#intestinal issues

[a-welsh-spoonie]

my favourite cbd tea is back in stock and I'm so happy about it. The cbd tea I've been using is an okay backup, but it's not as good as the one I usually get. I have ordered an approximate 4-5 month supply, it may seem like a lot but they have been having supply issues so I'm trying to make sure I have enough to get by if the issues continue.

[popsartattic]

Commissions Open

Hey all, my cat is sick and his vet bills have been pretty high so I'm opening up commissions again. I'll draw your OC or favorite character for you! I can do multiple styles, but my main four are a simple cutesy style, a cartoony style, anime style, or a slightly more complex semi-realistic style. Prices for most styles are the same but the cutesy style ones are cheaper because they're quicker and easier to draw. Anyway, here's the pricing-

CUTESY STYLE

HEAD/BUST:

Lineart - $10 Flat Color - $15 Shaded - $22 FULLBODY: Lineart - $18 Flat Color - $28 Shaded -$35

ALL OTHER STYLES

HEAD/ BUST:

Lineart - $18 Flat Color - $25 Basic Shading - $30 Fully Rendered -$40

HALFBODY:

Lineart - $25 Flat Color - $35 Basic Shading - $42 Fully Rendered - $50

FULLBODY: Lineart - $35 Flat Color - $55 Basic Shading - $65 Fully Rendered - $85

EXTRAS

Backgrounds/Props: $5-$50 depending on complexity. Simple gradient backgrounds or very simple patterns are free.

Extra Characters: 2/3 of base commission cost per character

All prices are subject to change and open to negotiation within reason (I'm willing to work with you, so long as you're negotiating in good faith). Prices will not change for an individual commission once a price has been agreed upon, of course. I reserve the right to add an extra charge for designs with excessive detail.

I currently have ten commission slots open.

I look forward to drawing your OCs and/or blorbos!

[blindgamermisadventures]

This has been one hell of a week. Where do I even begin?

My mother pitches a fit if I don’t eat with the family because it doesn’t feel like I’m “taking part of the family”. Thing is, I am NPO on a feeding tube.

Since I currently have only a “functional” (Most offensive term ever. I can promise you I am not functioning.) condition both professionals and my parents believe I am making a “mountain out of a molehill” and should just get over it and eat.

I also miss food. It’s so rare I eat, not only because of the excruciating pain it causes, but because I have such intense early satiety. I eat a couple bites and I am as full as if I ate a holiday meal. In addition I can feel the food backing up my oesophagus and throat. I have a hard time swallowing too.

So yes I miss food, but I know I cannot eat. Yet my mother’s wrath is not to be trifled with, especially when I am so low on energy. I caved anew ate around a a cup of mashed potatoes and a sliver of homemade sourdough bread.

Well…it was coming out of both my G and J tubes for the next two days. My CNA who helps me daily could see what I ate. It smelled like vomit. (Which I so badly wanted to do due to pain, but I am unable to do so.) I was awful. I was so nauseous. In so much pain. And worse of all I was constipated.

This may be considered TMI, but I don’t care. In multiple tests it’s been documented that I have constant stool burdens at the end of my small intestine and beginning of my colon. I am currently on linzess, but it isn’t helping.

I poop brown smelly water. Even my CNA said this looks like intestinal failure. Yet because I only have a functional diagnosis the ER won’t accept me until I am running a high fever. I have a low grade one, but nope. Still not good enough.

On top of that my feeding pump ( a Kangaroo Joey) stopped working yesterday. I called my feeding tube supplier about sending me a new one. They said it would arrive at noon.

It hadn’t. I called back asking when it would arrive and they said someone signed for it. So I asked all around my apartment complex asking where it was. Nobody said they had it. So I called again. Apparently it SOMEHOW got sent to the wrong place. So they will be sending me one…sometime. Tonight my CNA is going to help me use a gravity bag. I only used one once and it gave me really bad diarrhoea so hopefully we can find a speed that works for me.

