u/Icy_Concert2075

Hi! does anyone here have experience getting laser hair removal with ehlers danlos syndrome? EDS is weird bc since youre hypermobile, the skin kind of stretches around the hair and it cant get out so i get a lot of ingrowns, and it also tends to grow downward/horizontally so i can see it growing its just like.. underneath the skin. so I was thinking if I got laser maybe it become too thin to even come out?

i had my first session (lower legs) last week and the hair seems like its actually darker which might be because its able to come out now? I’m not too worried and will wait and see, but I just wanted to ask if anyone else with EDS had experience and how it turned out bc I havent heard much! thank you!

Hi everyone, i am at the end of my first year of my history phd (US) and i would really love some support or insight. I am not doing well on my finals. I developed chronic health problems in my last year of college so i am disabled now, and i faced severe burnout because i was working 3 jobs 40 hours a week, writing my 96 page honors thesis, and taking 5 classes while on research projects. i took a gap year and had a full time job in between tho.

My health has somewhat stabilized but in my first semester here i was literally seeing 3 doctors a day sometimes, plus physical therapy twice a week. my ADHD is also disabling, and i just got on the right meds a few weeks ago, so now i can focus but its too late. And I get so ashamed that i still dont want to do the work bc it is so bad.

I never wanted to tell faculty about my health because i figure they dont care and theres nothing they can even do, but i ended up breaking and telling the professor who graded my language proficiency exam about it. I failed it a second time and this time i think it was because my brain fog was so bad i felt like i'd never seen the language before. He was very understanding and I’m going to just take the exam of a language i already know, but the email started with "thank you for this very comprehensive email" which felt backhanded and made me embarrassed

i got so behind that i have a 20 page research paper due at 3 am and it is 1:40 am and its not done. It will be the worst thing ive ever submitted. I asked the professor if i can get a deferred grade, and i explained my computer breaking and the health problems, and she said she can do a deferral but she urges me not to, which is a very valid response but the fact she didnt acknowledge my explanation makes me more insecure of the fact that i am struggling and i cant explain why. Regardless of my excuse, i have not produced anything of significance

This last research paper, the one i cared about the most, i got so behind i just cant do it. And i love my friends here so much, but ive been avoiding them because i dont want them to know. I also feel that my research topic is not original anymore and i cant figure out what I even study anymore.

I feel like i peaked in college, and shame, embarrassment, and humiliation. i TA'd for the first time and i did such a bad job too, i was barely prepared for my sections. I really want this phd and i love it here, but I am about to submit the worst i have ever done and this doesnt feel like who I am. I rly dont want to drop out

I had this whole day to finish research and write my research paper, and I did what I could but I have at least ten books on my bed and i was so overwhelmed because i cant read them all. There is so much reading that i needed the time to do in order for this to be good, so I kept trying, but i did nothing because its too much for the little time i left myself.

Any support or anyone who relates would mean so much to me, or any insight on if its okay to tell faculty about your health

hi everyone, im getting so desperate for this. I’ve had computer browser issues for months I have been able to resolve short-term, but I now need a long-term solution. 

I have many tabs of databases open on Chrome at all times as I am a graduate student and I use Zotero as a proxy so I don't have to go through the library website when I need access. This includes readex, proquest, muse, jstor, etc. I did not have any issues with this at my previous institution but, since my first semester here, I would often suddenly get an error message that says "500 Bad Request" on all the tabs with databases open OR “bad request, your browser sent a request that this server could not understand” OR something about my header being too big, and it would say that any time I tried to open another database. This literally gets rid of all the pages in the database tabs I had open and I lose so my research. The first time this happened, IT explained that I should clear my browser cookies for all time and restart my computer. This worked very well, and this is what I have been doing ever since.

However, it still happens semi-frequently and sometimes I can't recover the tabs I had open so it deletes days of research. What can I do to stop this from happening long-term? This is definitely not the most databases I've ever had open, so I don't know why it keeps happening. Sometimes I clear my cookies but it happens again so I keep doing it.

My institution’s IT told me to increase the size of Chrome’s cache so I did and that helped for a bit but it happened again and I lost SO much research I might genuinely cry. I have a paper due tomorrow wtf do I do.

Hii ive been having so many issues vacuuming lately and wonder if anyone has figured out a vacuum that works best for them? at least for me, I need one that isnt too heavy and wouldnt cause my wrists/arms to twist all around 😅 or maybe an assistive device to help with it?