When I was eighteen I was shot in the face by a pistol. When I was twenty five I passed a kidney stone. I’ll take getting shot in the face again!

ah. Human bowling ball = baby

When I was 19, went to go visit my family in England. Needless to say there was a lot of drinking. One morning I hear a yelp from the bathroom. My (half) brother comes out and proudly (?) shows me the kidney stone he passed. Fascinating and bewildering all at once.

Oh god, I was in hospital last month for a big one that blocked my right ureter. Suicidal levels of pain.

My mom also said the kidney stones were 100 times worse than pushing me out! Dear sweet fucking lord, the horror!!!! I am so sorry for you!

I have ADHD and I take Vyvanse and Adderall. I don’t think Ritalin is that heavily prescribed anymore. I’ve been on Vyvanse since I was 19 and I basically can not function without it but it’s not magic. Like a combination of drug therapy and some type of CBT is the best way to manage it but if you’re not diagnosed in…

I didn’t know that. Thanks for the tip.

I thought I had appendicitis when I got mine. I probably got the location of my appendix wrong, but I thought I was going to need emergency surgery or I was going to die.

I just tucked myself in (and I’m feeling lazy as heck) but after this cautionary tale and reading the side effects of my meds again I’m drinking enough water to wake up every hour. For eternity. Don’t care.

Well, you want a tint of yellow, cuz otherwise you are approaching the opposite problem, water intoxication. But otherwise, yeah.

I wish I could. Our HR lady is the worst. I wish I could leave, but the health insurance is great and it’s covering everything so far. Shitty situation is shitty.

Same. I thought I was having a heart attack, the pain was so crushing.

I think it’s worth a try. The anxiety has always been my worst symptom. Well that, and failing out of college twice. The adderall helped me manage it for a good long time, but this year it got ahead of me. I read about Intuniv and my doctor let me give it a try and it’s helping a lot. I take frequent adderall breaks…

Two situations come to mind:

That’s a good perspective, PhoebeCaulfieldTheThird. He’s the one who has to get through it. In terms of where it’s coming from, it’s a bit of a mystery since he said it’s been a long time coming but he held off on telling me since I’m so sensitive. He did recently start working out pretty intensely, so he probably…

That sounds awful, BrynandNessa. The concept of nothing being the right answer that you are describing is feeling very familiar right now. When this first started, I tried to humor him in some of his areas of complaint, but when I realized everything I did was not right, not enough, etc., I mostly gave up.

I experienced this, and relatively quickly found out he was cheating. His sudden unhappiness with me was a reflection of the fact that he felt stuck with me when he wanted to be with someone else. Not saying it’s your situation at all, just my experience.

Nine days after my ex and I got engaged I suddenly worked too much, didn’t spend enough time with him and didn’t clean enough. It was out of the blue. I had a major career-starting project due a month later and all kinds of other things on my plate. He supposedly had ADD and I was trying to make sure there wasn’t a…

Ugh. I found out yesterday that my interim supervisor at work has thoughts about my attendance at work. Instead of coming straight to me about it, she’s sending emails like this one to random people in the agency, who have no business knowing about my health/situation:

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