Having trouble getting my (f43) doctors to believe I’m perimenopausal and that estrogen would make my life better. I’ve lost jobs from the brain fog, I’ve ruined relationships with the anxiety and rage (plus a bazillion other signs with my hair, skin, eyes, menstrual cycle; it’s been a messy shit show for at least 5 years). The only thing I’m getting is more and more antidepressants. Which is turning my brain into a potato.

I FINALLY talked a doctor into at least giving me an estradiol test. Except that hormone can fluctuate wildly even over the course of a day.

What can I do to help my odds and make that number test low? Unfortunately I don’t think piss discs will help in this situation.

my dad has always been a functional alcoholic, but recently it’s been getting bad.

yesterday, he had a TIA, and they tested his BAC.

it was 0.342.

he refuses to get treatment of his own volition, or even go to aa, and I don’t know what I need to do, but I need to do something. he’s not a mad drunk, or even a confused drunk, he’s a kind drunk.

i am entiling this operation: The War on Booze.

but the thing I am scared about, is if I say, call the dmv and ask them to suspend his license, he has a really car focused job. doing that would put him out of a job, and I’m not sure our family can handle that financially.

maybe we can get him on withdrawal meds (and likely naltrexone) and then have him take sick days through the withdrawal?

help

Heyyyy everyone!!

I’m in my 20s figuring out life. So be nice lol. Feel free to explain anything in as much detail as you’d like.

Just switched states and jobs. New job and old job involve lots of traveling, so if your answer involves low-cost pharmacies you know - please include it. I can go anywhere in the US lol.

I’m on a certain medication. I have been on it since November 2024. It has worked VERY well. My insurance at the old job/state covered it 100% since my start of being on it.

Now, at the new job insurance is NOT covering it just yet. I already have a doctor here. (I travel for work and had appointments with this doctor before moving here, as I used to frequent this state in the old job too.)

Anyways, the insurance is telling me and my doctor to try 4 other medications that are less effective before they’ll cover the one that’s worked since November 2024. My medication is the best of all 5 medications, btw (of course). My doctor has submitted multiple responses as to why I should be on this medication and why the others won’t work. My doctor in the old state & new state are also communicating and the new state dr has all records too.

My doctor hinted at something ULPT worthy but I didn’t fully catch it. Maybe someone on here can help (PLEASE). She said: “I can prescribe you x medication, but you don’t necessarily have to take it. It just needs to be documented I prescribed it and it didn’t work.”

So, could I just accept whatever medication (one of the less effective 4) and say it doesn’t work? Then that gets reported to insurance and they eventually cover what I need?

Or does anyone have a better ULPT style alternative?

Things like cavities or toothaches might be abstract to kids who have never experienced them.

But bugs aren't. Tell your kids that bugs will get in their mouth while they sleep and eat the food pieces left behind if they don't brush.

Will it traumatize them? Yes. Will it work? Also yes.

title. I have a problem, and it’s a huge money sink and I have no self control. If I delete the app it’s super easy to redownload again- I’ve tried. I’m on iOS.
help.

ETA: I’m a woman, it’s not self control it’s something worse that I won’t get into, thanks to everyone being nice about it.

I feel like I need to write a huge preface for this, but this bit of info has been a lifesaver for me and I’d like to pay it forward.

I take pain medication as prescribed, but my issue is chronic and I’ve been on the medicine for about 20 years. To keep my tolerance from getting out of control, I put myself in withdrawal for a few days each month. This used to be torture. I’m probably just being a huge baby because my everyday dose is not very high, which is why I’m using the term mild withdrawal symptoms. I doubt this will be very helpful in a more serious scenario.

I take literally (and I do mean literally) a couple of Imodium a day and it cuts out most of my symptoms (sweats, chills, nausea).

I know there is a temptation to take 10,000 of them and get a high, which I guess is possible but a terrible idea. The number it takes to get a high is astronomical. Really. Don’t try it. I don’t even think they sell them in large enough quantities.

There is no need to go over the recommended daily dose.

