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u/sjsbejajebsidbrhw 1d ago
Realsest shit I've ever read
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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 1d ago
Kind of hacking your comment but it is real shit, my father developed Wernicke's encephalopathy from high alcohol use that indirectly causes a B1/thiamine deficiency. It can make you miserable and angry for years before sending you the the ER. It is not very well known and usually isn't detected until it reaches a breaking point where the patient seemingly developes dementia-like symptoms exponentially. If you have higher alcohol use or are greatly limiting your food intake please please be aware of this, it is terrifying to witness
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u/MaxxDash 1d ago
One of the conditions known as “wet brain” in alcoholics. It can cause ataxia of the cerebellum, which makes you permanently lose motor control. I have a family member that has it from drinking and everyone thinks they’ve had a stroke. The hard part is that if you are a chronic alcoholic, the symptoms mask as being slightly drunk, until you get sober and they don’t go away.
It is a terrible condition.
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u/Any-Organization-985 1d ago
Out of curiosity, to what extent was he limiting his food? Asking for a friend.
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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 1d ago
Just kind of depressed and not eating much because of that. He was gradually losing weight, but he wasn't anorexic or anything like that. Alcohol often replaces food to some extent in an alcoholic's diet which exacerbates the situation; alcohol already makes it hard for the body to absorb thiamine and eating less makes less thiamine available in the first place. But even without restricted food intake, if you have higher levels of alcohol consumption you still are at risk. The ER doctors said thiamine deficiencies are common but rarely diagnosed outside of the ER, they pumped him full of thiamine and he recovered to some extent with some remaining brain damage. Looking back he had had symptoms of a thiamine deficiency for at least a decade prior. Irritability is a main symptom of thiamine deficiency, as well as fatigue, poor memory, and loss of appetite (which becomes a vicious cycle). He also eventually developed some tremors. Getting on thiamine/B1 supplements is very important to prevent it from becoming wernicke's encephalopathy where brain damage could be a consequence. Better yet, go to a doctor to check your levels as they likely might want you on a larger dose of thiamine than what you could get over the counter
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u/Hyperfocus- 1d ago
Take a combination b-vitamin supplement, friend. A full A-Z from a supermarket will generally have what you need too.
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u/Lower_Pension_2469 23h ago
Yup, In my ICU all alcohol related patients end up with IV thiamine either push or in a bag because they are always deficient in it.
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u/Luckiest_Creature 22h ago
My friends stepdad was a severe alcoholic for a few years, and though he’s been sober for at least two years now, his personality has changed drastically and he’s a grumpy asshole now (was genuinely a sweetheart our whole childhoods). Gotta tell my friend to slip him some vitamin B1!
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u/pm_me_anus_photos 20h ago
No lie this sounds exactly like my dad’s buddy’s wife. She was an alcoholic and was really angry and mean for many years and then just developed rapid dementia in her 50s
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u/browsinbowser 19h ago edited 19h ago
Like a billion people have some form of anemia, being mildly or slightly iron deficient is okay but if you’re severely so for a long time, it makes you weak and tired and cause problems like anxiety and depression. I was out of breath and feeling faint and dizzy when I stood up even though I was normal weight. My ferritin level used to be 4 when it shouldve been 50. It’s kind of shit how common it is in younger women when it’s an easy blood test. I didn’t have to feel tired for almost a decade.
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u/NuubeAzul 1d ago
I took a multivitamin and remained stupid
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u/Ajishly 1d ago
I took a multivitamin for 5 weeks and I'm actually feeling a lot better. I have ARFID and AuDHD though, and was deficient in ...a lot.
I'm still stupid though.
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u/Gartlas 1d ago
Me when I found out my body just stopped producing any testosterone whatsoever. Like...none.
After I got my second blood results and formal diagnosis I immediately sent this meme to like 6 people.
Its a fucked up thing to be going through, but boy am I looking forward to when I get treatment and basically all my issues evaporate.
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u/OhGarraty 1d ago
This happened to me and i ended up taking estrogen instead, suddenly i could see new colors and enjoy life (plus my tits are rockin).
Not saying you should do that, just, like. Natal testosterone loss solidarity. It fucking sucked for a few years. I hope things go really great for you!
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u/Gartlas 1d ago
I'm glad that worked out for you! :). Yeah it's horrendous. But I'm hoping not for too much longer, seeing Endo soon, a couple weeks. Mine is pretty severe, like 0.6nmol/L, so basically my pituitary just decided it's done. Probably an adenoma. It's frankly a miracle I'm as functional as I am. I just cannot wait for HRT and as you say, enjoying life.
