My urine smells like medicine

I’m back with another story about my gf Nikki.
So me and my gf just got back from a road trip from Florida and I felt like I had to tell this story. So my gf and I were driving for around 2 hours at this point (She’s the driver for the time being) and her stomach makes an ominous gurgling sound. I joke about her hotboxing the car and right as I finish saying that she lifts up her big butt and blasts an 8 second fart that immediately stinks up the car with the smell of beans. (Since she knows I love her farts so she’ll usually hold them in for me to smell them or fart in her hand and put them in my face but on road trips like this she’ll hotbox me in with her.) She immediately rolls up the windows and starts letting out around 4-5 more duck sounding bubbly farts before fanning behind her and sitting back down. Around another hour afterwards she let out a few more farts similar to before and then I told her when it’s my turn to drive I’ll return the favor by adding my own smells.
This happened a few more times throughout the day and once we got to the hotel we immediately started airing out the car cause it started to stink really bad after dinner. We then laughed about it then went to bed where she Dutch ovened me before going to sleep.

Last few days when I've been driving, my truck would crank way longer then it should when starting and I would smell gas while the truck was running, bit no smell when it was sitting turned off. Just now I smelt gas fumes like crazy and saw my tank is leaking, i dont know if the tank is leaking or if its dripping down from the pump and hoses. What would cause it to start rich and now leak.

SABOTAGE?! And it all started out as such a nice idea… A cliche as tall as my ex-roommate’s erection live-blending Kelly Bundy Mike Kelley and Ted Bundy parafernalia wearing blondes to the sound of gekko’s mating in the Amazon. Cut the bullshit! There’s no such thing as a nice idea getting detourné by some smart art postpostsituationist pranker or right-wing gaswhitey flexfrat, no, my dear well-meaning peace dove friends, if an idea can gets turned into its opposite during its execution, it probably was flawed from the start! Sometimes people use Woodstock 99 - the limp dickshit rape and pillage slash and burn disaster edition - as an example of how a great, positive, wonderful, hell, holy idea can turn into the worst kind of evil in the hands of the wrong people. Well, dear naivopino’s, let me inform you: bull-shit! The whole idea of Woodstock, be it ’99, ’94, ’69 or 2219, is just batshit dumbwhat asking for the baddest kind of trouble right from the bat. Or, what? Do you honest-to-dogly think that during the original (I retrovulsely puke into my stomach even using that wretched word) edition of 1969 nothing was burned, stolen, no women were raped? What, just because there were no sperm dna tests, nigh to none options for women to speak up against sexual violence let alone the fact that speaking up against rape during that whole shitshebang of a weak acid trip’s campfire get-together was near to blasphemy in the hippie community means that no women were raped? Because men all of a sudden turned into meek little dickies lambs for three years from 1968 to ’71? Fuck that shit. Please. I don’t even want to spend a single move of a single digit of my old hands having to make anything about that largest circle jerk-off in history clear to you. Read your books. Do your homework. Anyway, that’s what I was thinking about when a friend told me recently about another of those so-called great ideas gone hilariously wrong in a little map smudge of a town in of all fucking places Belgium for chrissakes. Let me admit to you, right here and now, no smirk no smile on my face: I laughed so hard when I heard it I shat my new Calvins. Framed them afterwards, too, in a nice little Nielsen A2 birch. It’s sitting there, stinking the fuck out of my storage, waiting for a good stock market crash to come. Never underestimate the potential of the future art market gold rushes. My shit, my gold, bruv. So, these two clowns of artists in Belgium (are there any other there? don’t get me started on rené ma bite or marcel bread arse here!) had the ammazing idea to get themselves funded by the local government in this hamlet of three houses called Watou which apparently would be part of - ok, stop me here. Not in the history of mankind has ever ended a sentence well which tried to explain any aspect of Belgian politics, topography or whatever the call the thing there where a man rides a horse stark naked and bites the neck of living goose hanging from a tree? (See, that sentence didn’t end well either, did it, what’d I tell you? Cursed stuff!) Let’s try that again: two artists in the Belgian town of Watou had the splendid idea to organize a festive event, in the middle of summer, whereby all the people of this little village (if you’re thinking of blue skinned vikings charging Roman legionnaires in a berry-induced bad trip frenzy, well, so am I) for one day left their houses, dropped the key of their house in a transparant bowl on the town square and all went to the field adjacent to their village to well be (as in: not fornicate) together and thereby, if I had a press release I’d quote this from it: practiced a performative experiment in hospitality and neighborship where no fixed rules are applied. I’m guessing if you’re sensitive like I am to the finer things a life, you might as well start looking for your nearest Nielsen frame too by now, but hey: we haven’t even gotten to the joke yet! This was all the serious stuff. Let me summarise it even more briefly for you, just to get it out of my haemorrhoidical system: Imagine a village. Everyone leaves their house at the same time. Leaves their front door open. Drops the key to said door in a large bowl. Drifts into a field somewhere off to do fripp knows what (no rules applied, but probably: no fornication whatsoever.) Got the mental image? Good. Now get the fuck out of that dream and imagine any sad little teardrop of a town you know. Imagine who lives there. Imagine all the people you know who live in a town, or rather, fuck that, imagine all the people you know. Now imagine that some dogoodydoodydoobywah wants to “bring the people together again” and “mend the social bonds which had been broken by” yaddah yaddah yaddah. Okay? Now imagine the fucking assholes - they might even be you - who get they absolute mostest pleasure out of ruining the naive, well-intentioned ideas of others? You see what I see? The doodygoodoo is a bit all alone on his white ivory hilltowertop, right? All the others apparently prefer to start mayhem, to jinx other people’s efforts, to laugh - loud! - at their friends tripping over their own feet. No? You think in your ‘reality’ people are ‘decent’ and ‘rough diamonds’ or ‘deeper than you’d think they are’? Well, my dear, that paradisiacal odor you’re smelling all around you is the smell of your own shit cause you got your head up your ass! Listen and suffer! Because what happened in our not-just-proverbial Belgian village on that sunny morning in July… a couple of the townspeople - we’ll never know how many but I’m guessing almost everyone except for the government-funded, from-the-city hippie artists was in on the joke - had invited some acquaintances from the town next door to quietly enter the village while everyone was not-fornicating on the idyllic field, to take all the keys from the bowl, lay them on the train tracks which run along the town, flattening them to perfectly unusable little steel flabs and placing them back in the bowl. So when our supposedly resocialised townspeople entered their village that afternoon, ready to get their key, run to their house and close their door for at least the next 364 days, the immediately realised they couldn’t close their doors anymore. Total mayhem ensued. Men started chasing women, people pillaged their neighbours houses, children and adults alike pooped on all toothbrushes they could find, underwear was thrown into compost heaps, compost heaps were thrown into unlawful indoor spas, hundred thousands of untaxed euro piles were find inside old televisions and grandmas paintings. There was no stopping them. Housewifes hung themselves after their portrait, tits out and all, was found hanging above at least three beds in different houses. It was bad. Real bad. By the time news of this feast of anarchy and murder had spread to the nearest villages and the police arrived, the artists had of course long disappeared, no doubt to narrativise their failure into a story of experiment and learning and cash in a couple of fat pay checks.
And you know what the name was the artists had given their beautiful day of harmony and collective connecting: Open Doors Day. They sure got it, their open doors day, they sure got it. Serves them right. Serves them damn right.
peace - out!