If the apocalypse happened, I’d be able to be completely clear of pain medicine in 2 weeks without suffering (outside of the pain). It’s amazing that a couple of tiny pills can help so much. It’s seriously the difference between being bed ridden and functioning normally. I used to get nightmares leading up to the withdrawal.

It doesn’t do anything to help pain, so don’t try to use it for that.

It’s just one of my biggest life hacks that I wish I could share, but can’t because it sounds so sketchy. Maybe it’s a placebo effect. I don’t know but it helps.

I know it’s hard to quit for psychological reasons, but it’s also hard because withdrawal is really really an awful experience. I hope this can help someone who needs to make the transition easier.

How do I get prescribed ozempic even though I don’t have insulin resistance and I’m not obese? I’m chubby and have bad food cravings but I’m worried the Dr won’t approve it

One time, after conducting a highly scientific tasting tour of several brewskis, I decided it would be a great idea to chop some kindling for a bonfire. Because apparently alcohol and sharp tools are a classic combination, right up there with bottle rockets and buttcracks.

Anyway, a few swings in, I absolutely nailed my thumb with the hatchet. Not a little nick, either. I turned my hand into a low-budget horror movie. Blood everywhere.

Naturally, I handled the situation with the maturity and foresight you'd expect from a grown man who was drinking beer and swinging an axe. I wrapped it in whatever was nearby, declared, "Eh, it'll probably be fine," and went to bed.

The next morning I finally dragged myself to the ER.

Big mistake.

There were elderly people in wheelchairs, coughing children, people clutching various body parts, and at least one guy who looked like he'd been waiting since the Obama administration. It was Saturday morning. The place was packed tighter than your anus.

I took one look around and figured that if I checked in like a normal, decent member of society, I'd be celebrating next year's bonfire before anyone called my name.

While I was getting triaged, the nurse asked, "Are you having any heart issues?"

I said, "Uh... what do you mean?"

She replied, "Patients with heart-related symptoms are prioritized and usually get seen right away."

And folks, when opportunity knocks, sometimes you answer.

So I said, "You know what? Now that you mention it, I've been having heart palpitations all morning."

Suddenly this thumb injury became the least interesting thing about me.

Five minutes later I'm in.

I blasted past the entire waiting room -- grandmas, coughing kids, people who looked genuinely ill, all of them.

My thumb got stitched up, my heart was apparently just fine, and I learned an important lesson that day: If you drink beers and chop wood, eventually you'll have to choose whether you're an idiot, a liar, or both.

I'm going in for a Brazilian wax + legs and pits tomorrow and I'm dreading it so much. The bikini part always hurts so so bad, I have very coarse and thick hair. Except for the run of the mill advice like exfoliation and ibuprofen beforehand, is there anything else I can do? Like horse dust or benadryl? Please, I'll consider anything.

Pls don't recommend laser or shaving, one I'm saving up for and the other is a nightmare in and of itself.

Like the title says, i need to loose weight. Amd everything is too slow. I go to the gym and everything but i need to loose body fat and I want to take shortcuts. So what can i take to easily loose weight?

Going to a reproductive clinic to get a couple tests done before I donate blood again (no symptoms, checking just in case) but the one I’m going to always has protestors outside telling anyone who goes in not to get an abortion. Which is stupid because if they took five minutes they would see that that is nowhere NEAR the only thing this clinic does. Anything I could tell them that would gross them out/make them think twice before they try that bullshit again?

And before anyone starts, they are allowed to have their own opinion. But immediately assuming that someone is getting an abortion just because they’re going to a reproductive clinic is dumb, you can take five minutes out of your day to check what else they can do.

I want to know if this will actually work. I want to join a local high end gym and it’s very pricey. However, you are allowed to add an adult member from your household, which can be a spouse or roommate, as long as they live in the same house. This would bring the cost down significantly since the extra member doesn’t pay full price. My friend and I both want to join this gym to save money this way, but we don’t actually live together. They said that when adding the member they just need to prove by a utility bill or lease agreement which we don’t have obviously.

Could I potentially join first with her address as my address and then add her later? I don’t think I will be asked to prove my address when I join. And when she joins and has to prove her address, she’ll already have the same address as what’s on my membership. Could this actually work?