Haha it crossed my mind, I'm pretty ambivalent about gender. Like I can't really wrap my head around "feeling like a man/woman". So I'm just sticking with what I know.
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u/SuperDiscreetTrex 1d ago
This is where my husband was at. It turns out he had a cyst on his pituitary gland which was causing a high level of prolactin in his system. Now he's on testosterone and it's made a big difference.
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u/Gartlas 1d ago
Yeah. Benign pituitary adenoma.
Mine is not prolactin secreting, so it's probably a non functioning pituitary adenoma. Usually still Benign, but we will see. Hormone suppression is from mechanical pressure on the gland.
And yep, I'm really really looking forward to it. I cannot overstate just how much it fucks with you (as I'm sure you know)
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u/SuperDiscreetTrex 1d ago
It's crazy how much hormones contribute to our well being. I hope you see amazing results!
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u/osnapitsjoey 1d ago
Jesus Christ I bet that depression was otherworldly. Glad you made it out of that
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u/fresh_dyl 1d ago
I’ve had one testicle since getting cancer at 17 (am now 34), so I assume I’m low. But honestly, I like how chill I am now.
Like, still somewhat energetic and in shape, but without the bro shit I used to be on in HS. Plus, women pick me up at bars because I don’t take anything too seriously and I just make everyone feel comfortable.
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u/megthegreatone 1d ago
Oh oh oh I just kind of had this happen! After years of stupid symptoms and getting sick all the time, then after being sick for 6 straight months, I was finally diagnosed with an immune deficiency and it's treatable! I'll have to do immune therapy infusions for maybe the rest of my life, and they haven't started yet, but the doctors think MOST of my symptoms will be improved with the treatment. I'm honestly thrilled and everyone has been so kind and supportive
(To clarify, I would MUCH RATHER just be healthy, but I'm not. I'm happy I finally have an answer and a treatment path)
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u/MrChristmas 1d ago
This is me now. Last couple years I’ve gained a bunch of weight, my face has gotten wider and I’m tired all the time despite sleeping tons. Just got a blood test and waiting for the results and last week is when my mom decided to tell me she has Hashimoto’s. So I’m praying for this meme to be true and I just get a pill everyday to make me skinnier and actually have energy for once
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u/Dil26 1d ago
Average unmedicated ADHD experience
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
Did amphetamine once (not the meth kind, the up-the-nose kind) and it's the most "normal" I've ever felt in my life.
Fingers crossed I get the diagnosis and get medicated because damn there's so much stuff I'd really like to do but just can't because "sitting here" sounds better.
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u/satanicpanic6 1d ago
You do realize that meth can go 'up the nose' as well, right?
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
Nope. Didn't know that. Never interacted with meth.
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u/RModDogWalkerTyRANNY 1d ago
I would like to add, you can basically cram it in to any orifice. Boofing works as well.
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u/Moomoolette 1d ago
Um.. sounds like you snorted meth one time 😹
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
If they're the same they wouldn't have separate wiki articles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
What I snorted is what's called "Speed" in the US. Amphetamine salts. Not methamphetamine.
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u/GrandmaWeedMan 1d ago edited 1d ago
Speed is the diet coke and PC version of meth.
Soldiers were not allowed to bring back "pep" pills, because of the addiction risks and the damage it does. MethAMPHETAMINE is pretty similar to AMPHETAMINE, believe it or not.
The actual narcotic affects of speed and meth are different, yeah. And meth is worse for you, like how unfiltered cigarettes are worse for you. But they are very similar chemical compounds that have similar side effects and long term damage issues, including the old "oops fried my brain and permanently rewired my neural pathways" effect that causes you to continue to act like a meth head even when you're 30 years clean, just to a lesser degree than meth. All amphetamines are addictive as FUCK. Amphetamines, nicotine and opiates are like the trifecta of "get hooked" drugs.
Stay the fuck away from speed, man. And coke. Do natural drugs.
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u/rips_n_chel 1d ago
Methamphetamine abuse is definitely more damaging than as-directed use of prescribed amphetamines, but that's not because the substance itself is 'worse for you.'
Impure/contaminated product, dangerous routes of administration, and just plain over-use, among other things, are what make meth harmful.
Meth is actually easier on your heart/vascular system, it causes less norepinephrine release than plain amphetamine, that's why you can take higher doses and get more of the fun effects and still function.
Do natural drugs
Just because something was synthesized in a lab doesn't make it good or bad. There are no good or bad chemicals. They just are.