My MIL wears a really really strong Frankincense oil every time she comes over. Whether it is 8am or 4pm. I feel like she does it so the baby has an association with her scent. It’s driven me nuts especially when he was a newborn because I loved the new baby smell. I don’t use perfume in any way shape or form and I feel like she is forcing this scent onto everyone! The other day she said oh he probably smells like me now. (As If that wasn’t the plan) I replied that he always does but I was in the middle of walking up the stairs. It’s so strong I feel like I’m eating it and always give the baby a bath after.
Obviously the correct thing to do is be upfront and say I’m really sensitive to strong scents but I’m having a really hard time doing that.

I bought this candle at Burlington a couple months back and I am obsessed. I love it, all my guests love it, I want my home to smell like this every day for the rest of my life. PLEASE! HELP ME!

My mom has had trouble with all of these things and is currently taking medication for RA and thyroid. She woke up with pink eye today and this isn’t the first time. Seems very evident she has EBV and/or strep. She’s not opposed to MM but also just more programmed into believing western medicine. I am afraid the “next step” in the progression of EBV/strep is going to be bad and I want to try to help her prevent that from happening. I don’t want to scare her but also think she’d be more likely to get serious about MM if she knew what usually comes next. Anyone know what that is? And any tips on what to say/do to try encourage her down the MM path?

First reddit post hello! My partner and I adopted our gorgeous American staffy x American bulldog almost a month ago now. Her age is debatable as the shelter told us she was 4 months but she lost her last baby tooth a week after coming home and the vet also said she’d be between 5-6 months old during her last vax appointment.
Around 12 days ago she was due for her next worm/flea treatment so I took her to a local pet store and the owner gave her the treatment there (it was one of the droplet/leave-in treatments) and told me not to let her near water for 24 hours. 12 days later she hasn’t been in any water or gotten her coat wet (aside from the occasional light rain when I take her out to potty) and I’ve noticed she STINKS!
Prior to the treatment she had a wonderful corn chip smell, comforting and not unpleasant in the slightest. Now she smells very faintly of something artificial, a bit chemical. I’m not sure if this is normal or not for a dog post-worm treatment or if it goes away with time. I’d like to give her a bath in the morning to hopefully sort it out though.
As much as I dislike the smell, if it’s something that shouldn’t be washed off I won’t try to. Unfortunately I don’t know what brand the treatment was as it was done in the store and I forgot to ask to keep the packaging.
If anyone could give some insight or tips for my pup’s first bath? I’ve yet to buy dog shampoo for her so I will likely use plain warm water to bathe her, though I’m not sure if it will do much for the smell. I should also mention that my pup is a very anxious girl- mainly with other dogs and neighbours she can’t see making sounds behind the fence.
TL;DR: My puppy is stinky almost two weeks after her worm treatment and I’d like to give her her first bath.

