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barking-chicken73 karma

The way I always get through it is to imagine it as the worst dubstep album ever.

barking-chicken38 karma

Anecdotally, I've been able to predict that a storm was coming by pain in my knees/ankles/feet since I was about 12. I was told for years that it was "growing pains". Then at 27 I was diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome with accompanying neuropathy and significant joint involvement. It often makes me wonder how early I was experiencing symptoms. I find it really difficult to gauge with any clarity because now that I have a diagnosis its all too easy to attribute everything to it.

barking-chicken14 karma

Its especially awful in your teens because you just want to wear all the cute clothes that every other girl is wearing, but you get accused of being a slut or trying to attract attention because those clothes aren't made for larger breasts. You're self conscious about how you move because you used to be able to just move how ever you wanted to but now you find that certain ways make it hard to breath or make your boobs try to escape your shirt or make you accidentally run your boob into someone/thing and it takes a while to get used to where your body actually is and how it shifts. And then you get to bras and you get told that its normal to have the quadboob thing going on because that's what cleavage is, but you also get told that if you have too much cleavage you are a slut. Your band is too loose and you're constantly having to readjust it discretely and your shoulders and back ache because your straps are digging into your shoulders and without the support in your band your shoulders are doing all the lifting. But you can't tighten your band or your cups don't fit any longer and if you wear a cup size bigger than a DD then you are probably going to be a stripper and your mother gets shocked at how you must be promiscuous because you want to wear a larger cup size because the only reason anyone would want a bigger cup than a DD is because they want to be able to brag about wearing a bigger cup. There are so many factors that go into it that its not funny. After you finally learn that having big boobs doesn't mean that you are somehow magically a slut and that having back pain and lumpy boobs and trenches dug into your shoulder is not normal and are symptoms of wearing the wrong bra size you just want to cry at how much you feel at home in subreddits like /r/bigboobproblems and /r/ABraThatFits and even /r/TrollXChromosomes because you've felt like a freak for so long all because of something that biology threw at you.

Or maybe that was just me. Sorry... /rant

barking-chicken10 karma

/r/keto would love to hear that! I have been following a ketogenic diet and while I don't have a chronic illness I have seen such numerous benefits from it that I'll never go back!

barking-chicken8 karma

I'm so happy that my prescription didn't change at all this year. My insurance pays for one pair a year so now I have two pairs of glasses, and last year's aren't even scratched or messed up.