[-] fracture 1 points 2 hours ago

the craziest part to me is the implication that a guy who's into women or trans men is perfectly straight, as long as those trans men didn't have bottom surgery, because pussy is pussy (?)

[-] fracture 2 points 1 day ago

ah, sorry, i saw it, i just don't know anything about lamotrigine. and the same stuff applies with it; you'll probably have to wait till you encounter a trigger and just gauge how bad it was and how long it lasted to see if it helps ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] fracture 2 points 1 day ago

i think propranolol is a pretty good choice for your situation, actually, i think, if the dose is high enough, and you can tolerate the effects on your blood pressure, then it can probably be very useful after a trigger? it depends on how you take it / the formulation, the short acting works for around 4 hours, but you can get extended release versions too

i took propranolol regularly for a couple of years for essentially the same thing, managing triggers. it was an effective way for me to deaden the intensity of feelings and be more productive handling them, although prolonged use eventually led to that sort of zombie lack of emotions effect. still, it did me a lot of good for the time i was on it

really, unfortunately, you have to evaluate the meds based on how you feel normally on them and when you encounter a trigger. it sounds like your triggers can get quite bad, so intentionally testing it doesn't seem like a good idea (if you're even able). you might just keep the propranolol on hand if it happens

in terms of data, i would look at the severity and length of the episodes where you encountered a trigger. ostensibly, the medicine should make it less severe and easier to pull out of. and if it's not after some time, then it's probably worth switching

[-] fracture 5 points 2 days ago

... is this... AI? i'm not like an expert at identifying it or anything but...

[-] fracture 7 points 6 days ago

been reading books about racism and it's actually insane how true this is... it's been going on for like 100 years (in the US) (probably longer but this is what i can speak to)

give "the sum of us: what racism costs everyone" a read if you wanna get tapped in on this...

[-] fracture 33 points 1 week ago

i mean... no more than anyone else has to go to bed for their hormones to work, anyways

[-] fracture 12 points 2 weeks ago

sure, my wife's might be, but mine are nice and wide for it, so it evens out (this is a trans joke)

[-] fracture 15 points 2 months ago

bisexuality isn't inherently transphobic!

not saying you're necessarily implying that, but it's a general stereotype which, while it can be true on an individual level, certainly isn't when taken as a whole

here's the bisexual manifesto, also, since it goes hard: https://bitheway.carrd.co/#manifesto

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[-] fracture 12 points 3 months ago

i'd like to see more than "i don't know if it holds water", especially since you don't couch it nearly as well in your previous post bringing it up

a thesis is on the onus of who brings it up to substantiate it; if you can't defend it, i would question the wisdom of bringing it up in an already contentious conversation

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submitted 3 months ago by fracture to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

wasn't sure where else to put this, since, while chronic, this definitely doesn't qualify for /c/chronicillness LOL (idk how to link communities sorry)

(post tone: lightly frustrated, somewhat comedic description of problems and viewpoints; i swear a lot in my normal speech, but i'm not pissed or anything)

i've been dealing with nasal/sinus issues for over a decade: i've had a couple surgeries for it, i'm currently doing braces, which is fixing the underbite situation and helps with nasal drainage, and i'm on a good amount of allergy meds to mitigate the situation

the doc i had ten years ago and the doc i just saw today told me the same thing: rinse my nose with saline twice a day

now, if i was willing to do that, i wouldn't be seeing a doctor. i know that i can simply waterboard myself persistently enough and the problem will go away

my issue is that i need to flush my sinuses at all to be a functional person (thankfully, on the current routine, it's maybe a few times a week, vs twice a day)

i should have talked about this in more detail with the doc, and i'll see him again after some allergy testing and talk about it more then (i needed a minute to compose myself ๐Ÿ’€); but i mostly wanted to get a survey of other folks with these issues: do y'all just fuckin live with rinsing your nose out twice a day?? i been doing it for a decade, i know how to do it correctly, i just HATE DOING IT, i cannot imagine doing it 2x a day willingly

(if you're wondering what part of the process i hate, it's all of it; having to bank distilled water, dealing with either cold water in your congested nose (shitty) or having to heat up the water to the right temp to be warm but also not burn the shit out of your nasal passages (pain in the ass), and then having to clean a shitload of salt water out of your face because why the fuck would it drain out cleanly)

[-] fracture 11 points 5 months ago

i long to see the woke sky...

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submitted 6 months ago by fracture to c/ftm

got my consult for FMS recently and i was told something interesting: apparently, if i hadn't used braces to straighten my bite, we could have done surgery to bring the jaw forward (and improve my jaw/chin), instead of doing an implant (which i will now have to do)

kind of hit me like a "how the fuck was i supposed to know", but maybe this advice will come in handy for one of y'all

[-] fracture 16 points 6 months ago

reminder that trans women are women and attraction to them (if you're a man) is straight

(i'm aware of the rest of your post but felt like this was a good thing to bring up)

[-] fracture 11 points 8 months ago

really fucked that the principle called the daughter's personal cell phone about a personal instagram post at 10pm, this dude is a fucking creep

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