My neighbor's apartment constantly smells like urine and it permeates the entire hallway. Multiple tenants have complained about him to the landlord and nothing has been done. This is in Massachusetts. He's putting everyone's health at risk because we're all breathing it in. Who can I call if the landlord continues to do nothing?

This morning, I smelled burning smoke, like a metallic type of burning smoke, and I think it is a person I knew of who recently passed on, visiting me, but when I smelled it, I went into my mother's room and said, "mom, do you smell that?!" She responded with, "smell what?" I answered, "burning, I can smell a burning, metallic smell."
She said she smelled nothing and then a minute later, the smell was gone. Is it possible that I scared away or chased away the passed on person away, and if so, will they eventually come back or did they get scared away permanently and will never return?

This morning, I smelled burning smoke, like a metallic type of burning smoke, and I think it is a person I knew of who recently passed on, visiting me, but when I smelled it, I went into my mother's room and said, "mom, do you smell that?!" She responded with, "smell what?" I answered, "burning, I can smell a burning, metallic smell."
She said she smelled nothing and then a minute later, the smell was gone. Is it possible that I scared away or chased away the passed on person away, and if so, will they eventually come back or did they get scared away permanently and will never return?

A few upfront disclaimers:

• No, a scent won’t make a woman instantly become attracted to you in most instances.
  
• No, you don’t NEED a scent/fragrance to attract women. (Can see the comments now: “I do great with women and I don’t wear anything!” We get it.)
  
• Wearing a scent won’t matter if you have fundamentally poor hygiene (don’t bathe, brush teeth, wear some form of deodorant). Take care of those first.
  

One final note—don’t bathe yourself in your fragrance. One or two sprays max behind the ears, or on the back of your neck. You don’t want to drown out your natural musk or skin scent. If a woman is attracted to you, she’ll find your natural scent appealing, as long as you don't have terrible body odor.

1. Mont Blanc Legend

Mont Blanc might be the GOAT when it comes to affordable fragrances that appeal to women (and people in general). Some say that this scent is very similar to Abercrombie and Fitch Fierce. Don’t worry if you think this will make you smell like a mall in the early 2000’s. It won’t. Women generally seem to be drawn to the scent profile that Legend, A&F Fierce, and Parfum de Marly Percival share. They all smell very fresh, woody, and traditionally masculine. My first recommendation of those would be to go with Legend first.
Note: I would also highly recommend Mont Blanc Explorer, which smells like a fresher, lighter version of Creed’s Aventus.

1. Versace Eros EDT

Eros is a mix of fresh and sweet, it smells very youthful. I don’t personally own it, but I’ve sampled it several times. I can see the appeal. Of all fragrances men have mentioned get the most compliments from women, Versace always come out on top. I believe that this is because it’s somewhat attention grabbing, and would work well standing out in a club or party setting.

1. Prada Luna Rossa Carbon

This scent smells shares similarities to Dior’s Sauvage, which is currently the best selling men’s fragrance on the market. Women generally react positively to Sauvage. In my opinion, Carbon smells like a more refined, smoother version of Sauvage, but still has the same attention-grabbing factor. Personally, I’ve received comments and positive feedback on Prada. This is a good alternative to Sauvage if you want something that’s more toned down, but will get you the same effect.

1. Bleu De Chanel EDP

Bleu De Chanel, like Sauvage, has become almost ubiquitous with men’s fragrances over the past several years. Some say it’s slightly generic, but I thoroughly disagree— especially in the case of the Eau de Parfum. It’s refined, masculine, clean, and has a very slight sweet edge to it. I’ve always gotten good feedback in person, especially in my relationship. If you search online, men list Bleu de Chanel as one of their most attention-grabbing and complimented fragrances. If you’re looking for a scent that makes you feel sophisticated, and is also versatile, look into BDC.

1. Dolce and Gabbana The One

On a personal note, my girlfriend hates this fragrance on me, but I’m still adding it to the top 5, based on the feedback I got from women during my single days. It’s a sweet but masculine scent, and has been described as the quintessential date night fragrance. Probably not the best fragrance if you want to be bold and announce your presence in club-type setting, but if you want to project the image of someone who is seductive and has their shit together, The One is the perfect choice. Try layering this with BDC for added effect.

