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Generally from what I've read people seem to be a little more stable as far as medication effects. It can be very effective, then they can stall for some time, usually on a timeline of weeks. Or they do the injection and effects are a gradual slope down. My experience has been more of a mixed bag day by day. No correlation to when I take my dose for the week. I could have no appetite for 1-3 days and then suddenly I could eat a horse for a day, then day after back to same old, or the opposite. Hungry for a day or two, then no appetite, then hungry. Just very much up and down with the effects. Some days I also have very intense sugar cravings, no issues with my blood sugar though.

It's been a net weight loss, I'm happy with how things are going. Just curious if anyone else has found the same to be true for them, if maybe you notice any triggers or if it truly is just random.

I've been dealing with hems for a hot second and have definitely gotten better. My bowel movements don't hurt, very minimal burning, no bleeding anymore, but this one thing won't go away. I never feel like I'm actually done. There's always the urge to keep straining/the feeling that there's something left even if I'm completely empty. A few minutes after getting up and going about my business the feeling goes away but its just very annoying and dissatisfying, I always feel like I'm forcing myself off the toilet mid shit. Anyone else deal with this? When did it go away/have you found anything that helps?

I had somewhere between grade 1 and 2 hems for a while. I didn't realize what it was and let it go on longer than I should've before doing some research and figuring it out. Since then I've been doing all the right things. No more sitting on the toilet, no more straining, adding lots of fiber. I had my first comfortable bowel movement in a long time and am, at this point, largely asymptomatic. The hems still prolapse a little I think? But I have no pain, itching, bleeding, etc.

Once you get to this point, do you continue using products? Like prep h, witch hazel pads, anusol, etc. Or do you stop? I don't want to set myself back but I'm unsure when exactly I can drop the products. I know a lot are largely for symptom relief but I wasn't sure how much they do as far as actually resolving the hems.

Just curious as to other people's experience. Growing up I was told I was autistic and did go through a long eval process at school. I didn't really think much of it, was just happy to get out of class lol. I didn't qualify for any special education except speech therapy very early on. Past that I just got some wiggle room in normal classes for certain things. I didn't realize until much later as an adult while trying to apply for a scholarship that I had no formal diagnosis. In the school eval the diagnostician and school psychologist basically said yeah this really looks like autism but they had no grounds to do a formal diagnosis, it was just to see if I needed extra help in school. Just wondering if other people got told they were autistic but were never clinically diagnosed.

I'm not mad or upset or anything, it hasn't really affected my life, just found it interesting that my parents ran with it and never sought further testing. Or maybe they thought this was full confirmation.