u/Metapuns

I have constant lower back pain since starting my new job. It's not painful where I can't move but it makes using my computer or sitting in a car/on the bus unbearable (anywhere I need to sit in a seat for extended periods of time).

I work in shipping and recieving and it's mostly small to medium items being moved (I estimate average about 2 pounds up to the heaviest at 10 pounds). I am probably moving hundreds of products a day.

I always lift with my knees whenever I can, and I always ask for help when I know something is out of my comfort zone... However, we have this one crate we use to move inventory up and down the requires you to bend over at the waist because it has high walls.

How can I prevent back pain when it's impossible to remove product from this cage without leaning in? Is this a weakness I can train out of my back or am I continuing to aggrevate an existing strain?

A little backstory: I've been on escitalopram, 10mg, since I was about 16-17 years old. I'm now 24.

Come to find that I actually didn't have depression and just had undiagnosed ADHD. Since I've been diagnosed and medicated for ADHD I feel better than I ever have and my doctors have given me the go ahead to taper off. However, with how hard it is to get appointments with psychiatrists without paying an arm and a leg or waiting over a year I'm doing this very alone...

I've been tapering for about a little over a month (10mg to 5mg to 2.5mg) and so far have been doing really well. 10mg to 5mg was super easy, 5mg to 2.5mg was a bit difficult but I managed to get there. But now I'm about one week with no medication and I definitely feel it.

These are not my usual withdrawal symptoms either like when I missed a dose. No brain zaps or change in mood... but I feel physically ill like I have a flu. I have body aches and even shivers and I start to disassociate because even though my mind is fine my body feels sick. Is this normal? Is this a sign that my tapering is working or that I went too fast? Finding actual success stories for stopping long-term use feels impossible so I just want to know if this is my sign to throw in the towel and go back or to keep pushing through.

I'm at the very end of a flare with my final symptom being just a swollen anus. The doctor who has been guiding me through my UC after diagnosing me reccomended I try Anusol Plus suppository and tonight I picked it up. Well, as soon as I began placing it in it felt like someone set my hole on fire and my entire pelvis hurts. I took it out immediately, but I still feel nauseous with pain. What the hell is this!?

Not sure if this is a bit too dark of a subject in this sub, but I had a conversation about how vaginas and uteruses are treated as inherently suffering organs and therefore pain is neccessary or at the very least justified. I think everyone at this point heard or has an IUD horror story but what made me really realise how dire things are is when I started having a few procedures on my colon. Even for a small endoscopy that only went in about 8-10 inches I was sedated. Nothing was operated on, just imaging. That is the norm for any endocscopy, right? But apperantly most hysteroscopies are still done completely concious and sometimes without even local anesthesia. Same with biopsies. I think the worst part about having the conversation though was that I discussed it with my mother and all these procedures to her were "not that bad", but our bar for bad is so insanely high that we might as well just give up measuring it at all. It doesn't matter how much it hurts because even if it did it would never be treated as true pain.

What baffles me so much is that you would think with every invasive or painful procedure in the world being done with sedation nobody would think twice to treat a vagina or uterus the same, but it's still a problem and I can't wrap my head around it. I don't want my body to be accepted as a vessel for preventable pain.

Edit: please show kindness to people who are perpetuating these misconceptions because of internalization (only those who do it unknowingly). A lot of people, including those of us who own a uterus, genuinely believe that uterine pain is somehow different because of how normalized it is. They're victims of the narrative just as much as the rest of us. I wanted to make this post for those people and to go into depth of the double standard from my personal experienece (and hear other experiences) so we have the ability to know exactly when we are being mistreated.