1. Chanel Platinum Egoiste

If you’re looking for a classic “boss scent”— this is the ultimate choice. The scent is slightly retro, masculine, cold, and green. It might be harder to pull off if you’re on the younger side, but this is my go-to for a confidence boost, and my girl absolutely loves it. It’s a classic that you might not smell out and about as often anymore, so you will stand apart from the Sauvages of the world with this. Hall of Fame for sure.
Full article on topic: https://modating.substack.com/p/style-fundamentals-5-scents-that

A few upfront disclaimers:

• No, a scent won’t make a woman instantly become attracted to you in most instances.
  
• No, you don’t NEED a scent/fragrance to attract women. (Can see the comments now: “I do great with women and I don’t wear anything!” We get it.)
  
• Wearing a scent won’t matter if you have fundamentally poor hygiene (don’t bathe, brush teeth, wear some form of deodorant). Take care of those first.
  

One final note—don’t bathe yourself in your fragrance. One or two sprays max behind the ears, or on the back of your neck. You don’t want to drown out your natural musk or skin scent. If a woman is attracted to you, she’ll find your natural scent appealing, as long as you don't have terrible body odor.

1. Mont Blanc Legend

Mont Blanc might be the GOAT when it comes to affordable fragrances that appeal to women (and people in general). Some say that this scent is very similar to Abercrombie and Fitch Fierce. Don’t worry if you think this will make you smell like a mall in the early 2000’s. It won’t. Women generally seem to be drawn to the scent profile that Legend, A&F Fierce, and Parfum de Marly Percival share. They all smell very fresh, woody, and traditionally masculine. My first recommendation of those would be to go with Legend first.
Note: I would also highly recommend Mont Blanc Explorer, which smells like a fresher, lighter version of Creed’s Aventus.

1. Versace Eros EDT

Eros is a mix of fresh and sweet, it smells very youthful. I don’t personally own it, but I’ve sampled it several times. I can see the appeal. Of all fragrances men have mentioned get the most compliments from women, Versace always come out on top. I believe that this is because it’s somewhat attention grabbing, and would work well standing out in a club or party setting.

1. Prada Luna Rossa Carbon

This scent smells shares similarities to Dior’s Sauvage, which is currently the best selling men’s fragrance on the market. Women generally react positively to Sauvage. In my opinion, Carbon smells like a more refined, smoother version of Sauvage, but still has the same attention-grabbing factor. Personally, I’ve received comments and positive feedback on Prada. This is a good alternative to Sauvage if you want something that’s more toned down, but will get you the same effect.

1. Bleu De Chanel EDP

Bleu De Chanel, like Sauvage, has become almost ubiquitous with men’s fragrances over the past several years. Some say it’s slightly generic, but I thoroughly disagree— especially in the case of the Eau de Parfum. It’s refined, masculine, clean, and has a very slight sweet edge to it. I’ve always gotten good feedback in person, especially in my relationship. If you search online, men list Bleu de Chanel as one of their most attention-grabbing and complimented fragrances. If you’re looking for a scent that makes you feel sophisticated, and is also versatile, look into BDC.

1. Dolce and Gabbana The One

On a personal note, my girlfriend hates this fragrance on me, but I’m still adding it to the top 5, based on the feedback I got from women during my single days. It’s a sweet but masculine scent, and has been described as the quintessential date night fragrance. Probably not the best fragrance if you want to be bold and announce your presence in club-type setting, but if you want to project the image of someone who is seductive and has their shit together, The One is the perfect choice. Try layering this with BDC for added effect.

1. Chanel Platinum Egoiste

If you’re looking for a classic “boss scent”— this is the ultimate choice. The scent is slightly retro, masculine, cold, and green. It might be harder to pull off if you’re on the younger side, but this is my go-to for a confidence boost, and my girl absolutely loves it. It’s a classic that you might not smell out and about as often anymore, so you will stand apart from the Sauvages of the world with this. Hall of Fame for sure.
Full article on topic: https://modating.substack.com/p/style-fundamentals-5-scents-that

