunger cues, I'd only eat half of the week. if I only ate when my stomach isn't hurting, I'd only eat half the week. and if I only ate what I craved, I'd probably be in hospital. I need to watch my diet, if I don't I might experience a bad medical episode. I do eat what I crave, but not every time that I crave it. and I do eat when I'm hungry, but I always follow the four-meals-a-day pattern, to ensure that I will in fact eat all throughout the day

[snowy-heartsx]

medical;

so check this out;

i have POTS, pseudo seizures, kidney problems, and liver problems. i even have gut issues, heart problems, hormone problems, and untreated autism. along with low vision and an eye condition called nystagmus. even on top of this. i have sensory issues and an eating disorder.

i had an endometriosis removed back in 2018. it is now 2024, i have been told it could be growing back. my lesions are all over my organs.

so don't come into my inbox saying shit when you have no idea what illnesses are beyond the human eye could see. disrespectfully. fuck you.

[nevermindtheb0ll0cks]

struggling so bad lately with my bowels/chronic illness, everyday im in so much pain and discomfort no matter what i do. tired of getting nowhere with docs. tired of nothing working. im just tired of not being able to live a normal life.

[chanterhailwand]

I am so stressed that it's affecting almost everything in the list above.

[crollbro]

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[daltongraham]

So the med that was supposed to fix all this, the high savior, gives me uncontrollable diarrhea. So I've had to cancel my trip to see my dad while I figured this bullshit out.

The real problem is the chronic abdominal pain, which even on percocet is making most activities undoable. My life,which was pretty low-key key and housebound as it was, has ground to a stop.

I see my doc online tomorrow and we figure out the next step. I'm thinking amitiza. She may order some more tests. I'm so tired. And really unhappy about not going to see my dad. He's been alone since I left in early June. A half hour of zoom three times a week is no substitute for getting to live with him for a few weeks.

The percocet supply is getting lower. I hope the pain doc, whom I've never seen (mine is on maternity leave), is cool. That's in two weeks.

[kelliarbogast]

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[viridescent-vinca]

having gut problems and being afab is great bc then you get to play everyone’s favorite game —

‘which hole did this blood come from ?’

[animaljamapologist]

I don’t throw up I just get colic like a horse

[folly-nhubris]

dheiddiehrh

my tummy hurts now

and the sugar today did not help me

[wellwellwell-ben]

might be an unpopular opinion but i find that spicy korean ramen barely qualifies as sufferable and it has one fucking job so if i’m not flushing fiery liquid out my bumhole what the fuck is even the point. samyang buldak 2x has ONE job and it is to induce explosive diarrhea so some people wouldn’t need a colonoscopy at the risk of a stomach ulcer and it COULDNT even DO it.

-1 points 0 stars this is bullshit

[intestincapricieux]

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[chanterhailwand]

Feeling like crap today but looking for funny memes to not think about my pain in the butt gut, flare ups are crappy.

[botanyshitposts]

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

[daltongraham]

Oh my goodness gracious.

gross complaining below

My life has come to a stand-still. 2 percocet isn't eliminating the pain (tho it makes it bearable). I'm waiting on "prior authorization" for the linzess--basically, fuck my insurance. They're taking their time with it. WTF? My doctor said I need it! Fucking give it to me goddamn it!

I'm having trouble even doing my online volunteer work. Mostly I'm in bed. (I spent 5 years in bed in horrible pain in the early 2000s from a back injury...I'd kind of forgotten how to do this) It's just...stupid, is what it is. Sometimes my gut seems like a foreign object now. Usually I don't think about it...now it's just sticking out there, causing me misery. Is it the trulicity? Do I have to go off that? I ain't goin back on metformin, that's for damn sure. I'm barely eating. There's no room for it. No appetite any more, either.

Look, going too much is not better than not going. I had so much pain with the metformin explosions. So it's not like I want that back. There's no dick-sizing here...there's a happy middle ground of going that I want.

I probably have a goddamn elimination diet in my future. That involves cooking. I don't cook. Goddamnit.

I have an important trip 20 days from now. There's no way I can pack in this state, much less do a day of airplane/limo ride. I just can't do it. My dad has started to talk about postponing it...I really don't want to, I need to seem him...but if linzess isn't the fantastic fix I'm hoping for, I'll have to cancel. Goddamnit.