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Sackeshi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not.

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Everyone thinks their condition normal before finding out it's not.

Sackeshi@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    You guys don’t see 14 point, Times New Roman words in your mind when you’re listening to someone speak?

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    That’s why, every once in a while, one should drop in to see what condition their condition is in.

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      But where do you drop into? The condition doctor? The car mechanic?

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        Yes

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    I have several breathing problems with my nose and some inside bits. I always just thought breathing with your mouth was considerably easier, but people can’t do it because it’s not elegant.

    Now I’m trying to get the surgery covered

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    Many never find out. And not always because they’re actually the normal ones.

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    The opposite is also true

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I have had the opposite impressions. Many people think what they happen to them is unique, until they start talking about it and many people around them is the same.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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      Growing up with the internet I have always felt the opposite. If you think or feel something, millions of others have too.

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    I thought I was a little weird, but mostly normal for 40 years.

    Turns out I’m only normal enough to fit in, but mostly weird.

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Me finding out in my late 20s that I had ADHD and now figuring out I’m likely autistic too.

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    I dont have the ability to burp. Didnt think it was that big of a deal until recently learning its a condition called R-CPD and is directly responsible for the stomach problems I’ve had all my life

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      Another one! The gurgles are such an embarrassment.

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        To make it worse I am also lactose intollerant

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      Huh, TIL there’s a name for what I have. Although mine is intermittent.

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        You shouldn’t self diagnose from a vague comment on the internet. Speak to a doctor.

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          The commenter he responded to is a doctor though…

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            He’s a doctor of boxes not a medical doctor dumb dumb

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          I have, they just kinda shrugged and said that’s weird. Had cardiac workups and echos and everything done.

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      That’s awesome that it’s a diagnosed thing now. I didn’t start burping until I was in my mid 20s. I’m not sure what changed but I can burp when I need to now. My first few years of drinking beer were rough when I wasn’t able to burp.

      • Dr_Box@lemmy.world
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        Yeah I cant drink beer or I’ll get so bloated that I have to force myself to vomit to get the gas out

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        https://youtu.be/QionFrgMH4w

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          Yeah it was pretty much like this.

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      Goddamn. I’ve gone my whole life thinking that was just something I had to deal with. Now to figure out a way to get the treatment done, which is apparently a single shot for a lot of people.

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    If it’s not normal to wake up in the middle of night with palpatations and existential dread caused by an overload of caffeine/sugar/terrible world, then I don’t know what normal is

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      I thought that was the problem, but it was just sleep apnea causing most of it. Try forcing yourself to sleep on your side, maybe look into a sleep study if you have the option.

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      Normal is all of that, but without waking up in the middle of it.

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        Because you spent all night telling yourself if you fake sleep eventually you’ll actually fall asleep, but really you end up staring a hole through your eyelids. The fact that you can tell it’s light in the room with your eyes closed seems like a design flaw

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        yeah just let it ride

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    Turns out that being so nervous about any kind of change in your life to the point you get physically ill is NOT normal.

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      Maybe not normal, but it’s certainly a common issue.

      It also happens to me.

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        You may have an anxiety disorder. I got therapy and meds and my life is so much better now.

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          It’s not a “may”. We are positive on this.

          It’s kind of chronic, I did the therapy and the meds but it came back eventually. Coping it is from now on.

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    Yes, because the definition of normal is “within this many standard deviations from the average”, and people consider themselves average until learning otherwise.

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    Yep. Remember that you are unique, just like everyone else.

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    Shin splints. I thought running just hurt, and we all had to put up with it.

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      Is that … Not the case?

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        Nope. Shin splints.

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          I thought shin splints were pretty universal. TIL.

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            Yeah that level of pain is not normal.

            Apparently sometimes they just go away, or so I found out when I took running back up ( middle aged), so that’s something.

            There might be treatments, too idk. Shin exercises help.

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              Compression sleeves around your calves help too.

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              Fair though, thank you for the information.

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    More like, we expect others to let us know if something isn’t normal and if no one has so far, it assumed to be normal

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