What are your experiences with memory loss due to your epilepsy? I'm talking long or short-term.
Lots of us experience the loss after an episode.
How is that for you? Do you remember the whole day up to the episode? Do you black out? Do you have auras, and if so, do you remember the day that they showed up or the days before and after?
Please share your experience with memory loss. I have had a very hard time lately and need some support over this.
I have grand mals. I used to average 4 per day. They started at 17- can't find any reason, not eligible for any surgery due to the electrical activity not being isolated - aka they'd have to take my whole brain out, lol. Thanks to medicine, I am now down to just a few episodes a year! They range from 2-6 seizures within a 48-hour period, usually.
Without medication, my seizures are very long. The longest I've spent convulsing at one time was 17 minutes. I have almost died multiple times and experienced wild injuries from it.
Epilepsy lost me a full ride athletic scholarship to the best place in the world (unimportant, being relatively vague for internet reasons, haha). It has taken too much from me. But we just keep swimming. Ironically, another activity I'm not supposed to participate in.
Anyway, I'm just giving some background info. Feel free to share yours, too.
My brain damage is awful. I'm able to learn new skills/information, but if I don't repeat it every day, I lose it in about 4 days or so. I mis-remember many things and have lost a LOT of long-term memory. I don't remember childhood, and I can't remember what my family's voices sound like when I'm away from them for just a week or so. One of my favorite things to do is research, but it seems pointless in the long run. I still do it as a hobby, seeing as how it is fairly risk-free.
I was away from someone who was apparently one of my best friends for just a few years. When we reconnected, I didn't even know their name or face. I thought they were joking until they showed me pictures.
My short term is very bad as well. When I feel down about these things, I watch 50 First Dates to remind myself that people still care about me, good or bad brain, haha. It hurts because I am (not to brag) VERY smart. I have so much potential, but epilepsy kills it.
I could say a million more things, but I wanted to vent & ask about your experiences. You're never alone.
Cheers to good health, guys
edit lol, forgot the point of my title
I have all these issues, but I can learn songs within a day and always retain the lyrics and flow. Even just hearing a couple of seconds of a song clip, I usually can easily identify it. The brain is a wild instrument. I just wish I could tune mine.

A few upfront disclaimers:

• No, a scent won’t make a woman instantly become attracted to you in most instances.
  
• No, you don’t NEED a scent/fragrance to attract women. (Can see the comments now: “I do great with women and I don’t wear anything!” We get it.)
  
• Wearing a scent won’t matter if you have fundamentally poor hygiene (don’t bathe, brush teeth, wear some form of deodorant). Take care of those first.
  

One final note—don’t bathe yourself in your fragrance. One or two sprays max behind the ears, or on the back of your neck. You don’t want to drown out your natural musk or skin scent. If a woman is attracted to you, she’ll find your natural scent appealing, as long as you don't have terrible body odor.

1. Mont Blanc Legend

Mont Blanc might be the GOAT when it comes to affordable fragrances that appeal to women (and people in general). Some say that this scent is very similar to Abercrombie and Fitch Fierce. Don’t worry if you think this will make you smell like a mall in the early 2000’s. It won’t. Women generally seem to be drawn to the scent profile that Legend, A&F Fierce, and Parfum de Marly Percival share. They all smell very fresh, woody, and traditionally masculine. My first recommendation of those would be to go with Legend first.
Note: I would also highly recommend Mont Blanc Explorer, which smells like a fresher, lighter version of Creed’s Aventus.

1. Versace Eros EDT

Eros is a mix of fresh and sweet, it smells very youthful. I don’t personally own it, but I’ve sampled it several times. I can see the appeal. Of all fragrances men have mentioned get the most compliments from women, Versace always come out on top. I believe that this is because it’s somewhat attention grabbing, and would work well standing out in a club or party setting.

1. Prada Luna Rossa Carbon

This scent smells shares similarities to Dior’s Sauvage, which is currently the best selling men’s fragrance on the market. Women generally react positively to Sauvage. In my opinion, Carbon smells like a more refined, smoother version of Sauvage, but still has the same attention-grabbing factor. Personally, I’ve received comments and positive feedback on Prada. This is a good alternative to Sauvage if you want something that’s more toned down, but will get you the same effect.

1. Bleu De Chanel EDP

Bleu De Chanel, like Sauvage, has become almost ubiquitous with men’s fragrances over the past several years. Some say it’s slightly generic, but I thoroughly disagree— especially in the case of the Eau de Parfum. It’s refined, masculine, clean, and has a very slight sweet edge to it. I’ve always gotten good feedback in person, especially in my relationship. If you search online, men list Bleu de Chanel as one of their most attention-grabbing and complimented fragrances. If you’re looking for a scent that makes you feel sophisticated, and is also versatile, look into BDC.

1. Dolce and Gabbana The One

On a personal note, my girlfriend hates this fragrance on me, but I’m still adding it to the top 5, based on the feedback I got from women during my single days. It’s a sweet but masculine scent, and has been described as the quintessential date night fragrance. Probably not the best fragrance if you want to be bold and announce your presence in club-type setting, but if you want to project the image of someone who is seductive and has their shit together, The One is the perfect choice. Try layering this with BDC for added effect.

