My guess is that this is an at least two person household. One drinks Coke Zero and one drinks regular. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone do both. Could also be why there are two toys instead of one.

I’m sorry that this doesn’t at all answer the question…But I just had to link this incredibly iconic moment from King of the Hill.

https://youtu.be/huVt8HthWcI

Ok but did you all name her???

Everything just feels so bizarre to me. Internet communities and politics devolve into weird rabbit holes of strangeness and extremism which is totally foreign to me. I feel like some people just sit in their rooms posting pictures on their walls connecting it with red strings.

And here I am just to look at memes. Does that mean I’m too much of a “normie” or “boomer” for internet communities nowadays? I don’t even know.

Thanks for the info tho. Sorry about my little rant lol!

Looks like I’m not on the list. Tbh I don’t really understand what is going on here. I’m very out of the loop.

To be real, one of the reasons I’ll never own a gun is that I don’t trust myself when emotionally unstable.

It’s ok to break down some times ♥️

Maybe similar to you but in the opposite direction, but I never really noted much physical symptoms of anxiety unless I was outright panicking, so I never thought I was particularly anxious.

Now I’m honestly not sure if it’s anxiety or what, but ever since I had a major mental health episode this past fall and winter, stomach pains and nausea are actually one of my big indicators of a bad mental health days. Literally never used to happen to me before.

I suppose there may be a benefit in my new symptom to clue me in to hunker down for some waves and try to do nice things for myself. Dunno.

Well bois…I’m fucked because now I missed the cutoff to cancel it

Well it’s funny because it will cost me, but I’m in an unusual position for me where it would be essentially heavily discounted lol. I can’t see that happening anywhere again in the near future. So it was part of my reasoning for considering it. I have an incredibly high deductible plan which I never meet. Before my deductible, I pay 100% the cost of medical care. After my deductible, I pay 20%.

Gastric cancer is terrifying. With a family history, I hope you are able to continue to be monitored. Luckily there are other ways to monitor it beyond imaging. Like how colonoscopies are regular screenings for colon cancer, they can scope your stomach as a way to screen for gastric cancer.

I have a family history of esophageal cancer which is a bit scary to think about! I’ll have to remember to get it monitored as I age. One of my uncles died of it and I’m not sure if the other will end up dying from his.

Yes but my insurance sucks and I somehow managed to meet my very high deductible this year. I can’t see that happening again in the near future. So it’s probably the cheapest I’d ever get an MRI lol…that part is part of the reason I’m considering doing it.

Insurance says it was approved so I would pay 20%. Normally when I haven’t met my deductible (most years), I would be paying 100%. I am comfortable financially to pay for something at 20%.

Damn! Very glad to know you’re still with us! Was it suspected or totally unrelated to why you got the imaging?

Well essentially I had a bit of an odd biopsy result and one of the possibilities can be a strange hormone effect. I wanted a second opinion on the biopsy to make sure it was benign. I also recently had some blood hormone testing which doesn’t seem to find anything too odd outside of the possibly of way earlier menopause than normal. The second opinion was benign which made me happy. But then the doctor suggested an MRI to have a better look at my adrenal glands (which are also producers of hormones) and ovaries. I think because she noticed that I have excess hair on my face and body. This can also be due to a hormonal effect, but this particular hormone wasn’t tested and would not have effected the biopsy.

What happened of you don’t mind me asking?

Haha yes I work in healthcare and we used the world “incidentaloma” when I was in school lolol.

Sometimes things diagnosed incidentally do save people’s lives though. I had an uncle diagnosed with renal cancer indicidentally when they were imaging him for some other reason. He had the kidney removed and has been cancer free forever now…might have been more than a decade ago. In many cases, a random scan can save someone’s life.

But the other hand causes things you describe, unnecessary stress and intervention for otherwise benign but odd things that people see. It’s one of the big reasons why you don’t generally just get an MRI just to get one.

I’ve been fighting back and forth with what to do in my mind here.

Potential monetary cost, “wasting” medical resources needed by others, possibly finding something incidental but benign leading to unnecessary further testing/surgery/etc. There are reasons why these generally aren’t done willy nilly.

I’ll copy a reply I said to someone else.

“Well it’s funny because they are the second opinion I was referred to. Had an odd result to something so I wanted to make sure it was fine. The second opinion also said it was fine which made me relieved, but then they asked if I wanted an MRI. At first I was like well ok sure I met my deductible but now I’m like wtf am I even thinking.”

Ah gotcha! There are actually a lot easier ways to find out if PCOS is on the table. Blood hormone tests and ultrasounds can help and are super easy for an office to do! Hope your doctor actually wants to help you out and investigate these things.

Well it’s funny because they are the second opinion I was referred to. Had an odd result to something so I wanted to make sure it was fine. The second opinion also said it was fine which made me relieved, but then they asked if I wanted an MRI. At first I was like well ok sure I met my deductible but now I’m like wtf am I even thinking.