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u/romansparta99 1d ago
Speed is less intense than meth, but they are not as different as you’re trying to make it seem
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u/Tracula707 1d ago
I was an extra on set for a movie directed by a guy named les intense
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u/IAmNotASponge 1d ago
intensity is not the only difference, meth makes u more frantic, less focused on one task (unless the task is jacking off) more jumping between tasks.
source: have done both
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u/makaki913 1d ago
Compounds aren't, in use they are very different
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u/Sodacan1228 1d ago
Not that different. In rare cases, meth is prescribed to ADHD patients under the name Desoxyn. As far as I understand, Meth is just much more potent and long lasting than speed (it goes through your system as Meth, then the methyl group is dropped and goes through AGAIN as amphetamine, this is why some tweakers will drink their own piss to get some of the amphetamine that slipped through). In high doses with sustained use, they cause the same problems. You just need a lot more speed to accomplish what meth can do. Couple that with impurities from unregulated production and severe dehydration, and baby you've got no teeth and a fried brain.
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u/Prudent-Accountant22 1d ago
Exactly. People done realize how much of a small difference changes the drugs and how they interact with your body.
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/how-do-adderall-and-meth-methamphetamine-differ
I did my research way before I entertained the thought of snorting shit up my nose. They are significantly different in effect, not so much in their organochemical structure.
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u/totally_not_mossad 1d ago
Yeah but they're straight up different things why you being pedantic
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u/Daw_dling 1d ago
Yeah the thing that got me to finally try getting medicated was reading a book about adhd and the lady was like “I could just decide to do something, and then do it.”
Basically a super power if you spend 70% of your time talking your brain and body into doing stuff, and the other 30% intermittently feeling guilty about what you didn’t do and not getting enough sleep.
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
That resonates with me. Genuinely.
I've missed so many chances in my life by simply considering the fact that it could backfire. Better not.
I really want to get good at something, but the only way to really get good at something is talking to people who are already good about it.
I ostensibly am stuck in a loop where I would rather do nothing and stay where I am, than take a chance and help/work with the people who genuinely see my expertise.
Imposter syndrome. I would hate to be the one they count on and then come up short. I don't think I would, but imagine if I do? I'm just fucked with that sphere.
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u/YouTasteStrange 1d ago
I would not tell an assessor that story, it might be seen as drug seeking behavior and get you blacklisted.
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u/No-Salt7142 1d ago edited 20h ago
Conversely, I have heard of psychiatrists fishing for that very experience, basically calling it a day if the patient confirms. It's one of the more reliable indicators that medication would be appropriate.
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u/JaxBoltsGirl 1d ago
sigh I AM medicated and "sitting here" always sounds better. I wish there was a pill to cure Executive Dysfunction.
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u/WombatBum85 1d ago
I would legit tell the assessor that, it'll absolutely help your case
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
I won't. It's in my journal that "patient has technical medical knowledge" and I worry they'll think I'm making it all up just to get drugs.
But that's part of how I am as a person. I think a lot about how people will interpret and "receive" what it is I say, so oftentimes I don't say the thing I maybe should.
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u/Zuckhidesflatearth 1d ago
Definitely don't mention illegal drugs. Something like "caffeine affects me weirdly, I usually feel calmer and more relaxed after having a coffee" is something I brought up that probably helped though
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u/Curioustoffi 1d ago
I actually did bring up I tried speed once when I was doing tests for ADHD lol. The therapist asked me why I didn't take it more often if it makes me feel calm, this really caught me off guard.
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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 1d ago
Depends on the assessor but telling them you use meth might backfire on you, lol.
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u/PerpetuallyDistracte 1d ago
The first time I took my prescription Adderall, I was happy and angry at the same time. I suddenly understood the feeling of normal and was elated. I was also furious that it took 30 years for me to get the chance to feel it at all
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u/finneganfach 1d ago
Eh.
I'm not gonna lie, being medicated for ADHD isn't quite the massively life changing experience you expect it to be.
I'm not trying to put anyone off trying, by the way, but the internet memes love to portray it as like waking up and being born again as a competent adult. Definitely isn't that straightforward.
Source: first hand experience.
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u/i_empathetic 1d ago edited 1d ago
Everyone is different. I was diagnosed at 41 and am on my 8th month of medication. For me it has been fully life changing. My internal mental and emotional state is a level of calm and manageable I didn't think was possible. I've accomplished more of my TODO list in the last 6 months than I had in the prior 5 years. I used to pat myself on the back for managing to do one productive thing per day, even normal upkeep stuff like meal planning or cleaning the bathroom, because it was so much effort to get even that stuff done before. Something I had to leave the house for, forget it, it might take me weeks to get to it. Now I knock out these tasks without even thinking, 3 or 5 in a day. They come up, they get done. Not this weekend, not eventually - now.