1. Chanel Platinum Egoiste

If you’re looking for a classic “boss scent”— this is the ultimate choice. The scent is slightly retro, masculine, cold, and green. It might be harder to pull off if you’re on the younger side, but this is my go-to for a confidence boost, and my girl absolutely loves it. It’s a classic that you might not smell out and about as often anymore, so you will stand apart from the Sauvages of the world with this. Hall of Fame for sure.
Full article on topic: https://modating.substack.com/p/style-fundamentals-5-scents-that

I am 38 year old female and have been treated for ADHD fairly recently (3 years though diagnosed some years earlier). My doctor started with a non stimulant first and it didn’t do anything. Then I got on Ritalin. Ritalin didn’t not have the effect I thought it would with focus and concentration. It did slightly improve it and it actually made my depression symptoms better so I stuck with it and just dealt with ADHD symptoms like I always did.
Recently Ritalin made me super sleepy when I ever took it which made no sense, so my doctor said we could try Adderrall or Vynase, so stared 30 mg of Adderrall. I always thought Adderrall would have this great effect as I read in the forum. The first day it was actually good. Nothing special happened that that I could feel, but I attended a 4 hours meeting that day and for the first time I was not spacing out and managed to actually pay attention and understand what people were talking about. I was so relieved that something is finally working . But the next day and ever since, I am back to like how I was and focus is just as hard as it has been. I feel no different when I take or not. The only thing I can feel is a rise in my heart rate. I feel no stimulating effect no thought clarity, no mood elevation, nothing.
I am just thinking no medicine will ever work. I am somehow immune to them. Would changing to something else worth the try?
Anyone had issues like that?

Could this be kidney stones?
Female, 40s - In pain while waiting to hear next steps from PCP. I received test results last night (see end of post), but PCP has not actually viewed them yet. Feel like I should be doing something but no idea what.
Summary of pain: Friday night felt achey gnawing pain under left ribs that radiated to left shoulder and down left arm. Assumed it was trapped gas after very heavy meal.
The pain was unchanged in the morning so took Gas-X. Eventually maxed out the recommend daily dose. Did lots of burping, but never experienced any relief of pain.
By Saturday afternoon pain was more focused under left rib cage, with flank pain and some tenderness to left of belly button. Periods of INTENSE spasms in upper left abdomen began. Felt like a squeezing and releasing in intestine but no idea what was actually happening. Painful spasms overwhelmed me with every attempt to get a good breath. The pain was SEVERE, the worst I’ve ever felt. I was screaming and begging for help during these episodes, which lasted about 5 minutes each.
This happened three times over a few hours, and each time I seriously considered calling an ambulance but didn’t because of fear of cost and that it would be determined to be “just gas.”
The underlying pain through all of this was constant. By Sunday morning I could no longer take a deep breath due to the severity of constant pain under left ribs, but the spasms didn’t return.
No appetite since Friday, but tried eating a bland meal Sunday evening. Drinking water after meal produced sudden intense pain and feeling of food moving in upper left abdomen. Thought maybe there was a blockage that was clearing. Wondering now if something was just inflamed. Pain only lasted a few seconds and was enough to make me gasp.
Bowel movements small and poorly formed throughout all this. Frequent urgent watery diarrhea started 3am Monday. I went to the doctor on Monday.
It’s now Tuesday, and I am still in terrible pain under my left ribs and into my left side. Cramping sensation with every shallow breath. Sneezing feels like something is tearing. I can’t even complete the sneeze without shouting from the pain. I can’t get a deep breath or cough without triggering sharp pain.
Experiencing occasional involuntary gasps, much like when you take shaky breaths while crying.
Blood oxygen is normal.
Possibly relevant: Two days before this began, I felt intense pulling and cramping in bladder. This came and went along with frequent urination (which exacerbated pain) for a few hours and then it was gone.
No fever. No vomiting. No history of health anxiety or emetephobia, but if I were to need to vomit at this point, I don’t know how I could with current pain level and the way it intensifies with deep breath or exertion. I am frightened.
Summary of doctor’s visit and tests:
Saw primary care doctor yesterday for physical exam. They ordered a urine test, upper left abdominal x-ray, and left lung x-ray.
Results:
ABDOMEN RADIOGRAPHY CLINICAL HISTORY: Acute onset LUQ pain 5/10, still persistant with loose stools, but no fever or vomiting. TECHNIQUE: 1 view. FINDINGS: Bowel Gas Pattern: Within normal limits. No dilated loops.
CHEST RADIOGRAPHY CLINICAL HISTORY: LUQ pain and decreased breath sounds at L lung base Left upper quadrant pain Other abnormalities of breathing. TECHNIQUE: 2 views. FINDINGS: Lungs/Pleura: Minimal left basilar parenchymal opacity. No pneumothorax or significant effusion. Mediastinum: Heart and mediastinal contours are unremarkable.
Urine (Urine, Clean Catch)
Color value: orange Clarity value: turbid pH: 5.5 Specific gravity: 1.019 Protein value: trace Blood value: 2+ Red blood cells value: 3-5 Bacteria value: few Mucus value: 2+ Amorphous crystals value: 2

Hi, I'm 23,Diane, kinda an unfamiliar number for me as it's my bd today🦖, I'm a uni student. I like drawing and doodling, like the smell of oilpaint, strawberry tart and astronomy. I like greek fictions and myths as in Iliad and all, love Edgar Allen poe and cooking and gym stuff - yup wierd combination to type but that's just how I am it seems-music is my sanctuary and each week I'm in a different language or type of music. I'm bi or pan-never understood their differences tbh - and I'm Persian, I like to find friends or someone more and I'm alright with long distance 🦕❄️🛸.