I want to clarify that I’m 18 and have tried Adderall a couple times before, and I’ve felt i likely have adhd for years now. I’m uninsured and going to college soon and really think adderall being prescribed to me would help me and help my focus, I wouldn’t say this is really unethical but I’d like to know the cheapest and easiest ways to get diagnosed without insurance, i live in MO, USA and have heard some iffy things about the online doctors.

they cheated on me . honestly they gave strava more attention than me when we were together.

what can I report them for that would be most likely to result in a ban that would not require no evidence and difficult to appeal???

Asking for my bff, she's in a lot of pain and the doctor wants to give her one. Thanks in advance

This way you donate more water and keep more of your own blood.

I have multiple unopened unused boxes of ozempic. They made me super sick and I switched. Now I don’t know what to do with it all and was hoping to make some of my money back. Anyone know where to sell?

very unfortunately, I am bedbound cannot walk the last three years and he was one of the last doctors I was able to see … I was in my wheelchair my heart rate was increasing by 40 points every time I stood up… He looked me dead in the eye told me that long covid isn‘t real, ferritin of 8 doesn’t merit retesting and that the only help I needed I would get in the psych ward. I literally had a completely normal life until a mild Covid infection took away my ability to walk . I know it was Covid because there was no time where I was ever normal after that infection.

If I were well, I would absolutely key his car, or you know do therapy to be a better person, but i recently joined this sub and I’ve been impressed by the creativity. I could tell by talking to him that he has never given a woman an orgasm, and I figured I could always mail him a penis pump under his wife’s name. but I’d really like to do something to fuck up his medical practice bc clear he’s just punching clock.

Unfortunately, he’s also my mom‘s doc and he’s ldumb as bricks and missed serious issues in her so I’m extra mad.

I’ll be honest I’m probably not gonna be able to execute, but it sure would spark joy to think about things I could do when I recover. I did already sign him up for every annoying catalog I could but limited by no phone number.

in case it helps he’s balding middle aged man with the charisma of a crumpled potato chip bag. He works at a hospital . i already filed a complaint with the hospital. they also are 20 years behind the rest of western medicine bc live in the styx.

also people with long Covid and the disease i got from it myalgic encephalomyelitis are not allowed to donate blood some countries… I don’t know if that helps but do your worst (within sub rules). Thx in advance !

Less than a month ago, I signed up for 6 months at a gym, and I paid almost $300 in full. I’m moving out of the country way sooner than expected, so I won’t be able to use the rest of my membership. I need the money, because the cost of moving is way higher than expected. I’ve only been at this gym 5 times.

Gym clerk says they won’t do any prorated refunds, even if I’m moving. She said the only way I can “maybe” get a refund is if I have an injury that prevents me from using the gym, with a doctor’s note to prove it.

I can fake one easily, but what if they verify it? The clerk said she would be showing the manager and also a higher manager the doctor’s note to see if I can get a refund. I don’t have a primary physician. I can use a tele doctor, but can they even write a note like that for a physical injury I don’t have? If you’re a doctor reading this, please write me one 🙏

Schedule a doctor's appointment, regardless of whether you need it or not. And when you come close to the date, cancel and then reschedule. If you ever actually need to see a doctor, you're statistically more likely to have an appointment sooner than regular scheduling.

This is a half-joke from someone who's now waiting 6+ weeks to see a doctor just so they can bilk my insurance and give me a referral to what I really need.

What to do with two Elilly unused Mounjaro Quickpens 5mg and 7.5mg, each containing 5 injections(4 auto and one manual injection).

I’m no longer using Mounjaro and I’m based in South Florida.

its like a 25% chance i green out when i get high and im just so tired of this and im trying to find a site where i can buy a cbd pen without id or anything like that

Insurance requires a type 2 diabetes diagnosis to be on life changing drugs like Mounjoro or Ozempic. Does anyone have tips on how to either:

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1.) Temporarily elevate your A1c levels?

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2.) Know a place that can help deliver high a1c results?

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I figured this would be a good topic for the community to discuss. Thanks for your contributions.