I loved Born A Crime. Fascinating and neat view into SA history from the inside.

We’ve always wanted to emigrate to Canada but we have a child (young adult) with a disability. We don’t qualify as a family because we’d be a drain on resources despite my husband having a high demand job.

Love Lamb. Read it years and years ago and still remember laughing until I cried!

My oldest didn’t sleep through the night for almost 3 years. My 2nd was, in comparison THE MOST AMAZING SLEEPER, when he was just average, my oldest was just such a nightmare. She dropped her only nap at 15 months, and only slept 9 hours a night on a good night. Honestly I think I have some post traumatic stress…

Exactly. My obgyn has 3 kids, is about 10 years older than me, and I know she understands on a fundamental level what a male dr wouldn’t. Our pediatrician for many years was a mom of 3 with one EXTREMELY picky eater like one of my kids. She understands the mom pressure around food and cooking. The only male dr I…

I grew up on a dairy farm, and drank raw milk until I moved away at 18. I can’t count the number of times my siblings and I had a ‘24 hour stomach bug’. Raw milk might be a cute thing for healthy adults to be into, but pasteurization is critical for societal health (if it’s an animal milk using society). And no, raw…

I live on the Eastside and our new increased property tax bill this year was over $7,000. Normal size lot, slightly nicer house (built 1989) but by no means one of those $1million+ things. Property taxes keep going up.

She is adorable!! Our youngest cat was almost 1 year when we got her. She was TINY despite loving foster care and plenty of food for 6 months. Vet said she was full size. Another 12 months go by and she suddenly grows. Like, 2 whole pounds (proportional, no health issues). She’s now a normal sized cat, at the…

All the women in my family have had cystic acne. I’m in perimenopause and it’s fucking FINALLY improving. Only 1 big one about every 3 months with my period. It really does fuck your self esteem. I couldn’t take Accutane or hormones due to other health issues, and got by with topicals. My mom ADORES menopause due…

Yup, be careful with Accutane. My brother got SEVERELY depressed on it. It may be less powerful now, but 20+ years ago it was pretty new and I know a lot of people had serious side effects.

I really miss the weekly Pissing Contest (it was on Friday’s I think?) with grossest story or whatever. Those dropped RIGHT when Trump was elected. Barf Bag started and seemed to take that spot. I could sure do with the escapism and interaction of the Pissing Contest type posts again. They were always really…

One Day at a Time in Netflix looks super corny buts it’s AMAZING. I haven’t watched a sitcom since like 2000, I don’t like them, but this show is great. I’ve been rewatching Eureka now that it’s back on Amazon Prime. Love that show!

For some people they have an underlying condition, but some people, like me, have had every test under the sun and....nothing shows up. To some extent I think it’s similar to endometriosis in that it affects a lot of women, no one knows quite what to do, and most dr’s don’t particularly care.

Congrats on the wedding anniversary! We’re coming up on our 24th and it seems weird that we’ve spent more of our lives together than not.

Elimination diet to figure out flare-up sensitivities (only helped about 25% but at a certain point you’ll take ANYTHING). I’ve done allergy tests, scratch and blood, which showed nothing. A colonoscopy which showed completely healthy intestine. Oddly enough taking an SSRI (Zoloft and Celexa) helped a ton (I was…

GoodRX is something that can help you find the cheapest place to get your meds. My biggest fear is losing access to my meds :(

We’ve had the cheapo Greenco bidet from Amazon for 9 months. Super easy to install, no frills, I especially love it during my period!

Really interesting. My daughter is trans and uses estradiol patches (so I’m familiar). I’ve never been able to tolerate hormones in BC so assumed treatment with hormones would suck. But yeah,bio identical hormones, duh, makes sense.

I didn’t change my name in 1994 in the Midwest...people were confused, passive aggressive, hostile, etc. I ended up changing it several years later right before my first child was born after living in several states far away from family. My husband and I both have short last names that are 100% of the time…

Thanks for all this info! My doc has offered a Skyla IUD to help with the periods, but I hadn’t asked about anything for the other symptoms. I just assumed with the wildly fluctuating hormones of peri menopause adding more hormones wouldn’t help :/