This isn’t something I would normally post but I am hoping it’ll be cathartic for me. This might be a long one and a bit of a mess so feel free to skip if you’re not interested in the read.
I 28f up until last August I was in a relationship with who we’ll call ‘M’ 24f for almost 2 years. We met on hinge. In general I’m very shy and not very confident person, and definitely new to dating as I spent most of my teens and early 20’s in the closet due to internalized homophobia. So I don’t have much experience dating. That context is important for the story. By all accounts, M was probably out of my league, (that’s what I told myself, again I have zero self confidence ) she was attractive, smart, came from a good family and on the surface a nice girl. The beginning the relationship was fine, she was in uni for medicine and her school schedule was pretty demanding. We’d only see each other maybe one every month in the beginning of the relationship, I understood she was busy with school and honestly I was still feeling lucky that she chose me to date.
A few months go by and we still remain only seeing each other once a month because her school schedule was so demanding. This is when the red flags start to wave, her school schedule was so demanding yet she was in multiple choirs that she would sing in once a week. She made time for choir but when I asked to hang out I was made to feel like a bother. Plus she played DND with at least 2 different groups of people.
Early in the relationship we were in her car after she dropped me off I asked if we could see each other a little more and she had a strange reaction, I didn’t want to seem needy so I backed off and later apologized via text. She responded with; “sometimes I just like to be alone.” Which as an introvert; I get 100%, so I let it be. But like….we only saw each other once a month as it was…..how could you possibly be alone any more??? I was always the one to ask to hang out, always. And every time I did I would sheepishly ask if she had some free time that weekend to hang out, because I felt like such a bother to her. I’m not exaggerating when I say we would easily go 3-5 weeks without seeing each other in person. We would text every day. But seeing her in person was a luxury. But don’t worry she always had time for choir every single week. Twice a week. Or DND. But seeing her girlfriend was too much strain on her school schedule.
I was always the one to text first. Whether it was good morning, or saying good night. Later in the relationship I wouldn’t text her just to see how long it would take her to text me that day, most time it wasn’t until 3-4 pm that I heard from her.
We never had sex, we barely even kissed.(which isn’t really important to me but damn). It was so difficult to have alone time with her so there was quite literally never an opportunity for intimacy. Towards the end of our relationship we would watch the bachelorette with her mom at her place, so we never had alone time for the last 3 months of dating.
For both valentines days we were together I sent flowers and chocolate to her house. She didn’t get me anything. For my 27th birthday we went out with my friends, and a small part of me wondered if she would offer to pay for my meal. Nope. She also didn’t get me a birthday gift or even a card. Flash forward to Christmas I get her a 250$ makeup palette that she always talked about and a blanket from her favourite K-Pop band. I got an xbox gift card and a cookbook. I need to emphasize that I DO NOT CARE ABOUT presents, I just literally wanted any sort of acknowledgment that she cared about me at all. I also feel the need to point out she has money, both her parents are lawyers and they are very well off and she gets paid to go to school because her field is very specialized. I was raised by a single mother and while I have my own career now, I’m far from rich. But I always went above and beyond to make her feel special and she did the bare minimum. Sometimes not even the bare minimum. This next one really bothered me; its my 28th birthday and I hadn’t mentioned it was coming up. A sick part of me wanted to see if she would remember, I know it’s stupid to test people in a relationship but I was genuinely curious to see if she would remember. It comes the day of my birthday, and I don’t hear from her until 3:30 pm. “Happy Birthday!” That was it. I was floored. A couple days later she managed to squeeze me into her schedule and we go out for dinner. Again, didn’t pay for my meal. For her birthday we went to a nice restaurant and I paid for the entire fucking thing it was almost 150$. Don’t worry she got me an xbox gift card though……..
But the worst part, beyond not seeing each other was how she treated me and made me feel. In the beginning she was very nice and kind, but slowly I think her true colours came out. She’s very smart, but she needs to be right all the time. Like literally every single conversation she needs to come out as right. I was never allowed to have my own opinions, she would make me feel stupid and correct me every time. I’m a bit of a goof and like to be silly, but she would look at me like I was an idiot, if I did a pretend British accent she would criticize it and tell me to stop. In the end I felt like a shell of myself. I was terrified to say something stupid. She would call out every single thing I did, if I merged a lane early while driving, called out (that actually happened). If I wiped my mouth after every bite, called out. If I said something she would have to google it to prove she was right or at least prove that I was wrong.
I would participate in her family activities, like birthdays and holidays. Side note: her family is lovely. I got especially close with her mom. Her mother is a sweetheart, a lovely human being and she treated me better than her daughter ever did. Her mom and I even snap chatted every day. M wouldn’t open my snaps for days and I could see when she was online. As weird as it might seem, I would have rather hung out with her mom than her. There were a couple times when we were with her mom, that M would call me out on something trivial and even her own mother was picking up on the vibes.
I had convinced myself I really liked this person, once I told her I loved her. Why, I’ll never know. She responded with “thanks, I’m not there yet but thanks for telling me.” I was gutted. I didn’t love her. I never did. In the end I hated her.
I would lie to my friends about her and say I was happy, my mom liked her which was the worst part because it would break her heart if she knew how I was feeling and being treated. I would make it seem like I was happy and she was this lovely person, but deep down I was dying. Towards the end of our relationship I was hanging out with a good friend of mine and someone who helped me a lot through my journey of accepting my identity as a lesbian. She asked me about my relationship and how it was going, and I honestly couldn’t say anything positive. This was the first time I was honest with someone in my life about how unhappy I was and I wasn’t sure how to process it.
Eventually she broke up with me; she said she felt like she made me nervous and that I cared about her more than she cared about me. Initially it hurt, and I felt bad. But after an hour, I wanted to do a freaking backflip. I was elated to be free. For the past 2 years I had felt like less of myself than I had ever been. It was the worst 2 years mentally of my life. I had twisted myself up into this sheepish person who just felt lucky to be chosen by someone. My self worth was so low that I thought this was the relationship I deserved, that I would never find anyone else and I should just be grateful that she chose me.
As the title says I’m still trying to recover and heal. It’s been about 9 months since I last saw her and I’m working on myself. That relationship showed me how compromised my mental health was and that I need to take care of myself. I have been seeing a therapist. Now don’t get me wrong I have struggled with mental health my entire life, but those 2 years were the worst of it. I’m not dating right now because I want to focus on myself and my personal goals first.
I’m still embarrassed for how the relationship went and that I let her treat me. If anything I learned a lot from this relationship.
If you have made it this far props to you because this was kind of a hot mess and wayyy too long. But it’s been bothering me even more lately and I guess I just felt like this might help. Even if no one reads it.
She didn’t want a relationship, I don’t know what she wanted. She used school as a buffer to limit the amount she saw me. I feel bad for the next person she dates and I hope they come to their senses quicker than I did. I deleted her off everything and I hope to never see her again. In closing, I fucking hate her guts.

