▲ 30 r/gratitude
Gratidue for all the great MOTHERS
Beautiful flowers and best wishes to express gratitude for great and dedicating mothers all over the world.
u/Cherry676678 — 4 days ago
u/Cherry676678
▲ 35 r/TwoXChromosomes
I don't usually post about this but i've been seeing a lot of similar stories here and i just - I need to say this somewhere.
January 2025. My hemoglobin was 79. Normal minimum for women is 115. My prolactin was over 3 times the upper limit. Ultrasound showed a polyp, cysts, uneven endometrium.
I went to 3 different hospitals. Each time I sat there with the same folder of labs, the same list of symptoms, the same exhaustion I could't explain to anyone who hadn't felt it. And each time, some version of: "not urgent enough to treat, come back if it gets worse."
I remember the night after the third appointment. My friends were leaving for a ski trip we'd planned together. I watched them go. I couldn't zip up my jacket. Not because it didn't fit - I just haven't the strength.
I genuinely did not know what "worse" was supposed to look like.
What I've come to understand — and it took me a long time to let myself believe this — is that the system isn't set up to catch what's happening to us before it becomes a crisis. "Normal range" is a statistical average. It was never built around any one person's body, any one person's baseline, any one person's year of quietly falling apart.
I spent the next 15 months figuring it out myself. Sleep schedule, food, movement, supplements — all of it mapped to my actual numbers, not generic advice. It was slow. It wasn't linear. But 15 months later every marker came back normal. In October I hiked alone for eight hours.
I'm not saying don't trust doctors. I'm saying trust yourself first.
If you've been told you're fine and you know you're not — that feeling is data too.
So I stopped waiting.
Has this happened to any of you? Being told everything looks okay when your body is screaming that it isn't? I'd really like to know I'm not the only one.
u/Cherry676678 — 6 days ago
▲ 47 r/gratitude
No matter how old, it's reaaaally a gratitude for living, still can walk outside, enjoy the delicious, and be accompanied by the old-age daughter. Life is as elegant as this. ❤️
u/Cherry676678 — 10 days ago
▲ 6 r/gratitude
Sleep is mysterious. No one could enjoy 100% good sleep each night for life long. My sleep was poor indeed and low energy for a long time, untill the moment i saw in the mirror i was aging faster than i expected, i know poor sleep hurt me a lot.
Learning from Prof. Huberman from stanford and trying lots of recommended methods, i finally acquire a 99 sleep steadily, and would like to share with you.
1.first of all, attitude to sleep is the first step. Good sleep is 100% good to health and engergy versus bad sleep, but it will not let you know right after one-night bad sleep. You need to let your body remember: always give a chance to a good sleep at night.
2.second, try to find your body's switch. Believe or not, there is a switch actively shut your brain down, once I'm lying on bed. "Whatever's bothering me tonight will still be there tomorrow. Leave it there."
3.magnesium is necessary, even if you don't have sleep suffer. Magnesium is essential for relaxing the nervous system. It helps shift your body out of fight-or-flight mode and into recovery mode, supports melatonin production, deepens sleep quality, and takes the edge off daily stress and anxiety.
4.Get sunlight every day. This is something Professor Huberman talks about constantly — and it's the simplest, most underrated sleep tool out there. Natural light exposure in the morning or midday helps your body calibrate its circadian rhythm and boosts serotonin. And serotonin is the precursor to melatonin — the more sunlight you get during the day, the better your melatonin release at night, and the more naturally you fall and stay asleep.
5.Use a wearable device to actually listen to your body if you can. The data doesn't lie. Through reading your sleep data and habits, you will stop guessing and start knowing what actually works for your body.
I'm not a sleep expert. I'm just someone who decided to take her body seriously and turn neuroscience research into habits that actually fit my real life.
If any of this helps you — or even just gives you the hope that sleep can actually get better — that would make me really really happy.❤️
Sleep well. It's one of the kindest things you can do for yourself.
u/Cherry676678 — 14 days ago