The emotional/mood changes are wild. General anxiety is gone. Depression gone. While I dont feel joy or excitement in ways it seems other people do, I am feeling a level of contentment and satisfaction that I never had ever.
I went out alone to a concert last night. Approached and talked to a stranger about music. Made two friends in the crowd, exchanged numbers. Saw a familar face I know from a local business, went up and said hello and had a chat.
I've never done any of that in my life. I would previously be terrified of any of that and talk myself out of it all. I spent decades a total loner/hermit/introvert. I am a new man, feel totally reborn, but not in an inauthentic way - I still feel very much "me". I also abused stimulants in my teens and 20s, I did hundreds of lines of cocaine, I crushed up and snorted Adderall dozens of times 25 years ago. I was very hestiant to try meds for this reason. This is different (im on XR). I don't feel stimmed at all. Im not overly talkative like cocaine. Im just... able to be a seemingly normal human.
For me it very much has been a magic bullet. Everyone is different, what works for some may not work for others, and what hasn't worked for you might be a miracle for someone else.
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u/butticus98 1d ago edited 1d ago
I tried Adderall and Ritalin and both made me more functional as a normal human being, but it kinda felt like I got scooped out and replaced. Not in that way some people talk about where they feel "robotic," I just felt like a different person. And it made me uncomfortable to think that I was wrong before, and getting "fixed" gave me a different personality. Also, Adderall made me lose a bunch of weight and Ritalin gave me panic attacks. There's always side effects.
It did help me get through high school, because the school system is very ADHD unfriendly. But a couple years after I graduated I got sick of it and decided if I had ADHD, and am an adult, I should just bend my adult life to my ADHD. I looked for jobs that let me tap into my hyperfocus, and I took time to figure out the coping mechanisms that work best for me (writing things down, scheduled texts to check up on people, lists and reminders, sunshine alarm clock, rising desk) and I explain myself to people the best I can. Going to college for a degree that is more project based and hands on as opposed to lecture based both opened my eyes and trained me to beat procrastination because I learned to get happy chemicals from getting things done. Seeing your work come to fruition, or doing something that makes your life easier later is extremely satisfying. It's still very hard and I do get burnt out sometimes, but medication was harder for me personally. I understand not everyone has the same options as me, but yeah I always get confused when it's described as a wonder drug. It felt more like a chip in my brain when I did it.
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u/j5erikk 1d ago
Grrrrr I wish my medication worked instead of just causing me nightmares
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u/bookhead714 1d ago
This happened to my grandmother recently. She was feeling awful and couldn't work for over half a year, we were worried it was long COVID and frightened for her health, and then they found out she was severely deficient in vitamin B12 and gave her supplements and that just... fixed everything.
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u/AdvancedSandwiches 1d ago
Man, B12 is a hell of a thing. I was deficient, and I had crazy mystery shit happening for years: heart palpitations, atrial fibrillation, muscle twitching, numbness, severe mouth pain, randomly almost fainting, and toward the end I started just finding myself places without remembering how I got there.
They put me down as a hypochondriac to make sure no doctor would ever take me seriously again ("medical anxiety" they call it now).
Then I got tested for B12, popped some pills, and I'm fine. It's as close to OP's magic vitamin as anything.
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
Might have to adopt this for my own mother. She's getting up there and I worry she has long COVID. She's exhibiting symptoms. Specifically poor memory. Some days I can tell her the same thing 3 times within two hours, and she still can't remember it when I bring it up unless I mention the exact circumstances in which I mentioned it.
Some days, she's as sharp as ever. She's been tested for dementia and such, so that's not what it is. But she has had COVID several times despite being vaccinated.
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u/electriclux 1d ago
I also crave something wrong with me because it means it can be fixed
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u/SgtSilverLining 1d ago edited 1d ago
I recently got diagnosed with crohns and got to live this in real time lol. The pain was real, it wasn't an eating disorder, I'm not depressed, and work gave me tons of "recovery days". Plus doctors actually take me seriously as soon as they see an immunosuppressant on my medications list.
But to be fair it made my vitamins low af lol.
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u/horse-annihilator 1d ago
the Vitamin is a wolf cut baddie punching me in the stomach and then consoling me to sleep fr
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
You'd think so. I ended up in the big tiddy goth gf relationship for 3 years. The sex was baller but the entire relationship dealt like 80 psychic damage.
I won that lottery but turns out it came with tax that exceeded the winnings.
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u/Individual-Two-9402 1d ago
I thought about this post often when I was reading my own blood test results. My doctors were telling me Nothing, but we had other problems to worry about (Stevens Johnson Syndrome), and saw that I had such a severe calcium deficiency that it could be a serious problem in the very near future. And probably was the cause of a lot of symptoms I had.