So…those on feeding tubes, intestinal failure, and TPN…I need advice. How do I get help? I have been on a feeding tube since January and I am STILL underweight and malnourished. I am not running my full feeds because it burns and the pressure buildup is too much to handle. I already explained about my constant stool burdens and overflow problem. When and how do you bring up the topic of at least trying TPN? How do you get diagnosed with Chronic Intestinal Dysmotility? I know for a fact that is what is going on yet my GI refuses to let me get a Sitz Marker Test because it’s so expensive and intensive. I am suffering and at my whits end and don’t know what to do anymore. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[entropy-sea-system]

ARFID and IBS (and other GI issues) culture is feeling like you're "wasting food" by not eating the exact same food that the people around you are, even when you're not throwing it away, and when it would literally harm you to eat it

[bestagons]

Grappling with the fact that because of the time difference I need a contingency plan for if something monumental happens while I am at work

[arctic-hands]

yes I am hungry. yes the thought of food makes me want to hurl. we exist

[consolecadet]

Here’s a new one: I had to ask the grocery cashier to stop eating donuts at the same time as she scanned my items. I already assume that someone who’s recently dunked their hands in a bucket of flour has touched the outside of everything I buy at the supermarket, but I’m not usually a direct witness to the gluten -> hand -> my groceries pipeline 😬

[psychiatricwarfare]

i think sometimes people forget that there's more than one way to be trans & that bigots Do Not Care what flavour of trans you are, they want us all dead so can we please stop arguing over things that literally dont matter and lift each other up instead of tearing each other down? im sick of this afab vs amab, tme vs tma, transmasc vs transfemme, the total erasure of transnonbinary & trans intersex individuals (or just nonbinary & intersex ppl in general). im so so so sick of all these new boxes we're trying to stuff each other in when elder trans ppl fought so hard against those boxes!!

for fucks sake, no one trans group has it any better or any worse than any other trans group, we just have it different, the transphobes want us ALL dead - whether its for different reasons or by different means, dead is dead. they dont care if youre tme afab transfemme or if youre tma axab transfemmasc or if youre a god damn clown fish. its all the same "agenda" to them.

im so fucking done seeing posts saying "trans women have No idea what its like to deal with....." or "TMEs fuck off! you're not welcome here!" or any of that shit because THAT is exactly how white supremacists get a foothold in. THAT is how we lose this battle. fucking THAT is how we get divided and conquered. they want us to split up into smaller groups and fight each other, they want us to be too weak to fight back and the way to do that is to wittle down our numbers & until they can get away with outright killing us in broad daylight (more than they already have) they have to make do with splitting us up and turning us against each other

im just sick and tired of all the infighting, you're either with ALL of us or you're with the white supremacists, idfc if you are trans yourself. we need all of us to work together and put our differences aside. it is not that fucking hard to sit yourself down and go "ok well they may not know what it's like to be me, but i dont know what its like to be them either" and realise that turning against other trans ppl just bc "they dont understand" is ridiculous and just a bad move when we're in the middle of a fight for our fucking lives. who cares who's "more oppressed" this isnt the god damn olympics, this is the fight for human rights and right now we need to focus on keeping all of us alive. save your petty irrelevant fucking discourse for when we aren't focused on trying to keep our community ALIVE

[alastyr-not-alastair]

Shout out to my roommate for making me realize the ao3 writers curse did in fact, get to me

[firelightfoxes]

she's my babie

[thenarrativefoil]

YAYYYY I stopped taking my vitamin A supplement this morning and I've had NO liver spasms yet so I think that might have been the culprit of the mysterious abdominal pain that started hitting a week ago.

[seaquestions]

yknow when u like. you wanna make art abt smth but you dont know what you would even draw bcos its not like making fanart of smth you like or a story that's in ur head or anything more concrete like that. it's just like. so nebulous.

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

Having chronic digestive issues AND memory problems means I'm just living in a constant state of "oh god WHAT did I eat yesterday ow ow ow"

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

today i learned that there's a gender connected to ripping out your own intestines

[daz4i]

can't fucking play violent shooter games anymore man a generic enemy will go "die for me, bitch" and i'll start moaning

[machinedramon]

u ever make a decision that feels so divinely influenced it almost makes u believe God exists and sent an angel down to you specifically