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I have been dealing with constipation for so long. I am tired!!!

For years I was having reoccurring UTI symptoms, and everyone pushed it off until I finally went to see a urologist and it turns out my UTI symptoms were because I was constipated. I’m so full of shit that it presses against my bladder and causes irritation.

Whenever I mention to my doctor that I think I have a GI issue he always tells me to drink more. I’ve been drinking gatorade, and in every drink I drink I put 2 caps of miralax in it and I am still constipated. I have been constipated so damn long I don’t know what it feels like not be. I have very bad back pain from my dumbass constipation.

How do you guys get doctors to take you seriously? Everyone I see keeps making me to ‘clean outs’ and just tells me to ‘drink more’.

(spoilers included but covered) I have a few things wrong with this series. My main issue is that it’s labeled as a YA but it acts as if it doesn’t want to be. I genuinely liked the plot of the books and I think the story building and writing was amazing, but some scenes in the book are just odd… anyways, here’s all my issues with the series

1. What’s with all the blood drinking and swapping and bloody kissing?? I get that blood is supposed to be like apart of the magical stuff or whatever, but it just feels like Stephanie goes out of her way to include blood in every way possible. >!In the extra content of Legendary she literally admits she “apparently has a thing for blood” and in Finale Jacks and Tella press bloody palms together so he can get rid of her bad feelings after her mother dies, but they only do this because Tella doesn’t want to kiss but then they kiss right after.!<
2. >!The ‘falsenapping’ scene in!<

Spectacular. I wouldn’t have a problem with scenes like this in ADULT novels, but this is not an adult novel. >!If you want to write a dark romance fantasy novel with blood and kidnappings go ahead, but do not label it YA. Also the art for this scene is literally just soft-core bondage porn…!<

3. This is the most obvious, but Tella’s age throughout the whole story. Why couldn’t you have just made them 18 and 19?? I get that it doesn’t take place in our modern time or what not but like why make Tella 16 and have her whole personality for the first book and for the first half of the second book being kissing boys (who are much older). The age of consent is 16, I get it, but like it’s just uncomfortable and nowhere does the books say it’s not okay or that it’s wrong, >!it’s just “Tella is the silly girl who kisses older boys as a coping mechanism because she doesn’t think she’ll ever find love because she flipped over a card at 9 years old haha so normal and funny!”!<