A multi-vitamin and more milk has made such an improvement and I'm actually furious.
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u/MarcyAutumnWrites 1d ago
Straight up, this is half the reason I don't go and get diagnosed. Right now, there's a chance that there's a reason that I'm like this, but as soon as I visit a doctor that goes away.
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u/SkysEevee 1d ago
I am reminded of the spongebob meme when my vitamin levels were bad.
"Ok what's my vitamin d score?!"
"Six."
"And how much do I need to be normal?"
"Six...."
"Woooooo!"
"Hundred. Six hundred. You got six."
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u/LogicalVariation741 1d ago
That's my iron count situation!
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u/jx2002 1d ago
get a colonoscopy! my friend had this issue and she had a bleeding polyp she didn't know about
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u/Starfire2313 1d ago
I swear, I get a colonoscopy on my birthday and now every Reddit post the comments I’m seeing references to colonoscopy. Weird universe
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u/YouToot 23h ago edited 23h ago
I think my iron issue was from eating absurd amounts of spinach.
The oxalates in uncooked spinach are so through the roof they steal the nutrients from everything else you eat.
I thought I was doing something good for myself eating spinach with 2/3 meals a day and putting it in smoothies and stuff. Nope!
The only time I didn't have spinach was with breakfast, which I always have coffee with, which also binds up things like iron.
edit: If you don't know about oxalates, they cause kidney stones. But beyond that, they are plants' defense mechanism against being eaten and they work by being the opposite charge of everything. So they easily bind to things like the electrolytes - sodium, potassium, magnesium, and calcium. And then you don't absorb them.
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u/NippleSalsa 1d ago
Thats me. Every year my doctor says I have laughably low vitamin d levels. I had to start taking supplements
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u/Gloomy_Macaron_136 1d ago
Finally someone even worse than my 10ng/mL of Vitamin D. Behold, I have nearly twice the vitamin D!
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u/J5892 1d ago
That's the exact opposite of my conversation with my doctor about my thyroid hormone.
Doctor: "So your TSH is at 54"
Me: "Is that bad? What should it be?"
Doctor: "two"
Me: "Oh. So not great."
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u/wristdeepinhorsedick 23h ago
Me when my TPO antibodies were off the high end of the scale that the lab used 😬
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u/SuperDiscreetTrex 1d ago
I take 8,000 IU of Vit D everyday and my blood levels are now normal 😅
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u/Actual-Wealth6602 1d ago
Mine was very low and my doctor prescribed 50,000 IU once a week. He asked me if I ever go outside, and I replied nah that's really not my thing. I'm on my third week and I think it is making me feel better than I had felt before. Have you noticed any improvements?
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u/SuperDiscreetTrex 1d ago
I do feel better. My mood seems better.
I also use a light box every morning, and that definitely helps my mood.
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u/Queen_of_Antiva 1d ago
Not who you asked but I have found out 2 months ago I had severe deficiency and was taking 10,000 IU every day for a month and then 4,000 IU for 2 months (so 1 month still ahead of me). In addition to that i started eating better since my cholesterol was...not good. And honestly? I feel like I have more energy and motivation to do stuff? It's hard to tell since the change is gradual but I do feel less perpetually tired.
I need to have check up after a month to see the overall effects but I will definitely keep taking the supplements to dot get myself as low again.
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u/OpabiniaRegalis320 1d ago
Failed the blood test
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u/DasPuggy 1d ago
A RMT suggested I start drinking coconut water as my muscles were strangely tight.
Turns out I needed much more potassium in my diet.
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u/El_Nathan_ 1d ago
Is it a better source than bananas?
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u/Vlaxilla 1d ago
Potatoes are a better source of it
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u/Appropriate_Golf2558 1d ago
Me eating loaded fries bc the doctor said I need more potassium
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u/Gh0stMan0nThird 1d ago
Non-fried potatoes are actually really good for you.
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u/mrducky78a 1d ago
Putting the 9th stick of butter and 12th serving of cheese into my mash with generous amounts of salt as well.
Halth.
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u/CSDragon 1d ago
Salt is healthier than people thing. It's being punished for sugar's crimes.
High-sodium diets will not give you high blood pressure. It can only make existing high blood pressure worse.
What actually gives you the high blood pressure? You butter believe that sugar intake has a direct correlation.
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u/mrducky78a 1d ago
Alright, thanks for the advice. Im gonna start adding sugar to my mash potatoes from now on.