Hey there folks of sales!
I’m writing here to seek your valuable input of firsthand experience being in the sales world to see if making a career transition out of nursing and into sales is for me. Being a bed side nurse for the past 6+ years now has lead to burn out and wanting nothing to do with medicine at all ever again (even the idea of med sales fills me with dread). The thing is though I don’t want to make a career move because I am running away from something, but instead that I am running towards something that excites me. I know every career has its downsides, but I’m hoping that my idea of sales and what my work-life can be like is realistic.
I have watched a ton of YouTube videos, read countless threads on this subreddit, and searched up articles on what being an SDBDAE can be like, and I think I have the personality for it. I would consider myself a very analytical person who likes to help people solve their problems. I like the idea of approaching sales from the mindset of seeing that the customer has a problem and if the product I sell can be their solution. I’m not afraid to talk to random people as that is all I do every day in my current role as a circulating nurse in the operating room and I constantly have to reach out to new surgeons or residents to inquire as to what they’ll need or special considerations for the upcoming surgical case (I’ve also worked in college as a brand ambassador at Whole Foods interacting with random customers to sell products). I like to think at this point in my life I’ve interacted with a plethora of personalities and can keep myself composed in a professional manner to get things done.
For me the biggest draw to sales is the idea that you’re the master of your own domain. The idea that “work smarter not harder” is actually rewarded with a higher income potential (If I work smarter as a nurse I get more work but the same hourly rate. Yay!!). The idea that I can find what I am truly looking for in an employer and work-life balance.
What am I looking for? Ultimately I would like a remote WFH role with a company that respects me enough as an adult to not micromanage me (assuming I produce results of course) and ideally would allow for compensation in the 150k+ range within 3-5 years (I know that’s probably ambitious).
I love to scuba dive and want to live somewhere that I could do that on a weekly basis while still providing myself with an income to retire early. I’m 35 years old with a bachelors in nursing and about 350k in retirement accounts with no children or spouse and no plans for either, so having to start at a lower income than I currently make (110k/year) doesn’t scare me. I’m just trying to tailor my life around the things that bring me happiness, and I think not only can being in sales enable that, but also can suit my personality well and lead me into a work environment that doesn’t fill me with dread and instead excites me.
I don’t expect any of this to come easy, but am prepared to give it my all if my goals are realistic. What do you think? I appreciate any insight you guys have to offer, so thanks a ton for making it this far!