what's happening to our borad TMI

That's horrible, ENBB! Ugh why are our bodies so stubborn about what is and isn't good for us. I would love to say that FODMAP stuff looks like hippie BS but unfortunately it mirrors my reactions entirely too well. I'm especially bummed that now AVOCADOS seem to be giving me symptoms which is just...WHAT WILL YOU NOT TAKE FROM ME?

It won't take any shit from her - that's the problem!

(sorry to hear this for both of you)

i have a question/comment/or concern. friday night i ate a pretty normal dinner and some wine that i got from the sale rack. it was a naturally fermented wine and it tasted kind of bad, like stinky cheese. it tasted warm even though it was chilled. i got used to it but wouldn't buy again. anyway a couple hours later i got VERY sick but only for 10 minutes or so. couldn't decide whether i wanted to puke or had diarrhea. then i got a very, very loud ringing in my ear and became extremely sweaty. i felt horrible. i thought i was dying. i did get diarrhea, then it was over and i quickly rebounded to feeling 90% good. the only weird thing i ate was the wine. so the next day i was like, i really don't believe this gross wine did this to me and i drank it again (yes, i'm stupid, i do things like this all the time, i don't know what's wrong with me, this is not the point). nothing bad happened. finished the bottle sunday with no ill effects. what was this? anyone ever get tinnitus and food poisoning like symptoms?

i hate to say it but have you considered getting a covid test? weird bouts of nausea can be a symptom. tinnitus was one of the symptoms when i got it (and i still have it now, many months later). i don’t want to be alarmist but i’d maybe try to get one.

i guess you're right. NO other symptoms, though? ever?

i think it can be extremely variable. but yeah who knows.

i think i had this a couple times when i was already dehydrated / heat-strokey?

In the hospital, rightly label a fall risk, on weird antibiotics.

Thanks to those I think I've shit the bed at least 8 or 9 times today.

^^underrated Radiohead lyric.

you think you have but you haven't, or you've done it so much that you can't count?

Lost count.

I like to think the ward nurses just wheel in a new bed every 40 minutes, swap you over, and throw the last one out the window.

What happened?

XP Nah, they just roll me over, clean me up, and change the pad under me.

The first time they used a bedpan, but things were too fast and furious to stay that course.

This was topped by three final attacks during a shift change, with me sitting in my own shit watching Anderson Cooper for an hour waiting for who actually was my night nurse.

Huge abcess on the back of my thigh. Antibiotics gave me the shits.

...and today's my birthday.

How huge is huge

Maybe four or five inches of hard stuff that softens and tapers down to my knee.

Tl;Dr; lapsed diabetic injured himself in same place in household accidental falls earlier in the month, thought it was just really stiff muscles. Was very wrong.

Aww damn :(.

Happy birthday, even if it's not feeling amazing right now.

Hope you feel better soon.

Sorry dude. Year has nowhere to go but up!

Feel better, man.

That is ROUGH and I hope it all clears up swiftly. I remember being scoured clean by antibiotics I took for a bad tooth once, some moments of great panic looking for a restroom.

sorry about yr abcess. last time i was on antibiotics it gave me a yeast infection. preferable to shitting oneself imo. and happy birthday? today is mine. happy birthday to us!

Antibiotics are the worst except for all the things they save us from. Happy birthday!

happy birthdays grisso and harbl!!

ditto happy birthdays!

Sorry for your troubles Grisso :(

They've ended up putting me in diapers.

Had a wound pump installed this morning. Should be interesting.

can't believe you're not listing 'obscure songs i heard in the hospital'

good luck man <3

There's no music in this hospital :-(

Maybe I'll blast some Replacements or Northern Soul off Spotify later.

Yikes! Good wishes for you and all your seeping holes.

Wound Vacuum, don't know where pump came from.

So many people have handled my genitals and butthole the past few days.

Saying hello and get better Grisso

From the toilet, where i am currently sitting

Man, that is rough. I remember my diabetic sister having to deal with an abscess right at the top of her ass crack. I don’t recall antibiotics trouble, just a PHN coming every day to change out the packing materiel.

^^^ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pilonidal-cyst/symptoms-causes/syc-20376329

They're supposed to be so painful. A coworker had one last year and it took months to heal.

To clarify - I don't have one. I was saying (two months later) that that was what Justine's sister probably had.

I've had one, two of my kids have had them, my father had one, both of my parents-in-law have had one. They are a drag.

Lads this pfizer vax #1 has turned me into a violently farting engine

Nah bro it’s the veggie burger and chips

hemorrhoids keep getting worse and worse until sitting down just becomes difficult. #thisis41

Be thankful they’re not thrombosed
If they are I’m really sorry for you dude

Up that fiber and lower that cheese intake

They're not thankfully.

That's the problem, addicted to cheese

Cheese is delicious in all of its variations

Fiber pills have been helping a lot. I was having to do prep H suppositories for a while just to get things under control.

tofu cheese maybe?

please do not misread that with my display name in mind

there are some pretty tasty non-cheese cheeses out there. and if your eyes have not yet been opened to the glory of #bidetlife, then a world of bliss awaits u

tofu cheese maybe?

there are some pretty tasty non-cheese cheeses out there.

cat entirely otm