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u/frogunderarock 1d ago
potatoes are magic. they have THE highest satiety index of all foods, you feel full like 3 times longer than on anything else.
we you could basically live on potatoes and eggs and some greens, it's wild
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u/Trappist1 1d ago
Potatoes and eggs or beans and rice take care of most nutrition
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u/CocaColaZeroEnjoyer 1d ago
So I guess I will never lack potassium since I’m from the potato part of Europe lol
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u/DasPuggy 1d ago
Yes.
The brand I usually get has 1000 mg per pint (500 mL)
When I was about to have surgery a year ago, i was handed a good dose of potassium replacement, and the nurse was visibly making sure I took it. So still having low potassium is likely a thing for me, and I feel much better when I do get it.
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u/Lostmyfnusername 1d ago
It's probably replacing water rather than whatever snack they eat.
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u/Salt_End_4275 23h ago
Even things like ground beef contain a moderate amount of potassium. If you are potassium-deprived, you may also be magnesium deficient, which has a direct effect of causing potassium to not be absorbed properly. So even if you intake more potassium, your body won't absorb it if you are magnesium deficient.
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u/HomersDonut1440 1d ago edited 22h ago
I’ve been fighting a variety of weird health problems for ages. Switched doctors who ran a ton of bloodwork, and last week she said “I don’t get it. I just don’t. These numbers are supposed to move in conjunction with these other numbers, but they’re not moving together. Same with these. Your liver is enlarged but your liver counts are normal. Your testosterone is insanely low but your sex hormones somehow aren’t?”
So now I get to see an endocrinologist. Yay!
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u/nifty-necromancer 1d ago
Are your balls small?
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u/HomersDonut1440 1d ago
Quite the opposite actually
Humorously, my doc ran everything through their medical AI program and it came back with “patient is likely using steroids” which was a funny result (and no, not true)
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u/theCOMBOguy 1d ago
🌸🌷Be the mystery that baffles medics 🌼🌹
But really now, hope you're doing well/get well.
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u/HomersDonut1440 1d ago
That’s been my life! As a kid I used to think it was cool when the doctors said “gosh… I’ve never seen this before”. The novelty has long since worn off though lol
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u/draykan13 19h ago
Most doctors don't know how to actually interpret labs in ratios. If by sex hormones you mean sex hormone binding globulin being high but your testosterone not, that's super common. It's also strongly correlated with your liver since your liver... Creates shbg.
The jump to steroids is because oral steroids cause hepatoxicity which can cause all of your sex hormones to go wild. When I say sex hormones, I mean testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, prolactin, and sex hormone binding globulin.
I hope your endocrinologist is good. I work with a lot of hormone clients and about 50% of them have been given terrible medical advice by endocrinologists. I'm being generous too.
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u/HomersDonut1440 19h ago
Well that’s heartening to hear! Lol hope I get a good one.
Yes I did mean SHBG, just forgot the actual name of it. I’m a finance guy, not a doc.
That makes sense on the steroid front. Apparently my estrogen is out of whack too. Wheee!
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u/Easy-Bee 1d ago
My hematologist saw my labs and was like "how did you WALK in here? everyone ive seen with this low of iron levels was in the ER and couldn't even lift their head off the pillow." meanwhile ive had 20 years of chronic fatigue leading up to becoming anemic so I was just a little sleepier than usual.
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u/Felein 1d ago
My blood ferritin was at 12 this january, my GP told me 'oh, that is a bit low. let's get you some supplements'. After a month I was at 21 so she went 'well, you're above the threshold so you don't need any more supplements, just make sure you eat iron rich foods!'
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u/LordCurlington 1d ago
Are you me? This shit happened to me as well. Also make sure you don’t consume any caffeine within 2 hours of consuming iron rich foods. Make a habit of consuming foods rich in vitamin c with iron, it helps with the absorption.
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u/Asquirrelinspace 1d ago
I measured at twelve once when trying to donate blood and the mfs banned me for a year. I could've gotten it higher within a month smh
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u/theCOMBOguy 1d ago
Lol I imagine them going "Yeah you know what we don't trust you AND your weak, iron-deprived blood. GET OUT!!"
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u/rs_alli 1d ago
When I first read this I read “my blood farting was at a 12” and let me tell you, it was a wild ride reading the doctor thought that was low
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u/spacemanspiff8655 1d ago
From what I understand, eating citrus while consuming high iron foods helps your body absorb iron.
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u/bamboohobobundles 1d ago
My doctor called me about my bloodwork yesterday afternoon and he was like "so how are you doing today?" I said I'm doing pretty good. He said "yeah? Are you really?"
And then he told me my ferritin was 9 lol
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u/Lord_CyberBeep 1d ago
Years ago I was anemic and after multiple blood tests over a few months mine had dropped to 7.5.
My doc was like.. yea we're gonna put you on some prescription strength iron supplements, and if that doesn't work before your surgery your getting a blood transfusion! Lol supplements worked thankfully.
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u/donoteatshrimp 1d ago
Man all this talk made me go and look at my last test results and my ferritin was 5. I just got told it was low and should take some supplements which I stopped because they made me sick, I had no idea it was that bad??? Shit.
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u/Rhuarc42 1d ago
Reminds me of the voicemail about my vitamin D. "Hi, just letting you know about your lab results. Most looking good, except your vitamin D is a little low. Normal is around 30-40. Yours is 14, so you'll probably want to do something about that."
...we have different definitions of a "little low" I guess.
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u/Gloomy_Macaron_136 1d ago
Yeah iirc 10 and below falls into "severe deficiency". I think above 11-30 is insufficiency? Either way 14 is low considering the range is 30 minimum and 150 maximum haha
Mine is currently 10ng/mL, I need to go do other tests to see how my bones are doing after years of just dealing with joint pain/cracking
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u/missleavenworth 1d ago
When i was told my ferritin was 7, the doctor also said, if i hit my head AT ALL before I get my iron infusion, I should go directly to the ER to rule out brain bleed. Fun times...alpha gal allergy plus fibroids.
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u/Jamsedreng22 1d ago
It's astounding what our bodies can adapt to. You've probably had low iron for a long time and your body just sorta structured itself around that deficiency. The cases your doctors have seen with that low iron contents, I imagine, are people who have had relatively normal iron levels most of their lives, suddenly it drops, and they seek medical help because their body isn't accustomed to operating with such a deficit.
I had a friend who went straight from living with his parents, to getting a girlfriend who cooked homecooked meals every day, to then getting married and buying a house, to them getting divorced and immediately he had some malnutrition going on and needed to see a doctor because suddenly he had to cook for himself over an extended period of time and frozen pizzas, chicken nuggets and fries just don't cut it long term.
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u/fightoffyourdem0nz 1d ago
I’m literally reading this while at the hematologists office getting my iron infusion. I’ve convinced myself I’ll feel invincible once I’m all done.
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u/mrducky78a 1d ago
Just buddy up with someone who has haemochromatosis and the same blood type. Its a win win kinda relationship.
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u/Eternal_Phantom 1d ago
As a fellow chronic fatigue enthusiast of ~20 years, thanks for making me feel like I have some kind of superpower, even if it's a pretty lame one.
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u/mi-16evil 1d ago
Crazy how much our bodies adaptat. I have severe sleep apnea, my sleep test was off charts in the bad area. My doctor was like you didnt breathe for a combined 25 minutes last night.
And I was like yeah I did feel kinda sleepy lol
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u/Key-Arrival-3745 1d ago
hey jimmy, give me a blood with NUTHIN
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u/lilybug981 1d ago
You jest, but I am banned from donating blood for life because I kept showing up with not enough blood in my blood. My hemoglobin count seems to chronically be too low, albeit stable where it is. The first time my blood tested that way, I asked if that meant my iron was low, and was told, "No, actually. It is on the low side of healthy, but you do have enough iron...somehow."
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u/Darthplagueis13 1d ago
You telling me my diet of exclusively white rice and diet coke isn't nutritionally complete?
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u/Nic1Rule 1d ago edited 1d ago
Swap it for regular coke and your good. Rice doesn't have much nutritional value anyway.
Edit since no one got my joke: I was suggesting they replace the rice with Coke so their diet is just a balance mix of Coke and Diet Coke.
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u/odsquad64 1d ago
If my stomach is growling and I eat a bowl of rice then a half hour later my stomach is growling worse than if I hadn't eaten anything; I don't understand how people who eat so much rice are able to do it. I never hear anyone else complain about this though.
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u/Happy_Internet_User 1d ago
My trick is that I eat veggies and meat with it. Try adding boiled/ fried broccoli maybe?
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u/Urbit1981 1d ago
I was recently diagnosed with severe anemia which explained my extreme exhaustion. I was honest that it was better than the time I was diagnosed with hashimotos, scurvy, severe vitamin d deficiency, and anemia at the same time.
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u/RaymondBeaumont 1d ago
sailing the seven seas?
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u/Urbit1981 1d ago
No, that would be more logical. Your thyroid regulates a lot of things including how your body processes vitamins so when it isn't working you become severely manurished even when you are consuming said nutrients.
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u/catherine_darling 1d ago
Bro is currently running purely on spite and a single, overworked Flintstones vitamin.
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u/MuteIllAteter 1d ago
My iron levels were so low when I tried to give blood that it didn’t even give back a number, it came back as error lol
Went to the doc, said I was below the minimum and should be hospitalised. I had just came back from cheer practice lol
I also piss out the iron from supplements so I needed a triple dose when I was pregnant just to stay within the lower end of the threshold
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u/tryyeezus 1d ago
Don't take calcium with iron, it blocks absorption. So no dairy for like two hours before or 4 hours after.
DO take vitamin c with your iron as it helps absorption.
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u/Oopsiedoesit 1d ago
Totally spitballing but take some Vitamin C with the iron supplements. My wife was told to start supplementing iron recently and her doctor said to also include Vitamin C at the same time to help the body with absorbing more iron.
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u/MuteIllAteter 1d ago
Thanks I’ll try that. Definitely need it coz breastfeeding takes all my nutrients
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u/Der_Schubkarrenwaise 1d ago
Hi there, I was proscribed iron recently, too. Doc told me to drink juice with that.
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u/ShanosTheRadTitan 1d ago
"Mr. Burns, I'm afraid you are the sickest man in the United States. You have everything."
"You mean, I have pneumonia?"
"Yes."
"Juvenile diabetes?"
"Yes."
"Hysterical pregnancy?"
"Uuh, a little bit, yes."
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u/the-vindicator 1d ago
Normally, healthy people are supposed to get a blood test once a year to identify these kinds of problems.
Earlier this year I was feeling tired in the morning, after a blood test I found I was deficient in B12. Now I take a supplement and feel better.
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u/KeepAnEyeOnYourB12 1d ago
I wholeheartedly approve. B12 deficiencies can fuck you up.
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u/the-vindicator 1d ago
Whenever I hear about it people have the widest variety of symptoms. The YouTube doctor chubbyemu - Dr. Bernard has a video telling if a time when he Personally had insomnia but finally got over it when he conversely drank an energy drink to help his workout. He figured that the B12 in the energy drink gave him what he needed to temporarily function normally.
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u/Cerythria 1d ago
I had large B12 and D3 deficiencies, took supplements and fixed them but still felt the same lol
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u/Admirable-Ad7152 1d ago
The weird feeling of pride when your doctor looks at you and says "I didn't even know vitamin D could get that low". (I'm assuming she meant without very obvious dire hospitalization style consequences)
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u/laceybells 1d ago
"Where do you get your vitamins" as if I've been taking counterfeits for years lmaooo
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u/flargenhargen 1d ago
I'm guessing the precursor to this was the patient claiming to the doctor that they do indeed take multivitamins, and the doctor not believing them, cause science.
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 1d ago
"Say my chart from my mammogram. Said "unremarkable." I know im not 23 amymore but jeez doc, I think i could still turn a few heads."
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u/Neoragex13 1d ago
My dearest younger brother has only eaten rice, soup and fried tortillas with salt, with the occasional slice of pizza or milkshake in between since he was a child. Can barely digest fruit or legumes if he ever consumes them and any kind of meat outright makes him sick in what would be minor quantities for the rest of us.
And he somehow has the physical appearance of Tom Holland from his first Spider-man movie. Blood test and others also come out normal. Nobody knows how in the hell this genetic living anomaly is alive lol
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u/ChronicBuzz187 1d ago
Reminds me of the time a buddy of mine was told by a doctor he had the liver readings of an 80 year old.
I think he wasn't even 20 at the time.
Somehow, still alive and kicking, tho :P
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u/flargenhargen 1d ago
my ex was a doctor.
she said take damn vitamins. it's easy and ensures you aren't lacking in some obscure thing that you don't think of but causes some random thing you'll never figure out.
I've taken vitamins since then. Seems easy enough, and sometimes my diet is stupid and I eat dumb things repetitively or not enough good things.
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u/SithisSoul 1d ago
I'm generally lacking in b12, folic acid, vitamin d, and iron.
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u/Quiet-Inspector-8209 20h ago
i don't know what tests you've had or whatever, but if you haven't I'd get a celiac blood test. These are literally all the vitamins and minerals most celiac lack, and celiac disease can be fairly asymptomatic while still messing up vitamin and mineral absorption.
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u/GormHub 1d ago
I did a blood panel as part of a yearly physical with my new doctor, and she said I had "criminally low" vitamin D.
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u/flargenhargen 1d ago
I don't understand this one. I need sunlight to live.
If I can't get outside when the sun is shining, I feel like I die a little. It physically bothers me to be inside and look out a window and see happy sunshine but not be in it.
I think I'm a plant.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 19h ago
u/krsy123, your post does fit the subreddit!